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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: January 14, 2002
AUPE members at Carewest Maintenance ratify 10% pay increase in one-year
deal
CALGARY – Maintenance workers at Carewest continuing care facilities
throughout Calgary today ratified a one-year collective agreement giving
them pay increases averaging 10 per cent, Alberta Union of Provincial
Employees President Dan MacLennan announced.
The 16 members of AUPE Local 2424/003 voted overwhelmingly to accept the
new contract, which also contains improvements in shift and weekend differential
pay, mileage rates, overtime pay, clothing and equipment allowances and
annual leave.
"This shows once again how union membership is a tremendous benefit,
even for very small groups of working people," MacLennan said.
AUPE Union Representative Karen Thibault, who negotiated the agreement
with the Calgary continuing care provider, said the agreement brings the
workers’ pay into line with people doing the same work at Edmonton’s
Capital care group while preserving a pay grid that advances employees
to the top rate more quickly.
Carewest operates nine continuing care facilities in the Calgary area.
For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-9901 or 780-910-8392 (cell phone)
Karen Thibault, Union Representative, AUPE, 403-531-8600 or 403-816-7852
(cell phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943
(cell phone)
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