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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Nov. 12, 2002
AUPE members vote to accept mediator’s recommendation for Multi-Facility
Agreement
EDMONTON – In province-wide balloting, members of the Alberta Union
of Provincial Employees have voted to accept the terms of a settlement
recommended by a government-appointed mediator.
The mediator’s recommendation, which was issued in September, must
now be voted on by regional health authorities.
If it is ratified by the employers, it will become the Multi-Facility
Nursing Auxiliary Agreement that covers approximately 7,000 licensed
practical nurses, nursing attendants and operating room technicians
throughout Alberta.
"The votes have now been counted," said AUPE President Dan
MacLennan. "The terms put forward by the mediator did not contain
everything that we believed our members deserved in this round of bargaining.
"Members were provided the opportunity to vote for or against the
mediator’s recommendation and in a very close vote they have accepted
it," MacLennan said.
The mail-in balloting was held after AUPE held meetings across the province
to discuss the mediator’s recommendation with affected members.
The mediator’s recommendations include increases to basic salaries
of four per cent in the first year and three per cent in the second
year of a two-year collective agreement, said AUPE Staff Negotiator
Jim Petrie.
The recommendations also include double-overtime pay, shift and weekend
premiums of $1.75 per hour, introduction of severance provisions, improvements
to education allowances and increases to on-call pay, Petrie said.
For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular
phone)
Jim Petrie, Staff Negotiator, AUPE, 780-930-3335 or 780-919-4415 (cellular
phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943
(cellular phone)
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