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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Feb. 10, 2003
AUPE members to hold information picket tonight at Spruce Grove City
hall
SPRUCE GROVE – Members of Local 118/001 of the Alberta Union of
Provincial Employees will hold a rally at 6:30 p.m. this evening at
Spruce Grove City Hall to support their bargaining committee.
The 25 members of the AUPE local have been working without a collective
agreement for more than a year. They endorsed the use of strike action
if necessary at a membership meeting on Nov. 12, 2002.
If an agreement with the city can’t be reached during a mediation
session Thursday, a strike is a virtual certainty, AUPE Union Representative
Steve Nimchuk said today.
"The membership doesn’t want to take that action, but they
will be forced to if the employer’s negotiating committee won’t
bargain seriously," Nimchuk said. "It would be very sad if
that happened, because we are now so close to an agreement that there
is no reason for the employer to take the last, small step necessary
to reach a deal."
Tonight’s demonstration, which will take place just before the
regularly scheduled meeting of Spruce Grove City Council, will be attended
by AUPE President Dan MacLennan.
For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular
phone)
Steve Nimchuk, Union Representative, AUPE, 780-930-3341 or 780-919-4831
(cellular phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943
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