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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Feb. 19, 2003
AUPE members ratify mediator’s recommended settlement with City
of Spruce Grove
SPRUCE GROVE – Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
employed by the City of Spruce Grove late Tuesday ratified a mediator’s
recommended terms of settlement.
If the proposed three-year collective agreement is also ratified by
the Spruce Grove City Council next week, the danger of a strike by the
city’s street maintenance, water and recreation employees will
have been averted.
"This is a reasonable and fair agreement for this particular group
of 25 workers, and well within the means of the City of Spruce Grove,"
said AUPE President Dan MacLennan.
The settlement recommended by the provincially appointed mediator would
give the employees pay increases of four per cent in the first year
and 3.5 per cent in each subsequent year of a contract that would run
from Jan. 1, 2002, to Dec. 31, 2004.
The deal recommended by the mediator and ratified by the AUPE members
also contains improvements shift differential pay, leaves of absence
and sick leave, as well as job-security and severance provisions.
The Local 118/001 members’ contract expired more than a year ago.
They endorsed the use of strike action if necessary to achieve a fair
contract on Nov. 12, 2002.
AUPE Staff Negotiator Steve Nimchuk said he is hopeful Spruce Grove
City Council will ratify the deal at its next regular meeting on Feb.
24.
"The city agreed to participate in the mediation process, as did
we," Nimchuk said. "The mediator has recommended a compromise
settlement that our members have voted to accept even though it does
not contain all that they hoped for in this round of bargaining.
"We expect City Council members to take the same reasonable approach
that our members did," he concluded. "Our members are anxious
to get back to concentrating on their jobs serving the people of Spruce
Grove."
For more information, please 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
(cellular phone)
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