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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Alberta Research Council employees ratify two-year agreement
EDMONTON – Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
employed by the Alberta Research Council have ratified a new two-year
collective agreement that includes pay increases of 3.5 per cent in
each year of the contract.
The approximately 275 ARC employees, members of AUPE local 060, work
at research centers in Edmonton, Calgary, Devon and Vegreville.
In addition to the total compound pay increases of more than seven per
cent over the life of the agreement, the contract includes provision
for a lump-sum payment of $600 to all employees upon signing, said AUPE
Staff negotiator Malcolm McNaughton. Employees will receive retroactive
pay increases to April 1, 2003.
The agreement also includes provision to create a “wellness account,”
into which employees may roll unused vacation days, said McNaughton,
who led the union bargaining committee.
In addition, the agreement includes an innovative casual leave provision
that allows employees to take up to 15 days of casual leave in addition
to their regular vacation time, McNaughton said.
“This is a positive agreement with some trend setting articles,”
McNaughton said. “The agreement will give Alberta Research Council
employees some stability over the next two years in the face of funding
cuts by the province.”
For more information, call:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-910-8392 (cellular
phone)
Mac McNaughton, Union Representative, AUPE, 403- 343-2154 or 403-304-8245
(cellular phone)
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