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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: May 2, 2003
AUPE rural hospital support bargaining team recommends ratification
of deal
EDMONTON – The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Local 056
bargaining committee, representing approximately 900 support workers
at 17 rural hospitals, has unanimously recommended ratification of a
second mediator’s report proposing a settlement for the group.
Earlier this month, AUPE rejected as unfair a mediator’s report
recommending a settlement for the same workers. Discussions among the
employers, AUPE and the mediator ensued, resulting in the improved recommendation
being put forward by the mediator.
"Our ability to encourage the mediator to recommend a fair deal
in what could have been very difficult circumstances demonstrates the
strength of AUPE," said AUPE President Dan MacLennan. "The
bargaining committee unanimously rejected the first recommendation outright."
Brian Randall, the AUPE Staff Negotiator who leads the bargaining committee
for Local 056, said the mediator’s report means "on all rates
of pay a level playing field now exists between AUPE and other unions
representing employees in the same health regions.
"When this is combined with the stronger language in many clauses
in AUPE’s agreement, the result is a clearly superior contract
to those of other unions in the region," Randall said.
The two-year agreement recommended by the mediator would give employees
pay increases of four per cent in the first year and 3.75 per cent in
the second, Randall said. In addition, changes to some job classifications
will result in more substantial increases for specific groups of employees.
Ratification votes are scheduled to take place in all work sites on
May 15, Randall noted.
AUPE Local 056 represents general support employees at hospitals in
Bashaw, Boyle, Daysland, Drayton Valley, Grande Prairie, Grimshaw, Islay,
Killam, Lacombe, Lamont, Mayerthorpe, McLennan, Provost, Radway, Redwater,
Swan Hills, and Vermilion.
For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-910-8392 (cellular
phone)
Brian Randall, Union Representative, AUPE, 780-624-7677 (AUPE Peace
River Office) or 780-618-8214 (cellular phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943
(cellular phone)
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