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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Wednesday, May 14, 2003
AUPE president in Grande Prairie to meet members during ballot count
GRANDE PRAIRIE – Alberta Union of Provincial Employees President
Dan MacLennan will be in Grande Prairie tomorrow to meet union members
at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital during a ratification vote by support
services workers at 17 hospitals.
MacLennan will be at the Queen Elizabeth II and Mackenzie Place worksites
during voting by more than 300 Grande Prairie support workers and as
the ballots are counted Thursday evening.
MacLennan will be available to Grande Prairie media for interviews throughout
the day. Journalists interested in setting up an interview are welcome
to call MacLennan on his cellular phone – 780-910-8392.
In April, the AUPE Local 056 bargaining team representing approximately
900 support workers at the 17 hospitals unanimously 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 report being put forward by the mediator. The bargaining
committee unanimously recommended ratification of a second mediator’s
report.
Brian Randall, the AUPE Staff Negotiator who led the bargaining committee
for Local 056, said the terms of settlement recommended in the second
mediator’s report will put AUPE in a very strong position in the
vote for which union will represent them required by Bill 27, the health-sector
labour relations restructuring law passed in March.
Combined with the stronger language in many clauses in AUPE’s agreement,
he said, "the result is a clearly superior contract to those of
other unions in this region and elsewhere in the province."
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.
AUPE is Alberta’s largest union, with approximately 53,000 members
province wide.
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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