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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004
AUPE members and Norquest College ratify two-year agreement
EDMONTON — Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
and administrators at NorQuest College have ratified a new two-year
collective agreement under which employees will see pay increases
of more than eight per cent over the life of the contract.
Under the agreement, which was based on the recommendation of a
provincially appointed mediator, the approximately 220 members
of AUPE Local 071/010 will have a pay increase of four per cent
on July 1, 2005, and another four-per-cent increase on July 1,
2006, said AUPE Staff Negotiator Steve Nimchuk.
AUPE members who work with inmates and young offenders in some
programs run by the Edmonton vocational institute will now be paid
the same correctional institution allowance paid Correctional employees
who work directly for the provincial government, Nimchuk said.
In addition, he noted, NorQuest instructional assistants in clinical
practice programs in health care institutions will be paid shift
differential of $1.80 per hour and weekend differential of the
same rate under the agreement.
The deal also partly resolves a dispute over the treatment of a
group of “term employees,” some of whom had worked
for NorQuest many years but who did not receive full benefits.
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I really believe the large information picket, with more than 500
participants, that we held at the college on Oct. 15, played a
key role in the progress we have made so far on this issue,” Nimchuk
said.
NorQuest has moved 16 long-time term employees to permanent status,
with full benefits, and agreed in a letter to proceed with a review
of the status of all term employees during the course of the next
academic year, he said.
“Academic staff and excluded staff have benefited from our
action too, because a number of them have been converted to permanent
employment status too,” Nimchuk said.
For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-232-8392 (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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