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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004
AUPE members to vote on 3.5% Government of Alberta offer
EDMONTON — Alberta Union of Provincial Employees members employed
directly for the provincial government will vote on a 3.5 per cent wage
offer for 2003.
Members of AUPE’s General Service Bargaining Committee and Government
of Alberta negotiators agreed today that the 3.5-per-cent wage increase
for the last year of the existing three-year collective agreement would
be presented to the members of AUPE Locals 001 to 012 for a vote.
The union will recommend neither acceptance nor rejection of the 2003
wage-reopener agreement by its members, AUPE President Dan MacLennan
said today.
Details of the exact dates on which ballots will be mailed to the approximately
21,000 direct government employees will be made available next week.
In a wage reopener, the union and employer agree to negotiate wages
for the last year of a collective agreement, leaving all other provisions
of the contract in place.
The current agreement, signed in November 2001, expires on Aug. 31,
2004.
For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-232-8392 (cellular
phone)
Jim Petrie, Staff Negotiator, AUPE, 780-930-3335 or 780-919-4415 (cellular
phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943
(cellular phone)
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