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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004
Mail-in contract ratification vote for direct provincial employees
begins today
EDMONTON — Mail-in contract ratification ballots are finished
being mailed out today by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
to approximately 21,000 direct employees of the Alberta provincial government.
All members of AUPE Locals 001 to 012 will have the opportunity to vote
for or against the province’s 3.5-per-cent wage-reopener offer,
which the province and the union agreed on Feb. 10 to put to a vote
of the membership.
AUPE is not recommending acceptance or rejection of the offer, AUPE
President Dan MacLennan said.
Ballots must be back to AUPE headquarters in Edmonton by March 25, said
AUPE Staff negotiator Jim Petrie, who led the General Service Bargaining
Committee, which bargained on behalf of the AUPE members.
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, Union Representative, 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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