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Bargaining Updates
Bargaining Update: Monday, Dec. 13, 2004
Letters of understanding signed
off in December GSBC bargaining
EDMONTON — Members of the AUPE General Service Bargaining
Committee and Government negotiators made more progress in
negotiations Dec.
9 and 10 for a new Master Agreement for approximately 21,000
direct employees of the Alberta government.
AUPE’s GSBC and negotiators from the government’s
Personnel Administration Office reached agreement on renewing
four letters
of understanding and one letter of intent, as well as agreeing
to one
additional article within the Master Agreement.
The parties agreed to:
- Letter of understanding re scheme of employment.
- Letter of understanding re wage employees (status review)
- Letter of understanding re AIDS and HIV.
- Letter of understanding re Communicable diseases.
- Letter of intent re PREP (Point Rating Evaluation Plan)
- Article 7 (Local 001 Subsidiary Agreement) amended to reflect
who should receive the allowance due to PREP changes. The
question of raising
the amount of the allowance, as proposed by AUPE, remains
open.
In addition, the parties agreed to delete a letter of understanding
on PREP in the Local 002 Subsidiary Agreement.
Also during the Dec. 9-10 bargaining, the following additional
future bargaining dates were set:
- Jan. 25-26, 2005
- Feb. 16-17, 2005
- March 9-10, 2005
Significant progress had been made by the parties at bargaining
in November, when 23 specific Master Agreement articles
and six letters
of understanding were signed off.
In addition, during the November negotiating sessions the
parties were able to agree to the majority of issues contained
in the
nine government
employee locals’ subsidiary agreements, said Staff
Negotiator Jim Petrie, who leads the GSBC in this round
of bargaining.
However, such important monetary topics as wage proposals,
overtime and salary modifiers will be dealt with later
in the negotiations,
Petrie said.
Specific clauses signed off by negotiators for both sides
during the November bargaining included:
- Shift differential pay and weekend premiums.
- Union check-off and dues.
- Employer-union relations.
- Safety and health.
Click here to see a complete list of the articles signed
off so far in negotiations.
The bargaining teams formally commenced negotiations
on Nov. 16 with an exchange of proposals on all non-monetary
items in
the contract.
The direct government employees’ contract expired
on Aug. 31, but it will remain in force until a new
collective agreement
is ratified
by members and the employer.
AUPE and the GSBC remain strongly committed to negotiating
a new Master Agreement that properly reflects the sacrifices
and
contributions
of
the provincial government’s direct employees
over the past decade to help the province get its financial
house
in order.General
Services
Bargaining Committee.
Dan MacLennan
Chair
Audrey Randall
Local 001
Andrea Waywanko
Local 002
Linda Laminen
Local 003
Bill Dechant
Local 004
Mike Dempsey
Local 005
Click here for printable version of Update in PDF format.
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