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AUPE News & Updates
Member Updates
Member Update: Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004
AUPE and Government of Alberta
exchange bargaining proposals
EDMONTON — Alberta Union of Provincial Employees and Government
of Alberta bargaining teams formally commenced negotiations Tuesday
for a new collective agreement for approximately 21,000 direct employees
of the government.
The AUPE and Personnel Administration Office bargaining committees
exchanged proposals Tuesday on all non-monetary items to be considered
in the negotiations.
Wage proposals will be exchanged later, said AUPE Union Representative
Jim Petrie, who leads the union’s General Services Bargaining
Committee (GSBC).
Negotiations are continuing today, and a more detailed statement
on the first two days of bargaining will be issued Thursday by the
GSBC.
More bargaining dates have been scheduled for Nov. 25, Dec. 2, 9
and 10 and Jan. 11 and 12, 2005.
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. |
