Stay tuned for membership vote details
Your negotiating team worked late into the night on March 31 to reach a tentative agreement with Extendicare on many of our remaining issues.
The employer didn’t address all the areas that needed work, however, they did provide enough financial incentive that your negotiating team felt it was worth bringing back to the members to vote on the offer.
Extendicare focused their monetary efforts in making salary improvements and rewarding employees for their excellent work during the peak of the pandemic.
We are recommending members vote to accept the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) and focus on the next round of bargaining to pick up on the items dropped to reach a settlement.
Should you wish to review a complete copy of the MOA, it can be found at this link.
We are working on the details for membership information meetings and a ratification vote, please stay tuned for updates.
Below are the items achieved in the MOA:
Wages
- 2018 – no change
- 2019 – 1% general wage increase
- 2020 – 2% lump Sum bonus for all hours worked
- 2021 – 1% plus 1% lump sum on all 2021 hours worked
- 2022 – 1.25% general wage increase
- 2023 – 2% plus 2% for employees with 20 or more years of service, based on the number of years of employment
- Retroactive pay amounts will be paid within 90 days following ratification by the union. Wage rates will be raised to the current rate payable as of that same period.
- Lump Sum payments will be paid within 90 days following ratification by the union.
With these changes a full-time HCA will be looking at retroactive pay and lump sum payments of approximately $5,497 for 20 years or less and $5,746 for more than 20 years of service.
In addition to the salary increases and lump sum payments we were able to add the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to the Named Holidays Article.
The monetary changes above, along with groundbreaking language for reviewing workload, improvements to the language for Health and Safety, Respectful Workplace, Discipline & Dismissal and the Grievance Procedure provide an excellent point for the Collective Agreement to be left at until the next round of bargaining which starts in eight months.
AUPE NEGOTIATING TEAM – EXTENDICARE CANADA
Megan Stephenson (Athabasca)
nosbignagem@gmail.com
Kathy Findlater (Cedars Villa)
kathyfindlater96@gmail.com 403-606-5044 (c) or 403-271-8740 (h)
Sudha Sharma (Eaux Claires)
Sudha_sharma70@rediffmail.com
Theresa Lawrence (Fairmont)
t_crail@hotmail.com or 403-308-3345
Judith Cseresnyes (Holyrood)
judysc1966@gmail.com or 780-945-7647
Paul McDowell (Mayerthorpe)
Mcdowellpaul57@gmail.com or 780-268-4110
Mike Peterson (Michener Hill)
mike5782@telus.net or 587-877-6587
Kim Schriener (Michener Hill)
k_schreiner@hotmail.com or 403-391-1817
Aisha Ndihokubwayo (Hillcrest)
Ndiasisha2@yahoo.ca
AUPE RESOURCE STAFF
Dale Perry, Negotiations
d.perry@aupe.org
Communications
co@aupe.org
