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Your Bargaining Team
Theresa McAllister, Provincial President Christianne Robichaud, Provincial Vice-President Marilyn MacCormack, Provincial Recording-Secretary Sherry Wilkins, Provincial Secretary-Treasurer Erin McAllister, Acting Regional Vice-President, Region 1 Susan Colwell, Regional Vice-President, Region 2 Shelley Veysey, Regional Vice-President, Region 3 Todd Hill, Regional Vice-President, Region 4 Parise St-Onge, Regional Vice-President, Region 5 Sérina Mallet, Regional Vice-President, Region 6 Élise Richard, Regional Vice-President, Region 7 |
Negotiation's Updates
October 29th, 2023
Since June, we have met with the Employer approximately seven times to work on our outstanding articles and are making small steps to secure a new Collective Agreement that will benefit all members. Negotiations can be lengthy, and one article may consume much time, so the practise can be frustrating and tiring. We will work through the process, although it may be slooowww, but we will get there. We have talked some about money and as always this is a key issue and always the hot point and challenging.
We appreciate your support during this journey, and we ask for your continued solidarity when we return to the table in November.
We appreciate your support during this journey, and we ask for your continued solidarity when we return to the table in November.
June 29th, 2023
Further to our last update we are continuing to bargain and are hopeful to stay at the table to complete this process. We are looking for dates throughout the summer to resume our quest for a new collective agreement, keeping in mind that getting dates can be challenging because of vacations and other work commitments.
We are maintaining our pursuit for non-concessional bargaining which will be beneficial to all the members.
We are maintaining our pursuit for non-concessional bargaining which will be beneficial to all the members.
May 24th, 2023
Since our last update, we met at 11 different occasions with the Employer. Although we were optimistic in the beginning for promising outcome, it has become evident things are becoming very challenging, and conditionals on the Employer’s wants. There are items on the table that are very important to the membership as per the survey results which we are not willing to give up on. We are returning to the table on May 30 and 31st and these two days will determine the path that we will be taking.
April 14th, 2023
We were at the table two days this week and meetings were cordial and a lot of discussions took place. We are hopefull that at our next round in a week, there may be some movement on signing off articles.
Your Bargaining Team
Your Bargaining Team
April 6th, 2023
Just to inform you that we met with the Employer today for our initial exchange of proposals in the bargaining process. We have scheduled dates next week to begin the exchange of packages.
We will keep you posted.
We will keep you posted.
February 2nd, 2023
We have given our notice to bargain on February 2, 2023 and we will keep you updated as we receive info; dates, times; etc.
- Thank you to those who completed the bargaining survey and it was a success in helping us prioritize the requests of the membership.
- We continue to work on the negotiation process with some education sessions for the team, the team consisting of (Adrienne Paradis, CUPE Local 2745 Coordinator, Theresa McAllister, Christianne Robichaud, Sherry Wilkins, Marilyn MacCormack, Erin McAllister, Susan Colwell, Shelley Veysey, Todd Hill, Parise St-Onge, Sérina Mallet and Élise Richard). The Negotiation Team will meet again next week to review our proposals prior to presenting them to the employer.
- The top three priorities according to the survey were wages, family leave and hours of work.
- Your present collective agreement expires on February 28, 2023, however it still remains in place until we negotiate a new contract.