AUPE Local 060 ratifies agreement with Alberta Innovates Technology Futures
EDMONTON – AUPE Local 060 members ratified a new two-year agreement Thursday, Feb. 25 with Alberta Innovates Technology Futures, formerly known as the Alberta Research Council.
The agreement delivers an across-the-board, four per cent wage increase for employees represented by AUPE Local 060, retroactive to April 1, 2009. The agreement expires on March 31, 2011.
The second year of the agreement includes a wage-reopener clause, which allows the union and employer agree to negotiate wages for the last year of the collective agreement, leaving all other provisions of the contract in place.
Alberta Innovates Technology Futures employs approximately 260 AUPE members in research technologist and administrative support classifications.
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