Bargaining continues for AHS GSS members
Your negotiating team met with AHS on October 27 to continue negotiations. We paid special attention to the issues that remained after our last meetings on October 22 and 23. These include:
Article 19 - Reclassification and the process
Article 9 - Discipline and Dismissal
Article 11 - Health and Safety
These Articles are important to General Support Services members, so we want to make sure we get them right.
Violence and Politics
As all members know, violence at the workplace is rising. Your negotiating team takes that seriously and we believe AHS must take it seriously as well. We are working to address this with improved language, which would include the same process AHS follows when they address OH&S issues brought forward by our colleagues working in Nursing Care.
We also asked if Alberta’s New Health Minister, Jason Copping, is ready for the fresh start he promised. We believe he has had enough time since his appointment to review AHS’s “implementation plan,” which shows the cuts they want to make and the workers they want to fire.
Alberta’s health care workers are burned-out but still fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The least Minister Copping can do is call off the huge cuts and firings his government has planned.
Next bargaining meetings
Here is the schedule for our next bargaining meetings:
January 14, 2022
January 20-21, 2022
January 31, 2022
February 17, 2022
Please contact your negotiating team or AUPE resource staff if you have any questions.
AHS GSS Negotiating Team
Local 054
Julie Woodford - juliew.chp006@gmail.com
Charity Hill (A) - charity.johanson@gmail.com
Local 056
Tammy Lanktree – local56.bargaining@gmail.com
Juanita Cozicar (A) – jcozicar@telus.net
Local 057
Darren Graham - chairlocal057@aupe.ca
Wendy Kicia (A) - wendykicia@hotmail.com
Local 058
Anton Schindler - waterdude69@gmail.com
Dave Ibach (A) - d1322j@gmail.com
Local 095
Dusan Milutinovic - dusan.aupe@yahoo.com
James Sullivan (A) - sullivanlocal95@gmail.com
Lamont Health Care Centre GSS
Jessica Kroeker - jessicarayne@hotmail.com
Carol Palichuk - carolpalichuk@hotmail.com
AUPE Resource Staff for AHS GSS
Chris Dickson, Lead Negotiator - c.dickson@aupe.org
Jason Rattray, Negotiator - j.rattray@aupe.org
Tracy Noble, Edmonton-North Organizer – t.noble@aupe.org
Kate Jacobson, Calgary-South Organizer - k.jacobson@aupe.org
Margaret Kapuwa, Central Organizer – m.kapuwa@aupe.org
Alexander Delorme, Communications - a.delorme@aupe.org