AHS GSS negotiating team rejects MOA extension
On March 12, Alberta Health Services (AHS) approached your General Support Services negotiating team and proposed we extend our Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), which expires March 31, until June 30, 2021.
Your team has rejected AHS’s proposal to extend the MOA. We are telling AHS we want to get back to the bargaining table.
Our collective agreement expired on March 31, 2020. Since then, and since the pandemic began, we have agreed to delay bargaining in order to guarantee job security for members.
But with this new proposal, AHS wants to extend job security and delay bargaining for just another three months. Your negotiating team believes GSS members deserve better than that.
That’s why we rejected this offer.
Where our power lies
Our power comes from working together, collectively and in solidarity. The only way that we can win real gains—and prevent the losses that this government seeks to impose on us—is by getting organized and getting ready to fight. If we’re going to win a fair contract and protect the health care system that we keep running, then we need to act together.
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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
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
Stacey Ross - sross13@shaw.ca
Dusan Milutinovic (A) - dusan.aupe@yahoo.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
Darcy Thiessen, Organizer - d.thiessen@aupe.org
Farid Iskandar, Organizer - f.iskandar@aupe.org
Kate Jacobson, Organizer - k.jacobson@aupe.org
Alexander Delorme, Communications - a.delorme@aupe.org