Emcon puts up even more roadblocks
In our last bargaining update, your negotiating team shared the news that the Alberta Labour Relations Board ordered Emcon to show us their financial reports. The board agreed that we need to see the financials in order to understand Emcon’s position and move forward with bargaining.
However, Emcon is putting up even more ridiculous roadblocks. Before sharing any financials, Emcon is proposing absurd confidentiality agreements. Emcon’s proposal might even prevent us from sharing important information with you, including a fee if we were to break that confidentiality. The labour board ordered Emcon to negotiate a confidentiality agreement with us, but Emcon is using it as just another opportunity to delay bargaining even further.
More to the point, Emcon is now denying they even have budget plans and estimates for the next two years, and therefore cannot provide us this information as the labour board ordered. Outrageous! If Emcon knows enough about their future budgets to deny us wage increases and other benefit improvements, then surely they can show us that financial information.
Your negotiating team is taking this issue very seriously, and we plan to put this matter back in front of the labour board in June. The employer has given us no reason to think they move forward with bargaining in a positive or productive way, and so we hope the labour board can provide a path forward.
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Emcon Negotiating Team Members
Chapter 024
Brad Guhle brguhle@hotmail.com or 780-678-4044
Chapter 025
Bernie Quinn garry223@telus.net or 780-207-0597
Chapter 026
Mike Brouwer mikebrouwer@gmail.com
Chapter 027
Eugene Thuroo thurooeugene@gmail.com
AUPE Resource Staff
Jason Rattray, Negotiator – j.rattray@aupe.org
Darcy Thiessen, Organizer – d.thiessen@aupe.org
Tracy Noble, Organizer – t.noble@aupe.org
Alexander Delorme, Communications – a.delorme@aupe.org