BARGAINING CONTINUES
Your committee met with the employer to continue negotiations on May 7 and 8. Bargaining moved slowly, with lengthy discussions at the table on items we hoped would be more quickly negotiated. That said, we are hopeful to move to some of the more complicated articles by our next meeting, including Personal Leave, Workload and Contracting In/Out. However, we are concerned because the employer has indicated that even if an agreement in principle is reached on these items, it will hold off on signing them in exchange for our acceptance of their monetary package.