Minimal progress made on Articles and Letters of Agreement
Capital Care continues to drag their feet on any meaningful bargaining agreements. Your negotiating team met with the employer on April 6th and 7th. Since February, we’ve been fighting against Capital Care's proposal of rollbacks and concessions that will negatively impact workers quality of life, like reducing overtime pay, drastically reducing all shift differentials, and a 0% increase in salaries over a four-year period. This is unacceptable.
Capital Care pretends to care about their workers, with Facebook “thank-yous” and banging on pots and pans in front of the workplace, but do they really care? AUPE believes that all rights should be the same for everyone. All workers deserve equity with their colleagues, and that’s what we’ve been defending.
Although Capital Care is giving us bottom of the barrel language, we were able to sign off as current language on the following Articles and Letters of Agreement:
- Article 3: Changes in Collective Agreement
- Article 10: Bulletin Board Space
- Article 11: Grievance Procedure
- Article 12: Employee Management Advisory Committee
- Article 14: Salaries
- Article 18: On-Call
- Article 20: Pyramiding
- Article 23: Preceptor Pay for Unit Clerks
- Article 24: Transportation Allowance
- Article 33: Uniforms
- Article 36: Seniority
- Letter of Understanding #3: Re: Employees Working 0.90 or Greater FTEs
- Letter of Understanding #5 Re: Portability of Seniority Between AUPE Bargaining Certificate Units
We’ll continue to fight for a fair and respectful collective agreement for Capital Care workers. Future bargaining days are to be determined.
Remember that your collective agreement remains in full force and effect as we negotiate a new agreement. If management is not following the agreement, please talk to a Shop Steward or contact AUPE’s Members Resource Centre at 1-800-232-7284.
AUPE Negotiating Team – Capital Care GSS
Tracey Courtepatte
tlcourt@shaw.ca
Lorna Buenafe-Lagutan
lornabuenafe@yahoo.com
Myrena Reiger
myrena_3@hotmail.com
Rhea Coughlan (A)
coughlanrheasteve@gmail.com
Agnes Otayde (A)
vinleanes@shaw.ca
AUPE Resource Staff
Chris Dickson Negotiations
c.dickson@aupe.org
Kate Robinson Negotiations
k.robinson@aupe.org
Tracy Noble Organizing
t.noble@aupe.org
Mimi Williams Communications
m.williams@aupe.org