Bargaining Update: Local 040 / Chapter 015 – Foyer Lacombe
After delays caused by COVID-19, your negotiations committee will be meeting with the employer for the ninth and hopefully final time on June 9. Throughout this process the Employer has been willing to engage in constructive conversation when discussing our proposals.
We created our list of proposed changes through interaction with members, consultation with our Membership Services Officer (MSO), current Covenant Care collective agreements, and through a survey of the full membership, which has provided us with direction for our first Collective Agreement.
Currently we have agreed to all the following non-monetary articles:
Article 2 – Definitions
Article 3 – Recognition
Article 4 – Union Membership Dues and Deductions
Article 5 – Management Rights
Article 6 – Respectful Workplace
Article 7 – Inservice, Orientation
Article 9 – Seniority
Article 10 – Personnel Files
Article 11 – Appointments, Promotions, Transfers
Article 14 – Payment of Wages
Article 16 – Staffing Agencies
Article 24 – Workers Compensation
Article 27 – Bulletin Board Space
Article 28 – OH&S
Article 30 – Copies of the CA
Article 31 – Grievance Procedure
Article 32 – Employee & Management Committee
Article 34 – Resignation
Article 35 – Union Stewards
Article 37 – Lockers
LOU1 – Mutual Agreements to adjust FTEs
LOU2 – Legal Indemnification
LOU3 – Workload Concerns
LOU4 – Vaccinations
The monetary articles are still outstanding. We have proposed modest increases to wages, shift premium, weekend premium, and other compensation. We are also looking for improvements in named holidays, benefit plans, sick leave, and vacation entitlements.
Our union family at St. Teresa Place have been bargaining diligently for a first collective agreement and recently went to contract mediation. Your bargaining committee and the employer agreed to await the outcome of their mediation before we move forward. The report and recommendations from that mediator will give us a lot of information on how to proceed—and if we do end up at mediation ourselves, it should provide us with a good indication of what to expect.
Your bargaining committee just received the mediator’s report for St. Teresa Place, and have not yet had the opportunity to review in its entirety to see the mediator’s recommendations. We will be reviewing them before our meeting on June 9, while we await the employer’s response to our monetary proposal.
We are ready for challenges as we move through this process. With your help, we will continue to fight for a fair collective agreement. And together, we will win.
To get to a fair deal, we need effective ways of communicating with you. Create your own personal MyAUPE account on www.aupe.org to receive all bargaining news and important union updates. You’ll also need a MyAUPE account to participate in this year’s annual general meetings and elections, so sign up to get more involved in our union.
Contact your bargaining committee with any questions, concerns, or feedback.
FOYER LACOMBE BARGAINING TEAM
Laurel Morrill: laurelmorrill@icloud.com or 780-237-1573(c)
Finuela Barnachea: cherubpong@yahoo.ca or 780-566-1297(c)
Ravinder Sodhi: sodhimail@yahoo.com or 780-695-9176(c)
ALTERNATES
Nancy Alexander: snalexander04@yahoo.ca or 780-974-9608(c)
Elizabeth Nichols: nicholre@shaw.ca or 780-218-4348(c)
AUPE RESOURCE STAFF
Christian Tetreault, Negotiator: c.tetreault@aupe.org
Dave Malka, Organizer: d.malka@aupe.org or 780-231-1800
Jon Milton, Communications Officer: j.milton@aupe.org