TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED

Your bargaining committee is pleased to advise that a full tentative agreement has been reached! Highlights of the deal include moving all nine agreements to one collective agreement with common language while maintaining any superior provisions or entitlements, and some significant improvements to monetary items such as:

• Adding or improving:

  • shift premiums for all worksites:

    • Evenings: $1.00/hour

    • Nights: $2.00/hour

    • Weekends: $0.85/hour

  • In Charge premiums to $2.00/hour

  • On Call Differential: $2.00/hour

  • BSTN / Behavioural / Special Care Unit Premium: $3.00/hour

• PT staff will be paid for stats in the pay period they occur

• Improvements to vacation entitlement at all worksites

• Increase to sick leave to 9 days/year to a maximum bank of 217.5 hours (29 days)

• Expansion of list of family members covered under bereavement leave

• Access to benefits for casual employees if they are in 1 position for more than 6 months

• Ability to purchase benefits for casual employees after 936 hours worked if they pay the full cost of the premiums

• Wage increases of 9.5% effective April 1, 2023 for members at Auburn (they are not wage levelled)

An information package containing all the proposed changes to your agreements will be sent over the next week, along with a cross reference document showing corresponding clause and article numbers for all worksites. Please review it carefully and send any questions you may have to [email protected]. Information meetings will be scheduled at each worksite and all questions will be addressed at those meetings. After the information meetings we will schedule ratification meetings, again at the worksites, to allow you to vote on the proposed renewal collective agreement. Watch your email for the information package and further bulletins containing the date and time for all meetings.

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In solidarity,

Bill Clayton, Bargaining Committee Co-Chair

Jo-Ann Medel, Bargaining Committee Co-Chair

Christine Cybulski, Bargaining Committee

Manny Carganilla, Bargaining Committee

Almira Galvez, Bargaining Committee

Supinder Singh Sethi, Bargaining Committee

Avtar Bharaj, Bargaining Committee

Jessie Jagpal, Bargaining Committee
Lorne Cragg, Bargaining Committee

Taryn Marble, Bargaining Committee

Tom Palmer, Bargaining Committee

Jas Randhawa, Bargaining Committee

Jenny Joly, Bargaining Committee

Erlinda Bailio, Bargaining Committee

Jessie Bains, Bargaining Committee

Karen Larsen, Bargaining Committee

Kelly Mandseth, Bargaining Committee

Deb Wilson, Staff Representative, Negotiations

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