Prior to ratification, you were asked about your preference with respect to maintaining wages and maintaining benefits. This is how you answered:

A significant majority of you (73.26%) have told us to reduce benefits to either maintain your current take home pay or improve it.

Each employee who is fully covered by Xyolhemeylh benefits pays between $2000 and $3000 annually in premiums. Employees covered by the Indigenous Services collective agreement don't pay anything for their benefits but those benefits are different from those you now have.

The Benefits Review Committee needs to know whether you are interested in the option of having the same benefits as the Indigenous Services collective agreement, paying nothing for those benefits and seeing your annual take home pay increase $2,000 to $3,000. To understand this choice you need to know more about the differences between what you get now for benefits and what the Indigenous Services gets for benefits.

There are no significant differences in LTD coverage. This leaves Group Life Insurance, Extended Health and Dental and the major differences between what you have now and the Indigenous Services plan are listed on the following pages:

We will be scheduling some conference calls to answer questions about the differences in the benefits levels over the next week.

Your Bargaining Committee and Organizing Committee:

Sandra Postnikoff, Jennifer White, James Yard, Colleen Dalrymple, Terri Simpson, Joelle Reynolds, Kurtis Pearson, Brent Camilleri, Stephanie Ryan

Download PDF of notice here 

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