By Jack Profijt Ok the meeting with the employer went as expected. Not much came out of it, as I have already mentioned to many of you. Basically the employer stated their position on the current state of our collective agreement. Their position is that everything is great in the department and they stated that they believe that they treat all employees fairly, and that it is a great place to work. They also feel that we have a really good collective agreement. They asked us to consider the possibility that we role over our current language into a new collective agreement.We responded in turn stating that we answer to our members, and that our members have expressed issues that they would like us to address. Neither side went into any specific detail as this meeting was not intended as a negotiating session.
The employer expressed the desire and intent to come to a quick and equitable resolution to the current contract negotiations. The team mentioned to the employer that they, as well as the union, share in that reasonability. It was also mentioned that they have the ability to control to a certain degree, the length of time that these negotiations take. The employer passed us some of the information that was requested in our Intent to Bargain, such as seniority lists and benefits information. As in both previous negotiations the monetary issues are going to be dealt with last and non monetary issues will be up front.
The meeting lasted about an hour. We then proceeded to the Fonthill office, to consolidate the demands. and believe me we did a lot talking with our staff reps. and we have come up with a good first draft of a proposal.
Moving forward we have two dates set up already Feb. 13 and the 19. We have also proposed four dates in March 6,12,13 and 17. We are waiting on a response from the employer on those dates. We finished up at Fonthill around 5:30.
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