Pre-Bargaining Survey Many of you may have received the pre-bargaining survey via email. CUPE sent a letter with a link to the survey prior to the negotiations. For those of you who have been at cancerCare through multiple collective agreements, you`ll remember the previous surveys we sent out. This survey is the same, but now we are doing it online. Please complete this survey, as this is the way for YOUR voice to be heard and perhaps one of your proposals will be in the collective agreement. Another letter to the union, which requires notification of job changes as part of its collective agreement, says it will “review laboratory services.” This MOA was negotiated with all unions in the health sector. The MOA ensures that members` rights are protected by any collective agreement and provides for financial compensation in the event of a temporary transfer. It is accompanied by a copy of the moa project (currently being signed). STATEMENT: “We will only negotiate articles of the other agreements.” Since negotiations are based on consensus, nothing can be added to an agreement or removed from the agreement without the agreement of both parties (note – CUPE has not accepted the concessions mentioned above, so the employer has withdrawn them. The employer could not simply include them in the agreement without CUPE`s permission.) So if a union thinks they can just negotiate something in a deal, they blame themselves. There are certain things that the employer does not wish to reinstate in the agreement, so it will not agree.
STATMENT: Another union will tell you that the winning collective agreement does not matter, because we are going to start from scratch, because the government really wants us to be under one agreement. Some of you who work after 4:00 or maybe even 4:15 pm will have seen a clue in your workbox via email announcing that the dental plan premium is increasing. Some of you know that on December 13, 2019, HSC had also indicated that its premiums would also increase from January 30, 2020. CCMB and HSC are the only institutions in the phcc collective agreements under our dental plan. . . .