Union Settlements

Once bargaining got under hand, the Management team brought to the table the first article which was Article four (4), Reporting to work. As stated in our opening proposal we proposed to bring to the table changing the hours paid to the employee. In the previous collective agreement it was stated that four (4) paid hours went to the employee’s if no work was available. Union wanted to increase the hours paid to employees to five (5) hours from the original while we as management wanted to decrease it to three (3) hours pay, if work was not available. This article was present in all negotiations and was the most difficult to agree on. Towards the end of bargaining management and union did finally agree on terms for changing the article for Reporting to Work. We did settle on keeping the paid hours the same but also implementing a clause stating that if reasonable work was available to the worker in their job classification, they would have the option of completing the work to rece...