FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9/1
News
From: Derek Blackadder <dblackadder@cupe.ca> and Vicky Smallman
To: Newsflash from the York strike
for the Breaking News section
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:52 PM
Posted: Wednesday 10, 2001 2:10 PM
The CUPE 3903
bargaining team has reached a tentative agreement on
Collective Agreements
for both unit 1 and 3. After 11 weeks on strike,the
administration
has finally made major movement on the issues of both
units.
The bargaining
team and executive have decided to bring the deals to a
ratification
vote on Thursday, with a recommendation that the membership
ratify these
agreements. The time and location will be announced later
today.
A summary of the
key elements of the tentative agreements are outlined
below.
The complete text will be sent out on 3903News and on the website
by Tuesday afternoon,
and an analysis by the bargaining team and executive
will follow on
Tuesday evening.
Unit 1
The key issue
in the unit 1 collective agreement is tuition protection.
We have secured
tuition indexation language which maintains the
principles of
our previous collective agreement without a re-opener
clause
and reference
to domestic students.
Unit 3
There were four
major issues on the table for unit 3: a rebate linked to
tuition; funding
of GSA benefits; summer funding; a wage floor. The union
has won significant
increases in all four areas.
Tuition-linked
rebate: we have won the proposal with which we went into
this round of
bargaining, a rebate beginning in May 2001 which mirrors
the tuition increases
planned for the next two years.
Funding of GSA
benefits: In the first year of the collective agreement the
employer will
pay 80% of benefits, and in the second year 100%. In
addition, we
have negotiated a $15,000 fund to subsidize the UHIP fees for
international
students.
Summer funding:
the union has negotiated a bursary fund of
$100,000 to provide
summer funding for our members.
Wages: for year
one the employer will provide a base wage of $5,880, with
a signing bonus
configured according to our initial proposal (i.e. ranging
from $882 for
those at the low end to $72.80 for all those above $7280).
In year two the
base wage will be $7,300.
Back to work
protocol
The back to work
protocol includes a work/compensation package similar to
that in the unit
2 Collective Agreement. We have also secured extensions
of academic deadlines
and terms of study, including a two month
extension of
academic terms. There is also protection of community
members and research/graduate
assistants who were not official
members of the
bargaining unit, but who may have participated in the
strike.
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