During the week of February 3-7, your bargaining team met with Yukon Government in Whitehorse. While there were meaningful discussions on a number of bargaining items, we were unable to agree with the Employer team on proposals we had hoped to finalize this session.
YG presentations to the Union team included:
- An expanded review of Emergency Medical Services, specifically working conditions and hours of work;
- The loss of YG jobs at SART (Sexual Assault Response Team).
The scheduled Conflict Management Services (formerly known as the Respectful Workplace Office) presentation was postponed to the March set of dates.
YG provided a series of counter proposals to earlier Union proposals on:
- Statement of Duties, Classification and Reclassification (including a follow-up question and answer session);
- Telework;
- Health and Safety.
The Union team also introduced new proposals as follows:
- Improvements to working conditions and hours of work for our members who are seasonal employees at Hershel Island;
- Wildland Fire – new and additional scheduling provisions covering days of rest, travel, and hours of work;
- Union Leave – we proposed an upon request reimbursed Union leave for local presidents of Y010 and Y017 – the same provisions that are currently in place for the YEU President and Vice-Presidents.
For the March session at the bargaining table, we look forward to a long-awaited presentation on the Health Authority by the Deputy Minister of H&SS.
Additional dates have been agreed to for March 24-28 and April 14-17.
Copies of the new proposals from this week are available at the YEU Bargaining Updates page.
In Solidarity,
Your Bargaining Team
Erik, Rosa, Matt, Amie, Ian, Laurel, Tammi, Ted, Erna