Union Negotiations Update CONFIDENTIAL

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Union Negotiations Update CONFIDENTIAL

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• Unionville Home Society
• CUPE, Local 3744

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Status - As of May 4/05

• Contract ended December 31, 2003
• Negotiations scheduled to commence Feb.04
• Additional days were scheduled UHS Union
  mutually agreed to the cancellations
• Number days of Negotiation6 Days including 2
  days with a conciliator
• Lead negotiators
• Management Team - 5

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UHS Goals

• Maintain quality resident care
• Remain within the Ministry of Health and Long
  Term Care funding envelopes
• Offer a wage settlement consistent with
  settlements across the province
• Achieve a negotiated settlement
• Maintain management rights

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Agreed to Items

• Agreed to 2/3 of union and management proposals
  such as
• Increased uniform allowance
• Enhanced vacation benefits
• Payment of medical certificates
• Advise in writing the amount of unused sick days
  no later than February 1st each year
• A letter of understanding that parking fees will
  not be imposed during the term of the contract
• And many others

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Key Outstanding Issues

• Wages
• Benefits
• Management Rights

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Key Outstanding Issues

• Wages
• Union
• General wage increase of 5 in each year
• All other union classifications increased by
  1.00 prior to general wage increase
• RPN wage increase by 1.50 prior to general wage
  increase
• Employer
• Jan. 1-04 2.5
• Jan. 1-05 2.5
• Upon ratification 1.00/hr to base rate of RPN
• Jan. 1-06 2.5 or 1.5 and pension contribution
  increase from 3 to 4

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Key Outstanding Issues

• Benefits
• Union
• Vision care of 250
• 100 paid Optometry Exams chiropractic services
• 5 unpaid Stress Leave Days
• 1 additional statutory holidays
• 100 payment of Ontario Health Premium
• 1 increase to employer pension contributions
• Employer
• 125 every 24 months for vision care and
  optometry exam PROVIDING equal cost containment
  options could be achieved. List of options given.
  Union invited to suggest others
• No rollbacks

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Key Outstanding Issues

• Management Rights
• Union
• Staffing keep facility properly staff
  regularly scheduled staff must be replaced when
  absent
• Job Descriptions
• Current job descriptions form part of the c.a
• A Joint Union/Employer Committee to update job
  des.
• Both parties agree to the revision of the job
  descriptions
• Performance Review mutually agreed
• Job Posting add location
• Delete mgmts rights to establish new jobs,
  abolish or change existing jobs, incr. or decr.
  the number of jobs.

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Next Steps

• Mediation
• Arbitration September 8/05

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