Bill 29 Legal Challenge – Public Services Sustainability Act: Today, unions and government came together in court to take on this challenge. This legal challenge does not require any salary increase or improvement of our collective agreement. What we are asking for is that we be able to deal with these improvements, as is our right. This bill has taken that right away, and it goes against Canada`s Bill of Rights. If you are sending an email to someone, please indicate your workstation AS a CCMB. With 14,000 members and nearly 60 different websites, this is important information so we know who the email should be sent to. Since CcMB has its own locations in so many different hospitals, please always list CCMB. As an employer, this is the most important information, not which side you are on. If you only have „Misericordia“ or „St. Your email is treated as if you were a Misricordia hospital or St. Boniface Hospital Member, not a member of the CCMB. 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the agreement of both parties (note – CUPE has not accepted the concessions mentioned above, so the employer has withdrawn them.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. FALSE – this is false. There is not a single union that allows the government to reject what has been negotiated in the past. It would be like starting to negotiate a first treaty. It won`t happen. This is the third time that rural health authorities have held representative votes (in 2000 and again in 2012) and each time there was a collective agreement that was used to bargain. 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 entities under phcc`s collective agreements covered by our dental plan. All other facilities use dental HEBP.
CUPE 5362 had only received notification of this increase in January, after repeatedly requesting, knowing that HSC premiums were increasing. After receiving this notification, we filed a complaint to argue about this increase.
