Important: Enterprise Bargaining

Your union and Enterprise will be heading to the bargaining table to negotiate a new collective agreement. Here’s what you need to know:

Bargaining Survey

This confidential, online survey asks you about improvements needed at your workplace. The survey link will be emailed to your personal email address. It is very important that we have your most current contact information! You can update us here. 

Your Bargaining Committee

Your bargaining committee is a group of your co-workers – and they represent YOU. They are YOUR VOICE at the bargaining table, and they need to hear feedback from you on what needs to change. Your committee will prepare contract proposals for bargaining based on what you indicate are your priorities in the bargaining survey.

Contract Proposals

Your bargaining committee will prepare contract proposals prioritizing the top issues for the majority of members, and what they carefully calculate as being realistic to achieve at the workplace. (This could be higher wages, a lighter workload, better scheduling, etc.) The more united we are in our demands, the better our chance at creating change. At the bargaining table, we need to show that we are determined to stand together for what we deserve. Enterprise will also bring their own proposals to the table. Your bargaining committee will decide if those proposals are in the best interests of our members. Throughout the bargaining process, when available, we will send you updates on how bargaining is progressing to your personal email.

• If an agreement is reached between your committee and Enterprise, we will have a tentative agreement. This will be presented to you for a final vote to accept or reject it. If the majority of you and your co-workers vote to accept it, then we have a new collective agreement. If the tentative agreement is rejected, we may return to the bargaining table or consider job action.
• If an agreement can’t be reached, we may apply for mediation to get a neutral third party to help settle the contract. We can also hold a strike vote, which would authorize a variety of job actions. Enterprise also has a right to issue lockout notice. (Fact: Over 95% of agreements are settled without job action.)

Stay tuned for more updates. If you have any questions about the bargaining process, please contact me at dstorms@moveuptogether.ca.

In solidarity,

Daniel Storms
Union Representative

File Number: 24-ENTERPRISE-BLTN-Important Bargaining-Jan 14

Union Label: vs:USW2009

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