HSAS: BARGAINING UPDATE

June 2008

Your Negotiating Committee wishes to thank the hundreds of members who took time to complete the Bargaining Survey and Workload Assessment which were sent out to the Membership in late April. In order to ensure that our bargaining proposals truly reflect the needs of our members, your on-going input and support are vital.

Your Negotiating Committee encourages you to continue offering your ideas over the coming months as we begin the work of preparing our proposals package to be presented to SAHO early next year. We are committed to providing regular updates to you as we move through this process through mail outs and home emails. If you would like to be added to our Members home email database, please contact our Saskatoon Office at 955-3399 or (toll-free) 1-888-565-3399 or email larsonc.hsas@sasktel.net.

Your Negotiating Committee, Bill Fischer (Chair) Warren Chykowski
Cathy Dickson Chris Driol
Debra Ginther Natalie Horejda
Marcel Shevalier

February 2008

Most HSAS members have only recently received a copy of the present Collective Agreement and it is only 14 months till the next round of negotiations begins. The changes to The Trade Union Act and the Essential Services Legislation being tabled by our new government create new challenges for effective collective bargaining.

At this time we wish to thank the members of HSAS who stepped forward to volunteer to serve on the Provincial Negotiating Committee. The appointment of members to the bargaining committee will be completed in February. Following a committee orientation, one of the first orders of business will be the development of a Bargaining Survey to be sent out to the Membership. The survey will help to form the framework of HSAS’s bargaining proposals for the upcoming round of negotiations. So please, take the time to complete the survey once you have received it and return it as per the directions.

In Solidarity,

Bill Fischer
Chair, Provincial Negotiating Committee

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