{"id":534,"date":"2012-08-14T20:34:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/?p=534"},"modified":"2012-10-30T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:51:54","slug":"negotiations-update-14-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Negotiations Update 14 August, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">During the evening of August 13, 2012 your Negotiating Committee and Garda agreed to a new collective agreement that will be brought to you to vote on.<\/p>\n<p>We unanimously recommend acceptance of this agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The following are a <strong>few<\/strong> highlights of the agreement which will be explained in detail at the ratification meetings on August 21, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vacations \u2013 up to 50% of vacation entitlement may be exchanged for cash out \u2013 vacation to begin after days off.<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Introduction of IAMAW Pension Plan at 60\u00a2 per hour paid by Company \u2013 increased to 70\u00a2 per hour effective April 1, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One additional sick day effective April 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Company to provide or pay for medical certificates required for recertification.<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wages \u2013 Year 1 &#8211; $2.22 added to wage scales to replace COLA &amp; VRSC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; $1020 lump sum for full time employees<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; $612 lump sum for part time employees.<\/p>\n<p>Year 2 \u2013 2 \u00bd% increase on new wage scale<\/p>\n<p>Year 3 \u2013 2 \u00bd% increase on new wage scale.<\/p>\n<p>6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grandfathered PLs to continue receiving $2.35 per hour above the Level 3.4 rate of pay.<\/p>\n<p>7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Team Leaders to receive 5% premium above the Level 3.4 rate of pay.<\/p>\n<p>Further details of voting location will be provided shortly.\u00a0 Please attend these important meetings and vote.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your patience and support.<\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<br \/>\nYour IAM Bargaining Committee<\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<br \/>\n<strong>Your IAM Bargaining Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barry Barnett<br \/>\nPearlet Browne<br \/>\nRobert Craig<br \/>\nPaul Cuprys<br \/>\nFarooq Hamid<br \/>\nColin Husbands<br \/>\nGigi Najam<br \/>\nNathan Paramanathan<br \/>\nSurjit Singh<br \/>\nSasha Sukunda<br \/>\nLou Pagrach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the evening of August 13, 2012 your Negotiating Committee and Garda agreed to a new collective agreement that will be brought to you to vote on. We unanimously recommend acceptance of this agreement. The following are a few highlights of the agreement which will be explained in detail at the ratification meetings on August 21, 2012. 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vacations \u2013 up to 50% of vacation entitlement may be exchanged for cash out \u2013 vacation to begin after days off. 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}