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By Cam Lee

CUPE discusses Tisdale impasse

Union comments on contract stalemate with Town of Tisdale

Nov 19, 2019 | 12:00 PM

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is weighing in on the union’s impasse with the town of Tisdale.

Town employees in CUPE Local 777-2 have been without a contract since Dec. 31, 2018, and a recent round of voluntary mediation failed to produce a collective agreement.

CUPE has since reached out for provincially mandated mediation, and that process is in its early stages.

“The members [of CUPE Local 777-2] are just very frustrated with how they feel the employer has approached these negotiations,” CUPE National Servicing representative Janice Janzen said. “They haven’t seemed to want to have any meaningful discussion and have dedicated very little time to actual negotiations.”

Janzen told northeastNOW union members have pared down their proposals, and the outstanding issue is basically down to wages.

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The CUPE news release on the impasse issued Nov. 18 said workers in Nipawin earn more money for the same jobs.

Despite the breakdown of bargaining with the town of Tisdale, Janzen said workers aren’t going to hit the picket line anytime soon.

“We have no plans for job action right now,” Janzen said. “We’re hoping that this provincially mandated mediation will get us to an agreement. I don’t think [the town and CUPE are] that far apart but we need to see some movement from the employer and so we’re hoping that will happen.”

Tisdale CAO Brad Hvidston declined to comment at this time.

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