City Workers Have Tentative Deal

Monday, June 16, 2008 03:33 PM

Prince George, B.C. - The City of Prince George inside and outside workers have a tentative agreement.

Dennis Marleau President of CUPE Local 399, says “We’ve reached a tentative agreement with the City of Prince George. We will be taking it to our membership Wednesday night with a recommendation they ratify the agreement.”

The agreement was worked out with the assistance of a mediator, without whose help Marleau says he doubts an agreement would have been reached.

The workers have been without a contract since the end of December, the deal covers 600 inside and outside workers represented by CUPE locals 399 and 1048.

A previous 3 year contract was rejected by the membership in mid May.

If the membership ratifies the deal, Prince George City Council wouldn’t be able to approve the package until Monday night’s Council meeting.

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Posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 03:33 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: redneck on June 16 2008 5:25 PM

Mediators always side with the companies that is why companies like to use them.Unions like to use them so they can back off there original demands without looking like fools.Both the company and the union gets rich and the worker scrapes to make a living as he continues to lose ground year after year

Posted by: Palopu on June 16 2008 6:11 PM

Redneck. Lets see what kind of Contract they get. You and I may be losing ground, but it is highly unlikely anyone working for the City is losing anything.

Posted by: Moses on June 16 2008 9:06 PM

Why isn't the (expired) CUPE collective agreement with the City of Prince George on either of the CUPE, or the LRB web-sites?

There's plenty of other expired agreements on record at both those locations.

Let's see what the bottom-feeders are making as they lean on their shovels, shuffle papers behind their counters or go on endless union-mandated smoke breaks.

Posted by: Howrd_B_Stern on June 16 2008 9:26 PM

Union-mandated smoke breaks?

Seems to me that there is hardly a union out there that would mandate their workers do something so unhealthy.

Posted by: Chester on June 16 2008 11:18 PM

Congratulations on reaching an agreement. The next step will be for the membership to ratify it. I'm sure they are thankful that they have reasonable job security, pensions and benefits. I don't begrudge them a reasonable standard of living. They have families to support too. Wouldn't it be nice for everyone to enjoy contracts like our government employees enjoy? Chester

Posted by: He speaks on June 17 2008 8:34 AM

I don't mind if the government workers get a decent wage. As long as it is not more than what a person would get paid out in the real world. Sure the office clerk can get 30 to 35k a year. As long as a similar position at KMPG is getting paid the same amount. If a engineer is getting paid 80k a year for the city, is that what Allnorth Engineering paying?

Two reasons, why it should relate to the outside world.

One, the government don't rob the private industry of all the good workers by being able to throw money at them.

Two, the current government workers will do their jobs properly and willing to take calculated risks and make decision on the spot. Currently if they are being paid more than the industry rates, these workers will avoid making decisions and calculated risks, because of the fear of loosing their cushy retirement jobs. This would be the reason why nothing ever gets done in a government setting.

Posted by: onemansthoughts on June 17 2008 10:36 AM

Hence higher taxes. Less production.