{"id":6092,"date":"2017-02-24T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2017-03-27T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:20:31","slug":"tentative-agreement-reached-with-canadian-museum-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6092","title":{"rendered":"Tentative Agreement Reached with Canadian Museum of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cbcmh.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cbcmh.png 600w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cbcmh-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cbcmh-240x150.png 240w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cbcmh-150x94.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just before 2:00 am on Thursday morning, after 12 months of negotiations, our Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement with the Canadian Museum of History. Our Bargaining Team unanimously recommends ratification of our new agreement. The agreement is a four-year collective agreement with an expiration date of March 31, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Wages<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Market adjustments taking effect on April 1, 2016, to be applied to maximum of salary scale of $1,500.00 for E3, E4, E5 and E6, $1000.00 for E7 and E8 and $500.00 for E1, E2 (amounts pro-rated for 40-hour employees)<\/li>\n<li>Increase in annual service pay to 2.5%.<\/li>\n<li>Annual economic increases amounting to 5% over 4 years (1.25% per year).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Market adjustments and service pay increases implemented before annual increase.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All increases retroactive to April 1, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>One-time, lump-sum signing bonus of $650.00 for all full-time employees on date of ratification, pro-rated for part time employees.<\/li>\n<li>A joint committee to examine introduction of new wage grids for next round of negotiations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Permanent Positions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our agreement provides for the creation of 10 new permanent positions in Client Services, to be offered by seniority consistent with collective agreement.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, our agreement provides for the conversion of 6 part-time Client Services positions to permanent full-time<\/li>\n<li>Temporary employees will now have the opportunity to achieve permanency after working equivalent of 2 years with museum. Employer has agreed to no artificial break in service for employees seeking to achieve permanency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leave<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One-time week of vacation for all employees with 2 years of service.<\/li>\n<li>Employees access 4 weeks\u2019 annual vacation at 5 years of service instead of 6 years of service.<\/li>\n<li>Employer to reimburse costs for medical certificates.<\/li>\n<li>All time spent in public service and with other crown corporations to count towards vacation accrual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Job Security<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Significant new protections against layoff, including employer must make every effort to avoid layoff, as well as seniority options for voluntary departures.<\/li>\n<li>Longer recall list, enhanced rights for employees receiving notice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scheduling<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Client Services staff to now have option of working a 40-hour week, as well as many new protections with respect to how hours are scheduled.<\/li>\n<li>New protections against permanent reduction in regularly scheduled hours for full-time employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Staffing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All vacant jobs of more than 6 months in duration that are being filled must be publicized so that union members might apply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Classification<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The union must now be notified in the event that a job is being modified, re-evaluated or reclassified.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about our new contract and ratification, contact a member of our Bargaining Team \u2013 Patrice Remillard, Cathy Mitchell, Eric Pallotta. A full explanation of the new agreement, and a copy of the new language, will be provided at the ratification meeting. We\u2019ll be sure to provide an update once we have a date and location confirmed for the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before 2:00 am on Thursday morning, after 12 months of negotiations, our Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement with the Canadian Museum of History. Our Bargaining Team unanimously recommends ratification of our new agreement. The agreement is a four-year collective agreement with an expiration date of March 31, 2020. Wages Market adjustments taking effect &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6092\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tentative Agreement Reached with Canadian Museum of History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,12,169,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions\/6097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}