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Alberta Mental Health Board Cancels Negotiations with AUPE
AUPE Press Release, March 15: The Union representing the Province's mental health workers has gone to the Alberta Labour Relations Board to seek an order that would force the Alberta Mental Health Board (AMHB) to come back to the bargaining table.
According to Alberta Union of Provincial Employees' negotiator Bruce Stremel, the Union took this action on March 14th, when the AMHB arbitrarily cancelled meetings with no warning, showing that they had little interest in concluding a collective agreement. AUPE is negotiating on behalf of some 2000 members who work in the mental hospitals, care centres and mental health clinics across Alberta.
"Our bargaining committee wants the chance to sit down and talk about the issues, but the Mental Health Board obviously has no intention of honouring its commitment to bargain in good faith," said Stremel.
"When the employer responded to our proposals on March 3rd by going to the Labour Relations Board and cancelling bargaining scheduled for March 6th & 7th we had no way of knowing whether negotiating sessions scheduled for March 13th and 14th would take place. We were later informed by a secretary to the AMHB Negotiator that AMHB had unilaterally cancelled those meetings as well."
"It's time for the employer to stop playing games and to show that they are serious about bargaining," says Union President Dan MacLennan.