We are preparing for bargaining and it has been a very lengthy process. We had to create a Collective Agreement from scratch as we do not have one. All agreements are unique to every workplace so what we did was compare agreements from other agencies in the same sector and current agreements in the building. We took what we liked and left what we didn’t.

We requested submissions from all of our members via e-mail asking what you wanted to see in a Collective Agreement. Absolutely everything that anyone asked for has been inserted into our document that we will use to negotiate with the Y.

Negotiating means exactly that – give and take, so we will see what we end up with when we are done.