AMAPCEO Issues May Edition of AMAPCEO Member News

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) June 6, 2006

The Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario (AMAPCEO) issued the May 2006 edition of AMAPCEO Member News last month.

The newsletter was posted on the AMAPCEO website and also was distributed in paper format to all 8,500 members plus an external distribution list of almost 200.

The front-page article in the newsletter was a report from the AMAPCEO Bargaining Team on the state of negotiations with the Ontario Government, AMAPCEO’s employer. In the article, the AMAPCEO team stated its concerns with the approach of the employer to date, including its attempts to demand concessions in the area of job security and the tabling of a proposed Essential Services Agreement (which AMAPCEO interprets as an effort to threaten potential job sanctions).

Other articles in the May edition of AMAPCEO Member News include:

• AMAPCEO Health and Safety Representatives Hold First Province-Wide Meeting (AMAPCEO’s representatives on local health and safety committees held a meeting in April).
• AMAPCEO Submits Brief on Public Service Act Reform (AMAPCEO’s brief can be read online at the AMAPCEO website: http://www.amapceo.on.ca).
• AMAPCEO negotiates an agreement on LHINs that benefits Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care regional office staff.
• A status report on the AMAPCEO Job Evaluation Project.
• AMAPCEO’s Book Review: Canada’s Top 100 Employers.
• AMAPCEO’s Book Review: Labour Left Out – Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right.
• AMAPCEO article on MCP Compensation Plan: Now Entirely Discretionary.
• Results of AMAPCEO Spring Elections
• Note on AMAPCEO Membership Meetings Across the Province
• Article introducing the AMAPCEO Administrative Staff
• AMAPCEO Chapter Restructuring
• New AMAPCEO Workplace Representatives Appointed
• List of AMAPCEO Board of Directors
• AMAPCEO Member Nella Belcastro – Article on Macdonald-Cartier Building Reunion in Kingston.

AMAPCEO is the second-largest bargaining agent in the Ontario Public Service, representing over 8,500 professional and supervisory civil servants who work directly for the Government of Ontario in all ministries and in every region of the province. Established in 1992, AMAPCEO has established a strong record of negotiating strong and innovative collective agreements, of adopting a collegial, problem-solving approach to dispute resolution and of advocating for an apolitical professional public service as a critical component in Canada’s system of parliamentary democracy.

AMAPCEO members include policy and financial analysts, auditors, economists, program supervisors, mediators, arbitrators, nursing supervisors, senior scientists and chaplains.

For full details, and to read a copy of the AMAPCEO Member News for May 2006, please visit the AMAPCEO website: http://www.amapceo.on.ca.    

Contacts:

Michael Mouritsen, Director of Operations and Planning, AMAPCEO, 416-595-9000 (or 1-888-AMAPCEO), ext 2724.

Gary Gannage, President of AMAPCEO, 416-595-9000 (or 1-888-AMAPCEO), ext 2727.

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