Negotiation Team

The Negotiations Committee is responsible for:

1. Determining the Association’s bargaining strategy;
2. Identifying the Association’s bargaining priorities;
3. Attending bargaining sessions with the employer and other related bargaining proceedings;
4. Retaining counsel, in consultation with the Executive Council, to facilitate bargaining and to represent the Association in other related bargaining proceedings;
5. Collecting and analyzing relevant bargaining information, including, but not limited to:
   1. demographics of the LP bargaining unit;
   2. compensation data applicable to the LP bargaining unit;
   3. compensation data applicable to comparator service providers in the public and private sectors;
   4. collective agreements governing other comparator service providers;
6. Commissioning bargaining-related studies or surveys where appropriate;
7. Consulting the AJC membership on bargaining priorities;
8. Preparing and tabling bargaining proposals;
9. Considering employer’s proposals, and where appropriate, preparing and tabling counter-proposals;
10. Recommending to the Governing Council that a vote of the membership be held to:

a. ratify a proposed framework or collective agreement; or

b. take job action or strike.