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UNION POSITION
- A fair, voluntary buyout.
- Hours credit for over-scale employees.
- Wage increases for red circled employees; why should people go without wage increases for years?
- New, fair pharmacy tech wage scale.
- Wages should be no less than Safeway.
- Meat and bakery trainee wage improvements.
- Courtesy clerks doing general services work should receive service clerk rates.
- Start rates should be attractive and fixed.
- 7500 wage progression, no longer, and only if wages are appropriate.
- Retroactive pay at $1 per hour for all employees.
- Wages should be fixed. All wages and incentives should be bargained with Union.
- Liquor store parity.
- Provincial, i.e. urban/rural parity.
- Narrow gap between general merchandise and grocery employees.
- $1 per hour for everyone at ratification; $1 per hour for everyone, January, 2003.
- 2 year agreement, i.e. early 2004 expiration.
COMPANY POSITION
- No buyout.
- No retroactive pay.
- 7 years to introduce start rates of $8.00 per hour in major classifications.
- No wage increase for many red circled employees, just "lump sums" of $500 per year.
- No attempt to apply Safeway wages to offer.
- 10,000 hour wage progressions in major classifications including service clerks, bakers, and meat cutters and general merchandise clerks.
- Company right to alter rates and premiums as they have without negotiation.
- No urban/rural or liquor store parity.
- Gap too large between general merchandise and service clerks.
- Agreement to be 7 years!
- Wage increase $1 over seven years for service clerks, meat cutters and bakers and liquor store employees.
- 75¢ over 7 years for general merchandise clerks.
- 75¢ over 7 years for courtesy clerks.
- A one dollar increase over seven years is an average of slightly over 14¢ per hour per year.
- A 75¢ increase over seven years is an average of just under 11¢ per hour per year.
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