Memo: Community Care Access Centre Central Negotiating Team

The Central CCAC Negotiating Team: Committed leaders, working together through a
strategic and innovative process to provide a strong, unified collective agreement that
respects all our members
Bargaining Unit Presidents, CCAC Sector/September 11, 2011 Page 2
CCACCNT Update
In preparation for our next week of bargaining, Bargaining Unit Presidents will be holding
Bargaining Unit meetings throughout the next two weeks. These meetings will provide a
bargaining update to ONA members, and Bargaining Unit Presidents will be conducting premediation
strike votes. The results of the strike votes will be confidential until we get to
mediation. The purpose of these strike votes will inform CCACCNT of your wishes during the
next days of bargaining and mediation.
Strike preparations will commence starting at these Bargaining Unit meetings. We will continue
negotiating a contract based on your priorities. An October 3 strike/lockout date motivates the
parties to negotiate a settlement that your leaders can bring back to you for ratification.
It is anticipated that additional Bargaining Unit meetings will be held on September 30, 2011 to
either ratify a settlement or conduct a strike vote. Please hold this date.
Our updates will be available on the ONA website at www.ona.org under Bargaining News.
Bargaining Unit Presidents will be communicating to ONA members on our progress at
Bargaining Unit meetings, and by posting updates on their worksite bulletin boards and
providing hard copies or e-mails where members do not have access to ONA’s website.
If you have any questions for CCACCNT, please send them to ONA President Linda Haslam-
Stroud at lindahs@ona.org. Linda will see they are brought to my attention.