CITY OF SASKATOON OFFER FAIR

The City’s goal is to protect taxpayers’ dollars and the benefits of all City workers.  We have worked hard at presenting a fair and competitive offer to the Amalgamated Transit Union 615 (ATU).

“The City is offering ATU a wage increase of 10.0% over four years (2013 - 2016), and has proposed changes to the General Pension Plan (Plan) that will help protect it into the future,” says Marno McInnes, Director of Human Resources.

There are nine unions and associations that are part of the Plan; eight have accepted and implemented their agreements with the City. ATU is the only union in the Plan that has not yet accepted the City’s offer. 

“We are concerned for the future of the pension plan and it is a serious matter,” McInnes says.

Changes to the Plan, which have been accepted by the other unions, call for – among other things – pension contribution rate increases by both the City and the employees to address an existing deficit in the Plan.  If not addressed, the deficit may have to be funded by the City.

Details of the full wage and benefits package is available on the City website.

A summary can be found at:

http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/HumanResources/negotiation/Pages/negotiation.aspx

More facts are available at:

http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/HumanResources/negotiation/Pages/QuestionsandAnswers.aspx

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