{"id":8500,"date":"2011-03-08T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2011-03-08T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:30:27","slug":"negotiations-resume-this-week-with-cupe-4207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/03\/negotiations-resume-this-week-with-cupe-4207\/","title":{"rendered":"Negotiations resume this week with CUPE 4207"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The University released this statement today:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The University continues to be prepared to reach a fair and reasonable collective agreement with CUPE 4207 and will work with both the union and a government-appointed mediator this week when negotiations take place on March 8 (Unit 2) and March 11 (Unit 1).<\/p>\n<p>The union has set a strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. on Monday, March 14 if the parties do not reach an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, CUPE 4207 indicated in news media reports that it will not accept a Brock University Students\u2019 Union (BUSU) recommendation that all outstanding collective bargaining issues between the parties be submitted to binding arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>The University had offered to accept BUSU\u2019s recommendation, and further offered to pay for the arbitrator when the union indicated concern that the arbitration would be \u201cincredibly expensive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As negotiations resume this week, the University\u2019s offer of binding arbitration will remain open and we encourage the union to accept this offer rather than initiating a strike that will disrupt the academic term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University continues to be prepared to reach a fair and reasonable collective agreement with CUPE 4207.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8502,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions\/8502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}