To: APEA Membership
From: APEA Negotiations Team
Re: Negotiations Update
Date: January 23, 2009
The Negotiations Team sat down last Thursday evening to review each side’s proposal and give some preliminary comments on what was requested. The word of the evening was “No”. Both sides disagreed considerably with what was requested in the proposals. This is not unusual for a first negotiation session. The meeting lasted a little more than two hours. In our future meetings, we will begin to come to some agreements.
As stated in earlier updates, there will be a lot of heated discussions about the individual items that have been placed in the proposals. The team will be reviewing the comments from this meeting and will be preparing for the next meeting which is scheduled for February 3, 2009. A fair and equitable contract is all we will accept.
We will continue to keep everyone updated as we have information to present.