CITY HALL – ‘All differences’ over CSO dispute have been resolved, City says
A dispute between City Hall and the Canadian Union of Public Employees over restructuring of the bylaws department has been resolved, a City news release said today (April 3, 2024).
“While the parties are bound by rules of strict confidentiality, we can confirm that the entirely of the dispute and all differences have been resolved to the satisfaction of the City and the union,” the release from acting CAO Byron McCorkell and public services director Ken Uzeloc said.
The situation took four years to be remedied after McCorkell replaced bylaws officers with community service officers in 2020, adding more training requirements to deal with an increasing volume of street issues.
The union grieved and the issue went to the B.C. Labour Relations Board for arbitration, which resulted in a ruling that the collective agreement had been broken. An appeal by the City was dismissed.
“In follow up to the arbitration decision released last summer, the City of Kamloops has worked together with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 900 to resolve all outstanding issues,” the release stated.
The news release said City staff and council will continue to seek peace officer status for the CSOs.
ArmchairMayor.ca 
Will be public, who will be paying for this settlement, be made aware of the dollar figure involved?
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“While the parties are bound by rules of strict confidentiality…” It’s bound by strict confidentiality because the city admin want to continue to suppress the information from coming out, the union has no problem letting the truth out. Put aside your tribal bias for or against the mayor, he had nothing to do with this process, this was a decision that admin made all by themselves and the former council did not question it, they could have, they obviously should have, but they didn’t. What we should do is have a third party neutral investigation as to how we got here so we can figure out a way to never get here again.
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Hmmm wonder how much that cost the taxpayers? Wonder if anyone will “leak” that info?
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It’s interesting this wasn’t a joint communiqué . ( city and union).
To truly believe the issue has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of all parties a joint communiqué signed by both parties would have been better.
“The news release said City staff and council will continue to seek peace officer status for the CSOs.”
This last sentence of the press release sure doesn’t indicate a start to create a harmonious working relationship and imho doesn’t add any value to a what should be a positive, good news statement.
Cooper
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A public entity should, in my opinion, disclose more details because typically the “resolve” means “concessions” which still cost eventually more money.
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