NRC-RO/RCO

NRC RO/RCO Group AGM Dec. 8 - NSERC President The NRC RO/RCO Group Annual General Meeting will be held at noon Eastern time on Friday, December 8, 2017 in the auditorium of building M-50 at the NRC Montreal Road campus in Ottawa.

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Our RO/RCO bargaining team including our PIPSC negotiator met with NRC management on October 11 and 12. As we wrote in our last update, the bargaining meeting focused on the non-monetary items on our list of demands; pay negotiations will start at a later date.

As we wrote last week, our RO/RCO bargaining team will be meeting to negotiate with NRC management for a new collective agreement on October 11 and 12. At this meeting we will be negotiating the non-financial items on our list of demands (such as conference attendence and a number of other items our members asked us to include in the new collective agreement).

Dear colleagues, We are ready to bargain. NRC management said they will send their bargaining position to us this week. As you know from our last updates, we have our demands ready and are keen to get started.

Currently more than 1,500 RO/RCO staff work at the National Research Council -- in the Research Divisions, IRAP, Business Management Services, and Corporate services. Everyone in the NRC RO/RCO group is represented by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC).

PIPSC NRC Newsletter July 2017 RO/RCO Group  Research Officers and Research Council Officers Group Executive Members (2017)      President - Susan O’Donnell    - Fredericton

Dear colleagues, Our February RO/RCO newsletter included a bargaining update with the results of negotiations with other PIPSC science and research groups in the federal government. You can access the newsletter from our RO/RCO web page:

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