Hello SP Stewards,
Please find below a summary of new changes to our Collective Agreement.
Thank you for all your work on the behalf of our members.
Elizabeth Ptasznik
SP Chief Steward
HIGHLIGHTS OF CHANGES TO SP COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT, Signed May 15, 2017
Link to full SP Collective Agreement
Status of Collective Bargaining
The Bargaining Team hosted an information session on July 12 at the St. Elias Center in Ottawa and on July 13 at the Delta City Centre in Ottawa. We can’t express enough how pleased we were at the record amount of participation we had. It confirms our solidarity and the importance you have placed on our terms and conditions of employment. We appreciated all the positive comments and equally we appreciated all the tough questions and feedback.
As promised, attached is a copy of the presentation in PDF format.
A group of sixteen AV members from the St. John’s region recently picked a sunny Thursday evening (July 6th to be exact) at Quintana’s Restaurant to launch their own Sub-Group and conduct their inaugural AGM. David Chu, Atlantic Representative on the National AV Group Executive, also came to town to update members on recent PIPSC activities and to conduct an election of the new executive.
To all AU-CO-PG (AV Group) Members: AV Moncton SUB-GROUP 2017 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ELECTIONS AND LUNCH
All PIPSC AV Moncton Sub-Group members (AU, CO and PG with employment address in Moncton area) are cordially invited to attend and participate in the AV Moncton 1st Annual General Meeting with complementary lunch provided.
Date: Friday, September 8
Time: Noon to 1pm
Location: Delta Beausejour, 750 Main Street, Moncton
NOTE:
Dear member
You and your family are invited to a Peter Pan play by Shakespeare by the Sea http://www.shakespearebythesea.ca/ in Point Pleasant Park on August 23rd, at 7:00 pm.
TO: Stewards in the British Columbia/Yukon Region
FROM: Robert K. MacDonald
Regional Director
DATE: July 12, 2017
SUBJECT: Steward Council – October 20 and 21, 2017
Fellow members,
Recently, I sent an opinion piece to the Globe and Mail about our members’ ongoing problems with the Phoenix pay system and what I consider to be one of the root causes of the debacle: outsourcing. You can read my article here.
Its publication this week gives me an opportunity to also update you on a few of the things we’ve been doing, as your union, to mitigate the impact and expedite the fixing of Phoenix, which from the start of the crisis we argued should never have been rolled out. Against our warnings, the government did so anyway, confident no doubt that the problems would soon be fixed. They weren’t.
After many long months of lobbying, protesting and pleading with the government, however, I now feel more confident in saying that I believe we have begun to turn a corner with the employer, if not in finding an immediate fix at least in establishing a common approach to fixing the Phoenix system.
In May, PIPSC filed two policy grievances against the employer – our only real legal means of pressuring the government to repair the system and properly compensate all our members who have been harmed or impacted. While these grievances are unlikely to expedite a final fix, they do establish rigorous expectations on our members’ part regarding an eventual resolution and compensation. This followed many months of assisting literally hundreds of members in filing individual grievances, many of which have been resolved, as well as writing to and meeting with ministers, arguing new measures be adopted to assist members, keeping the issue alive in the media, offering loans to those particularly hard hit, organizing many of our members to protest, and lobbying – successfully – for more money to be spent on fixing the system.
In late June, an invitation for me to meet with the new ministerial working group set up to fix Phoenix finally opened the door to closer collaboration between the government and some of our CS Group members in finding solutions. I hope this will lead to better appreciation of our members’ importance and an eventual change in the government’s outsourcing practices so that such disasters will be prevented from happening in the future.
Better Together!
Debi Daviau
President
Fellow Members,
Following the announcement of our tentative agreement we felt it was necessary to provide you with the attached additional information to ensure you can evaluate all the positive gains against the mandatory payout of our severance and reduction to our DIP properly.
In addition you will be receiving a comprehensive package with all the details on Monday or Tuesday.
Sincerely,
Michael Simard
Article 27 - Vacations
The Bargaining Team met on Wednesday July 5, 2017 to consider a Memorandum of Settlement that was offered by the company. Your Bargaining team and Group Executive agreed to unanimously recommend the acceptance of the settlement. Lunch and Learn events will be held near the workplace to present the offer to the membership. An invite will be sent out via my NAV CANADA account shortly (Michael.simard@navcanada.ca). I will also, be sending you a Ratification Kit where you will be asked to vote on the new agreement.
"Shared Services Canada to begin talks on allowing federal departments to ‘opt out’ from centralized IT service" posted in the Hill Times on July 19, 2017