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
Your Bargaining Team has been waiting for some positive news before giving an update. Our last bargaining session and subsequent update was February 2017. At that time we made it very clear to the employer on day three of that session that we would not meet with them again without first receiving their monetary offer.
Over the last five months, your Bargaining Team has been working diligently with senior PIPSC management to work with senior CFIA management to re-engage in meaningful bargaining.
In the May 24, 2017 communiqué, the AFS Group provided information concerning the settlement reached on May 9, 2017, in regard to the volunteer to personal day grievances.
The purpose of the present communiqué is to provide supplemental information to the May 24, 2017 communiqué.
Grievors
Topic: Retroactive Pay and Bill C-27
From: Your Union - The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC)
To: Members of the AV Group (CO, PG & AU Classifications)
When: Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: RCAF Officers' Mess, 158 Gloucester Street, Ottawa, ON
Your AFS Negotiation Team requested meeting dates as soon as possible following our last bargaining session held May 9-12. On July 14th, CRA agreed to another bargaining session on September 19-21. We look forward to resuming negotiations with the aim to conclude a collective agreement.
As previously communicated, we are continuing to pursue a Memorandum of Agreement that will commit the Agency to long overdue classification reform. The work of our AFS members is evaluated on a discriminatory decades old classification system. It is time for this to change.
The Executive of Health Canada NCR Branch presents
The Holland Cross IMGs Town Hall, July 31, 2017 – 10 am – 11:00 am
President Debi Daviau calls all IMGs (Foreign trained medical doctors) working in HC- HPFB to a town hall to discuss:
“The future of IMGs in the public service”
Town Hall Honorary Guest, the Honourable Andrew Leslie
Orleans MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
(Canada-U.S. Relations) and member of the Privy Council
Your Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement with the Sunnybrook Mechanical and Electronic Technologists (SUN-MET) to renew the Group's Collective Agreement. On July 11, 2017 members had the opportunity to vote on this and a strong majority of members have ratified the Tentative Agreement.
Your bargaining team,
Thanks.