Your Bargaining Team is pleased to announce that on December 14, 2018 a Tentative Agreement was signed with the Employer, completing this round of negotiations. The new agreement will be four years, expiring June 20, 2022. The economic increases are:
Prior to the Group AGM, there were eight vacancies and six nominations were received. All nominations were reviewed and deemed eligible. As a result Feng Ni, Cathy Cheung, Keith Yeung, Stephan Grosse, Craig Bihun and Patricia Loder were elected by acclimation. The election results were communicated to the membership at the Group AGM on December 7, 2018.
Devanand Pinto
Chair, Elections Committee
On November 26, Bill C-62, An Act to amend the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act and other Acts, received Royal Assent
The Bill is aimed at repealing two blatantly anti-labour pieces of legislation introduced by the former Harper government, Division 20 of Bill C-59 and Bill C-4.
The first of these sought to unilaterally impose an inferior disability and sick leave management system on public servants, an unwarranted and significant attack on ours members' rights.
The second, Bill C-4, would have drastically changed the rules for collective bargaining within the public service, giving the government full control over union rights such as the right to strike and the right to arbitration. The government would have also determined what positions would be considered essential.
Bill C-62 came into force when it received Royal Assent.