Your SP Bargaining Team continues to work hard to negotiate a new collective agreement.
At our first bargaining meeting in September, each side shared their initial proposals. After the meeting, your bargaining team reviewed the employer’s proposal line by line to better understand what they were proposing, how the proposal could affect you and where we needed more information.
On October 20 and 21, your SP Bargaining Team met with the employer at the Treasury Board offices located at 90 Elgin Street in Ottawa.
This meeting began with the employer providing more details on some of the items that were left open in its original proposals. We received a Memorandum of Understanding on pay simplification as well as proposed articles on maternity and parental leave.
Treasury Board, PIPSC, PSAC, and several other unions have been working on the maternity and parental leave proposal for several years. The goal is to make the article easier to understand, make editorial changes that do not affect its scope or application, and clarify eligibility for compensation during the one-week waiting period.
For the rest of the October meeting, we raised questions and concerns about the initial proposals. Both sides left with more work to do ahead of the next bargaining meetings in January and March.
We encourage all members to show their support by using the Zoom/Teams backgrounds.
If you have any questions, please get a @PIPSC.ca email address, and email ask_sp@pipsc.ca to get added to the SP Active Google Chat Room, which will be the primary space for questions, feedback, and bargaining updates live from the table.
You can also email Enzo Barresi at spbargainingteam@pipsc.ca.