Audit, Financial and Scientific Group
Your AFS Bargaining Team met with CRA management from April 30 to May 3 to continue negotiations to renew our collective agreement.
Both sides reviewed options; proposed solutions; discussed their pros and cons; and made progress towards improving workplace flexibilities for all AFS members. It is worth noting again that our members identified flexible work arrangements as their top non-pay concern.
January 26, 2019 AFS Executive Meeting
Present: Doug Mason (President), Mark Muench (Vice President & CS National Consultation Representative), Chris Roach (Atlantic Regional Representative), Phil Choo (BC / Yukon), Robert Trudeau (Prairies/NWT), Brian Hassall (HQ), Allaudin Alibhai (NCR IT), Shawn Gillis (Ontario), Manny Costain (CS Regional Representative and Recording Secretary), and Al Ravjiani (Toronto).
2019 AFS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
June 8, 2019 - 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Delta Hotels Winnipeg, 350 St Mary Avenue,
Winnipeg, MB R3C 3J2
1. Welcome
2. Rules of Procedures and Code of Conduct
3. Draft Agenda
At the request of the AFS Group Executive and as per PIPSC By-Law 17.3.2.1, the PIPSC Elections committee is conducting the 2019 AFS Group election to the National AFS Group Executive. Elections will be held for the following positions:
NCR IT Region AFS Representative
Open to all AFS CS members in the NCR
CS National Consultation Representative
Open to all AFS CS members
In our Collective Agreement, AFS members are entitled to fifteen (15) hours of Personal Leave with pay and forty-five (45) hours of Leave with pay for family-related responsibilities. Both of these leaves cannot be carried over from year-to-year.
See your AFS Collective Agreement for details and don’t forget to use these leaves if needed before April 1st.
• 17.13 Leave with pay for family-related responsibilities
• 17.21 Personal leave
In the PSTAR Grievances, FPSLREB File Nos. 566.34.9832 & 9833 (Myles& Alcock), PIPSC recently finished its final arguments in support of our members. The Labour Board will now render its decision with written reasons in the coming months. When we have a decision we will notify the affected members and post an update on our website. We encourage you to visit in the coming weeks for updates on this matter.
Dear AFS members,
The AFS Bargaining Team shared our AFS specific pay proposals electronically with the Employer on January 26, 2019. We took this unusual step to give the Employer every opportunity to obtain a mandate and respond meaningfully when we meet on February 12 to 14.
We will make detailed presentations to explain the justifications for our pay demands during these same meetings.
For transparency, we will post all of our pay demands as part of bargaining update following our February bargaining session.
We are aware that many of you have recently received a response from the employer dismissing the grievances that were filed relating to your pension transfer from the Ontario Public Service. We had anticipated that the employer would conclude that the matter could not be grieved and, for that reason, we have also been pursuing class action proceedings before the Ontario Superior Court on this same issue. The parties have agreed to enter into mediation in those proceedings.