There are two (2) vacancies on the AFS Group executive, for President and Vice-President. The successful candidate will take Office on July 1, 2024.

Following the close of nominations on May 1, 2024, the following members expressed their willingness to serve as Vice-President on the AFS Group Executive. The President position has been acclaimed by Doug Mason. Congratulations Doug!

I met with CRA Commissioner Bob Hamilton on May 2nd, along with UTE President Marc Brière. While I can’t say that I was surprised by the outcome, it is still disappointing.

In spite of all the formal and informal feedback and even official survey results that indicate the negative impacts on our members, our CRA Commissioner chose for the Agency to worsen the work life balance and stress levels and productivity of our AFS members.

At the request of the AFS Group Elections Committee as per PIPSC By-Law 17.3.2.1, the PIPSC National Elections committee is conducting the 2024 AFS Group elections to the National AFS Group Executive.

According to AFS Group By-Law 7.5.1, in 2024, being a year before a year divisible by three, elections will be held for AFS Group President and Vice-President for a three (3) years term.

As per AFS Group By-Law 7.4.10: Successful candidates will take Office on July 1.

Work to develop and implement a proactive Pay Equity Plan at the Canada Revenue Agency is well underway, and committee members have been spending multiple days per week with UTE, Unrepresented, and employer representatives to complete a Pay Equity Plan.

The AFS Group is pleased to announce that our members have voted to accept the tentative agreement reached with CRA on September 16, 2023.

We anticipate signing our new collective agreement on December 14th, following management completing their ratification process.

In solidarity,

Doug Mason

AFS President

Your AFS Bargaining Team is pleased to announce that on September 16, 2023, we signed a tentative agreement to complete this round of collective bargaining. The Bargaining Team would like to thank all members for their support.

We believe we have reached the best negotiated deal possible in what has been a challenging round of negotiations. Please find below your ratification information kit in preparation for the ratification vote

Here are the supporting documents outlining our gains:

Dear AFS Members,

We are pleased to invite you to attend a national virtual contract information session. You are allowed up to 2
hours of paid leave time to attend this session, if you have not attended a previous one.

This French language sessions will be hosted by Québec Region AFS Representative, Jean Couillard. There
will be a separate notice for November 14 th and 15 th English language session to be hosted by our AFS
President, Doug Mason along with our AFS Vice-President, Shawn Gillis.

We are pleased to invite you to attend a national contract information session.

You are allowed up to 2 hours of paid leave to attend this session if you did not use them on another session.

These will be hosted in English by AFS President, Doug Mason, and Vice-President Shawn Gillis. (French language sessions will be hosted by our Québec Region AFS Representative, Jean Couillard.)

On September 16, your AFS Bargaining Team reached a tentative agreement with the CRA.

We are now able to share more information about the ratification process with you.

Electronic voting will take place from November 10 until 12:00 PM ET on November 24. The voting package will include a summary and a complete report of all changes contained in the tentative agreement.