Let’s Get Ready to Bargain!
Feb 21, 2011
February 21, 2011
Let’s Get Ready to Bargain!
PSAC Submits Notice to Bargain to Treasury Board for FB Bargaining Unit Today.
Our contract with Treasury Board expires in four months, and today – February 21st – is the earliest possible date under the law that we can serve notice to commence negotiations. Accordingly, our union this morning provided Treasury Board with a notice to commence negotiations. Almost one-hundred PSAC members in the FB bargaining unit from across the country met last month in Ottawa to discuss our bargaining priorities for this round of negotiations. Our bargaining team is in place. We have prepared a package of demands. We are ready.
We made progress in the last round of bargaining in a number of critical areas. But there is much work to do. There are on-going scheduling issues that need to be addressed, from ensuring that management bargains in good faith when we negotiate work schedules, to guaranteeing that everyone’s seniority is appropriately recognized, to having telework available to non-uniformed personnel. We need protections in place in the context of the arming initiative. And we want a commitment from the government that there be an early retirement plan for workers in the FB bargaining unit that is in line with other federal enforcement workers.
We work hard. We ensure that Canada’s borders are secure. We deserve nothing less.
In the coming days our team will be contacting Treasury Board’s Negotiator to set dates to commence bargaining. Once we have dates confirmed we will be sure to update. Also, once we have exchanged proposals with management we will be posting both our proposals and those of management on the PSAC website at http://www.psac.com. PSAC Members at CBSA United for a Fair Workplace