Bargaining
Program of demands and input call for Treasury Board bargaining
It is time for membership input for the next round of negotiations, which will begin before our collective agreements expire in 2011.
The PSAC's formal input call for these negotiations has gone to the 12 PSAC Components with members employed by the federal government. The Components playa critical role in the input call process by organizing the work of Locals (or Branches, in the case of CIU), gathering input and setting priorities based on that input. We have created this Input Call document to facilitate the work of the more than 800 Locals and Branches that will be invited by their Components to provide input. The purpose of this document is to provide Local/Branch executives with a tool that can be used to engage members in discussions about bargaining demands.
This Input Call is being issued to five groups:
| Group | Full Name | Expiry Date |
|---|---|---|
| PA | Program and Administrative Services | June 20, 2011 |
| SV | Operational Services | August 4, 2011 |
| TC | Technical Services | June 21, 2011 |
| EB | Education and Library Science | June 30, 2011 |
| FB | Frontière/Border Services | June 20, 2011 |
This is an initial "Program of Demands". Its purpose is to provide a tool to assist Locals/Branches in discussions with members about bargaining demands. Some of these proposals have been selected from the list of unresolved issues from the last round of bargaining. Others reflect issues that have emerged during the life of our current agreement or reflect the long-term goals of our union such as the Social Justice Fund demand which is mandated by the PSAC National Convention.
The Program of Demands is intended to elicit discussion among members. We invite members to submit demands (with supporting rationale or description of a problem) on all issues of importance. This includes those that you see in this document. After all, this is your collective agreement; we want to hear from you. Your feedback on these proposed solutions to workplace problems is critical to the process, as is your input for other proposals for amendments to our collective agreements with Treasury Board.
You will see that an overall limit on the number of demands has been established. Components are being directed to submit no more than 20 demands to the PSAC, and we expect that all Components wil be instructing their Locals/Branches to submit no more than 20 demands. The purpose of this limit is to encourage a disciplined approach to bargaining and provide a framework for the setting of priorities throughout the process.
Once Local/Branch demands are received by Components, they will discuss and vet the proposals and submit 20 demands to the PSAC. The package that comes to the PSAC will form the basis for discussion among the members who are delegates to one of the three Regional Bargaining Conferences to be held in the fall, and .the National Bargaining conference that will be held in January, 2011.
At the National Bargaining conference, bargaining teams wil be elected. These bargaining teams will be responsible for finalizing the package of demands and establishing priorities in preparation for an exchange of demands with the employer in the spring of 2011.
- Treasury Board Bargaining 2011 Program of Demands [PDF, 578K, 28pp]
- Proposal for collective bargaining form [MS Word format, 12K]
Date Modified : 2010/09/21
