Public Service Modernization

Background information

National Board of Directors - On-line

NBoD Motion on the Fryer Committee and the Canada Labour Code.

WHEREAS after a decade and a half of cutbacks, legislated wage freezes, employment reductions, contracting out, imposed terms and conditions of employment, privatization and a string of draconian labour legislation, federal labour management relations and the collective bargaining process are both in crisis ; and

WHEREAS in October, 1999 the government appointed John Fryer to head up an Advisory Committee on Labour Management Relations in the Federal Public Service to review union management relations and the collective bargaining relationship in the federal public sector, and make recommendations aimed at improving the situation ; and

WHEREAS while the Fryer Committee has identified the issues in an appropriate way, it is considering recommendations that will delay the bargaining process, and restrict the autonomy of individual bargaining groups within the PSAC,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the PSAC reaffirm its commitment to having the Canada Labour Code (or similar provisions) govern the collective bargaining relationship in the federal public sector ; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the PSAC launch a membership education and mobilization campaign on the Fryer Committee's work, and the benefits of bargaining under the Canada labour Code ; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the PSAC make coverage under the Canada Labour Code an issue in the next federal election campaign.