February 7, 2007

Another step forward for Treasury Board and Parks Canada bargaining

The bargaining process is steadily gearing up for over 100,000 PSAC members in Treasury Board bargaining units and at Parks Canada following the union's national bargaining conference held in Ottawa from February 1 to 4.

Delegates, who had previously attended the preceeding two regional bargaining conferences late last fall, took on the task of reviewing the bargaining demands submitted by PSAC Locals through their respective Components. They also discussed and reviewed the Program of Demands package that PSAC had sent to all Treasury Board and Parks Canada Locals last summer to help them develop their demands.

As a result of the conference, each of the negotiating teams for the Treasury Board and Parks Canada bargaining units are now in place. The Treasury Board teams will be meeting from February 26 to March 1^st to finalize their respective demands packages, establish priorities and discuss strategies. The Parks Canada team will do the same from March 5 to 8. When the complete packages are ready to be exchanged with the employers they will be posted on the PSAC web site.

PSAC is committed to doing everything it can to get to the table before these collective agreements expire. The union will serve notice to bargain at the earliest possible date, which is now four months before the expiry date of each agreement. Notices to bargain will be served in late February for the Program and Administrative Services (PA) Group, Education and Library Science (EB) Group, Frontière Border Services (FB) Group and Technical Services (TC) Group
and in April for the Operational Services (SV) Group and the Parks Canada Agency unit.

The union will be posting and publishing regular updates and much more information about the bargaining process, bargaining demands and mobilibization activities in the months ahead.

Here are your negotiating team members. One of PSAC's elected officers is assigned to each of these bargaining units.

Parks Canada Agency
(Front row, left to right) Carrie Docken, Mike Leblanc, Kevin King, Kimberlee Trainor
(Back row, left to right) Rick Foster (Alternate), Omar Murray (Alternate), PSAC Regional Executive Vice-President (Atlantic) Jeannie Baldwin, Sheila Birtch (Alternate), Jack Norris

Program and Administrative Services (PA) Group
(Front row, left to right) Barry Wilton (Alternate), Debbie Graham, Megan Adam, Louiselle Laforest
(Middle row, left to right) Carm Chan, Michele Coe, Sylvie Pinard, Sharon Desousa, Doug Marshall
(Back row, left to right) Ken Boone, Virginia Vaillancourt (Alternate), Geoff Ryan, National President John Gordon
Absent from the photo: PSAC Regional Executive Vice-President (Quebec) Jérôme Turcq

Operational Services (SV) Group
(Front row, left to right) Melvin Dureen, Donna Gourley, Randy Sanderson, Steve Van Opstal
(Back row, left to right)PSAC Regional Executive Vice-President (Prairies) Robyn Benson, Glenn Horman, Robert Armstrong (Alternate), Robert Spencer, Blair Winger, Serge Desbiens (Alternate)

Technical Services (TC) Group
(Front row, left to right) Garry Larouche, Pamela Burns (Alternate), Daniel Dubé, Glen Whalley
(Back row, left to right) Terry Kiley (Alternate), Darrell-Lee McKenzie, PSAC National Executive Vice-President Patty Ducharme, Peter Holland, Phillip Robinson, Carol Casey

Education and Library Science (EB) Group
(Front row, left to right) Michael Freeman, Julie Chevalier, Chris Rogers
(Back row, left to right) PSAC Regional Executive Vice-President (NCR) Ed Cashman, Byron Duguay (Alternate), Jacob Pabbathi (Alternate)

Frontière Border Services (FB) Group
(Front row, left to right) Sylvie Labreche, Fred Milligan, Danielle Dubuc (Alternate), Steve Pellerin-Fowlie,
(Back row, left to right) Karim Lawji, Jason McMichael (Alternate), Carolyn McGillivray, Doug Tremblett, Dave Van Helvert
Absent from the photo: PSAC Regional Executive Vice-President (Quebec) Jérôme Turcq