November 16, 2007

PSAC Bargaining Units with Treasury Board (PA, SV, TC, EB, FB)

Your team listens to the members

The TC Bargaining Team was in Ottawa from November 02 to the 09. During this session the team continued to gather information from the members in support of their proposals.

The team also met with the other Bargaining Teams to brief each other on the status of the team negotiations, to discuss the recent CRA tentative settlement, and the postponement of the December bargaining sessions and to clarify who would be the lead tables for our coordinated list of demands.

Starting Tuesday November 6 to Friday November 9, the team had meetings with the employer where we discussed proposals including the following items: compensatory leave, NJC agreements, sexual harassment, call back, standby, reporting pay, travel status leave, leave general, transfer of leave credits, injury on duty leave, and a new pre-retirement transition leave.

The Employer’s responses to our proposals tabled this week included comments such as ‘the Employer wishes to maintain the current language’ and ‘operational managers/departments do not agree due to the huge dollar impact’. In light of this, members may want to contact their respective operational managers to discuss the benefits of our proposals.

Dates for further negotiations are being scheduled in the New Year for January and February. Stay tuned for further updates.

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