The Collective Agreement covering the period from May 9th 2014 to May 9th 2018 came into effect this week on November 7th 2018.

As indicated in our Oct 18th update on bargaining, we met with Treasury Board on November 23rd to exchange proposals.

Please note that we have extended the deadline to respond to the Bargaining survey until Sunday, October 7th 2018 at midnight.

As we indicated in our November 28th update, our first bargaining session with Treasury Board since the conciliation decision, was scheduled on December 17th and 18th.

At long last, our hearing took place on October 25th 2017 as scheduled before a panel of three “conciliators” who will make a binding decision that will be constitute our arbitral award.

Our first “Binding Conciliation” session was completed yesterday.

Our mediation session with the conciliation panel was held last Wednesday and it was regrettably unproductive.

Bargaining Update: A Chair has been chosen.

As you know, on December 20th 2016, Treasury Board (TB) rejected our proposals on pay and on compensatory leave and made no counter proposals.