PSAC received the Public Interest Commission’s report May 29 with their non-binding recommendations for reaching a new collective agreement. The report follows the overwhelming strike mandate by more than 9,000 FB members announced earlier this month. With the release of the report, the FB group will now be in a legal strike position as early as Thursday, June 6.
The report notes that the employer did not agree that there were any recruitment or retention challenges at CBSA, while also noting that the agency admitted to struggling to efficiently deliver services due to “out-of-date and anachronistic collective agreement rules”. The bargaining team will continue to push for changes to the collective agreement that improve the workplace and push back against concessions the employer wrongly believes will solve workplace issues.
The report recommended that the parties meet and resume collective bargaining immediately.
The FB bargaining team and the employer have agreed to return to the bargaining table to resume talks at mediated sessions starting on Monday, June 3. Our bargaining team is hopeful that Treasury Board and CBSA will return to the bargaining table with a renewed mandate to reach a fair agreement for members.
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This article was originally posted on the PSAC website.
