EC Collective Bargaining Update
October 8, 2008
CAPE’s EC bargaining team met with the employer’s team on September 23, 24 and part of September 25. It was anticipated that the employer would provide CAPE with a full response to CAPE’s detailed pay proposal tabled in May and June of this year. Unfortunately, the employer did not have its response to EC conversion related matters. As a result, the parties decided to put on hold discussion of pay, and turned their attention to other matters that remain on the table. Progress was made. Almost all non monetary matters have been addressed and signed off. Some leave and cost issues have been discussed, to the extent possible without a more substantive discussion of pay.
In light of the lack of progress at almost all tables where Treasury Board is negotiating and in light of the 15 months of EC bargaining, the Association’s EC bargaining committee mandated the bargaining team to do whatever would prove necessary to get an agreement last week. But as the employer did not have a mandate for conversion monies, this was impossible. CAPE expressed its disappointment and displeasure over the employer’s inability to engage in a comprehensive discussion of pay at this time.
October 8, 2008
CAPE’s EC bargaining team met with the employer’s team on September 23, 24 and part of September 25. It was anticipated that the employer would provide CAPE with a full response to CAPE’s detailed pay proposal tabled in May and June of this year. Unfortunately, the employer did not have its response to EC conversion related matters. As a result, the parties decided to put on hold discussion of pay, and turned their attention to other matters that remain on the table. Progress was made. Almost all non monetary matters have been addressed and signed off. Some leave and cost issues have been discussed, to the extent possible without a more substantive discussion of pay.
In light of the lack of progress at almost all tables where Treasury Board is negotiating and in light of the 15 months of EC bargaining, the Association’s EC bargaining committee mandated the bargaining team to do whatever would prove necessary to get an agreement last week. But as the employer did not have a mandate for conversion monies, this was impossible. CAPE expressed its disappointment and displeasure over the employer’s inability to engage in a comprehensive discussion of pay at this time.