January 6, 2009
Negotiations with Treasury Board
PSAC Bargaining Units with Treasury Board (PA, SV, TC, EB, FB)
Technical Services (TC) Bargaining Unit – bargaining update
The PSAC has completed the application for the establishment of an arbitration board on behalf of the TC bargaining unit. As the party requesting arbitration, the PSAC must specify details regarding the impasse reached. The details include listing the dates the parties met to negotiate, the list of signed articles and the list of outstanding issues.
Now that the request for arbitration is in the hands of the Public Service Labour Relations Board (PSLRB), the Board will forward it to the employer. Treasury Board had seven (7) days to respond in writing to request any other term or condition to be included in an arbitral award if it is not included in the union's request for arbitration. This portion of the process, as well as the Union's agreements that the employer's issues were appropriate for Arbitration has been completed.
When the PSLRB determines the parties are in agreement with the list of signed articles and issues in dispute, their next task is to appoint the 3-person arbitration panel, with input from the union and employer. That process begins with the parties each naming a nominee who is responsible for agreeing on the name of the arbitration panel chairperson. Within five (5) days of appointing the nominees, the two members must nominate a third person who is ready and willing to act, to be chairperson and becomes the third member of the arbitration panel. The Board can appoint a chairperson if the parties fail to reach agreement.
Once the chairperson of the panel is appointed, the three-member arbitration panel (union nominee, employer nominee and chairperson) will determine the dates of the arbitration hearing.
We expect that nominations and appointments will take place over the month of January 2009. As soon as the panel is in place and dates for arbitration are determined, an update will be posted on the Web.
Date Modified : 2010/07/29
