Bargaining Update 18: First “Binding Conciliation” session completed Negotiations 2013-2018
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Our first “Binding Conciliation” session was completed yesterday. We are under an undertaking of confidentiality and thus cannot share any information at this point other than to say that it was a “med-arb” session involving the conciliation panel.
Our second session is scheduled to take...
Bargaining Update 17 Unproductive Mediation
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Our mediation session with the conciliation panel was held last Wednesday and it was regrettably unproductive.
We did, however, manage to fix dates for arbitration. They are October 16th and 25th. We did seek earlier dates but these were the first dates that the members of the...
Bargaining Update 16 A Chair has been chosen
Monday, May 29, 2017
Bargaining Update: A Chair has been chosen. Both parties agreed to Serge Brault to serve chair. We also have tentative dates for early July for mediation and early August for the hearing and will keep you posted on any...
Bargaining Update 15 Binding Conciliation: The Nominees Are Chosen
Thursday, April 13, 2017
As you know, on December 20th 2016, Treasury Board (TB) rejected our proposals on pay and on compensatory leave and made no counter proposals. TB tabled no proposal to address the fact that federal government lawyers are paid significantly less than their provincial counterparts for doing the...
Bargaining Update 14 The AJC Has Declared an Impasse
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The AJC negotiations team met with Treasury Board negotiators on December 19 and 20. Some progress was made on technical changes and minor issues.
However, TB rejected our proposals on pay and on compensatory leave and made no counter proposals. TB tabled no proposal to address the fact...
Bargaining Update 13 Collective Bargaining Resuscitated
Thursday, November 10, 2016
The AJC negotiations team met with Treasury Board negotiators on Wednesday in a resuscitated effort after the AJC protested Treasury Board's unilateral decision to cancel bargaining (see...