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Wednesday January 7, 2009
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Wednesday January 7, 2009
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Workforce Adjustment Committee
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The Committee has not met since my last report. However, the Committee is scheduled to meet in Ottawa Sept 24-25/06 and this will include a meeting of the Joint CRA-UTE National WFA Committee.
The Committee and Staff Advisor met twice with HQ in July in regards to the WFA announcement on the T2 Bar Coding. As a result of this initiative an additional 146 UTE members were declared affected. These members are employed in all of the 6 Taxation Centres in the CRA. The Chair advised all RVPs of this and requested that they ensure that there would be union representation at both the regional and locals briefings on this initiative, which was done.
The Chair and Technical Advisor also met in 3 live and telecom meetings in a consultative forum on what the CRA is calling WFA Approach and Guidelines. These guidelines are meant for management, staff relations and unions. As well an all employee memo was to be sent via CRA e-mail. While some of our requests were included in the final document sent to the field, the employer still maintained their position on two important issues. These are the usage of Permanent Lateral Moves (PLMs) versus Reasonable Job Offers (RJOs) and the CRA’s continued refusal to abide by the PSLRB decision dealing with equivalency (4% vs 6%). At the national meetings UTE requested that regional and local briefings include union representation. We were advised that this would be left up to management at the regional and local levels. As of the writing of this report we can only wait to see how this was done. At the Committee meeting scheduled for September 25th, a bulletin will be completed and sent to the all Locals and Council on this topic. It should be made clear that while the employer is calling this something new, it is nothing more than the employer’s opinion of how to apply the WFAA. A presentation will also be made at the September Presidents Conference.
As of the writing of this report according to our records there are currently between 1100 and 1300 UTE affected by WFA.
At the June/06 UTE-CRA NUMC we received a commitment for the employer that they would “ENSURE” that regional and local joint WFA Committees would be set up.
Respectfully submitted,
Nick Stein
Chair of the Committee
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