
	Thursday August 28, 2008

Contract Signed

The results of the ratification vote are in and members have voted to accept the new contract. Yesterday at 3:30pm, the contract was signed by all parties. We have a new collective agreement.

This is an historic milestone in our bargaining history. Negociating a new contract before the old one has expired is virtually unheard of in the federal public sector.

Pictured top right: Betty Bannon, President of the Union of Taxation Employees; bottom right: Lysanne Gauvin, Assistant Commissioner, Human Resources, CRA

Group photo: front row, left to right: Edie Pastuch, Director, Small Business Relations, CRA; Lysanne Gauvin, Assistant Commissioner, Human Resources, CRA; Betty Bannon, President, UTE; Pamela Abbott, RVP Pacific Region, Co-chair of the Bargaining Committee and Chair of the Technological Change Committee, UTE.
middle row, left to right: John Gordon, President, PSAC; Gloria Corrente, Assistant Director, Audit, Sudbury, CRA; Hanif Amlani, Manager, Verification and Enforcement, Edmonton TSO, CRA; Dale Holmes, Compensation Analyst, CRA; Phillip McCutchan, Director, Southern Interior Tax Services Office, CRA; Manda Noble-Green, Collective Bargaining Advisor/Research Analyst, CRA; Gaby Levesque, PSAC negotiator, PSAC.
back row, left to right: Shawn Bergeron, RVP Prairies Region and Chair of the Equal Opportunities Committee, UTE; Seth Sazant, PSAC Research Officer, PSAC; Denis Lalancette, 2nd National Vice-President responsible for Collective Bargaining portfolio and Chair of the Bargaining Committee, UTE; Nick Stein, RVP Southwestern Ontario Region and Chair of the Workforce Adjustment Committee, UTE; Dave Miller, member of the Bargaining Committee and President of the Penticton Local, UTE; Chris Aylward, RVP National Capital Region and Chair of the Health and Safety Committee, UTE; Jean-Pierre Fraser, member of the Bargaining Committee and President of the Shawinigan-Sud local, UTE; Luc Doyon, Regional Director, Human Resources, CRA; Robert Derikozis, Chief Negotiator, CRA

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