Bargaining

First I would like to say thank you to the UTE Bargaining Team for all of the hard work, and effort that they have put in over the last 41 months as they attempted to negotiate a new contract.   Most members will never realize the frustration that they must endure during this process. Their continued patience and dedication to make improvements and protect the benefits that have been previously obtained in your contract must be applauded. Collective bargaining is the most important responsibility of the Union, and the Bargaining Team never once strayed from their responsibility.

To all the members of UTE:

(Letter sent to the press on March 11, 2014 from UTE National President Robert Campbell)

I am writing to stand up for the 25,000 Union of Taxation Employees members that are employed with the Canada Revenue Agency, in light of recent negative press coverage.

Today, October 31, 2019 marks 3 years since YOUR contract expired.

In order to mark this unfortunate anniversary, we are providing our members with a solidarity pin to wear to send a clear message to the CRA that we are all very frustrated with the way the negotiations are going so far and that our patience has reached its limit.

On Monday, November 28^th, PSAC is having a National Day of Action across the country to ramp up the pressure on the President of Treasury Board, Mona Fortier on bargaining.

In her role, Mona Fortier is ultimately responsible for our negotiations with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Treasury Board. So far, she has shown no leadership while you face a rapidly rising cost of living. So, we have a simple question: Where’s Mona?

The UTE/PSAC bargaining team has secured dates to return to the table with CRA for August 8^th to 11^th, to try and negotiate a fair contract. This is what standing up and returning a strike mandate has done for the members. We will need to show Management over the coming weeks that we support the team by taking actions and putting up signs of support in the offices. We are hopeful that we can come to an agreement, but we will continue to prepare for strike actions should negotiations fail to achieve an agreement.

PSAC and the Union of Taxation Employees – representing more than 35,000 workers at the Canada Revenue Agency – have declared impasse in negotiations after eight months of negotiations and continued calls for concessions from the agency, including during our latest round of talks August 31 to September 1.