Bargaining

Recently there has been considerable media coverage about PSAC's canceling of negotiations scheduled with Treasury Board this week over Bill C-59. While C-59 represents an attack on collective bargaining rights and gives the government the ability to make unilateral changes to sick leave, CRA is not covered by the legislation, and the Agency has made no sick leave proposals for this round of negotiations. As a result we will be meeting with the Agency this week as planned.

In Solidarity,

Madonna Gardiner
2nd National Vice-President

Contract negotiations for nearly 30,000 PSAC-UTE members at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) have been briefly delayed but are set to resume on Tuesday July 14^th.

Please be sure to go to ute-sei.org and psacunion.ca to subscribe for regular email updates.

Strike action continues across the country for 35,000 members at Canada Revenue Agency May 1^st as negotiations resume with a new mandate from CRA to reach a fair contract. 

Details on picket line locations across the country will be available shortly.  

To date, we have successfully resolved some issues related to hours of work and information to be provided to PSAC so that the union can communicate and engage with the membership more easily and effectively. This is progress that we have realized so far because of the strike.  

As you are likely aware, a new collective agreement was negotiated with the Canada Revenue Agency.  The new agreement was signed on November 13, 2020, and covers the period from November 1, 2016, to October 31, 2021, inclusively.  

The new collective agreement is now available electronically on the UTE’s website.  It is also available through the employer at InfoZone and Canada.ca.

As you are likely aware, a new collective agreement was negotiated with the Canada Revenue Agency.  The new agreement was signed on June 27, 2023, and covers the period from November 1, 2021, to October 31, 2025, inclusively. 

The new collective agreement is now available electronically on the UTE’s website.  It is also available through the employer at InfoZone and Canada.ca.

Since our contract with CRA expired in 2012, the government has agreed to economic improvements for tens of thousands of fellow public service employees, improvements that greatly exceed what we've been offered.

For example:

Virtually every group signed a 3-year agreement of 1.75, 1.5 and 2. This has not been tabled in our case. Instead the CRA and Treasury Board have insisted that our 3rd year be pegged to the PA group at Treasury Board, rather than negotiate with us on the 3rd year.