Your CFIA-IN Bargaining Team is pleased to announce that a tentative agreement was reached with the employer just before midnight on December 14, 2017, after six days of negotiations. The economic increase is 1.25% in each of four years (2014-2017) with a 1% market adjustment increase in 2016. All salary increases will be applied retro-actively back to June 1^st 2014. All negotiated changes to the collective agreement will be shared in detail next week. An electronic vote on the tentative agreement will be set for early in 2018.

On December 5, 6 and 7, your RO/RCO negotiating team met with NRC management in Ottawa for the second round of contract negotiations. Each day, local RO/RCO members met the team for lunch at the cafeteria in building M55 to show their support. It felt like every member who put on a t-shirt and came out to cheer us on is part of our team. Photos below -- members in the t-shirts are from research centres including AERO, CONST, DT, EME, HHT, MSS, OCRE plus BMS and Corporate as well as the members on the bargaining team: AERO, DT, HHT, HAA, IRAP and PIPSC.

PIPSC NRC RO/RCO Bargaining Update, December 11, 2017

Dear RO/RCO colleagues,

Your RO/RCO bargaining team recently completed its second round of negotiations with NRC management for our new collective agreement, following the first round in October. In the December 5-7, 2017 bargaining round, we focused on several proposals that would require NRC management to make financial investments to create a more positive and effective working environment:

AV Bargaining Committee Call for Nomination
Deadline: Thursday January 25^th, 2018   (noon EDT)

The AV Group Executive is looking for members to serve on the Bargaining Committee. The Bargaining Committee is a committee of the Group Executive. The members of the Bargaining Committee shall act on behalf of the Group in bargaining the Collective Agreement with the employer. The Bargaining Committee shall keep the Group Executive informed of the progress of negotiations.