Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

The votes have been counted and the results are in; members of the Technical Services Group have chosen arbitration as their method of dispute mechanism for the upcoming round of collective bargaining with Treasury Board. What this means is that should a collective agreement not be achieved via negotiation, Technical Service members would use arbitration, and not the conciliation/strike route, as a way to resolve negotiations.

As the Public Service Labour Relations Act requires that the method of dispute resolution be chosen before the commencement of negotiations, this vote was conducted amongst the 10,000 Technical Service members across the country now, well in advance of serving notice to bargain with Treasury Board.

The work of preparing for negotiations continues, with the National Bargaining Conference taking place in February, 2007. Technical Service members are encouraged to get involved in the negotiation of their next collective agreement; as membership solidarity will be as important as ever in this upcoming round of collective bargaining.