Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

On August 1st, 2005, more than 400 employees were transferred by order of the government from HRDC to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). All are employed in “National Collections Services” and “Collections Litigation and Advisory Services.” The vast majority are PSAC members classified as AS, CR and PM. If you were a part of this transfer, you are now an employee of the CRA. However, in accordance with provisions of the Public Service Labour Relations Act, your existing collective agreement (Table 1) remained in effect until the Public Service Labour Relations Board (PSLRB) ruled on the assignment of these new positions to bargaining units within CRA.

On 31 March 2006, in decision 538-34-01, the PSLRB approved a joint application of the PSAC and the CRA to have the AS-CR-PM positions assigned to the existing PSAC bargaining unit. Therefore, as of 31 March 2006, the Table 1 collective agreement ceased to apply to you, and you are now covered by the PSAC-CRA collective agreement.

Although the CRA agreement was originally based on the Table 1 agreement, and is structured very similarly to that agreement, over the last three rounds of negotiations a few differences have developed based on bargaining demands unique to one unit or another. To help you understand the provisions of the new collective agreement, the PSAC has put together a short summary of the major differences between the two collective agreements (pdf).