'I think this is going to signal a lot of things for labour relations across Canada as we move forward.'
“We didn’t see it wearing off over time,” Parkin said.
She suspects that’s why many federal public federal servants reacted with anger when they were ordered to return to the office for at least two days a week in late 2022, shortly before the strike began. Instead, the union and Treasury Board negotiated a separate letter of agreement that would require managers to decide if employees can work remotely on an individual basis, rather than making decisions as a group. It would also require managers to put their decisions in writing when they reject an application; and sets up joint departmental panels of managers and union officials to discuss how the remote work directive is being applied.
“We really felt like this round of collective bargaining washing to be the most opportunist chance we had to go for broke on this issue,” Warner said. But she says the final deal still leaves the balance of power with department heads and managers, which she says was well below her members’ hopes and expectations.Article content
“We will have to see the fine print, but on workplace rules the union didn’t get it hardwired into agreements in a way that could be pursued as individual grievances,” Wernick wrote to The Tyee. “But they did get something — there will be widespread use of individual agreements and managers will have to justify their decisions and there are other recourse processes than grievances in the federal service.
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