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December 3, 2007 PSAC Bargaining Units with Treasury Board (PA, SV, TC, EB, FB) Employer insists on comparing Border Officers to security guardsThe Employer refuses to back down from their position that the work of Border Service Officers is comparable to those of security guards, causing the breakdown of our compensation study with the Public Service Labour Relations Board. The PSAC had been working with Treasury Board and the PSLRB on a compensation study for the Security and Enforcement community. The study was expected to provide both the Union and the Employer wage data to be used in the collective bargaining process by comparing PSAC members’ compensation with those in similar jobs in the broader federal public sector and other similar sectors across the country. However, Treasury Board insists on including various types of private sector security staff as comparators such as airport scanners, armoured vehicle guards and building security, which your Union categorically opposes. Your Union strongly argued that the nature of the jobs, the duties, the education and training requirements, the impact on public safety, and the career paths, among others, of Border Service Officers simply cannot be compared to those of security guards. The compensation study has already experienced delays due to other circumstances which have caused the postponement of bargaining sessions, particularly for the Frontière Border Services (FB) bargaining unit, in December. The Union will be carrying out its own pay research for use in collective bargaining for the enforcement community. Joint work is continuing on the compensation study for the Technical Services (Table 3) bargaining unit. For the automatic email update, members are encouraged to register on the PSAC National Website: http://www.psac-afpc.org/bargaining/email_index-e.shtml. |
