NATURAL
RESOURCES
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING POLICY
The Natural
Resources Union being cognizant of the members' desire to participate fully in
the collective bargaining process and their rights as members to be kept
informed as expeditiously as possible of those matters with regard to
collective bargaining proposes the following as a policy of this Union:
1. As a
matter of policy, this Component shall, where sufficient numbers of Component
members exist in an occupational group of which the Public Service Alliance of
Canada has been certified as the bargaining agent, ensure that, in accordance
with regulations established by the Alliance, a member of such groups is
present as a representative of our Union on the PSAC bargaining committees and
negotiating team.
2. Locals
of this Component shall be required to establish Standing Bargaining Demands
Committees in accordance with PSAC Regulation 15 to review membership
experiences under
3. Upon
receipt by the Local of an input call, the Local shall forward to the Assistant
to the President, in an approved manner, the bargaining proposals and the names
of each member of the Standing Bargaining Demands Committee designating the Chairman
by the date specified in the input call in order that they be considered by the
Alliance Bargaining Committee.
4. Bargaining
proposals received from Locals and/or members which are not forwarded to the
5. In
regard to 4 above, the Local shall be responsible for informing the member
concerned.
6. The
selection of the member-representative of this Component on the PSAC bargaining
committee shall be made in the following manner:
(a) the
member-representative will be selected from nominations submitted by each
Standing Bargaining Demands Committee.
Nominations will be called for by the Assistant to the President on
receipt of advice from the Alliance Centre that bargaining committees are to be
convened;
(b) the selection of the
member-representative shall be made by the National Executive and shall be
based on the geographical location of the bargaining unit members, as well as
the qualifications of the members nominated.
7. Expenses
of member-representatives, other than those paid by the Alliance Centre for the
official member-representative shall be paid by the Component in accordance
with existing regulations.
8. The
member-representative selected in accordance with six (6) above shall be deemed
to have been nominated by this Component as the Component representative on the
Alliance negotiating team and if named by the Alliance Executive Committee of
the PSAC in accordance with Regulation 15, Section V shall attend all meetings
of the negotiating team. (amended at the September 14 - 16/90 Convention)
9. For the
purposes of the foregoing, "geographical location" shall mean East
cost, West coast, Ottawa-Hull, the Prairies, the remainder of
10. A member
of the National Executive shall not be eligible as a nominee to the
11. Notwithstanding
Section 8 and 10 above, the National Executive shall be authorized to replace
any member-representative of this Component on a negotiating team with the
National President if in their opinion such action is warranted.
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