PSU Ready to Work on Collective Bargaining Agreement

PSU President Dean Flowers also shared that the Union has submitted its framework for a new CBA to the government and are awaiting a response from the government. The PSU has allocated twenty-one days for the government to receive that response, after which the union will submit its proposals regardless of what that framework states. Flowers elaborated on the union’s urgent need for a response to the framework to advance CBA negotiations.

 

Dean Flowers, President, Public Service Union

“In essence, we’re saying to them that we want a response to that framework within twenty-one days, so that we can move ahead with the negotiations. And more specifically with the submission of proposals that are to be considered under the new CBA. So they have twenty-one days to respond to us before we go back to our membership and ask for a mandate on how we proceed. Despite the elections, the government had enough time to look at that framework and to provide us with a response. But clearly they do not prioritize public officers. They do not prioritize improving the lives and the working conditions of public officers. So they’ve dragged their feet there and now that the election is behind us and a new cabinet has been installed. We’re hoping that we will get a response within twenty-one days. We will be thereafter submitting our proposals and on the negotiations, I’m hoping we’ll then proceed and we can close those negotiations within six to twelve months at maximum. Within the framework, we’re proposing a maximum of one year of negotiations.”