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Dear Contract Instructors,
After the scheduled bargaining session with the employer earlier this week, your bargaining team filed a request for the appointment of a Conciliation Officer with the Ontario Ministry of Labour. The bargaining team deemed the employer’s failure to offer the union a sufficient number of bargaining dates as unacceptable and falls short of what is needed for productive bargaining. While filing for conciliation often happens further into the bargaining process, your bargaining team believes that conciliation is the best pathway to secure a tentative agreement that meets our members’ needs in a timely manner. We intend to continue meeting with the employer in good faith to pass proposals back and forth until we have confirmed dates with a Conciliation Officer.
If you are unfamiliar with the bargaining process or unsure what “filing for conciliation” means, you can consult the detailed plain language FAQ at the bottom of our Bargaining page on the CUPE 4600 website:
“When a party files for ‘conciliation,’ it means that it has applied to the Ministry of Labour, who then appoints a conciliator to help the parties to attempt to resolve any impasses and to hopefully reach a deal. Either party can file for conciliation at any point, typically after all bargaining proposals have been tabled, and it does not make a strike any more or less likely or inevitable. In past negotiations between Carleton and CUPE 4600, meaningful progress on negotiations is unfortunately rarely ever made prior to the appointment of a conciliator. Conciliation is one of three key procedural hurdles that a Union must clear in order to be in a legal strike position (the other two are a successful strike vote and a no-board report).”
Want to support your bargaining team?
Ryan Conrad, Lead Negotiator Unit 2
Contract Instructor, FIST & IIS
On behalf of the the Unit 2 Bargaining Team
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