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Public Service Staff Relations Act
- Date: 2004-03-19
- File: 142-2-335
- Citation: 2004 PSSRB 20
Before the Public Service Staff Relations Board
BETWEEN
CANADIAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ASSOCIATION
Bargaining Agent
and
TREASURY BOARD
Employer
RE: ALTERATION IN THE PROCESS FOR RESOLUTION OF A DISPUTE
Air Traffic Control Group
Before: Yvon Tarte, Chairperson
(Heard without an oral hearing)
[1] In Canadian Air Traffic Control Association v. Treasury Board (PSSRB File No. 142-02-335, June 7, 1999), the Board confirmed the certification of the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association (bargaining agent) as the bargaining agent of the following bargaining unit (bargaining unit):
All the employees of the employer in the Air Traffic Control Group as defined in Part I of the Canada Gazette of March 27, 1999.
[2] On March 5, 2004, the bargaining agent applied to the Board to record an alteration in the process for resolution of a dispute that is applicable to the bargaining unit. The bargaining agent specified that the process of referral of a dispute to arbitration shall now be the process for resolution of any dispute to which it may be a party in respect of the bargaining unit.
[3] Pursuant to section 39 of the Public Service Staff Relations Act (the Act), the Board hereby records the process of referral of a dispute to arbitration as the process for resolution of a dispute specified by the bargaining agent.
[4] The process for resolution of a dispute hereby recorded by the Board shall be the process applicable to the bargaining unit for the resolution of all disputes from the day on which any notice to bargain collectively in respect of the bargaining unit is given next following March 5, 2004 and remains in effect until the process for resolution of a dispute is again altered pursuant to section 39 of the Act.
Yvon Tarte,
Chairperson
OTTAWA, March 19, 2004.