October 1999
AGCO: it's skirting
the law
For a law-enforcement agency,
the AGCO is making some shady moves. Under the Labour Relations Act, OPSEU is the
representative you chose to bargain your collective agreement.
AGCO has an obligation to deal with the union, not to
bargain directly with its members.
It’s letter to all staff, distributed without any
reference to the union’s response to its offer, is on the very edge of the law. OPSEU
is considering whether to lay another unfair labour practice charge. We’ll base our
decision on whether it will help us get a better contract.
We’ve always had a mandate to settle a good contract.
We all know that. Nobody wants a strike. We don’t need management telling us how to
bargain.
(For the record, at least chiropractic coverage has been
"scaled back" despite the message from the Chief Executive Officer. Maybe his
neck isn’t as out of joint as ours – or maybe
OPSEU's the union.
We're here to bargain
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