As you may know, our current Collective Agreement expires on June 30, 2022; it is time to turn our attention to issues of bargaining.

I have been appointed as Chair of the CMCFA Bargaining Committee by the CMCFA Executive, and we need to hear your thoughts on the issues that we should consider for the upcoming negotiations. We will be circulating a bargaining survey toward the end of the winter semester to ask you, our members, what issues are important to you. We will then seek a bargaining mandate from you at our Annual General Meeting, which will take place at the end of May 2022.

To ensure that the Bargaining Survey captures your concerns, we will be holding a series of Bargaining Engagement Sessions to help us identify issues that should be included in the survey. You can also identify any issues you would like to be included in the survey in writing by sending an email to our CMCFA Executive Assistant, Lynne Hooper, at execasst@cmcfa-apcmc.ca.

Bargaining Engagement Sessions

All sessions will be open for discussion in English and French, and I will provide translation as needed. The sessions are organized by various CMCFA constituencies, but you should feel free and welcome to attend any of the following:

• February 22, 2022 from 11:00 – 11:50: RMC Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
• February 22, 2022 from 13:00 – 13:50: RMC Department of Defence Studies/CFC
• February 23, 2022 from 11:00 – 11:50: RMCSJ
• February 23, 2022 from 13:00 – 13:50: RMC Faculty of Science
• February 24, 2022 from 11:00 – 11:50: RMC Faculty of Engineering

The sessions will be held by Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89540668336?pwd=R0RlWkhDbGJGMTBLK0tVN1hDeVNEdz09. To control attendance, we will ensure that all attendees are members before admitting them from the Waiting Room to the Meeting Room; please be sure to change your name (by selecting it before connecting or by right-clicking on your name) so that it includes your first name and last name.

We look forward to seeing you at our Bargaining Engagement Sessions or hearing from you by e-mail.

Sincerely,

Sylvain (Sly) Leblanc CMCFA – Chair of the Bargaining Committee