This is an old Treasury Board tactic. My union has been working without a contract since June 2007 and it has taken a year and a half to come to an agreement with TB. And the only reason they came to an agreement was because the union buckled and took whatever it could get in light of the economic 'disaster.' As such we're getting the, across the board, 7 percent or whatever being offered to everyone.
Their tactic seemed to be just to stall, stall, stall until it was advantageous for them. I mean seriously, negotiating a contract for 18 months only to come to 7 percent over 4 years?
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