Our employer lied to us. They promised to work with the union to ensure that decisions about hybrid workplaces, remote work, and return to the office were made collaboratively. Now we’re stuck in traffic, in offices without places to work, dragging computer equipment around downtown Hamilton. And, all of it is unnecessary! In 2022, we were on track to be able to choose our work arrangements. And then, Bob Hamilton sold us out, and broke the agreement made with the union in our last round of bargaining. They’ve gone against their word — and all the available data — by forcing us to be in the office even more.
Below, you’ll find resources and ideas for making sure that our employer knows that we’re not happy, and we’re not going to sit quietly by while they treat us like garbage again and again.
We don’t gripe. We GRIEVE.
Messages from UTE-PSAC
- September 9 update re: forced in-office presence
- Protect Telework Petition
- PSACs legal fight against arbitrary, forced in-office presence
File an RTO grievance
A number of members have filed grievances regarding our employer’s bad-faith change of direction on in-office presence. If you haven’t had a chat with a steward about how to participate, contact us
Even if you like being in the office, you should be filing a grievance.
The issue isn’t choosing to work in the office – the issue is the dishonest, unilaterial way that the employer has stripped away our ability to choose by changing plans and decreeing that everyone “needs” to work in the office despite ample evidence (including CRAs own employee survey data) that shows that #RemoteWORKS!
Remote work facilitates work-life balance; it reduces barriers to fulfilling work for people with children, people with disabilities, people who choose to live outside of major urban centres, etc. No matter where you choose to work, what’s important is having a choice.
Write to your MP
Make sure that MP Anita Anand (the president of TB), Marie-Claude Bibeau (the Minister of National Revenue), Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh, Pierre Polievre, and your local MP know that CRAs dishonesty and treatment of their workers is NOT OKAY. You can find contact information for MPs here:
Change your Teams background
Note: if you are asked to remove a Teams background, DO IT, but ask for the request in writing. Then, contact us.
Post a flyer at your desk-of-the-day
…or in the lunch room, or the washroom, or to your Teams or What’s App chats… click to expand the image in a new tab, then right click and “save as” to download a copy.
