NEW DELHI - 2013 APPLICANTS.

[mum_girl]

Michelle Zilio @MichelleZilio

PAFSO means business. I can't imagine Treasury Board is too happy about the release of those "SECRET" letters. #dipstrike #cdnpoli
So those FOUR conditions from Treasury Board ... Follow my next few tweets. #cdnpoli #dipstrike


1) Arbitration board can't provide economic increase that deviates from current increases agreed to w/ other bargaining agents in this round
2) Arbitration cannot utilize comparisons to the LA, EA or CO groups as basis for rendering compensation. (What's LA/EA/CO stand for?)
3) Arbitration would consider all factors listed under Sec. 148 of PSLRA without giving primary to recruitment/retention.
4) An arbitrator wil be chosen through mutual consent of both parties.


Tony Clement @TonyclementCPC 14m
Great to have my staff over for lunch & socialising. They even applauded my guitar playing!

 

[skas13]

I hope you are right... and this gets resolved soon...

Well it's good you see as good news. If it backfires it just means more people waiting.

 

[Myrah7]

This is in fact good news because they will not issue even single visa and it will put further pressure on government to,resolve this issue fast.hope this ends soon

hope so too this gets over soon.....

 

[mum_girl]

@michellezillio on Twitter just disclosed the four conditions asked by the Treasury Board to start the arbitration and they are absolutely crazy (at least two of them)
On the other hand, Pafso is completely stopping operations starting Monday if there's no arbitration.
The ONLY THING we can still do is keep putting pressure through their social media channels and emails and see if we're annoying enough to get them to do something.
As we don't have any power or say on this, our only alternative left is annoyance :S

 

[skas13]

Well have a good and restful weekend everyone. Nice we are all here united. Let's see what Monday brings.

 

[RD.NewDelhi]

Effective Monday, in order to persuade the Government that binding arbitration remains the responsible way forward to resolve our dispute, PAFSO members will withdraw all services until further notice at Canada's fifteen largest visa processing centres abroad: Abu Dhabi, Ankara, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi/Chandigarh, Hong Kong, London, Manila, Mexico City, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai.

This is bad. They will remove ALL services.

have they offivially declared this??

 

[skas13]

@ michellezillio on Twitter just disclosed the four conditions asked by the Treasury Board to start the arbitration and they are absolutely crazy (at least two of them)
On the other hand, Pafso is completely stopping operations starting Monday if there's no arbitration.
The ONLY THING we can still do is keep putting pressure through their social media channels and emails and see if we're annoying enough to get them to do something.
As we don't have any power or say on this, our only alternative left is annoyance :S

+1
The conditions are ridiculous. They defeat the purpose of arbitration. Hope Tony Clement comes to his senses.

 

[Myrah7]

have they offivially declared this??

yes if there's no arbitration then Monday everything stops

 

[skas13]

have they offivially declared this??

Yes- If Tony Clement does not agree to arbitration by Monday morning ALL services will stop at 15 visa offices abroad.

 

[Watinforeva]

Well it's good you see as good news. If it backfires it just means more people waiting.

This is bad news for many canadian sectors that are education ,tourism, aviation and all other who want foreign workforce and they will suffer huge revenue loss.they will put pressure on government to solve this strike.Government doesn't care about we being away form our loved ones i havent read a single article where they have mention about family class sponsorship but they do care about the businesses in Canada.

 

[mum_girl]

+1
The conditions are ridiculous. They defeat the purpose of arbitration. Hope Tony Clement comes to his senses.

I hope so too :|

 

[Utsav]

Hi,

I applied my wife's PR in feb 2013. They have received my application for permanent residence in Canada in the Family class on
02/14/2013.

Submission of original passport along with old expired passport was submitted 12 june 2013 in delhi.

But Still the status of the application is same.

Do you have any idea how much time it will take from Delhi Office?

Thanks,

 

[Tdot2329]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Statement by the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers:
PAFSO Responds to Government's Rejection of Arbitration

[Ottawa – July 26, 2013] Shortly before noon today, PAFSO received a letter from the President of the Treasury Board in which he rejected our offer of binding arbitration. Minister Clement’s decision was based on the grounds that PAFSO would not accept all six of the preconditions he wanted to impose on the arbitration process.

The Canadian public must understand two key facts:

1. Two of Treasury Board’s preconditions were so paralyzing that their acceptance would have predetermined the outcome of arbitration in the Government’s favour and negated the purpose and integrity of the process. Specifically, they wanted to exclude from consideration any mention of other professional groups in government who perform the same work as us – often in neighbouring offices – which has been at the heart of our position since day one.

2. PAFSO made a reasonable and responsible effort at finding common ground by accepting two of the six preconditions, and committing to a goodwill gesture – a suspension of service withdrawals while arbitration is ongoing – which would have satisfied a third.

Let us be clear: PAFSO has not rejected binding arbitration. We offered it in the first place. We agreed to pursue it even with three of Treasury Board’s preconditions. This offer still stands.

If Minister Clement truly believes his offer is “fair and reasonable”, he would not have shied away from arbitration without preconditions. Rather, he would have welcomed the opportunity to submit his offer to independent scrutiny. Instead, he sought to stack the deck in his favour by cherry-picking criteria which would have favoured Treasury Board’s position. He is trying to tilt the playing field to the Government’s advantage, and is clearly uninterested in a fair contest.

The Government has reached tentative agreements in two other long-outstanding contract negotiations during the last month, and will return to the table on Monday to address a third. PAFSO is one of the smallest unions in the federal government. Equal pay for our members could be achieved for $4.2 million – 1.5% of the impact this strike is having on the tourism sector alone. PAFSO can only conclude that the Government is behaving prejudicially toward the Foreign Service and is therefore negotiating in bad faith. This should be of serious concern to all Canadians.

Effective Monday, in order to persuade the Government that binding arbitration remains the responsible way forward to resolve our dispute, PAFSO members will withdraw all services until further notice at Canada’s fifteen largest visa processing centres abroad: Abu Dhabi, Ankara, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi/Chandigarh, Hong Kong, London, Manila, Mexico City, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai.

We take no pleasure whatsoever in these strike actions and their real, severe, and mounting effects on the Canadian economy. But it should now be evident to all Canadians that from this point forward the Government of Canada bears sole and complete responsibility for these impacts. PAFSO encourages all individuals, businesses, and industry associations with a stake in the outcome of our dispute to intervene with the Government and urge them to bargain freely and flexibly with their own employees.

 

[Watinforeva]

Monday onwards they're gonna shut down all the work in all of these 15 offices which includes Abu Dhabi, Ankara, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi/Chandigarh, Hong Kong, London, Manila, Mexico City, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai.

I am telling you again that this is good new for all of us.This will force he government to do something meaning full to end this strike soon.

 

[mum_girl]

I am telling you again that this is good new for all of us.This will force he government to do something meaning full to end this strike soon.

I hope so.