{"id":10302,"date":"2022-08-15T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=10302"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:18:48","slug":"psac-files-complaint-as-treasury-board-delays-dental-plan-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=10302","title":{"rendered":"PSAC files complaint as Treasury Board delays dental plan negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dental_plan_update2_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dental_plan_update2_0.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dental_plan_update2_0-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dental_plan_update2_0-768x320.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>August 12, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PSAC has filed an unfair labour practice complaint against Treasury Board for refusing to begin talks to negotiate a new dental care plan for tens of thousands of federal public service workers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/what-kind-dental-plan-do-you-want-have-your-say\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surveying members<\/a>, receiving thousands of responses, and preparing a package of proposals, PSAC has been pushing the government to come to the table to begin negotiations for the dental plan. However, Treasury Board continues to delay talks to address the important issues our members have identified with their current plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PSAC negotiates changes to the dental plan separately from the regular collective bargaining process. This process is also different than the recently concluded negotiations for the\u00a0<a href=\"PSAC secures important gains in new Public Service Health Care Plan agreement\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"Victory: PSAC secures important gains in new Public Service Health Care Plan agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public Service Health Care Plan agreement<\/a>. PSAC negotiates the dental plan independently of other federal public sector unions. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once talks begin, we will publish our proposals and update members as talks proceed. You can learn more about your&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/Public-Service-Dental-Care-Plan\" target=\"_blank\">current dental care plan and follow the latest on negotiations here.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/psac-files-complaint-treasury-board-delays-dental\">PSAC files complaint as Treasury Board delays dental plan negotiations | Public Service Alliance of Canada (psacunion.ca)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 12, 2022 PSAC has filed an unfair labour practice complaint against Treasury Board for refusing to begin talks to negotiate a new dental care plan for tens of thousands of federal public service workers. &nbsp; After&nbsp;surveying members, receiving thousands of responses, and preparing a package of proposals, PSAC has been pushing the government to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=10302\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PSAC files complaint as Treasury Board delays dental plan negotiations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10310,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions\/10310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}