As was explained earlier in the December meeting, in 2000 we were reclassified from AS-1 to AS-2. At that time we put forth a letter to Madame Boudrias, who happened to be the assistant deputy minister at DND at the time, because grievances had to be interdepartmental. We put our concerns forth at that time. Madame Boudrias advised us to submit a grievance, which was the correct procedure.
We went through the grievance process. Because of the national impact any grievance process would have, because of our group, we requested that Treasury Board chair the grievance process. To cut a long story short, that grievance process did not work. We were working with PSAC in the meantime. We eventually submitted a human rights case because we could not get any action taken in any of the venues available to us within the federal public service.