I had made copies of Appendix T for everyone, but I see that they have not been distributed. In any event, you should receive your copy a little later, and otherwise you can find the appendix on our Internet site.
Appendix T to our collective agreement gives the members of the service expansion and innovation and change committee a mandate to sit down at the same table to discuss various projects. The committee is composed of CUPW members and members of Canada Post management.
When I say it costs nothing to either taxpayers or the government, I mean that this appendix was added in the course of bargaining the collective agreement and the union had to invest bargaining capital in that.
One of the sections of the appendix provides for an amount that has to be funded by Canada Post for the work of the committee, whose mandate — which is very well described, also — is to identify proposals, determine the viability of projects, and identify partners, costs and the way they will be implemented. The committee also has a mandate to do a trial of the project.
One of the sections even provides that, if necessary, exceptions can be made to the collective agreement in order for the project to be implemented.