PSAC members have identified reducing contracting out and privatization as a key priority in the current round of bargaining right now. PSAC's website notes:
Our bargaining teams are putting forward new contract language calling on Treasury Board to use existing employees or hire and train new employees before contracting jobs out, share information and consult with PSAC prior to using contractors, and review the use of temporary staffing agencies.
Has Treasury Board been receptive to those proposals? If not, where do you think its resistance stems from?