Again, I don't represent those workers, so I'd be remiss to speak too much about those issues. That would be for their union to address.
What I can talk about, though, is the impact that has on the members working in the federal public sector who are relying on in-house IT services. I represent workers in all of the departments who fall under CEIU at PSAC and work in access to information, for example. Sometimes, when IT staff are asked to do things, they're being asked to look at very sensitive, classified information and have access to that information. When we're seeing that work get contracted out, we raise an alarm because what scrutiny are those companies under? What scrutiny have they had? What kind of accountability and transparency do they have to the public or internally to the department?
We've run into many problems when these services are contracted out because it puts private information at risk. We're often raising the flag because when that work gets contracted out, it impacts the entire department and all of the administration staff, who are my members.