I am happy to say that in the past two years there have been a lot of improvements with the redress grievance process at the CF, and they want to expedite that even more. There were grievances that could wait two or three or four years on a desk before they had a decision from the CDS, the final authority. Now they are trying to streamline everything, and they have imposed a timeframe on each of the steps in order it sort it out within a year.
Again, this is the process overall. If there is any decision that would award financial compensation, the CDS doesn't have the authority to do that, so all the good efforts to streamline and expedite this process will come to a stop for some individuals. They will be treated unfairly.
You mentioned the union. Going back to my example of reservists, if a reservist is in an office with a civilian employee, and both are taken off their jobs for whatever reason, and it was not a good decision, then the civilian public servant has recourse to go to the union and to go to court and to get financial compensation, while the military person doesn't have that because of their contract.