Bargaining Committee is made up of the President, Unit Representatives and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Union, as per our bylaws.  The National Representative, who is a professional labour relations employee of the National Union generally leads the negotiations for each unit and is the subject matter expert, but the Committee members make decisions.   The committee has a mandate from the membership which they obtain at the Ratification meeting.  Once a Memorandum of Agreement is reached, the committee brings it back to the membership for ratification.