Updates

The Public Service Alliance of Canada is launching a series of radio and print ads today, appealing directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make good on his word to support public service workers.

"Last year, Mr. Trudeau wrote to all public service workers promising to treat them with respect and restore the cuts made by Stephen Harper,” said Robyn Benson, PSAC National President. “It has been a year since the election. The tone has changed, but it’s now time for action."

PSAC/UTE members working for the Canada Revenue Agency ratified a new collective agreement with their employer today. This puts an end to a bargaining process that took more than four years.

The union’s negotiating team reached a tentative agreement with the CRA in August. This came after PSAC/UTE members rejected an earlier offer from the employer and demanded fair compensation.

Published three times per year, 180,000 of our members received the fall edition of PSAC's newsletter Our Union Voice in mailboxes last week.

Now for the first time, PSAC is delighted to launch a new online and screen-friendly version of the newsletter.

“We are so proud to offer this new, accessible and dynamic online edition of Our Union Voice for our members,” said Robyn Benson, National President of PSAC. “Our goal is to make this content available to our members in multiple formats. Information is power.”

On September 21, National President of the PSAC component Union of Postal Communications Employees Francois Paradis appeared before a House of Commons Standing Committee where he testified about our union’s concerns regarding the recently released discussion paper from the Task Force on Canada Post.

Paradis noted that in 2015, Canadians voted for change. However, the Task Force is recommending more of what we saw under the Conservative government: cut services, cut jobs, raise prices, repeat.

Contract talks for our members employed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will resume in Ottawa the first week of October.

And, based on past sessions, the bargaining team is expecting a challenging few days.

Negotiations for a new CFIA collective agreement are running parallel to contract talks for Agriculture Union members employed by Treasury Board. Our bargaining agent, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, characterized those mid-September negotiations as “terribly disappointing”.