Updates

April 22 is Earth Day.

One year ago, the Canadian government, along with 194 other countries, signed the Paris climate change agreement. By signing, Canada and other countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and to adapt to climate change impacts.

The Liberals have also promised to consult First Nations on pipelines and resource extraction and to end boil water advisories in First Nation communities across the country by 2021.

PSAC is working to ensure the government meets these targets, but after 16 months in power they are far behind where they should be.

PSAC is doing everything in its power to ensure that the pay system is fixed so that our members in the federal public service get paid correctly and on-time. We are also demanding the government address the difficulties our members are facing because of Phoenix.

PSAC meets regularly with the employer to advance the concerns of our members and to find concrete solutions.

After an extensive survey of all members covered by the PSAC Public Service Dental Plan, we are going to the table to negotiate improvements to our Dental Plan. We have tabled our initial proposals and will be back at the table in May. 

We expect for the Plan to be improved and updated to reflect your needs going forward. 

This is a separate negotiations process from the one that we are using for our collective agreement.  If we are unable to get to an agreement, we have access to binding arbitration. 

Our bargaining team met with the Canada Post Corporation on April 11 and 12, 2017.

We spent some time questioning the Corporation about their intent with regard to their proposed overhaul of our current Job Security provisions. We are still very interested in receiving feedback on this proposal by emailing Nego2017upce-sepc@psac-afpc.com .

Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada working for Treasury Board have accepted new collective agreements that contain no concessions for four bargaining units representing more than 100,000 workers.

The majority of members in the Program and Administrative (PA), Technical Services (TC), Operational Services (SV), and Education and Library Science (EB) bargaining units voted in favour of the new agreements.

For the first time in Canadian history, Postdoctoral Scholars have won a collective agreement with provisions for child care benefits.

An overwhelming majority of Postdoctoral Scholars of PSAC local 901 strongly supported the bargaining demand for child care benefits because they saw it as an equity issue. The membership’s strong strike mandate sent a very clear message to the employer: child care benefits are important and we are willing to take job actions to gain this right.