News release

June 6, 2005

Jeannie Baldwin re-elected PSAC Regional Vice-President for Atlantic

DARMOUTH - Delegates to the PSAC Atlantic regional convention have re-elected Jeannie Baldwin as their Regional Executive Vice-President for a three-year term. 

“I am looking forward to working with the members of the new PSAC regional council,” said Baldwin. “By recruiting new activists the PSAC will be able maintain its tradition of social involvement and its strong presence in the labour movement in the Atlantic,” she added.

Baldwin was first elected as REVP on February 23, 2004 following the resignation of the former REVP. She became active in the union in the 1980s and started to take a leadership role as a result of the 1991 national strike. Over the years, she has held a range of local, regional and national positions. From 1993 to 1998 she was National Vice-President (Newfoundland & Labrador) in the Canada Employment and Immigration Union (CEIU). Between 1995 and 1998, she was the Labour Co-Chair of the Newfoundland and Labrador Joint Adjustment Committee. Just before her election as REVP, she held the positions of Vice-President and Steward in Local 80215 and was the PSAC's Maritimes Women's Director.

Debbie Graham was elected as the alternate Regional Executive Vice-President for the Atlantic region. She would become the REVP in the event that Jeannie Baldwin could not complete her term of office.

Graham is currently Regional Vice-President for the Union of National Defence Employees.

The 215 delegates to the regional convention met from June 2 to 5, 005. The guest speaker at the convention was Stephen Lewis, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa. Mr. Lewis congratulated the PSAC for its social justice commitment and for the creation of its Social Justice Fund.

The PSAC represents 17,530 members organized into 166 locals in the Atlantic, primarily in the federal public sector.

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