Year 2003 Union Update

Vol. 15 No. 18 Newsletter: November 17-December 19, 2003

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In this issue:

• PSAC Pride Conference: All accounts, a big success!
• PSAC tables whistleblowing demand
• Convention-adopted dues increase to take effect
• Bargaining Update
  • Treasury Board
  • CFIA
  • CCRA
  • SSO
  • National Gallery of Canada
  • Parks Canada
  • Solidarity week a success
• Health and Safety activists set sights on globalization

Vol. 15 No. 17 Newsletter: October 27 - November 14, 2003

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In this issue:

• PSAC calls for protection for whistle-blowers
• SSO signs tentative agreement with Field Interviewers, Regional Office Interviewers on strike
• RWC seminar empowers attendees
• Bargaining Update
  • PSAC coordinating Treasury Board bargaining
  • Bargaining begins with Parks Canada
  • Another two for the Social Justice Fund
• Recipient of the J.R. (Joe) Power Scholarship Award
• The PSAC 2003 Scholarship Winners

Vol. 15 No. 16 Newsletter: October 6 - 24, 2003

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In this issue:

• PSAC, Public Service Integrity Officer on the same wavelength
• PSAC press conference calls for federal anti-scab law
• Political action by Women's Committee snags MRI
• Canada's food safety is worth more than peanuts
• PSAC to participate in community project in Iqaluit
• Union victory, for non-unionized workers
• Nunavut hamlet signs on to Social Justice Fund
• Revised meal rates
• Joint Learning at Communication Canada

Vol. 15 No. 15 Newsletter: September 15-October 3, 2003

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In this issue:

• Bargaining strategy sessions stress solidarity
• PSAC asks for conciliator at CFIA
• Another victory for the Social Justice Fund
• PSAC calls for redress for racist policies against Chinese-Canadians
• Significant gains for fishery officer members

Vol. 15 No. 14 Newsletter: August 25 to September 12, 2003

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In this issue:

• Pay equity battle at Canada Post now longest in Canadian history
• Working during the black out in Ontario to ensure our food remained safe
• Organized Labour Stronger in Quebec
• Bargaining Update
  • Security, Sanity and Solidarity at the Museum of Nature
  • Bargaining in Nunavut: Many issues on the table
  • National Capital Commission: Ready to go
  • City of Iqaluit: New agreement
• Back to school...with all the tools
• PSAC urges CCRA to pick up the bargaining pace
• The Union of Veterans' Affairs Employees

Vol. 15 No. 13 Newsletter: August 4 - 22, 2003

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In this issue:

• Turmel challenges Minister
• Picnic lunch at Nordion
• Pensions surplus:
• Bargaining Update
  • Gander: the longest strike in Canadian airport history is over
  • Treasury Board: the process has begun
  • Big increases at London International Airport
  • New contract at the Canada Council for the Arts
  • End of lock-out at the Old Port
  • Bargaining begins at CCRA
  • Parks members gear up for bargaining
• Demands are exchanged
• Accomodation allowance in Yellowknife

Vol. 15 No. 12 Newsletter: July 14 - August 1, 2003

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In this issue:

• National Bargaining Conference: Treasury Board
• USGE, PSAC rejoice as RCMP opts for COE Option 1
• Bargaining Update
  • Gander Airport talks hit snag on wage increase
  • Terminable allowances renewed for Technical Services Bargaining Unit (Table 3)
  • Toronto airport management still trying to eliminate sick leave plan
  • Statistical Survey Operations (SSO) group moves closer to a strike
  • Erratum
• Longest Pay Equity case in history to hit 20-year mark
• Women's Committees flourish in Atlantic Region

Vol. 15 No. 11 Newsletter: June 23 - July 11, 2003

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In this issue:

• Solidarity in action
• Supreme Court rules against Bell Canada
• Federal public service workers with disabilities
• Public Service Integrity Office
• Point of clarification
• Treasury Board ordered to stop discriminatory practice on marriage leave
• New members
• Local Development in Shediac
• Retired and unionized
• Erratum

Vol. 15 No. 10 Newsletter: June 2 - 20, 2003.

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In this issue:

• Ready to bargain!

• Eastern Conference

• Western Conference

• Bill C-25: Democracy in Action??

• Build our union with PRIDE

• Bargaining Update
  
  
  
  • Old Port of Montreal
  • St. John's Airport
  • Hay River for PSAC Social Justice Fund
  • CFIA
  • B.C. Commissionaires
  
  


• Aboriginal Solidarity Day June 21
• Canada's health care system: An Argentinean déjà vu

Vol. 15 No. 9 Newsletter: May 19 - 30, 2003.

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In this issue:

• PSAC wins: A day has 24 hours

• Election ballots in braille

• Local Officers Advanced Training (LOAT) in the NCR

• PSAC holds 'Casual Day' to fight Huntington's

• One-year term, and several weeks of paid holidays

• Bargaining Update

  • National Gallery, Museum of Nature gear up for bargaining

  • Toronto Airport negotiations take off

  • CFIA and PSAC exchange proposals

  • St. John's Airport

• Recognizing exemplary union activism, commitment

• PSAC welcomes arbitration decision

Vol. 15 No. 8 Newsletter: April 21 - May 16, 2003.

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In this issue:

• Turmel and Gordon re-elected

• Delegates choose GLBT representatives

• PSAC gears up to fight injustices of globalization

• Watch the Convention right from your computer

• Convention resolutions summaries:

• PSAC: A force to be reckoned with

• Convention Tid-bits

Vol. 15 No. 7 Newsletter: April 7 - 18, 2003.

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In this issue:

• Back to school for PSAC

• PSAC strikers at Gander International Airport draw public support

• Labour Choir's CD to be available at Convention

• NCR holds three courses

• Bargaining Update

  • New bargaining unit begins negotiations
  • Push for amalgamation of two collective agreements continues at National Arts Centre
  • Strikers at St. John's Airport draw support
  • Members prepare for bargaining at Museum of Science and Technology
  • UPCE Purolator Bargaining Unit ratifies new collective agreement
• Clarification

• Revised Kilometric & Meal rates

Vol. 15 No. 6 Newsletter: March 17 to April 4, 2003.

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In this issue:

• Public service reform Bill must be changed
• Taxation of pay equity interest payments still an issue
• Our Big Fat Rand Listing Bargaining Update
  
  • PSAC files for conciliation at Calgary Airport
  • Labour Board forces St. John's Airport board of directors to vote on tentative agreement
  • Calm waters so far at first round of bargaining at Pearson Airport
  • SSO Field Interviewers' negotiations reach impasse
  • Table 3 members vote to stay on conciliation/strike route
• Greetings to all my PSAC Brothers and Sisters
• New PSAC Web site

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Vol. 15 No. 5 Newsletter: March 3 to 14, 2003.

• Public Service Reform a long struggle
• New PSAC members
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency - Bargaining on Track
• Strike at St. John's, Nfld., Airport
• Bargaining Update
  • Employer at Calgary Airport proposes rollbacks
  • Hay River Community Health Board negotiations off to slow start
• For research purposes
• March 21, 2003 - International Day for the Elimination of Racism

Vol. 15 No. 4 Newsletter: February 17 - 28, 2003.

• Federal budget raises spectre of new cutbacks to public service
• PSAC presents seven volume submission to Tribunal in Canada Post pay equity complaint
• Coast Guard union sends out SOS on Internet
• Bargaining Update   Why PSAC recommends staying on the conciliation/strike route:
  • A message to Table 3 members
  • St. John's Airport members vote unanimously for strike
• PSAC gives boost to United Way campaign
• PSAC member awarded for union, community activism
• Beat the rush! Apply early for the PSAC scholarships

Vol. 15 No. 3 Newsletter:February 3 to 14, 2003.

• PSAC gives new Public Service legislation a mixed review
• Different continent, same problems
• The Table 2 Joint Compensation Comparability Study
  • Research firm to be contracted to collect data
• Revised Article 15 available in hard copy, Web site
  Bargaining Update

• PSAC, Calgary Airport exchange bargaining proposals
• Hay River Community Health Board begins negotiations
• SSO Field Interviewers in conciliation
• Montreal area council members are mobilizing

Vol. 15 No. 2 Newsletter: January 20 to 31, 2003.
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• Public Service Reform raises concerns
• Local Development in Action
• Jonquière Local 20 Years Young
• Education for leadership
• Bargaining Update
  • Busy year on the horizon
  • Notices to Bargain were sent for...
  • Input calls were sent for...
• Union of Taxation Employees to launch huge consultation
• PSAC continues fight for park wardens' safety
• A short history of African Canadian workers

Vol. 15 No. 1 Newsletter: January 6 - 17, 2003

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• New TBS term employment policy a step in right direction

• Members working in weather centres brace for the threat of closures

• Clarification on PSAC President's statement in newspaper article on term hiring

• Darrell Scales, 1934 - 2002

• Erratum

• Bargaining Update

  • New Collective Agreement for Burnt Church
  • Conciliation at St. John's Airport
  • Conciliation Continues for SSO Field Interviewers
  • SSO Regional Office Interviewers

  • Participants to the first Alliance Personal Leadership Development Course
  • Classification reform at CCRA
  • Union dues to stay the same
  • PSAC retiree wins Queen's medals

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