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January
31

31
January

Canada’s unions urge federal government to help restore peace in Venezuela [1]

The Canadian Labour Congress, representing over 3 million Canadian workers, calls on the Government of Canada to promote dialogue to foster a peaceful solution to the Venezuelan crisis.

January
28

28
January

Unions turn up the heat against cooling and heating plant privatization in the National Capital region [2]

The PSAC is today welcoming MPs back to work by turning up the heat against the Liberal government’s plan to privatize five heating and cooling plant operations in the NCR.

January
25

25
January

Parks Canada bargaining team to table demands next week [3]

Negotiations towards a new collective agreement with the Parks Canada Agency officially begin soon.

January
25

25
January

CRA bargaining: PSAC-UTE declares impasse [4]

CRA fails to respond to union wage proposal and other key concerns; continues to insist on concessions.

January
25

25
January

FB Bargaining: Membership vote on the issue of years of service accrual [5]

Our Bargaining Team has decided to take the unprecedented step of calling a membership vote on the issue of years of service accrual.

January
24

24
January

NAV CANADA: An update on salary adjustments, retroactive pay & RRSPs [6]

Our negotiator met with NAV CANADA to discuss when members will begin seeing salary adjustments and retroactive pay.

January
22

22
January

Many Rivers workers in Yukon ratify collective agreement [7]

After 80 days on the picket line, client care improvements were achieved.

January
17

17
January

PSAC stands in solidarity with the defenders of Unist’ot’en Camp [8]

Last week, RCMP officers arrested and detained several Wet’suwet’en people on their unceded territory while they were defending their land from a major pipeline development.

January
16

16
January

PSAC members invited to test potential Phoenix replacements [9]

The government’s NextGen HR and Pay Team [10] is hosting a serie

January
15

15
January

Major Phoenix victory: no more gross payback for overpayments [11]

Public service workers scored a major victory today after years of pressure from PSAC and its membership.

January
14

14
January

PSAC members among Ottawa bus accident fatalities [12]

The shock of Friday’s bus crash in Ottawa deepened for many PSAC members as we learned that all three fatalities of the crash were public service workers, two of them PSAC members.

January
11

11
January

PSAC extends solidarity to US workers in face government shutdown [13]

Today, approximately 800,000 US federal public service workers will not get paid because of President Trump’s forced, and reckless government shutdown.

January
11

11
January

FB Bargaining: Union pushes for new protections, work-life balance [14]

On January 7-10, PSAC/CIU’s Border Services (FB) bargaining team kicked off a new round of bargaining, meeting with TB/CBSA negotiators and exchanging proposals.

December
21

21
December

PSAC files complaint against Treasury Board/CBSA over delay to salary adjustments and retroactive pay [15]

PSAC is taking action in response to Treasury Board/CBSA's failure to meet the implementation deadline for the latest collective agreement.

December
20

20
December

PSAC files complaint against CFIA over delay to salary adjustments and retroactive pay [16]

PSAC is taking action in response to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s failure to meet the implementation deadline for the latest collective agreement.