Letters

VIA EMAIL September 29, 2020 The Honourable Bernadette Jordan Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast GuardBernadette.Jordan@parl.gc.ca Dear Minister Jordan, We are writing on behalf of our 20,000 members in the Atlantic Region. We are extremely concerned with the recent events unfolding about the Mi’kmaw lobster fishery in the community of Saulnierville, NS.

Dear Mayor Philip Brown,  Thank you for your telephone call on the evening of June 15, 2020. I am the President of the PEI Area Council of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). PSAC represents over 3,100 federal public sector employees in Prince Edward Island including workers at Veterans Affairs Canada, Parks Canada, Canada Revenue Agency, Service Canada, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency here in Charlottetown. 

Let’s see if we got this right: there’s a global pandemic and various levels of government are urging the population to stay at home and whereas possible, to work from home in order to flatten the curve and protect our economy as much as possible. Thousands of public sector workers continue to show up to their workplace and some adapt and work from home as they are deemed essential service. Thousands more volunteer to transfer to a new position in order to deliver essential benefits created by the federal government.

May 14, 2020   RE: Support for women who work in transition houses   Premier McNeil,   We applaud the federal government’s announcement to cost share wage tops-ups for critical front-line workers in the province. The challenge will be in ensuring that every front-line worker receives this well-deserved raise. All front-line workers are placing their own health and safety at risk in order to protect ours and that needs to be recognized.  

The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia is recognized every year on May 17 with events taking place both nationally and internationally. 

Dear Sirs:  I hope this letter finds each of you in good health.  I write to you today as a representative of over 3,100 federal public employees represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) in Prince Edward Island and with respect to our elapsed collective agreements with our employer.

Sisters, Brothers and Friends, As I sit down to write this letter to you, PSAC members, I can’t help but feel grateful for all that you do on a daily basis. I’m proud to say that I work for PSAC members just as you are proud to work for Canadians. We deliver so many essential services to Canadians in various different capacities and we can and should be proud of that.

  The Atlantic Region of the Public Service Alliance of Canada is pleased to provide an opportunity for Indigenous members to learn how they can navigate the structures of the PSAC.

Please find attached a letter sent to PEI MP MacAulay on behalf of PSAC PEI Area Council President Dan Aiken and Vice-President Debi Buell on May 7, 2019

As many of you may know, there is a possibility of a strike by roughly 4100 workers at 46 New Brunswick nursing homes. I am writing to ask that you support these workers in their fight for fair and respectful working conditions.  On March 7, 90% of workers voted in favour of strike action, rejecting an offer from the New Brunswick government that would keep them overworked and underpaid.  On Sunday, the Government of New Brunswick obtained a court order suspending their right to strike for 10 days and undermining these workers’ labour rights.