Updates

Chris Di Liberatore, President of NS Area Council1 presenting Geri Musqua-LeBlanc with a cheque in the amount of $500.00 to assist with her work in the Walking with Our Sisters initiative.  Walking with our Sisters is a Commemorative Art Installation for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the USA.  The large collaborative art piece will be made available to the public through selected galleries and locations.  We are hoping (funding dependant) that it will be displayed in Halifax  January 14 – February 1, 2017, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery.

The mandate of the Social Justice Fund (SJF) is to support initiatives in five priority areas: 1-Anti-poverty initatives in Canada; 2-Humanitarian assistance in Canada and around the world; 3-International labour development; 4-Worker-to-Worker exchange; and 5-Worker education. In 2016, the SJF supported the following groups/projects in the Atlantic:

PSAC invites young workers from the four Atlantic Provinces to apply to attend a Young Workers Symposium at the Terra Nova Hospitality Home and Cottages in Port Blandford, Newfoundland and Labrador, from 6pm, Friday, November 4 to 1pm, Sunday, November 6, 2016 Port Blandford, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Are you passionate about standing up for unions and workers’ rights? Do you believe in fairness, social justice and human rights? Are you active in your union and interested in deepening your activist knowledge and skills?

Greetings, Sister Jeannie Baldwin is on leave until October 2016.  During her absence, Sister Colleen Hodder, the Alternate Regional Executive Vice-President for the Atlantic will be the acting REVP. Sister Hodder’s contact information is: Email: HodderC@psac-afpc.com Telephone (office): (902)445-0927 Please join me in welcoming Sister Hodder to her new duties, and wishing Sister Baldwin well during her period of leave. Robyn Benson National President, PSAC

PSAC Social Justice Fund invites your members to participate in the next “Education In Action” project in Guatemala for 2 weeks, March 2-16 2017. (tentative dates)

The Education Program for the period of September to December 2016 for the Nova Scotia area is now available.  Please refer to poster attached for all the courses that are offered and information on how to register.

Ratification vote for members of the Union of Taxation Employees (UTE) - Please select your province: Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia Newfoundland and Labrador New Brunswick

There  will be several information meetings for the Union of Taxation Employees in Halifax and Sydney.  We will be providing information on the tentative agreement.  Madonna Gardiner, Bargaining Team Member, will be in attendance.  These meetings are open to all employees in the Bargaining Unit.  A RATIFICATION VOTE will be conducted. 

Davis Day, also known as Miners' Memorial Day is an annual day of remembrance observed on June 11 in coal mining communities in Nova Scotia, Canada, whereby citizens recognize all miners who were killed on the job in the province. It was named in remembrance of William Davis who was shot by police during a coal mining strike near New Waterford, NS.