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Regional Executive Vice President

Colleen Coffey was elected Atlantic Regional Executive Vice-President at the 7th Regional Triennial Convention on June 24, 2017 in Saint John, NB.

An active PSAC member for over 20 years, Sister Coffey first began her union activism with the Goose Bay Women’s Committee and entered into a long pay equity battle. She was workforce adjusted in 1998 and moved to the Airforce Base in Greenwood, NS. After re-establishing herself and her family, she got involved in her union local and held many roles from Secretary, Treasurer, Shop Steward, Chief Shop Steward and finally President for the past 12 years.

She held a seat on the PSAC Atlantic Council for three terms and was elected the Alternate REVP for those terms.

Sister Coffey was elected to be the female PSAC Representative on the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour Executive Council and held this seat for several terms until she was elected the Female Vice President at Large that she maintained for two terms.

Bill C-4 will return Canada to a harsher, more primitive era

December 5, 2013 - 2:08pm •

Leave it to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives to try to pile in as much bad legislation as they can in the two years they have left in office.

Bill C-4: Attack on Health and Safety

November 16, 2013 - 12:53pm •

The latest budget implementation act (Bill C-4) now being debated by Parliament will drastically change and reduce health & safety protections for workers in federal jurisdiction. The proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code put workers’ lives at risk.

Activity Details For REVP - Atlantic Region, October 2013

November 1, 2013 - 12:00am •

Report From The Regional Executive Vice-president, Atlantic To The PSAC Atlantic Council, October 2013

November 1, 2013 - 12:00am •

Reductions at EI call centres means more economic uncertainty for Atlantic Canadians

September 27, 2013 - 10:06am •

On Friday September 13th, 74 of the 88 employees at Service Canada’scall centre in Bathurst, NB, learned their hours of work are being reduced to part-time. 26 of the 42 workers in a call centre in St. John’s, NL, got the same bad news. The reason everyone was given for such a drastic reduction? Insufficient funding.

PSAC Atlantic joins the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour election campaign

September 18, 2013 - 1:01pm •

PSAC Atlantic is proud to announce that it is working with the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour and its affiliates on a campaign to elect a pro-worker majority in the House of Assembly.

"Hate was impossible for me to internalize": RIP Rocky Jones

August 12, 2013 - 4:41pm •

How does one even begin to honour the memory of the larger-than-life Burnley Allan “Rocky” Jones? Jones was an activist’s activist, a person of prodigious commitment and energy, who struggled tirelessly against discrimination, war, poverty and injustice for half a century.

Baristas rise up: "We are always stronger together"

July 25, 2013 - 11:55am •

One might have thought that coffee shops would be the last place a union organizing drive would be successful. They’re part of a low-wage service sector that has historically been resistant to unionization: small workplaces with often-transient staff.

Sick attitude, poor management

June 26, 2013 - 2:56pm •

It’s become a recurrent pattern for the Conservative government: when facing internal scandal, attack public workers.

Activity Details For REVP - Atlantic Region, June 2013

June 1, 2013 - 12:00am •

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