New Brunswick

The PSAC NB Education program for the Winter/Spring 2014 period is attached herewith. 

Last night, PSAC Atlantic held its first Telephone Town Hall meeting that invited all the region’s members to talk about key issues affecting our union.Thanks to everyone who joined the call last night.  Over 3200 PSAC Atlantic members were on the line for the English language call, and some 260 for the French language call. If you didn’t receive a call, please update your contact information with your regional office or through our national website: https://psacunion.ca/user/register

People who work in the federal public service always have one eye trained on what’s going on at Canada Post.  And for good reason.  The crown corporation is a testing ground for the federal government’s experiments on how to transform working conditions and labour relations. 

The members of the PSAC Greater Moncton Human Rights Committee decided unanimously to do something special this year for the International Human Rights Day, which is celebrated on December 10th. All members of the Committee therefore donated their time to the two community kitchens in the Moncton area. They made a schedule and covered both kitchens.

Members in New Brunswickare responding very well to the pledge cards campaigns!  Thanks to all locals who have completed, almost completed the project!  For the ones that are still working on it, please keep up the good work...   Pledging support to your union is even more important in times where the Conservative Harper Government continues to target Union members every day.

We are approaching the end of what has been both a successful and challenging year for our union.  I want to congratulate all 20,000 PSAC members in the Atlantic for your courage, your activism and your resilience.   And here’s why.2013 saw continued efforts by the federal government to single out the public sector by cutting jobs and slashing services that the Canadian public relies on.  And we all know, it didn’t stop there.  The first Budget of 2013 contained clear signs of attacks to come, in particular on sick leave, compensation and union security. 

Course Objectives: At the end of the course participants will have: The knowledge and the skills to perform their role during a strike; Have the skills and confidence necessary to picket effectively; Understand the personal problems that striking workers may face. Have a trade union attitude towards strikes and know how   to conduct an effective strike at the local level; Have the skills and techniques to motivate picketers, etc.   

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.

Can’t veterans get the services they need from Service Canada locations, as well as online and through the phone, when these offices close?

OTTAWA, ON - Veterans and the workers who serve them say they are troubled to learn about a compromise proposed by two Nova Scotia MLAs at a meeting with Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino in Ottawa yesterday.