New Brunswick

The PSAC Greater Moncton area council members participated in the Anti Poo Rally organized by the Moncton and District labour council on September 8th.  They were ready to share their message with the general public to show them how some decisions made by this current government are affecting everyone.

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.

Members of the PSAC/STUSAU local 60701 (St Thomas University) are now at the conciliation stage in the bargaining of their first collective agreement.  They had a mobilization BBQ on August 27th thanking their members for their support so far and to show the Employer the work is not over yet!  Solidarity for ever...all the way!! 

The goal of the course is to build a better union, better work places and a better society by encouraging and supporting active PSAC women in their struggle for fairness, equality and social justice. 

PSAC members were joined by Jeannie Baldwin, PSAC Atlantic REVP and some members from the TG Moncton in the Moncton Pride parade on August 24th, 2013. The River of Pride Moncton are doing excellent work in the organizing of activities each year. This year, the parade was on the Saturday instead of the Sunday as usual and it was more family oriented. Thank you to all participants!

After more than two years of protracted and often difficult negotiations, the TC Bargaining Team has reached a tentative agreement with Treasury Board.  Find your ratification kit and much more information here. 

The Canadian Labour Congress has endorsed a national labour boycott against the Labatt Imported Products. Read attached letter for more.

The Atlantic Region of the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Miramichi Regional Aboriginal People’s Circle stand in solidarity with the people of Elsipogtog in their struggle to stop natural gas exploration by SWN contractors near their land.  Their bravery and their willingness to risk injury and incarceration are inspiring.

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. 

Over 100 unionized and non unionized workers, Anglophones, Francophones, Acadians and Aboriginal people were waiting to welcome Stephen Harper to Moncton on August 8 while he was the special guest at a fund raising BBQ organized by the Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe riding association.