Updates

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. 

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. 

HALIFAX, NS – On International Human Rights Day, the Public Service Alliance of Canada will honour  the legacy of founding member Dr. J. Calbert (Cal) Best (1926-2007).  Dr. Best was an African Nova Scotian human rights and labour activist from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of Dr. Carrie M. Best and Albert Theophilus Best.  He was co-founder and president of the Civil Service Association of Canada, the pre-curser to the Public Service Alliance of Canada.  On Tuesday, the Halifax Regional Office of the PSAC will dedicate its board room to Best’s life and work.  

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.