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Dear members,

Summertime is the best time for a casual event, just like the one we had last year! Your Ville-Marie Branch Executive is inviting you to a Happy Hour at Brasserie artisanale Benelux!

When:

Thursday, July 27th, from 4 pm to 7 pm

Where:

Brasserie artisanale Benelux
245, Sherbrooke Street West [Metro Place-des-Arts]
Montréal, QC H2X 1X7

Each member will be entitled to two free drinks, compliments of the Branch Executive.
Come and have a chat with us!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Published on 5 July 2017

PIPSC Youth Symposium and AGM November 2017 - November 16-18, 2017

To: BC/Yukon Members

From: Robert K. MacDonald, Regional Director

RE: PIPSC Youth Symposium and Annual General Meeting - November 2017

Your union will likely have the most significant impact on your salary, benefits and retirement over your entire life! Don't you think you should be involved?

The BC/Yukon Region is looking to increase youth involvement in our Region.

Published on 5 July 2017

On July 4, 2017 the Institute and the employer signed the CS collective agreement. Today’s signing of the CS Group collective agreement follows the group’s ratification in May 2017 of the tentative agreement reached with the employer in March 2017. The employer has 120 days from the signature date to implement retroactive pay.

Published on 4 July 2017

Season IV – July 27th, 2017

Repeat session on August 10th, 2017
The Executive of Health Canada NCR Branch presents:
“Holland Cross Debates/Discussions” - Season IV.

The “Holland Cross Debates” sessions are intended to offer an open discussion with some PIPSC officials about key issues in the collective bargaining and other career related issues. It is one thing to get the views of the local audience at each Debate, but the “Holland Cross Debates” are also keen to find out what the rest of PIPSC members think about the issues we raise.

Published on 4 July 2017

The Professional Institute stands united with the Manitoba Federation of Labour and the Partnership to Defend Public Services in the fight against Bill 28, the Public Services Sustainability Act passed in late June by the Pallister government.

The Partnership filed an injunction earlier today challenging the constitutionality of the Act.

Bill 28 is a one-sided approach to a problem manufactured by the government in its 2017 Budget, and an unwarranted attack on public services and the professionals that deliver them.

Published on 4 July 2017

Ordinarily, the announcement earlier this month that spending by the Department of Defence (DND) will grow from its current $18.9 billion to $32.7 billion by 2026 would be cause for Canadians (and especially PIPSC members employed by DND) to feel more secure. But references throughout Strong, Secure, and Engaged, Canada’s new defence policy, leave little doubt that continued over-reliance on outsourced services will form a major part of DND’s future. The policy is already raising alarms among other unions.

In addition, Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s commitment to kick in $35 billion of federal infrastructure money to attract even more private sector funding of federal projects suggests the trend could become permanent.

Rather than continue to increase the number of outsourced services, DND needs to commit to reducing them (and much sooner than 2026!) and to reinvesting in the staff it already employs. A good place to start would be by implementing the new provisions of the recent CS Group contract with PIPSC.

Decreasing federal reliance on so-called public-private partnerships (P3s), such as last year’s “multi-year $322 million contract to Uptime Infrastructure Partners for the expansion of Shared Services Canada (SSC) Enterprise Data Centre (EDC)” at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden, Ontario, should also be a priority.

I will be writing to Minister Harjit S. Sajjan in the next few days to encourage him to do just that.

Better Together!

Debi Daviau

President

Published on 30 June 2017