Presented to the PIPSC 106th Annual General Meeting
Please note:
The Resolutions Sub-Committee committee is responsible for reviewing all submitted resolutions, categorizing them, and prioritizing their order for discussion at the AGM (By-Law 17.2.3.2). The Resolutions Sub-Committee reviews all submitted resolutions to ensure they are in proper form and within the scope of the AGM. The committee works with the AGM Task Force to propose the order in which resolutions will be presented at the AGM as part of the AGM agenda. Delegates at the AGM may have the opportunity to amend the order, though this is generally subject to rules and voting procedures. This process helps ensure that the most important and relevant resolutions are addressed in an efficient manner. More information regarding the Rules of Procedure for the AGM can be found here.
For the 2025 AGM, the order of priority of resolutions will be as follows: Board of Directors and Advisory Council resolutions first starting with financial resolutions, then bylaw amendments, then policy resolutions. The same order will be repeated for Group and Region resolutions which will be next. Then the same order will be repeated again for individual resolutions.
F01 – Audited Financial Statements (E)Sponsored by the Board of Directors | Disposition:
Be it resolved that the 2025 AGM receive the Institute audited financial statements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. RSC: No Comment |
F02 – Budget (E)Sponsored by the Board of Directors | Disposition:
Be it resolved that the 2025 AGM approve the budget for the period of July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027. RSC: No Comment |
F03 – Dues (E)Sponsored by the Advisory Council | Disposition:
Whereas inflation is an ongoing concern in budgetary considerations for the Institute; and Whereas PIPSC has a history of approving dues increases on an infrequent basis causing a detrimental impact on the services provided to members; and Whereas the last dues increase resulted in seven years of inflation impacting the ability of PIPSC to provide services to its members; and Whereas an inflationary based dues increase would resolve these concerns; Be it resolved that PIPSC membership dues be indexed to CPI inflation annually, starting in 2026, with an indexing cap of 3.0% per year. RSC: No Comment Finance: A 3% increase would mean dues would increase by $2.70 to $92.76 per month or increase $32.42 in year 1 from $1,081 TO $1,113. Annual increases to be recalculated. |
F04 – Percentage Dues (E)Sponsored by the RE Group | Disposition:
Whereas PIPSC is a labour union comprised of members earning a wide range of salaries as well as ones who are retired, Whereas fixed nominal dues for Regular and Rand members represent a varying fraction of members’ income and their buying power erodes, sometimes rapidly, with inflation, and the impact of nominal dues increases falls disproportionately on members with lower incomes who tend to be younger, Whereas fixed nominal dues also result in long periods of frozen dues followed by significant increases, Whereas the current system requires the Institute AGM to engage in periodic debates to merely keep up with rising costs associated with inflation, Whereas many of our fellow unionists have successfully implemented dues as a function of income in a variety of pay systems including those of the Government of Canada, Be it resolved that PIPSC change its dues as of July 1, 2027 to 0.95% of the maximum salary at the member’s group and level, pro-rated for part-time workers and discounted for affiliate and retired members as before. Where a member is not currently an employee in a PIPSC group, that the current salary grid for their last group and level be used to calculate dues. Members whose group no longer exists or who never had a group and level shall pay dues at the 2024 rate, adjusted annually and retroactively to 2025, in the same manner as the Canada Pension Plan, discounted for affiliate and retired members as before. RSC: No Comment Finance: Unable to quantify the impact of this change without a detailed study |