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Agenda 2017 REGIONAL STEWARD COUNCIL Friday, September 15, 2017 11:00 am Stewards’ arrival LUNCH 1:15 pm Opening remarks - Yvon Brodeur

Fellow members in the CS, RE, SH and SP Groups, Your respective collective agreements currently stipulate that compensatory leave earned during the previous fiscal year and outstanding on September 30, 2017 is to be automatically cashed-out.

For Immediate Release Labour Day 2017: Labouring to Fix Phoenix

PIPSC members are invited to participate in the following Canadian Labour Congress Labour Day events: Atlantic Region:

This is your invitation to attend the Annual Vancouver CS Subgroup AGM (Annual General Meeting) on 6th October, 2017. Please read the following invite carefully and to register here:

PIPSC London Branch and AFS Subgroup present: Everything You Wanted to Know about Performance Management Reviews but were afraid to ask

Result of the Strike Vote A Strike vote was held between August 24 and 28, 2017. A substantial percentage of the bargaining unit members voted in favour of providing your Bargaining Team with a strong strike mandate. A number of fun events are being planned for the next two weeks.

Please accept this invitation to another Better Together/ PIPSC Pitches In event. The Regina and District Labour Committee is holding the annual family friendly Labour Day Picnic

The AV group President and the AV BC/Yukon regional representative will be in town on October 18 and will be conducting an information session on important issues affecting the Public Service, particularly as they relate to the AV Group New collective agreement and to discuss the possibility of f

I sincerely hope this report finds you and your families having a great summer. Soon we will be back to school and back to work! This update will focus on our recent Regional Council held this past June, and provide some information on upcoming events in the region.

Fellow YHC members, The majority of the YHC members who voted have ratified the Tentative Agreement. We will be moving forward to sign the agreement as soon as can be arranged.

Fellow members, Earlier this year, I had the privilege of attending, along with some thirty PIPSC delegates, the 28th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), in Toronto.

We are pleased to invite you to the first Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the new 401 Burrard Street SP Sub-group! An important part of this AGM will be voting in an executive team.

Moncton Branch AGM Notice of Meeting Date:  Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Time: 6:30 pm Place: Curling Beausejour Club Inc 80 Lockhart Av, Moncton, NB E1C 3B8

Come join the fun by celebrating the launch of Capital Pride Week on August 20, 2017 at Hintonburg Park, Ottawa, for the Ten Oaks Project LGBTQ+ Family picnic from 2 PM to 5 PM. Bring your friends and families (and maybe a blanket or two!) and celebrate with the community!

Labour Day is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the union movement, specifically the eight hour work day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.

Moncton CS Sub Group AGM (Held in conjunction with the Moncton Branch AGM) Date: September 19, 2017 Time: 17:30 Location: Wedgewood Hall,   80 Lockhart Ave, Moncton

We are happy to announce that our new collective agreement is posted here.  Most changes took effect on the date of signing, 1 June 2017.  The changes to Article 22 Registration Fees, as well as to Articl

Update on PIPSC-UOITP bargaining posted by the University of August 18. As previously stated due to the University walking away from the bargaining table and declaring an impasse at the negotiations, your Bargaining team met in conciliation with the employer on August 2, 2017.

Summer may be coming to an end but the problems with Phoenix continue to plague public servants. Although it would be overly optimistic to suggest a fix is imminent, we are seeing some progress.

OITP Bargaining Update # 5 – August 2017 Issues of the Impasse in Bargaining leading to the Strike Vote

As published on the PIPSC Website, the Institute and the Employer signed the CS Collective Agreement (CA) on July 4, 2017.

The Northern New Brunswick Branch invites you to its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, September 14th, 2017. A supper will be served (sandwiches, dessert, tea/coffee) starting at 5:00 PM and the AGM will start at 6:00 PM.

NOTICE TO ATTEND THE  ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017 The 27th Annual General Meeting of the Québec City Branch will stand on Wednesday, October 11th 2017 at 5 PM at the Manoir Montmorency, 2490 Avenue Roy

We have achieved a major success in our challenge to CRA's arbitrary plans to force a thousand of our AFS members in the GTA to relocate.

To our members at the Department of National Defence (DND),

Problems caused by the Phoenix pay system debacle persist this summer. Here is a brief account of the situation.

Coffee Chats Dear Applied Science and Patent Examination (SP) Group Members at 401 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC,

Dear Applied Science and Patent Examination (SP) Group Members at 401 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC,

Your Bargaining Team met with the University in conciliation on August 2, 2017. The conciliator provided by Ontario Labour Relations was unable to help both sides to reach an agreement. Therefore the UOITP asked the conciliator to issue a ‘No Board Report’. This Report simply states that the UOITP and the University have reached an impasse in negotiations. The Report was issued on August 10, 2017 which puts UOITP in a legal strike position on August 27, 2017.

Conciliation is a process by which a trade union or an employer can ask the Ontario Ministry of Labour for help in resolving their differences so that they can reach a collective agreement. Either party may apply to the ministry. If parties are in negotiations, they must use the government's conciliation services before they can get into a position to engage in a strike or lock-out.

Fellow AV Group members:

I would like to invite you to march in this year’s Labour Day Parade. The details are as follows: First Parade: 1872 Organizer: Toronto and York Region Labour Council – a component of Canadian Labour of Congress

Health Canada (NCR) Branch

Currently more than 1,500 RO/RCO staff work at the National Research Council -- in the Research Divisions, IRAP, Business Management Services, and Corporate services. Everyone in the NRC RO/RCO group is represented by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC).

In keeping with PIPSC’s slogan of “Better Together”, the OCB and the AV Ottawa Sub-group Executives, in partnership, are pleased to invite our members to join us for a Barbecue.