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Join members of the Calgary Branch Executive in an activity that demonstrates to the Calgary community that public servants are about much more than their next pay raise and sick day.

NR members have ratified the Tentative Agreement. The next steps, currently underway, will require the employer to calculate the new pay rates and translate the new agreement prior to signing by both parties. This can hopefully be completed by the end of August.

Join PIPSC, the Hon. Andrew Leslie, MP for Orleans, her Hon. Marie-France Lalonde, MPP for Orleans and his Hon. Yasir Naqvi, MPP for Ottawa-Centre on Monday, July 31stto support the Ottawa Food Bank.

As reported before, your bargaining team signed a tentative agreement on July 5, 2017 to complete this round of collective bargaining. Electronic voting on the tentative agreement will take place from July 24, 2017 to July 28, 2017 at 3:30 pm (EST).

Hello SP Stewards, Please find below a summary of new changes to our Collective Agreement. Thank you for all your work on the behalf of our members. Elizabeth Ptasznik SP Chief Steward

The Bargaining Team hosted an information session on July 12 at the St. Elias Center in Ottawa and on July 13 at the Delta City Centre in Ottawa. We can’t express enough how pleased we were at the record amount of participation we had.

A group of sixteen AV members from the St. John’s region recently picked a sunny Thursday evening (July 6th to be exact) at Quintana’s Restaurant to launch their own Sub-Group and conduct their inaugural AGM.

To all AU-CO-PG (AV Group) Members: AV Moncton SUB-GROUP 2017 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ELECTIONS AND LUNCH

Dear member You and your family are invited to a Peter Pan play by Shakespeare by the Sea http://www.shakespearebythesea.ca/ in Point Pleasant Park on August 23rd, at 7:00 pm.

NOTICE OF MEETING We have extended the deadline to Friday September 15, 2017. TO: Stewards in the British Columbia/Yukon Region FROM: Robert K. MacDonald Regional Director DATE: July 12, 2017

Recently, I sent an opinion piece to the Globe and Mail about our members’ ongoing problems with the Phoenix pay system and what I consider to be one of the root causes of the debacle: outsourcing.

Fellow Members, Following the announcement of our tentative agreement we felt it was necessary to provide you with the attached additional information to ensure you can evaluate all the positive gains against the mandatory payout of our severance and reduction to our DIP properly.

The Bargaining Team met on Wednesday July 5, 2017 to consider a Memorandum of Settlement that was offered by the company. Your Bargaining team and Group Executive agreed to unanimously recommend the acceptance of the settlement.

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Your Bargaining Team has been waiting for some positive news before giving an update. Our last bargaining session and subsequent update was February 2017.

In the May 24, 2017 communiqué, the AFS Group provided information concerning the settlement reached on May 9, 2017, in regard to the volunteer to personal day grievances.

Topic: Retroactive Pay and Bill C-27 From: Your Union - The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) To: Members of the AV Group (CO, PG & AU Classifications)

Your AFS Negotiation Team requested meeting dates as soon as possible following our last bargaining session held May 9-12.  On July 14th, CRA agreed to another bargaining session on September 19-21.  We look forward to resuming negotiations with the aim to conclude a collective agreement.

The Executive of Health Canada NCR Branch presents The Holland Cross IMGs Town Hall, July 31, 2017 – 10 am – 11:00 am

Your Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement with the Sunnybrook Mechanical and Electronic Technologists (SUN-MET) to renew the Group's Collective Agreement.

You are invited to join members of the Atlantic Regional Executive and St. Andrews Branch Executive for a “Meet and Greet” in The Carleton Rotunda at The Algonquin Resort.

While the current government has been right to criticize the last one for laying off hundreds of compensation staff before it rolled out Phoenix, it’s the decisions around outsourcing such projects in the first place that demand a rethink.

On June 1, the RE Group Collective Agreement was signed. We are going to see the first effects on our pay on July 12. The pay of most RE members will be adjusted based on the new hourly rate. There will also be a partial or full retroactive payment.

This is a special edition of “PIPSC @ IRCC” as I move on to new challenges within the federal government, and others take over the responsibilities of PIPSC Consultations at IRCC... and President of the IRCC NCR Branch. We've come a long way together!

I am pleased to report that our initiative to recruit and train CSs to work on Phoenix is making good progress.  I made a strong case for building the government’s in-house capacity at my recent meeting with the Cabinet Committee of Ministers tasked with fixing the beleaguered Phoenix pay system.

It’s time to give us your input for your contract! You collective agreement has expired, and now it is time to re-negotiate with the employer for better wages and working conditions.  The BCFNHA bargaining team will be holding 2 conference calls in order to obtain your input on w

The Shared Services Canada (SSC) Consultation Team is looking for stewards to volunteer to represent the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) in consultation meetings with Shared Service Canada.

Notice of AGM Annual General Meeting and Elections – Thursday Sept 21, 2017 TIME: 4:30 PM Registration and Meet and Greet 5:00 p.m. Dinner and Dessert 5:45 p.m. Meeting & Elections

The results are in - the Tentative Agreement reached between the PIPSC - NEB Group bargaining team and the Employer was ratified by the membership. Over 240 members participated in the vote, with a result of 97.9% in favour.

Since the Institute was informed about the Canada Revenue Agency’s Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Service Modernization initiative at the end of June, I have written to the Hon. Diane Lebouthiller, Minister of National Revenue, and Bob Hamilton, Commissioner of Revenue, to express our serious concerns about the negative impact this plan will have on some 1,000 PIPSC members and their families, and to call for a halt to the implementation of the CRA GTA Service Modernization Plan

This information is currently under review and will be updated in the near future.

SP-NCR Members’ Canada 150 Networking Event – Ottawa River Boat Cruise 2017 Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Time: 7:00 – 10:00 pm

It is with a profound sense of sorrow and regret that the Institute informs you of the passing of our friend and colleague, Michael Seiden.

On June 1, 2017, your YHC Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement with the employer for the renewal of the Collective Agreement. A summary of the Tentative Agreement was posted.  Posted here is the timeline of events leading up to the vote.

  On July 6, 2017 the Institute and the employer signed the SH collective agreement. Today’s signing of the SH Group collective agreement follows the group’s ratification in March 2017 of the tentative agreement reached with the employer in December 2016.

Your PIPSC CCC Bargaining Team is pleased to announce that on June 21, 2017 we signed a tentative agreement to renew the current Collective Agreement. The Bargaining Team would like to thank all members for their input and support. The details of the Tentative Agreement are: