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Standing up for your Pension – Spring Mediation
8 Apr 2026
PIPSC and the Province of New Brunswick have agreed to sit down together this Spring to work to resolve the long-standing litigation regarding the changes to your pension. In 2014, the former government imposed its vision for pensions by passing legislation converting the safe, reliable, and cost-effective defined benefits pension plan to a not-so-shared risk …
Standing up for your Pension – Litigation Updates
17 Feb 2025
Public service workers of New Brunswick agreed to a fair deal on compensation that included a reliable, safe, and cost-effective defined benefits pension plan. This was the deal, but then in 2014, the then government moved the goalposts – replacing your defined benefits pension plan with the not-so-shared risk pension plan. Since then, PIPSC and …
Your Tentative Agreement has been ratified!
6 Sep 2024
The bargaining team would like to announce that the tentative agreement has been approved and ratified by the membership. Changes to the collective agreement will come into effect when the agreement is signed by the employer and the union. We are working hard on getting the signing done before the provincial election. We will be keeping you …
NB-AVE ratification package, September 2024
16 Aug 2024
Summary of Changes: https://pipsc.ca/groups/nb-ag/nb-ave-tentative-agreement-reached Tentative agreement https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_f0KIPdM3Y6S_V1kJRB28CHgt5iK3c0p/view?usp=sharing
NB-AVE Tentative Agreement Reached
16 Aug 2024
The bargaining teams representing the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada NB-AVE groups (Agrologist, Veterinarians and Engineers) and the Government of New Brunswick met on August 14-15, 2024 to negotiate the renewal of the collective agreement that expired on May 31, 2022. Your Bargaining team is pleased to announce that a tentative agreement …
Tentative Agreement has been ratified!
27 Jun 2022
The bargaining team would like to announce that the tentative agreement has been approved and ratified by the membership. Changes to the collective agreement will not come into effect until the agreement is signed by the employer and the union. We will be keeping you up to date with details of these next steps, including when the employer …
PIPSC-AVE group and GNB tentative agreement
3 Jun 2022
The bargaining teams representing the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada-AVE group and the Government of New Brunswick met on June 2, 2022 to negotiate the renewal of the collective agreement that expired on May 31, 2019. The teams are pleased to announce that a tentative agreement was reached and both sides committed …