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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 …

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 …

NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Please be advised that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the New Brunswick Legal Aid Group of the Professional Institute of Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) will be held on December 19, 2023. The meeting will take place virtually via Zoom at 12:15 p.m. An Agenda and a link …

NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Please be advised that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the New Brunswick Legal Aid Group of the Professional Institute of Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) will be held on October 14, 2022.  The meeting will take place at the Delta Brunswick Hotel in Saint John after lunch following …

Please take the time to review all the documents in the package before voting. The bargaining team unanimously recommends the acceptance of this tentative agreement.   A tentative agreement was signed with the New Brunswick Legal Aid Services Commission, completing this round of negotiations. We again thank all the members of the NB Legal Aid Group for …

Dear Members, Your Bargaining Team met with the Employer April 13 and 14, 2022, in Fredericton. We are pleased to report that we have reached a tentative agreement. There are many improvements in the tentative agreement. Details will be provided in virtual information sessions scheduled during the last week of April.   We are scheduling two …

Good day, This week your bargaining team spent two days in bargaining with the employer.  As you will recall, we have now narrowed the negotiations to monetary issues.  The discussions this week were very productive and we are optimistic that we are close to signing a tentative agreement. When completed it will be presented to …

Dear Members, Your Bargaining Team met with our negotiator, Jean-Paul Leduc March 11 to 13, 2020, in Fredericton. We have discussed a number of issues for our upcoming negotiations. We are working on our proposal to present to the employer.  You should expect to receive a survey shortly.  We ask that you complete it so …

PREAMBLE These By-Laws, in general, pertain to matters of Group organization not covered by the By-Laws and Regulations of The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada and are made pursuant to those By-Laws and Regulations. DEFINITIONS “Institute” and/or “PIPSC” means The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada”. “Members” means those who …