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SP 2019 AGM - Membership Report

Membership Report  2019 SP Annual General Meeting 

Montreal, QC

April 6, 2019

Prepared by: Sushil Dixit, Membership Coordinator

PIPSC provided relevant reports on SP membership, including regular and rand members, sub-groups, classifications, departments and demography as of March 5, 2019.

The SP Group has 8,573 members, including 660 rands. Since March 2018, the membership has increased by 706. SP members belong to nine different classifications (AC, AG, BI, CH, FO, MT, PC, SG-SRE and SG-PAT). PC is the biggest classification (35%), followed by BI (32%), SG-SRE (14%), CH (8%), MT (6%) and SG-PAT (5%) as major classifications.

There are 29 subgroups across the country. Our 706 (8%) members do not belong to any subgroup. Of these 156 are RANDs.  Regionally, the NCR has the largest proportion (46%) of SP members.     

Health Canada has the largest number of SP members (33%), followed by ECCC (25%), DFO (14%), NRCan (6%) and Innovation, Science and Economic Development (5%). The remaining members (17%) are with other 23 departments and agencies.  

The female membership (53%) has surpassed the male membership (47%) and the 54%f of the membership is under the age of 45. The under 40 age group is comprised of 22% female and 13% male , 40-59 age group is equally represented (28%) by male and female, and at  60 and over male (6%) representation is higher than female (3%).

Action Plan

The Group has been very successful in engaging our members. We continue to work together to strengthen our union by focussing on:

  1. Reducing the number of rands with the help of sub groups, stewards and active members.
  2. Promoting the formation of new subgroups in presently unrepresented areas.
  3. Encouraging younger members to become involve in union activities.