As the negotiations for the renewal of your collective agreements continue in to the fall (2018), your bargaining teams would like to clarify the issue of hours of work. Negotiations have happened around moving to a 40 hour work week. Though at this time this proposal has not yet been signed off. We are still discussing compensation for the 40 hours, format of the 40 hours, start times, and how to calculate accrual and use of leave (vacation, sick leave, etc).

I would like to take this moment and clarify a statement I wrote to you a few days ago in my President’s Message “AV Elections Results”, dated June 20, 2018.

PIPSC members with a gross annual income of less than $40,000 are eligible to apply for reimbursement of part of their union dues.

The 2017 AGM adopted a resolution that members who have paid more than 2% of their gross annual earnings will be eligible to apply for reimbursement of any dues paid above the 2% threshold.

Members who wish to claim the reimbursement are invited to send a request along with a copy of their 2018 T4 statement to membership@pipsc.ca

Elections to the Retired Members Guild Executive are now taking place. Attached you will find a Nomination Form. Please consider running and having the opportunity to serve on the Guild Executive to better help retirees.

This year, positions up for election are: two positions in the National Capital Region (NCR), one in the Quebec Region and one in the Prairies/NWT Region. All positions are for a three year term.