The Regina Branch of PIPSC will once again be participating in the Annual Pride Parade. This year’s event is on Saturday June 16th 2018. See the attached link for the parade route which takes place in downtown Regina and runs from 12:00pm for about one hour. Come on out and join your fellow members in a joint support of human rights and diversity. We hope you follow the spirit of the event and wear multi-colored pants, shorts, footwear, or headwear.
On Thursday, May 24, 2018, you received an email from the PIPSC eMail Migration Team with a unique 6-digit temporary password. Regrettably, Google requires a minimum 8-character password. As such, we have now added 99 at the end of each password previously sent out.
You can access your temporary password in Groupwise: https://gw8.pipsc.ca/gw/webacc
You will be able to access your new Gmail account here:
https://accounts.google.com/signin
Username: < your @pipsc.ca email address >
Temporary password: original 6 digit password with 99 added at the end
If you have any issues connecting to Gmail, please contact PIPSC support by email: informatics@pipsc.ca or by phone: 1-800-267-0446
Thank you,
PIPSC eMail Migration Team
Show support for fellow PIPSC members employed by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories who are fighting to save their pensions.
The Government of Canada removed nuclear workers from the Public Service Pension Plan without consultation or discussion. Their work is integral to, among other things, developing safe, medical isotopes to diagnose and treat disease.
It’s time the current government make things right and reverse the decision of the previous government.
There should be nothing “incomprehensible” about the failure of the Phoenix pay system. And yet that’s exactly what Auditor General Michael Ferguson’s second and final report yesterday concluded. “The Phoenix project,” the AG said, “was an incomprehensible failure of project management and oversight,” born of what the Globe and Mail in its report describes as “an obedient public service fearful of making mistakes.”
It’s true, numerous warnings about Phoenix and countless pleas not to proceed with it (including from PIPSC and other unions) went inexplicably unheeded. But can we really say this failure by senior management (Ferguson singles out three unnamed government executives) was “incomprehensible”? No doubt the climate of fear cultivated by the former Harper government had a lot to do with this, as did its years of aggressive cost-cutting, distrust of the public service, dislike of unions, and over-reliance on outsourcing.
Given all these, it seems obvious that a government that welcomes in-house proposals for an alternative pay system, encourages the involvement of public servants, and doesn’t over-rely on outsourcing stands a much better chance not only of developing a better pay system but of changing the culture of the federal government along the lines proposed by the Auditor General.
As it happens, there is such a proposal, and it comes from PIPSC’s own AFS Group National Executive.
Better Together!
Debi Daviau
President
Toronto CS Sub Group Annual General Meeting (AGM) - June 7, 2018
You are cordially invited to the 2018 Toronto CS Sub-Group Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Please join us at the Granite Brewery and Restaurant for a buffet dinner and discussion on key issues affecting the CS Group: bargaining, sick leave, contracting out, etc.
CS Group President Stan Buday will provide an update on everything CS with a focus on the next round of bargaining.
The Atlantic Regional Steward Council will take place on Friday, October 19 and Saturday, October 20, 2018, at the Delta Halifax. The Council will be one and one half days; starting on Friday at 1:00 pm, with registration beginning at 11:30 am. The Council will continue all day Saturday starting at 8:30 am and will conclude at 4:30 pm.
PIPSC welcomes its RCMP members in the Edmonton area to an information session:
When: Wednesday May 30, 2018 @ 4:00 pm
Where: K Division Headquarters Amphitheatre, 11140 109th St NW
Topic of discussion: PIPSC and You, Questions and Answers.
For further information please contact: dfarough@pipsc.ca