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NR members have ratified the Tentative Agreement.

The next steps, currently underway, will require the employer to calculate the new pay rates and translate the new agreement prior to signing by both parties. This can hopefully be completed by the end of August.

In accordance with article 48.03 the employer will have a period of 120 days from the signature date to implement the new rates of pay, and issue retroactive payments.  The recent experience of other Institute Groups has indicated that the majority of payments are being made well within the prescribed timelines.

Published on 25 July 2017

Join PIPSC, the Hon. Andrew Leslie, MP for Orleans, her Hon. Marie-France Lalonde, MPP for Orleans and his Hon. Yasir Naqvi, MPP for Ottawa-Centre on Monday, July 31stto support the Ottawa Food Bank.

PIPSC Better Together, the National Capital Region and the Health Canada Branch are hosting a levee and food drive for the Ottawa Food Bank. Bring your family and enjoy light snacks and refreshments all in support of a good cause.

Date: Monday, July 31, 2017

Time: 6:00- 8:00 PM.

Published on 24 July 2017
As reported before, your bargaining team signed a tentative agreement on July 5, 2017 to complete this round of collective bargaining. Electronic voting on the tentative agreement will take place from July 24, 2017 to July 28, 2017 at 3:30 pm (EST).
Published on 24 July 2017

The Bargaining Team hosted an information session on July 12 at the St. Elias Center in Ottawa and on July 13 at the Delta City Centre in Ottawa. We can’t express enough how pleased we were at the record amount of participation we had. It confirms our solidarity and the importance you have placed on our terms and conditions of employment. We appreciated all the positive comments and equally we appreciated all the tough questions and feedback. 

As promised, attached is a copy of the presentation in PDF format.

Published on 21 July 2017

A group of sixteen AV members from the St. John’s region recently picked a sunny Thursday evening (July 6th to be exact) at Quintana’s Restaurant to launch their own Sub-Group and conduct their inaugural AGM. David Chu, Atlantic Representative on the National AV Group Executive, also came to town to update members on recent PIPSC activities and to conduct an election of the new executive.

Published on 21 July 2017

To all AU-CO-PG (AV Group) Members: AV Moncton SUB-GROUP 2017 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ELECTIONS AND LUNCH

All PIPSC AV Moncton Sub-Group members (AU, CO and PG with employment address in Moncton area) are cordially invited to attend and participate in the AV Moncton 1st Annual General Meeting with complementary lunch provided.

Date: Friday, September 8

Time: Noon to 1pm

Location: Delta Beausejour, 750 Main Street, Moncton

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Published on 21 July 2017

Fellow members,

Recently, I sent an opinion piece to the Globe and Mail about our members’ ongoing problems with the Phoenix pay system and what I consider to be one of the root causes of the debacle: outsourcing. You can read my article here.

Its publication this week gives me an opportunity to also update you on a few of the things we’ve been doing, as your union, to mitigate the impact and expedite the fixing of Phoenix, which  from the start of the crisis we argued should never have been rolled out. Against our warnings, the government did so anyway, confident no doubt that the problems would soon be fixed. They weren’t.

After many long months of lobbying, protesting and pleading with the government, however, I now feel more confident in saying that I believe we have begun to turn a corner with the employer, if not in finding an immediate fix at least in establishing a common approach to fixing the Phoenix system.

In May, PIPSC filed two policy grievances against the employer – our only real legal means of pressuring the government to repair the system and properly compensate all our members who have been harmed or impacted. While these grievances are unlikely to expedite a final fix, they do establish rigorous expectations on our members’ part regarding an eventual resolution and compensation. This followed many months of assisting literally hundreds of members in filing individual grievances, many of which have been resolved, as well as writing to and meeting with ministers, arguing new measures be adopted to assist members, keeping the issue alive in the media, offering loans to those particularly hard hit, organizing many of our members to protest, and lobbying – successfully – for more money to be spent on fixing the system.

In late June, an invitation for me to meet with the new ministerial working group set up to fix Phoenix finally opened the door to closer collaboration between the government and some of our CS Group members in finding solutions. I hope this will lead to better appreciation of our members’ importance and an eventual change in the government’s outsourcing practices so that such disasters will be prevented from happening in the future.

Better Together!

Debi Daviau

President

Published on 21 July 2017