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Injured Workers’ Day, June 1

A grassroots labour initiative, Injured Workers’ Day is observed every June 1 to celebrate and advance struggles for better supports for all injured workers, whether unionized or not. It is not a federal observance yet, but the labour movement in...

May 31, 2025

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Bear Witness Day

May 10 is Bear Witness Day. It is a children-first approach to raising awareness of inequities in access to services for First Nations children. After he passed way, Jordan River Anderson’s family gave his name to Jordan’s Principle: that First...

May 10, 2025

May Day 2025: continuing the fight for labour rights, justice, and equality

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May Day 2025: continuing the fight for labour rights, justice, and equality

On May 1 we observe May Day, aka International Workers’ Day. The U.S.A. and Canada observe Labour Day in September, but May 1 is the world’s Labour Day — by and for the international working class. How Labour Day Began...

May 1, 2025

Day of Mourning: “Remember the dead, fight like hell for the living”

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Day of Mourning: “Remember the dead, fight like hell for the living”

April 28 is one of the most significant days on the global labour movement’s calendar. The Labour movement created the Day of Mourning to commemorate workers killed or injured on the job. It started with American unions, then Canadian unions,...

April 28, 2025

World Book Day: read our union’s history

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World Book Day: read our union’s history

United in Action profiles the UCTE from the beginning of Canadian public-service labour organizing to the release of the book in 2023. Strikes, conventions, and political milestones are featured in this history, but also an awareness of the day-to-day hard...

April 23, 2025

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Doing the Work: 2024 ULDP Graduates

The Union Leadership Development Program is an education course whose purpose is to develop and empower future leaders. The PSAC holds it once per three-year cycle, combining in-person and remote learning sessions over the course of roughly a year. The...

April 10, 2025

Registration call: 2025 PSAC National Women’s Conference

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Registration call: 2025 PSAC National Women’s Conference

PSAC women members in good standing are invited to apply to be a delegate to the PSAC’s 2025 National Women’s Conference. The conference will be held in person in November in Toronto. The theme is “Women United: Breaking Barriers and...

April 4, 2025

The Trudeau Liberals’ Mixed Record on Worker Rights

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The Trudeau Liberals’ Mixed Record on Worker Rights

A new Liberal leader probably means an imminent election – or at least that’s the plan that was announced when Trudeau prorogued parliament in January. That brings an end to the session of Parliament. What have the Trudeau years been...

March 13, 2025

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International Working Women’s Day

A friendly reminder that this is a labour-based day of observance! Most IWD messages you hear today will omit this, but the day grew out of women organizing into unions and taking to the streets to demand rights and dignity...

March 8, 2025

Labour and The Long Road to Social Justice

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Labour and The Long Road to Social Justice

While we may wish every day should be World Day of Social Justice, let’s reflect today on the UCTE’s role in the PSAC Social Justice Fund, and how you can support global impact through your union activism. We featured this...

February 20, 2025