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Video: Essential Services Agreements – what you should know

UCTE has added a new resource to its digital library. An often over-looked but important tool in labour relations, this short video explains 3 things: What are essential service agreements? Why they are important? What is the process if there...

March 14, 2022

Update – Treasury Board Bargaining: SV group

Bargaining Updates PSAC

Update – Treasury Board Bargaining: SV group

Tensions rose a notch at the March 2 and 3 Operational Services (SV group) bargaining session. After more than six months of bargaining and a range of demands from our team, lack of progress at the bargaining table is being...

March 11, 2022

Behind the pay problems: A member forced to quit her dream job

Phoenix PSAC

Behind the pay problems: A member forced to quit her dream job

After years of hard work, Sue Genereux earned her dream job — a coveted investigator position with the Transportation Safety Board. But more than two years of consistent Phoenix pay issues made the PSAC-UCTE member anxious and unsure if she...

March 10, 2022

Study on Rail Safety – Full Presentation

Health and safety

Study on Rail Safety – Full Presentation

On March 3, UCTE presented a statement to the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities regarding a Rail Safety Study. Here is the full presentation.

March 9, 2022

Equity

International Women’s Day 2022 – Women Inspiring Women

In collaboration with Denise Reynolds, UCTE Human Rights Officer International Women’s Day (IWD) grew out of the labour movement to become an annual celebration recognized by the United Nations. In 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York demanding shorter working hours,...

March 8, 2022

Swissport fuellers at YVR Airport ratified a new collective agreement!

Bargaining Updates

Swissport fuellers at YVR Airport ratified a new collective agreement!

After a strong show of solidarity from the membership, including giving their bargaining team an overwhelming strike mandate, a new collective agreement has been ratified by fuellers and workers at the tank farm at Vancouver airport. The new contract expires...

March 7, 2022

Bargaining Updates

Nav Canada – Nav Centre has new owners

Nav Canada members located at the Nav Centre in Cornwall were advised today that the employer has sold the facility to Devcore Inc. The centre has been for sale for several years and the sale will be final on June...

March 7, 2022

PSAC

2022 National Triennial Convention

The Public Service Alliance of Canada’s 2022 National Triennial Convention will now be held virtually, and the revised dates will be announced shortly PSAC’s National Board of Directors has made the difficult decision to hold the 2022 PSAC National Triennial Convention...

March 3, 2022

NAV CANADA: Team tables demands as bargaining begins

Bargaining Updates PSAC

NAV CANADA: Team tables demands as bargaining begins

The NAV CANADA bargaining team exchanged proposals at their first meeting with the employer February 22-24. Our bargaining team received a strong mandate from members to address key priorities at the table, including fair wages, remote work and better work-life...

March 2, 2022

Update – Treasury Board Bargaining: PA group

PSAC

Update – Treasury Board Bargaining: PA group

On February 17 and 18, the negotiation team submitted their monetary package when they returned to the bargaining table with Treasury Board. PSAC put forward its wage proposal of 4.5 per cent per year for all Treasury Board members at...

March 2, 2022