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CCG: Duty-related mental injury survey

Understanding the toll your job takes. UCTE member Karolyn Jones has spent the last several years advocating for the mental health of Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) members. She learnt about a survey conducted by Dr. Nick Carleton, Scientific Director of...

July 5, 2021

Canada Day — A Response from Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation

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Canada Day — A Response from Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation

There is much debate as to whether or not Canada Day should be celebrated this year. Cadmus Delorme, Chief of the Cowessess First Nations, said it best: “From a First Nation perspective, I love living in Canada. I went to...

July 1, 2021

Systemic Racism – National Indigenous History Month

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Systemic Racism – National Indigenous History Month

By Mikelle Sasakamoose a UCTE member – Local 20219 This week we had been preparing an introspective on our experiences observing with regularity seemingly unfair human resources processes. And about all the times we’ve been told: “There weren’t any qualified...

June 29, 2021

EB, SV and PA groups begin negotiations with Treasury Board

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EB, SV and PA groups begin negotiations with Treasury Board

Recently, the bargaining teams from the SV (June 16 and 17), PA (June 22 and 23) and EB (June 22 and 23) groups met with Treasury Board representatives for the first time to exchange proposals packages. For each groups, the...

June 28, 2021

Parks Canada: Members elect bargaining team and set priorities

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Parks Canada: Members elect bargaining team and set priorities

At the Parks Canada Agency’s National Virtual Bargaining Conference, held from May 31 to June 2, our members and those of the Union of National Employees (UNE) acme out of the conference after electing their bargaining team and setting priorities...

June 28, 2021

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Pretendians: Those who wrongly claim Indigenous identity

By Mikelle Sasakamoose a UCTE member – Local 20219 Grey Owl was the original pretendian. Born Archibald Stansfield Belaney in Hastings, England in 1888, the British conservationist was not Indigenous. However, after moving to Canada in the early 1900s, becoming...

June 25, 2021

Collective agreement signed for our firefighters members at Quebec Airport

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Collective agreement signed for our firefighters members at Quebec Airport

Congrats! The collective agreement for the local 10140, our firefighters members at Quebec Airport, was signed yesterday on June 22, 2021. The collective agreement had been ratified on May 13th. We want to say thank you to our members of...

June 25, 2021

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Jim Egan – A man making history for LGBTQ2+ rights in Canada

This year, in honour of Pride month, we decided to go back in time to highlight stories which have shaped the rights of the LGBTQ2+ community in North America. Marsha P. Johnson played a huge role in the solidarity movement...

June 23, 2021

Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls and 2S+ persons

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Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls and 2S+ persons

By Beth Ferguson a UCTE member – Local 20219 National Indigenous History Month began not with a celebration of Indigenous peoples in Canada, but with a solemn reminder of Canada’s treatment of Indigenous peoples. This week, we consider the tragic...

June 22, 2021

2021 PSAC Virtual National Equity Conferences

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2021 PSAC Virtual National Equity Conferences

Registration deadline: July 30, 2021 Deadline for submission of resolutions: August 13, 2021 PSAC’s triennial national convention will vote on the recommendations adopted following reports on the triennial national conferences on Indigenous Peoples, Visible Racial Groups, Pride and Women. Delegates are...

June 21, 2021