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Tentative agreement reached for YYG Charlottetown Airport

The negotiating team representing members at Charlottetown Airport Authority Inc. reached a tentative agreement with the employer on April 16, 2021. A meeting will be arranging shortly with your negotiating team who will present full details of the agreement and...

April 21, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: What’s important for UCTE members

Bargaining Updates

Federal Budget 2021: What’s important for UCTE members

On April 19th, Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance presented the Liberal Government’s budget. Touted as a plan to “finish the fight against COVID-19 and ensure a robust economic recovery”, the budget has both highlights and low...

April 20, 2021

Mental Health Support for Public Servants at Risk: PA and TC Groups Begin Talks with Treasury Board

Bargaining Updates

Mental Health Support for Public Servants at Risk: PA and TC Groups Begin Talks with Treasury Board

In the last round of negotiations, the Program and Administrative Services (PA) and Technical Services (TC) teams negotiated Memoranda of Understanding to conduct a joint study on mental health support. This study would focus on PSAC members who in the...

April 20, 2021

Transport Canada contracting out member’s work

Bargaining Updates

Transport Canada contracting out member’s work

Ten years ago Transport Canada (TC) privatized the CheckPilot program to outside contractors instead of keeping it in-house. Now, UCTE has learned that they are taking the next step in their contract creep and are contracting out the work of...

April 16, 2021

Parks Bargaining Conference 2021: Members of equity groups, women and young workers encouraged to apply

Bargaining Updates

Parks Bargaining Conference 2021: Members of equity groups, women and young workers encouraged to apply

In preparation for the next round of bargaining, PSAC will be hosting virtual bargaining conference for Parks Canada Agency workers. Members will meet to prioritize their top issues for negotiations and determine what they would like to see in their...

April 9, 2021

COVID-19

Charity Golf Tournament Canceled

It is with regret that we have decided once again to cancel the annual Mike Wing Charity Golf Tournament for 2021. The tournament, which is a fundraiser for UCTE’s charity of choice – the Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind,...

April 9, 2021

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Sign up today for PSAC’s virtual convention preparation course

For the first time in PSAC’s history, their union’s regional conventions are taking place virtually, and they are offering an online course to help members prepare. Virtual Convention Preparation is for PSAC members who are attending any union convention as delegates...

April 7, 2021

Labour history

The Day Workers’ Invaded Parliament

On April 5th 1877 hundreds of unemployed workers marched on Ottawa City Hall, then on to Parliament Hill, ending up inside confronting a government that was refusing to help the thousands of Canadians who were unemployed in one of the...

April 6, 2021

Awards and scholarships

Biography – Mike Wing

Today we bring you the biography of Mike Wing, a former UCTE president and also a life member. He was a social activist with UCTE and the PSAC for several years. Nothing ever stopped him from doing what he wanted....

March 31, 2021

A historic moment: the first female bosun of the Great Lakes fleet.

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A historic moment: the first female bosun of the Great Lakes fleet.

UCTE member Katie Courchesne – the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) has become the first female bosun on the Great Lakes fleet. In an article featured in the Sarnia Journal, Ms Courchesne told reporter Tara Jeffrey that she has always enjoyed...

March 30, 2021