Current issues / campaigns
To make sure that its members' voices and opinions are known in the community, the PSAC is involved in many debates and campaigns.
You will find on the right links towards issues that are closely related to the members and campaigns in which the PSAC works with other partners.
Defending quality public services
From the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Northern territories down to the US border, common values link the communities that make up our society. Our public services are the tools we have collectively given ourselves to achieve our common ideal – a fair, equitable, safe and prosperous society respectful of the environment where no one is left out. Read more
BILL C‑484: CALL TO ACTION
Reject Bill C-484. Protect women's choice and equality.
Last March, Bill C‑484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, passed second reading in the House of Commons. This bill seeks to amend the Criminal Code and to create a separate offence for causing the injury or death of an “unborn child” should a pregnant woman be the victim of a crime. Read more
Oppose amendments to Canada Grain Act
The Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Agriculture Union are working together to oppose the politically-motivated job cuts at the Canadian Grain Commission.
From East to North to West, fish stocks in Canada are in peril.
From wholesale closure of the cod fishery on the East coast resulting in losses to 27,000 northern cod fishers and the diminished work capacity of up to 100 processing plants to the millions of ‘missing’ sockeye on the Fraser River leading to fishery restrictions and closure, the continuing collapse of fish stocks puts the culture, livelihoods and ecological heritage of many people across Canada in jeopardy.
If this trend continues, in 50 years there won’t be any fish in Canada’s oceans and waters. Many more communities will suffer through job loss.
“This is obviously an issue important to Canadians and yet those on the front lines with Fisheries and Oceans don’t have the resources to protect and rebuild the stocks,” said William Pynn UEW National President.
“We will not only lose a key economic sector and part of our heritage, but when you remove an activity as basic to the Canadian way of life as going fishing, there will be tremendous impact on quality of life.”
This is an issue important to Canadians. Read what they have to say.
What can Canadians do about this? Send a message to government urging more funding for the protection and enhancement of Canada’s fish stocks.
AS Compensation Advisors
Some 1700 PSAC members in the federal government work as Compensation and Benefits Advisors. These members deliver pay and benefits services to federal public sector workers from coast to coast to coast. The PSAC has been working with this group of members to address their long-standing classification, training, recruitment, retention and workplace needs. Contact us with comments/questions or feedback at as-comp@psac-afpc.com.
July 11, 2007
Stop the Government's Plan to Sell Off Federal Buildings!
August 18, 2006
NYU Student Strike
August 17, 2006
PSAC endorses action plan to combat the AIDS pandemic
On the occasion of Canada's hosting the International Aids Conference, PSAC endorses the Global Treatment Access Group's plan of action.
Read the details.
May 9, 2006
Defending Quality Public Services
Student Employment
December 22, 2005
National campaign established to eliminate regional rates of pay
The PSAC National Zone Committee that was struck to campaign towards the elimination of regional rates of pay met on December 19th to strategize around the Federal election and future bargaining. Read the details
July 28, 2005
Treasury Board targetting PFA
Treasury Board is playing a ‘danger pay double-cross' on almost 2,000 USGE members at the Correctional Service of Canada. They've told CSC to stop paying the Penological Factor Allowance to almost 2,000 USGE members starting August 10. The union is fighting back while USGE members are putting up information picket lines.
- Read the news release
- Read the letter from the PSAC National President Nycole Turmel to Treasury Board
- Read the latest information from USGE President John Edmunds
March 2, 2005
Public Service Alliance of Canada joins campaign to “Make Poverty History”
The PSAC Social Justice Fund will be among many to take a lead role in a global campaign that calls on world leaders to fulfill their promises to eradicate poverty. Read more
Ontario Health Premium
There is a whole lot wrong with the Ontario Health Premium. In a July 12 th , 2004 letter from Nycole Turmel to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty lists five reasons why the government should withdraw the tax and ensure that health care funding is not regressive and discriminatory. Details
PSAC's Protective Reassignment Campaign
At the 2004 PSAC National Health and Safety Conference, which was held in Toronto from March 26 to 28, the PSAC launched a campaign calling on the Federal Government to pass legislation that will ensure full protection for pregnant and nursing workers whose jobs pose a risk to health of their baby or foetus. Click here for details .
Whistleblowers need protection
Federal public sector workers should be encouraged to expose wrongdoing and need to be protected when they do so. Hear and read what Senator Noel Kinsella, FAIR Canada representative Joanne Gualtieri, Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch, MP Diane Bourgeois and PSAC counsel Jacquie de Aguayo had to say on the issue at a recent panel discussion in Ottawa. Click here
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