Following more than six months of frustrating talks and delays by the government, PSAC bargaining teams representing 90,000 members finally received some responses to the union’s proposals this past week. The government’s small movements were a noticeable change from previous meetings but they fell significantly short of the progress needed at the table. Bargaining teams […]
The FB bargaining team, with support of PSAC-CIU, recently decided to take the unprecedented step of calling a membership vote on the issue of years of service accrual. You can read the bargaining team’s reasons for calling the vote here. The FB bargaining team and PSAC-CIU will be taking no official position on the issue of […]
Following the legalization of cannabis on October 17, 2018, CIU’s Human Rights Representative, Brother Murray Star, has been fielding questions from many accommodated CIU members who are being asked by the employer to disclose the medication they are taking. Employees who are prescribed medical cannabis must be accommodated in the same way as employees who […]
Letter from the FB Bargaining Team To our co-workers in the FB bargaining unit: In the 1st FB contract our union negotiated seniority rights in the context of line and vacation selection. Seniority was based on an individual’s years of service as an employee in the federal public service (seniority of course is referred to […]
The shock of Friday’s bus crash in Ottawa deepened as we learned that all three fatalities of the crash were public service workers, 2 of them PSAC members: Bruce Thomlinson and Anja Van Beek. Brother Thomlinson was also a part of our CIU family, and was a member of the CIU Headquarters Branch (70066). We […]
