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Elected officers

National President

John Gordon

NAT-PRES@psac-afpc.com

National President John Gordon was elected on May 5, 2006 at the PSAC's 14^th Triennial National Convention in Toronto.  He had been the Union's National Executive Vice-President since 2000.

John is the Union's chief executive officer, overseeing the day-to-day affairs of the Union with overall responsibility for the administration of PSAC's Branches and for PSAC Holdings Ltd.  As the National President, he is vested with the authority to deal with Component complaints and jurisdictional issues.  He is responsible for guiding PSAC's legislative reform work and for coordinating the Union's position on legislation that has a significant impact on PSAC members.

As the National President, John shares responsibility for the following portfolios:

• Defending Quality Public Services
• Social Justice Fund
• PSAC's communications strategy.

And also has responsibility for the following:

• Pensions
• The Canada Revenue Agency bargaining unit
• PSAC Insurance Trust
• PSAC Holdings Board Ltd.

He sits on the following committees and boards:

• PSAC-PSHRMAC Joint Learning Program Steering Committee (Co-Chair)
• Public Service Pension Advisory Committee (with REVP Jérôme Turcq)
• Public Service Modernization Act – Union/Management Advisory Committee
• Insurance Trust (with NEVP Patty Ducharme)
• Canadian Labour Congress Executive Council and Executive Committee
• Public Services International (PSI),
  

and is on the following PSAC National Board of Directors' Committees:

• Roles, Responsibilities and Structure
• Strike Fund (Co-chair with REVP Jérôme Turcq)

Before his election as the PSAC's National Executive Vice-President in 2000, John was the National President of the former Union of Public Works Employees (UPWE) component (now the Government Services Union) from 1982 to 1999.  A PSAC activist since 1974 when he joined the federal public sector as a tradesperson with Public Works Canada, John held a variety of union positions in UPWE.

Over the years, John has also been a union activist in the broader labour movement.  He was a Board member and later Secretary-Treasurer of the Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto in the 1980s and he also served on the Anti-Racism Committee and other committees of the Ontario Federation of Labour.

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