Organizing campaigns
Updates
PSAC Organizing Page – Fall 2007 Update
PSAC Organizers have been busy this summer organizing non-unionized workers into the PSAC. The strength of our Union resonates with workers in all sectors. As new units are certified by labour boards across this country, PSAC continues its growth as a dynamic and powerful force in Canada’s society and economy.
Here is the list of bargaining units for which PSAC was certified in the past few months:
Research Assistants and Teaching Assistants employed by the University of Montreal , Montréal, Québec (3000 members).
Research Assistants and Teaching Assistants employed by the University of Québec in the Outaouais, Gatineau Québec
Commissionaires employed at the Halifax International Airport by the Nova Scotia division of the Corp of Commissionaire, Enfield , Nova Scotia (140 members).
Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation workers employed in Sydney and Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia (42 members).
Treaty Three Police Service officers providing policing in various communities in Northern Ontario , Kenora , Ontario (75 members)
Hall Beach Housing Association workers in Hall Beach, Nunavut ( 7 members).
Municipality of Hall Beach workers in Hall Beach , Nunavut , (23 members).
Anishinabek Police Service members employed in Norhern Ontario (20 members).
Grizzly Marine Services workers operating the M.V. Louis Cardinal Ferry crossing at Mackenzie River near Tsiigehtchic , Northwest Territories (8 members).
In addition to certificates received, we are proud of the fact we have filed new applications to represent:
Research Assistants and Teaching Assistants employed by the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick (520 members).
University of Western Ontario Graduate Research Assistants employed by the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, (700 members) and Part time Research Assistants (50 members).
Research Assistants and Teaching Assistants employed by the University of Québec in Rimouski , Rimouski , Québec (150 members).
Library Square Commissionaires employed by the British Columbia Division of the Corp of Commissionaires, Vancouver, British Columbia (30 members).
Giant Mine remediation workers employed by Nuna Contracting Ltd., Yellowknife , NWT (22 members).
PSAC welcomes these new members as part of our growing Union family and part of the broader labour movement.
Fifty (50) Part-Time Research Assistants at the University of Western Ontario cast their ballots on September 10, 2007 in a vote supervised by the Ontario Labour Relations Board to decide whether to join the Public Service Alliance of Canada. By joining PSAC, Part-Time Research Assistants would join PSAC Local 610 which already represents 1,500 Graduate Teaching Assistants at Western. In an effort to oppose the Union, the Employer has challenged the eligibility of every voter that the Union is seeking to represent. According to the Employer only the ballots cast by business students at the Richard Ivey School of Business should be counted. The Ontario Labour Relations Board has convened a meeting for October 3, 2007 to determine which voters should be eligible to have their ballots counted. PSAC shall continue to defend the right of Part-Time Research Assistant to form a Union by arguing that their ballots be counted. In a show of solidarity with Part-Time Research Assistants, Jack Layton, NDP Party Leader and Irene Matheson, NDP MP in the riding of London-Fanshawe signed the organizing campaign brochure and gave words of encouragement to PSAC Local 610 representatives.
July 3, 2007
On July 3, 2007 seventy five (75) Officers employed by the Treaty Three Police Service (T3) voted by an overwhelming majority of 44 to 1 in favor of joining the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC).
The mission of the Treaty Three Police Service is to provide a unique, effective, efficient and culturally appropriate service to all the people of the Treaty Three area and to promote harmonious and healthy communities. T3 Officers, who are trained and certified at the Ontario Police College, are representative of the communities they police and employ a community oriented style of policing. They provide a level and standard of police service of the same or higher quality that exists elsewhere in Canada.
One of the reasons the T3 Officers have joined PSAC is to secure a first collective agreement. Officers have been without a collective agreement since the inception of the Police Force on April 1, 2003. They are on call 24 hours a day, with expectations to travel immense distances to respond to incidents due to the shortage of officers. Some Officers also expressed Health and Safety concerns such as detachments in need of repair.
PSAC represents a large number of First Nation workers in Northern Ontario, including the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service Board Officers and Civilians along with Anishinabek Police Service Civilians.
The next step is for the Labour Board to issue PSAC a final certificate to commence the bargaining process.
June 22, 2007
By a vote of 95%, the teaching and research assistants at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) decided to become PSAC members. The vote was conducted by mail between May 15 and June 18, 2007 under the supervision of the Commission des relations de travail du Québec. The new PSAC local will have about 300 members.
June 7, 2007
After many months of hard work, 3,000 research and teaching assistants of the Université de Montréal have been certified. The representation vote organized by la Commission des relations de travail du Québec confirmed that 86% of the RAs and TAs favoured unionization with PSAC.
Home Site Map Contact Us Bargaining Search Join Our Union Français
Date Modified : 2008/05/08
Public Service Alliance of Canada | 233, Gilmour Street, Ottawa, ONTARIO CANADA, K2P 0P1, Tel.: 1 888 604-7722 (PSAC)