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To find the PSAC Regional Representative responsible for your Local and a link to the website or contact information for that Local, use ctrl-f and search for your Local number. Click on a staff person's name to send them an email.

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Staff working in the Vancouver Regional Office

Hetty Alcuitas : Secretary

Jane Anderson : Secretary

Sharon Barbour : Regional Representative / Health and Safety

Sharon is responsible for the regional Health and Safety portfolio which includes Worksafe BC and the Regional Environment portfolio. She is also the Statistical Survey Operations bargaining mobilization coordinator and is responsible for the following locals in the Lower Mainland :

  • UNE 20140 Statistical Survey Operations Field Interviewers, BC and Yukon - local contacts
  • USJE 20011 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Regional Headquarters and Lower Mainland - local contacts

Patty Ducharme : Regional Representative

Patty is responsible for the following locals in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, coordinates the work of the East Fraser Valley Area Council and the Mainland Human Rights Committee, and is responsible for the regional Indigenous Peoples and Members with Disabilities portfolios. She is also the Regional Mobilization Coordinator for PSAC members in the Parks Canada, YVR, Swissport and ARINC bargaining units.

  • AGR 20038 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz - local contacts
  • CEIU 20903 Employment and Social Development Canada, Abbotsford
  • CEIU 20960 Employment and Social Development Canada, Chilliwack
  • CIU 20040 Canada Border Services Agency, Lower Mainland - branch contact
  • DCL 20020 BWXT Isotope Technologies Vancouver
  • UCTE 20221 Vancouver Airport - local website
  • USJE 20015 Correctional Service Canada, Fraser Valley Institutions - local contacts
  • USJE 20017 Correctional Service Canada, Pacific Institution and Regional Treatment Centre Abbotsford - local contacts
  • USJE 20017A
  • USJE 20040 Correctional Service Canada, Kent Institution - local contacts
  • USJE 20054 Correctional Service Canada, Matsqui - local contacts
  • USJE 20086 Vancouver Correctional Service Canada Community Parole - local contacts
  • USJE 20A86 Abbotsford Correctional Service Canada Community Parole - local contacts
  • USJE 20B86 Parole Board of Canada - local contacts
  • USJE 20091 Correctional Service Canada, Regional Headquarters - local contacts
  • USJE 20130 Correctional Service Canada, Mission Peniteniary - local contacts
  • USJE 20141 Correctional Service Canada, Ferndale Penitentiary - local contacts
  • USJE 20155 Correctional Service Canada, Kwikwixwelhp Healing Village - local contacts
  • USJE 20156 Correctional Service Canada, Mountain Institution - local contacts

Luc Guevremont : Regional Coordinator

Heather Holdsworth : Regional Organizer

Click for more information about PSAC's organizing program and how to join PSAC.

Varinder Johal : Regional Representative

Varinder is responsible for the following locals in Metro Vancouver and Northern BC. He also coordinates the work of the North East and North West Area Councils, is the Regional Mobilization Coordinator for members in the Canada Post, Purolator, CMHC Granville Island, bargaining units as well as the Airport locals in his area. In addition, he is responsible for the regional Young Worker and LGBTQ2+ portfolios.

  • AGR 20042 Canadian Grain Commission, Prince Rupert - local contacts
  • AGR 20060 Canadian Grain Commission, Vancouver - local contacts
  • CEIU 20921 Employment and Social Development Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Prince George
  • CEIU 20926 Employment and Social Development Canada, Northern BC
  • CEIU 20937 Service Canada ITC, Vancouver
  • CEIU 20961 Employment and Social Development Canada, EI Telecentre, Vancouver
  • UCTE 20024 North Peace Airport - local contacts
  • UCTE 20212 Prince George Airport - local contacts
  • UCTE 20213 Canadian Coast Guard, Prince Rupert - local contacts
  • UCTE 20215 Prince Rupert Airport - local contacts
  • UCTE 20219 Vancouver Treasury Board - local contacts
  • UHEW 20031 Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada, BC provincewide - local contact
  • UHEW 20147 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, BC Provincewide - local contacts
  • UHEW 20729 UHEW 20729 Environment and Climate Change Canada, Pacific Region - local contacts
  • UNE 20088 Union of National Employees Composite Local, Vancouver - local contacts
  • UNE 20100 Fort St. James Park
  • UNE 20150 Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs (CIRNAC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), provincewide - local website
  • UNE 20378 CMHC Granville Island - local contacts
  • UNE 20723 Gwaii Haanas National Park - local contacts
  • UPCE 20095 Purolator Courier, Province-wide - local contacts
  • UPCE 20101 Canada Post Corporation, Vancouver - local contacts
  • USJE 20070 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, North District - local contacts
  • USJE 20071 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Prince Rupert - local contacts
  • USJE 20090 Department of Justice, Vancouver - local contacts
  • UTE 20002 Canada Revenue Agency, Northern BC and Yukon - local contacts

Deanna Kimball : Regional Education Officer

Deanna Kimball is the Regional Education Officer (REO) for the PSAC B.C. Region. Deanna has worked for PSAC since 2007 and was a PSAC Regional Representative for 10 years in both the Winnipeg and Vancouver Regional Offices. She has extensive experience in facilitation and knowledge of the PSAC Education programs. Prior to working for the PSAC, Deanna was a member of the Union of National Defence Employees and was active in her Local in Winnipeg.

Katherine Kirkwood : Secretary

Kim Nguyen : Administrative Assistant

Robert Strang : Regional Representative

Robert is responsible for the following locals in the BC South Interior and the West Fraser Valley. In addition, he is responsible for the Okanagan and West Fraser Valley Area Councils and the Okanagan Human Rights Committee, holds the International Solidarity portfolio, and is the Regional Mobilization Coordinator for members in the NavCan, Kamloops airport, and FB bargaining units.

  • AGR 20027 Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Okanagan Centre - local contacts
  • AGR 20041 Canadian Food Inspection Agency, South Okanagan - local contacts
  • AGR 20043 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland - local contacts
  • CEIU 20910 Employment and Social Development Canada, Surrey
  • CEIU 20914 Employment and Social Development Canada, Kamloops and Salmon Arm
  • CEIU 20918 Employment and Social Development Canada, Nelson and Cranbrook
  • CEIU 20964 Employment and Social Development Canada, Langley
  • CEIU 20972 Employment and Social Development Canada, Okanagan (Penticton Vernon and Kelowna)
  • CIU 20045 Canada Border Services Agency, Interior and Border Ports - branch contact
  • UNE 20106 Mount Revelstoke National Park - local contacts
  • UNE 20214 Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada - local contacts
  • UNE 20278 Fort Langley National Historic Park - local contacts
  • UCTE 20222 Nav Canada, Vancouver - local contacts
  • UCTE 20230 Kamloops Airport - local contacts
  • USJE 20067 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Kootenay - local contacts
  • USJE 20069 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Kamloops - local contacts
  • USJE 20153 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Kelowna - local contacts
  • UTE 20003 Canada Revenue Agency, Kelowna Tax Services Office - local contacts
  • UTE 20007 Canada Revenue Agency, Burnaby-Fraser Tax Services Office - local contacts
  • UTE 20026 Canada Revenue Agency, Penticton Tax Services Office - local contacts
  • UTE 20029 Canada Revenue Agency, Surrey Tax Centre - local contacts
  • UTE 20050 Canada Revenue Agency, Burnaby Fraser Call Centre - local contacts
  • UVAE 20035 Veterans Affairs, Penticton - local contacts

Monica Urrutia : Regional Representative

Monica previously worked for the Federal Government and was a PSAC member involved at local, regional, and national levels. She started her activism through youth and women's issues in the Filipino and broader community and saw a need to bridge this social activism with the union movement. As a PSAC Regional Representative she continues to put her experiences to work for the benefit of the members.

Monica is responsible for the following Downtown and Metro Vancouver locals, coordinates the work of Vancouver, North, Southern Interior, and Vancouver Island Regional Women’s Committees and the Vancouver & District Area Council, as well as being the Regional Mobilization Coordinator for PA, TC, SV, EB, CFIA and FNHA members in BC. Monica also holds the regional Racially Visible equity portfolio.

  • AGR 20044 Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lower Mainland - local website
  • CEIU 20901 Employment and Social Development Canada, Vancouver Regional Headquarters
  • CEIU 20938 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Vancouver
  • CEIU 20939 Employment and Social Development Canada, North Vancouver
  • CEIU 20943 Employment and Social Development Canada, Maple Ridge and Coquitlam
  • CEIU 20944 Employment and Social Development Canada, Vancouver - 10th Ave and Fraser Street
  • CEIU 20949 Employment and Social Development Canada, Burnaby and New Westminster
  • CEIU 20951 Employment and Social Development Canada, Richmond
  • CEIU 20974 Immigration and Refugee Board
  • DCL 22000 First Nations Health Authority - local website
  • GSU 20008 Public Services and Procurement Canada, BC Mainland - local contacts
  • UCTE 20088 Natural Resources Canada, BC Provincewide - local contacts
  • UCTE 20223 Canadian Coast Guard, Vancouver - local contacts
  • UNE 20089 Labour Canada, Vancouver - local contacts
  • UNE 20301 Statistics Canada, Vancouver - local contacts
  • UNE 70404 Status of Women Canada (national local)
  • USJE 70061 Canadian Security Intelligence Service (national local)
  • USJE 70093 Public Safety Canada (national local)
  • USJE 70125 National Courts of Canada (national local)
  • UTE 20027 Canada Revenue Agency, Vancouver Tax Services Office - local contacts
  • UVAE 20029 Veterans Affairs Canada, Vancouver - local contacts
  • UVAE 20045 Veterans Affairs Canada, Pacific Region - local contacts

The staff working in the Collective Bargaining Branch Office

Laurel Axam : Secretary

I began working for the Government of Canada in April 1980. My 19th birthday was celebrated one week before this. I was a CR-2 in an Unemployment Insurance (now called Employment Insurance) office when I walked my first picket line during the September 1980 CR strike. In 1981 (in May if memory serves) I got a CR-3 position at “CIC Metro” in Vancouver, the regional office for Immigration Canada. Then in September 1981 I got a CR-4 position with Labour Canada. Labour Canada became part of Human Resources Development Canada when it was formed in 1994. While working for Labour Canada and HRDC I held a variety of positions with Local executives in the National Component. The union officer position I held the longest was that of Local Secretary. I stayed with Labour until being assigned to HRDC’s Finance section in 1997. I worked for HRDC (now HRSDC and SDC) until November 2003 when I started working with Deb Seaboyer and Moe Ritchie in the Vancouver Satellite Office, Collective Bargaining Branch of the PSAC.

Erna Post : Regional Negotiator

The staff working in the Regional Executive Vice President's office

Jamey Mills : Regional Executive Vice President, BC

Jamey Mills is the PSAC's Regional Executive Vice-President for British Columbia.

Kristin Schnider : REVP's Executive Assistant

Patrick Bragg : Political Communications Officer

Staff working in the Victoria Regional Office

James Little : Regional Representative

James is the Regional Representative in Victoria. He is responsible for all these Vancouver Island locals, the Victoria and North Vancouver Island Area Councils, the Vancouver Island Human Rights Committee and the Vancouver Island Young Workers Committee. James is also the Regional Mobilization Coordinator for members in the CRA bargaining unit in BC.

  • AGR 20064 Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Vancouver Island - local contacts
  • CEIU 20912 Employment and Social Development Canada, Vancouver Island & Northern Sunshine Coast
  • CEIU 20941 Employment and Social Development Canada, Victoria
  • CEIU 20947 Employment and Social Development Canada, Nanaimo
  • CEIU 20975 Employment and Social Development Canada, Victoria
  • CIU 20042 Canada Border Services Agency, Vancouver Island - branch contact
  • DCL 20500 Canadian Corps of Commissionaires, Victoria, the Islands and Yukon - local website
  • GSU 20001 Public Services and Procurement Canada, Victoria - local contacts
  • UNE 29266 Pacific Rim National Park - local contacts
  • UNE 20280 Gulf Islands National Park - local contacts
  • UHEW 20076 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences
  • UHEW 20090 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station
  • UHEW 20169 Natural Resources Canada, Pacific Forestry Centre
  • UCTE 20209 Victoria Airport - local contacts
  • UCTE 20218 Canadian Coast Guard, Tofino-Ucluelet - local contacts
  • UCTE 20220 Canadian Coast Guard, Victoria - local contacts
  • UCTE 20232 Lightkeepers - local contacts
  • UNDE 21007 National Defence, Comox - local website
  • UNDE 21008 National Defence, Victoria - local website
  • UNDE 21009 National Defence, Victoria - local website
  • UNDE 21010 National Defence, Colwood - local website
  • UNDE 21011 National Defence, Rocky Point - local website
  • UNDE 21013 National Defence, Victoria - local website
  • UNDE 21016 National Defence, Victoria - local website
  • UNDE 21017 National Defence, Nanoose - local website
  • UNDE 21018 IMP Group, Comox - local website
  • UPCE 20104 Canada Post, Victoria - local contacts
  • USJE 20012 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, South Island - local contacts
  • USJE 20018 Correctional Service Canada and Parole Board of Canada, William Head Penitentiary - local contacts
  • USJE 20174 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Vancouver Island North - local contacts
  • UTE 20028 Canada Revenue Agency, Victoria Tax Service Office - local contacts
  • UVAE 20030 Veterans Affairs Canada, Victoria - local contacts

Rosemary MacKenzie : Admin Assistant

Rosemary became a member of PSAC in 1981 back in Ottawa. In the mid 1990’s, after relocating BC, she became Local President / National Officer / RVP for NRU 20088. She started out as A/Secretary for the Victoria Regional Office in November 2003. In May 2004, she became the Admin Assistant. Rosemary enjoys the interaction with the members she serves on the Island. One of her main interests is her Harley-Davidson FLHX Street Glide.

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