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Federal Court ruling on family status accommodation: what this means for you

February 14, 2013 - 1:13pm • Human Rights, Political Action, Workplace problem solving

The Federal Court last week upheld a decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that employers cannot discriminate against employees with family obligations.

The ruling means that the employer has the obligation to find workable solutions on a case-by-case basis so that workers like Fiona Johnstone can balance work and family, to the point of undue hardship.

Counterpoint: ‘Right to work' is right to work for less

February 13, 2013 - 10:02am • Political Action

As published in the Financial Post

conservative Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre is right: Judge Ivan Rand did rule that employees should “take the burden with the benefit” (“Unions ignore the Rand formula,” Feb. 6).

Vancouver Area Council Presidents Report

February 8, 2013 - 11:12am • Metro | Political Action

Cheers to Jamey Mills, President of the Vancouver Area Council, who presented this report at the AGM held in October.

Thank you all for attending and thank you for supporting me over the past year as Vancouver Area Council President. I, again as last year would like to thank you for volunteering in your workplaces and communities.

I would like to start with a moment of silence to commemorate our fellow members who have been killed or injured in the past year.

RWC Update - February

February 7, 2013 - 1:17pm • Women

A busy few months for PSAC Women. Towards the end of 2012 we had our National Equity meetings. It was wonderful to be a part of this as we formulated the first National Human Rights Conference for next fall. 

GlobeGround Fuellers: Bargaining Update

February 4, 2013 - 11:40am • Bargaining

After spending some days looking at your input and going through your collective agreement, your bargaining team put together a full package of proposals to renew your collective agreement. And we then sat down with the employer to begin negotiations. We spent three days with them to start the process of getting you a better agreement.

Bargaining Team Spends Week in Talks with CRA

February 4, 2013 - 9:48am • Bargaining

PSAC/UTE Bargaining Team continues push for leave improvements, raises issues concerning health and safety and union communication in the workplace.

This past week (January 28-31) our Bargaining Team spent four days in talks with CRA.  The parties spent the week in negotiations over a number of issues, including leave provisions, access to the collective agreement and union communication in the workplace.

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