Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada

With over 140,000 PSAC members at the bargaining table with the Trudeau government, PSAC President Chris Aylward and Vice-President Magali Picard are currently doing a cross-country mobilization tour. Our national representatives are meeting with the membership from every region to discuss our bargaining efforts and support mobilization around those key issues.

The latest version (2019) of the PSAC publication, “Retiring from the Public Service of Canada: Some Useful Tips” is now available.

On March 21, 1960, sixty-nine people were killed and 180 were wounded after police opened fire at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid “pass laws.” A few years later in 1966, March 21^st was proclaimed the “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination” by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN).

A long road ahead

The United Nations has made the theme for March 21^, 2019: Mitigating and countering rising nationalist populism and extreme supremacist ideologies.

PSAC welcomes the new funding commitments made in today’s budget to address the Phoenix pay disaster, but they fall significantly short of what is required to end the pay nightmares of Canada’s federal public service workers.

Negotiations with Parks Canada continued at a slow pace