Winnipeg

CEIU/PSAC Members Rally in Winnipeg for a Fair Contract and Phoenix Compensation WINNIPEG, MB - Members of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union (CEIU) – a component of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) – will hold a lunch hour rally in Winnipeg today (Thursday, June 6, 2019) from 12:00 noon to 12:30PM in front of 280 Broadway in Winnipeg. PSAC has declared impasse in negotiations with Treasury Board, which employs over 90,000 members of the PSAC including CEIU members. PSAC members make up the bulk of the federal public service.

The Prairie Region has launched four Webinars; one for each of the Treasury Board Bargaining Units (PA, TC, SV and EB). We would like to encourage those members that are out of town or those who cannot make an in town meeting, to register for an online Webinar barganing update meeting.  Here are your bargaining groups based on your job classification: Program & Administrative Services (PA) Group

The Prairie Region will be hosting bargaining update meetings for all PSAC Members in Treasury Board (TB) Locals in June. Each meeting will be led by a Member of your Bargaining Team (click on the link to read their biographies). Please attend the correct in-person meeting according to your bargaining group. The Treasury Board bargaining groups are based on your job classification, see the table below.

ATTENTION ALL PSAC MEMBERS IN TREASURY BOARD (TB) LOCALS There will be a bargaining update meeting in-person for each TB Group – PA, SV, TC, the EB Group

We are currently seeking volunteer representatives to sit on the Steering Committee for the Prairies Regional Racially Visible Conference, to be held in fall 2019.

Join the Pride Parade and support the LGBTQ2+ Community! Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans people continue to face discrimination and harassment at work and in their everyday lives. Pride is a chance to advocate for an end to homophobia, transphobia and biphobia. People of all genders and sexualities welcome.  Please print and share the attached 2019 Pride Parade poster in your workplace and to other PSAC members.  Date: Sunday, June 2, 2019 Time: 10:00 am to meet and gather at the PSAC float spot in the parade. Pride Parade starts at 11 am.

UVAE National President Virginia Vaillancourt speaks to the Winnipeg Free Press about a Scabies outbreak at Deer Lodge Centre in Winnipeg.

Winnipeg Human Rights Committee Minutes Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 17:15  175 Hargrave St In Attendance: Jennifer Chieh Ho, Indrayani Patil, Michelle Phaneuf (minutes), Lindsey Sparks (PSAC Staff), Yvonne Hein, Frank Janzen Call to order at 17:39

Winnipeg Human Rights Committee: Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 17:15 *Present:  Indrayani Patil, Chantal Nadeau, Yvonne Hein, Betty Ng, Nathalie Richard, Jennifer Chieh Ho, Michelle Phaneuf (minutes) Lindsey Sparks (PSAC Staff)

Winnipeg Area Council Annual General Meeting Minutes - April 17, 2019 AT 5:30 p.m. Attendance: Gus Mardli (Phone), Frank Janz, Sheilagh Hanson, Brett Rainboth, Nestor Galarnyk