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December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities

November 27, 2013 - 12:00am • Persons With Disabilities

On December 3 we recognize the annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a day to bring awareness and understanding to the issues that affect the lives of persons with disabilities every day. It’s also a day to hold the government to account for their responsibilities to persons with disabilities from coast to coast to coast.

Order your postcards opposing VAC office closures

November 25, 2013 - 12:00am

PSAC has printed 10,000 postcards addressed to Prime Minister Harper protesting the office closures.

A presentation on Bill C-4 and the attacks on workers

November 22, 2013 - 6:05pm

This Bill C-4 overview was first presented to delegates at the PSAC National Equity Conference in Toronto, November 18-22, 2013. It gives a complete overview of the attack on labour, specifically highlighting Bill C-4, which attacks collective bargaining and removes health and safety protections.

Veterans and workers say compromise proposed for Veterans Affairs office closures simply won’t work

November 22, 2013 - 12:00am

Veterans and the workers who serve them say they are troubled to learn about a compromise proposed by two Nova Scotia MLAs at a meeting with Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino in Ottawa yesterday

C-4 encourages unsafe workplaces

November 20, 2013 - 4:15pm

Work will be more dangerous if proposed changes to health and safety laws in Ottawa’s latest omnibus budget measure, Bill C-4, become law, according to Rob Ellis, whose teenage son was killed at work on his second day on the job. Ellis, a workplace health and safety advocate, and Bob Kingston, President of the PSAC’s Agriculture Union, are in Ottawa today to urge parliamentarians to change the Bill.

Trans Day of Remembrance 2013

November 20, 2013 - 2:28pm • LGBTQ2+

November 20 is the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, a day dedicated to transgender, transsexual, and two-spirit individuals who have been killed or have been victims of violent attacks based on anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. Sadly, these kinds of attacks are all too frequent and transgender peoples have no legislated protection.

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