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Updates

Check out one of the winning videos from the PSAC Ontario Council video competition, which helps to raise awareness of the negative impacts cuts to public services have on communities.

The PSAC Prairie Region is looking for members with a knack for design, illustration or overall creativity to help design our regional identity.

Last year, all regions within the PSAC converted to the nationally-branded cogs to allow for a uniform identity and easy public recognition of our union. In the region, we'd like to complement it with an individual identity that represents our unique Prairie flair within the membership.

On September 26, at the moment of the Motion 312 vote, we were astonished to notice that the Minister responsible for the Status of Women, the Honorable Rona Ambrose, took position to strike a committee that would have reviewed the fetus legal status in the light of scientific advances. Without any doubt, this committee would have reopened the abortion debate  (despite the Conservative Party’s promise not to reopen it).

The Public Service Alliance of Canada stands behind Saskatchewan’s Official Opposition as they prepare to introduce a private member’s bill to create an asbestos registry of all public buildings under the Public Health Act.

Late this summer, the PSAC started receiving reports that the government was looking into eliminating the practice of “pay on time” currently afforded to indeterminate employees and some term employees.

Everyone’s got an opinion, and we want to hear it. PSAC Prairies members are invited to share their thoughts regarding the 2013-2015 PSAC Prairie Region Education Plan at planning meetings throughout the Prairies this November and December.

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