In the spring of 2010, CEIU took action against the loss of 147 term and casual jobs at the CIC processing centre in Sydney, Nova Scotia. At the local, regional and national levels, CEIU pushed back to save jobs and maintain quality public services. This work has paid off: CIC Sydney will be hiring up to approximately 160 term staff to address the centre’s backlogs at CIC Sydney’s Case Processing Centre, Permanent Resident Card Centre and the Federal Skilled Workers Project. 

Attached you will see copies of a petition to the House of Commons calling on Parliament to ensure NWAC-AFAC receives sufficient funding to continue on its work of protecting Aboriginal women. Please circulate to your contacts and return as many signed petitions to our office as possible no later than September 13 (the House of Commons resumes on September 20.)
 

PSAC 69081 members leafleted community members and band councillors in Listuguj Québec May 20 to protest management negotiators' threats of cuts and layoffs during conciliation.

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 is the deadline for submitting applications to the Maritimes Regional Women's Conference. Please get your applications in to the Halifax Regional Office before that date.  

The Federal Budget released by the Harper Government has set a clear direction for balancing the budget within the next five years by targeting the federal public service through austerity measures. The budget freezes federal departmental spending with the goal of reducing the debt on the backs of public service workers.

The government plans to restrain federal program spending overall. It will do this by freezing the total amount that government departments spend on salaries, administration and overhead, and by undertaking an aggressive review of all departmental spending. This is a direct threat to our jobs and the services we deliver.

The fact that Public Sector Pensions were not directly attacked in the budget is our victory and a testament to our ability to work concertedly and in unison.

The March 4 federal budget freezes federal departmental spending.   The government announced they want to balance the budget on the backs of public service workers – a direct threat to our jobs and the services we deliver.