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Three tentative agreements reached with Treasury Board

As a result of the early exploratory talks initiated by the Treasury Board, the PSAC has reached three tentative agreements. As an opportunity to vote on these is fast approaching, the National Component wishes to encourage its members to get informed about the proposed changes.

The National Component strongly supports the bargaining teams’ recommendation to ratify these tentative agreements.

The PSAC’s website features comprehensive details of the tentative agreements reached for the three groups affected: EB, PA and SV. As the exploratory talks did not yield tentative agreements for the FB and TC groups, regular bargaining will take place in 2011.

For greater clarity, we also recommend that members peruse the Questions and answers on severanceand Questions and answers on the tentative agreements sections found on the PSAC website.

Important PSAC links:
Treasury Board bargaining
What’s in the tentative agreements: overview
Questions and answers on severance
Questions and answers on the tentative agreements

EB – PSAC Reaches Tentative Agreement for EB
PA – PSAC reaches tentative agreement for PA
SV – PSAC Reaches Tentative Agreement for SV

FB – An Open Letter to CBSA Workers from the PSAC FB Bargaining Team
TC – Message to TC Members from your Bargaining Team

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World March of Women

On October 18th 2010, the World March of Women drew thousands of women who took part in the national rally.  The World March of Women is a movement that binds together 4500 women’s groups across 151 countries. An important gathering was also held at Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The National Component is proud to have been represented by sisters from various Regional Women’s Committees across Quebec.

In this photo: Sister Louise Patrice, Regional Vice-President of the Outside Canada region, surrounded by sisters from the Regional Francophone Women's Committee (National Capital Region): Claudine Lance, Johanne Gosselin, Marie-Françoise Bertrand and Lisa Rossignol.
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Revised National Component Policies

During the 2008 National Component Convention, the National President identified that our governance documents required a review and rewrite. Some of these documents had not been subject to an examination for 40 years. For the past two years, the Bylaws and Policies Committee have been actively working with an external contractor (Stiff Sentences) to conduct a comprehensive review and rewrite of the English version of all Component governance documents.  The revised policies were adopted by the National Executive in September 2010.

The Revised National Component Policies feature:

  • Clearer language which makes the document more user-friendly
  • Thematic organization which places related topics together for easier reference
  • The amalgamation of all regulations, policies and guidelines into a singular set of directives entitled ‘Policies’ to reduce the complexity of the document
  • Alpha-numeric policy identifiers to allow for easier identification and positioning

Please note that the Bylaws have undergone a similar review and revision.  However, only the Convention has the authority to adopt those proposed changes.  Therefore, they will be tabled, for consideration, at National Component Triennial Convention in 2011.

N.B. Similar to the English process, a French Editorial Committee will be struck to develop a French Manual of Style to be applied to the review and revision of the French version.

Therefore the French version is a to be treated as a draft only at this point  (non-official translation).