Updates

On Wednesday, Parliament voted to adopt Bill C-4, a government bill that repeals the previous Conservative government’s controversial anti-union bills C-377 and C-525.

The USGE mobilization committee recently launched a new mobilization campaign called 15-15-15. The idea of this campaign is to have members rally on the 15th of each month for at least 15 minutes to support our bargaining teams.

USGE is presently examining what this news will mean for our members. We will provide more details on our website soon.

Today, we remember Louise Pargeter, a USGE member who died on October 6, 2004, while performing her duties as a Community Parole officer in Yellowknife. On this day, we take the opportunity to remember, and honour, Louise, as well as all USGE members who have lost their lives while working to keep Canadians safe. 

On Sunday, September 25, USGE staff and National Executive attended the Canadian Police and Peace Officers’ Memorial to honour and remember the men and women who have sacrificed their lives in the line of duty.

With the Phoenix pay system debacle, staff at the Miramichi pay centres are working long hours struggling to deliver pay to individuals working in 46 departments and agencies across Canada. Last week, USGE hosted a pizza lunch for all pay centre employees as a way to recognize these significant efforts.

In a victory for USGE members, the Board found that the CSC’s use of its National Attendance Management Program (NAMP) at the institution in question violated the collective agreement and systematically discriminated against specific employees.

Brother Ross Monk, a long time Regional Vice President of the USGE of the Atlantic Region (Canadian Correctional Service & National Parole Board), passed away suddenly on Sunday September 11, 2016 at his home in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Our bargaining teams return to negotiations with Treasury Board this week, and the results could impact more than 80,000 federal government workers and the services they provide to Canadians.