By OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jan 22, 2014) - Over the next three days, more than 200 federal government professionals, members of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), will be meeting in Ottawa to develop a strategy for collective bargaining with the federal government.
Some 90% of PIPSC members' collective agreements are set to expire in 2014. The current round of bargaining coincides with deep, ongoing program and staff cuts and government assaults against unions and labour rights, which are expected to resume when the House of Commons resumes sitting next week. Members of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) will closely assess the government's latest omnibus legislation - Bill C-4 - and will develop plans to challenge or at least mitigate its impacts on collective bargaining as well as the impacts of the government's promised assaults on salaries, sick leave and employee performance.
| Date: | January 22-24, 2013 |
| Location: | Westin Hotel, Ottawa (11 Colonel By Dr.) |
| EVENTS OPEN FOR MEDIA | |
| EVENTS | Panel Discussion - The Future of Bargaining & Labour Relations in the Public Service |
| Wednesday, January 22, 2014 | |
| 7:00-9:00 p.m. | |
| Ottawa Westin Hotel - Governor General I/II Room | |
| Panellists: | |
| • The Honourable Mauril Bélanger (MP Ottawa Vanier, Liberal) | |
| • Paul Dewar (MP Ottawa Centre, NDP) | |
| • Steven Barrett, Legal Counsel Sack Goldblatt Mitchell | |
| • Claude Denis, Director of the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa | |
| Press Point /Scrum | |
| Speaker: PIPSC new President, Debi Daviau | |
| Friday, January 24, 2014 | |
| 3:00 p.m. | |
| Ottawa Westin Hotel - Governor General I/II Room | |
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada represents some 55,000 professionals and scientists across Canada's public sector.
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