Pay Equity committee  When those first pay structures were stood up around the federal government, there were no bargaining agents. Unions and workers' representatives didn't exist. Right from the get-go you had inequitable pay structures. Throughout the years, once we were in a position to negotiate

Pay Equity committee  To finish off, we can't negotiate organization job structures in the federal public sector, whereas in some of the provincial models they can. That's a barrier in adopting some of these provincial models that might be better. They have tribunals and they have union involvement. M

Pay Equity committee  I would say it's one step in getting toward a fix, but it's just a barrier and not a solution. It's a barrier we need to take down, and not a solution we need to enact.

Pay Equity committee  It's pretty broad. On the one hand, PSECA takes away the rights of unions to advocate on behalf of our members who may be experiencing pay equity gaps. On the other hand, those members can file complaints against their union even though it's eliminated all the tools for us to be

Pay Equity committee  Yes, thank you. As I mentioned, the classification standards throughout the federal public sector are insanely old. They were structures from a different time. With PSECA leading us back to the bargaining table on dealing with pay equity complaints, we're already hindered by thi

Pay Equity committee  Thank you very much to the committee for the opportunity to present today on an issue that is extremely important to my members. The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada represents 57,000 professionals across Canada's public sector, over 40% of whom are women,

Finance committee  What else could this be, really, when you're talking about fictitious numbers and accounting exercises and bringing about a surplus by manipulating your books? You mentioned earlier the sell-off of GM shares at a loss. There were a number of other instruments used in this budget

Finance committee  Indeed, that's what this is about. This is nothing more than a pre-election budget PR exercise.

Finance committee  Exactly.

Finance committee  Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are not against looking at gaps in the system and modernizing it, based on the environment we're now faced with. What we're opposed to, and why we're in front of you today, is that this is the first time in our history as public service unions that

Finance committee  It's $900 million.

Finance committee  As you may or may not know, PIPSC represents about 10,000 chartered accountants at the Canada Revenue Agency. They've been able educate me on it, and hopefully I can give that to you as well. The $900 million plus the additional $250 million in the subsequent two years actually

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, honourable members, thank you for the opportunity to make a submission before you today in relation to division 20 of Bill C-59 on behalf of the nearly 55,000 members of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada. The vast majority of institute members