FIGHTBACK CAMPAIGN KIT
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PSAC Workplace
Fightback Campaign Kit |
PSAC has prepared a campaign kit to help our
Local/Branch executive members, Stewards and other
activists engage our members in the budget fightback
campaign.
Here’s what you will find in the kit.
PSAC launches workplace fightback campaign against job cuts – a message from
PSAC National President John Gordon about the Speech from the Throne, the latest
federal budget and their impact on our members.
PSAC’s federal budget fightback plan – an outline of the actions our union and our
activists need to take to fight back.
We need information to protect jobs and public services – our campaign is about
protecting the valuable public services our members provide as well their jobs. To be
successful we need information from our members. This document outlines the tools
available for you to reach out to our members and get their help to provide the critical
information we need. It also tells you where to send the information once you have
collected it.
What’s going on in your workplace? – is a card designed to ask our members a few
questions about employer actions in their workplaces that could have an impact on their
jobs and the services they provide; questions such as are there vacant positions being
left unfilled, are students or casuals doing bargaining unit work. The card is easy to
complete and should be distributed to and completed by the members in your
Local/Branch. Your PSAC regional office has supplies of these cards.
The Local/Branch report form – this is a short form that we’re asking each
Local/Branch to use to keep track of what’s happening in your workplace(s). You will be
able to complete these forms using any information you may have received from local
management, as well as the information you collect from the workplace cards completed by your members.
We’re asking you to complete a form for the year 2009 and then to complete a form for
each quarter of 2010. That will allow us to see if the employer’s actions are escalating
and where. It will also give us information about how budget cuts are affecting services
so that we can let Canadians know exactly how the public services they depend on are
being hurt.
Important questions you need to ask management in your workplace – in addition
to collecting information from our members about what’s happening in the workplace,
we also need to use every possible opportunity to find out from management about any
changes they’re planning. We’ve provided some sample questions to start you off.
We will defend our jobs and our rights – this is a leaflet that should be distributed to
your members to let them know that they have rights and their union will be there to
defend them.
Union activity in the workplace: Know your rights – this is another leaflet that should be distributed to your members. As we mobilize to fightback against cuts in jobs
and services, it’s important for member to know they have right to conduct some union
activities in their workplace.
TAKE ACTION! Everything you need to know to mobilize workers to win positive change – whether it’s strategy or tactics, this booklet will help you and your members
organize successful campaigns. Copies are available from your PSAC regional office.
Useful information about the budget, public sector cuts, the debt and the economy – these are documents that will provide you with information to answer members’ questions about important aspects of the 2010 federal budget and its impact
on the federal public sector. Other documents will provide you with information that will
help counter the arguments such as, the deficit can only be tackled by cutting the public
sector and we need to keep cutting taxes, even when we have a deficit.
• Budget 2010: Overview and summary
• Public Sector Cuts – The public sector: An easy scapegoat
• Debt and deficits: Don’t believe everything you hear about debt and deficits
• Destroying public services: Five sneaky ways governments have been
destroying public services
• Alternative choices for a health economy: There’s a right way and a wrong way
to get the economy back on track
• Taxes and publics services: You can’t have one without the other
All these documents and more backgrounders on the 2010 federal budget are available
at www.psac-afpc.com
“The Harper government has declared war against
federal public sector workers and PSAC is fighting back.
This is a job for all of us.”
(PSAC National President John Gordon)