Word from the President

Dear member:

Welcome to your Association’s revised website. By consulting it, I hope you will find useful tools to respond to your needs. Because this is what its all about: a new service to our members.

We have listened to suggestions and tried to respond to our transparency standards before enacting the changes. This new communication mode will give us more efficiency and will bring about new savings by replacing some of our postal and bulletin board means of communication. We will thus reach members more often and faster.

The National Council

Meeting of the National Council during the weekend October 25th and 26th.

Acceptance of the Collective Agreement

CCSB - Pension Surplus and Health Care Benefits

Dental plan

Good news ! Effective October 1st, 2008, APS members will take advantage of the reimbursement of their dental costs according to the 2006 grid fee instead of the 2004 grid.. Contributions remain the same.

Cal for Candidacies to the National Executive

The only Call for Candidacies forms received by the deadline date of September 6th, were those from the Executives already in place. Thus, we are pleased to inform you that they are all re-elected without any opposition.
. President: Mario Poudrier
. National Secretary General: Emilio D'Orazio
. National Treasurer: Hervé Lamarre
. Eastern Region Director: Donald LeBlanc
. Western Region Director: Michael Ho

Protocole - Collective agreement between CBC and APS

It is understood that the attached document has been produced by CBC; it will be revised and corrected properly.

Renewal of the Collective agreement

The parties strike a deal

“A five year agreement, highlighted by financial guarantees and significant changes for working conditions, I think our members will be satisfied”. Those were the first comments by Mario Poudrier, the APS National President, commenting on the renewal of the collective agreement he had negotiated with Management. The Memorandum of understanding signed in the evening of August 29 concluded discussions that had been initiated in April between the parties.

Call for Candidacies

Five positions on the National Executive are up for election this year. Votes will be conducted as usual by individual mailing sent to each one of our members having acquired the right to vote. To do so, simply return us the application form, which you can find in the section "About APS".

Negotiations Update

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