Emancipation Day: The ongoing fight for justice and reconciliation
For more than 200 years, enslavement of Black and Indigenous people was considered the norm and even an economic necessity in the British Empire,...
Employment Opportunity: Labour Relations Administrator (Permanent position – Revised Salary)
The Customs and Immigration Union (CIU) is seeking to hire a full-time bilingual Labour Relations Administrator with extensive experience to be staffed on a...
Urgent action needed to address border delays: Automation is not the...
The situation at airports and ports of entry across the country continues to deteriorate, and it’s clear the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and...
CBSA Summer Action Plan 2022: Information on grievances, and answers to...
The implementation of the 2022 Summer Action Plan (SAP) by CBSA in June of this year raises a number of questions for the union...
TB Bargaining: Proceeding to Public Interest Commission
PSAC’s fight for a fair deal is progressing as a federal labour board last week moved to establish a Public Interest Commission (PIC) to...
CIU, PSAC respond to CBSA’s Summer Action Plan, file policy grievance
On June 27, 2022, as part of our response to CBSA’s Summer Action Plan, PSAC filed a policy grievance on behalf of CIU members,...
Delays at the border: CBSA lets border officers and travelers down
With no end in sight to delays affecting travelers at airports and border crossings across the country, it’s clear the Canada Border Services Agency...
FB bargaining: Team lays out priorities in first round of talks
The latest round of negotiations for PSAC-CIU members employed by CBSA kicked off when the FB bargaining team met with Treasury Board to exchange...
ArriveCAN: A step in the wrong direction
On Wednesday, June 15, 2022, the National President of the Customs and Immigration Union, Mark Weber, testified in front of the House of Commons Standing...
Government lifts vaccination policy for federal workers
Today, the federal government announced it will lift the vaccination policy for all workers in federally regulated workplaces as of June 20, and allow...