Wednesday, February 18, 2015
OTTAWA — Newly elected AMAPCEO President, Dave Bulmer, representing 12,000 professional public sector employees, is in Ottawa today on one of fourteen provincial stops to engage members about defending public services.
While travelling to cities across Ontario, AMAPCEO members have the opportunity to meet and converse with the President about the future direction of the union. The tour is one of the #OurAMAPCEO initiatives that seeks to build a strategic plan to tackle the government’s risky public-private partnership schemes, austerity budgeting and the ongoing attacks on good paying, unionized jobs that help build the local economy in Ottawa, and all across Ontario.
“It is a short-sighted and fundamental blunder of politicians who continue to target public services in any community around the province,” said President Dave Bulmer. He added, “As public servants, we need to consider new ways to expose this flawed, illogical approach of privatization and to defend the public in our public services.”
At each worksite stop, the President will pose a single question asking members, “To combat the erosion of good jobs and Ontario’s great public services, what should our AMAPCEO do in 2015?” The 140 AMAPCEO – represented employees at the Ontario Public Services in Ottawa were encouraged to raise issues and ideas about the work they do in the public service, its role in the local community, and how best AMAPCEO should respond to protect public services. AMAPCEO members will continue the dialogue on-line by including the #OurAMAPCEO hashtag in Twitter posts.
With the opportunity to engage thousands of members, Bulmer says, “This tour is about building our AMAPCEO community, an empowering community of rank and file members who will act to defend public services, unionized jobs and workers’ rights.”
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