UPCE members requiring service should contact:

Atlantic

Mike Moeller

902-863-9228

902-863-9232 (fax)

mmoeller@ns.sympatico.ca

Quebec

National President Richard L. Des Lauriers

Richard L. Des Lauriers is the National President for the Union of Postal Communications Employees, he was elected on October 25, 2005 at the union's thirteen Triennial National Convention in Halifax. He had been the union's Ontario Regional Vice-President since 2002.

As the National President, Richard is the union's chief executive officer, overseeing the day-to-day affairs of the union. He is responsible for the union's communications and political action strategy, for guiding UPCE’s policy reform work and for coordinating the union's position on these policies that have a significant impact on UPCE members.

As National President, he is vested with the authority to deal with regional complaints and jurisdictional issues. He also has overall responsibility for the administration of the UPCE's regions and locals Prior to his election to the UPCE National Executive as Ontario Regional Vice President in 2002, Richard was Local President of local 70180, from 2000 to 2002. A UPCE and PSAC activist since 1991 when he joined Canada Post Corporation as a Customer Service Representative in the Ottawa Contact Centre, Richard has held a variety of union positions in his Local.

Richard is currently the PSAC Alternate National Executive Vice-President. Richard is also an activist in the broader global labour movement. He is alternate on the Union Network International (UNI) World Executive board and has served on the PSAC NCR Council and Executive board for three years as well as several other PSAC committees.

Reports to the National Executive

December 2007
September 2006
March 2006

Atlantic Vice-President Mike Moeller

Mike Moeller is the UPCE’s Regional Vice-President for the Atlantic. In January 1995, he was elected by the membership to fill the vacant position of UPCE Regional Director . He was reelected to that position at the Triennial Convention of 1996, 1999, 2002 and 2005. In 2005, his title was changed to Regional Vice-President.

Prior to his election in 1995, he was President of Local 80823 in Antigonish. He has been involved in the union for many years, starting as a Shop Steward in 1985.

He is part of the UPCE National Executive and responsible for the Atlantic Region. Mike is also on the PSAC/UPCE/CPC National Pension Plan Committee.

Reports to the National Executive

April 2008
December 2007
September 2006
March 2006

Quebec Vice-President Ginette Chartrand

Reports to the National Executive

December 2007
September 2006
March 2006

Ontario Vice-President Kelly Steele

Reports to the National Executive

April 2008
December 2007
September 2006
March 2006

Western Vice-President Janet I. May

Janet May is the UPCE's Regional Vice-President for the Western Region. She was elected to the position at the Triennial Convention in 2002 and then again in 2005.
Prior to her election in 2002, she was President of Local 50100 for Manitoba and Northwest Ontario. She also has been at the bargaining table in 2001/2002 for the Main Negotiations for the CPC/PSAC contract and also for the Job Evaluation Plan Negotiations in 2002.
She is part of the UPCE National Executive and responsible for the Western Region, which has 8 locals. Janet is also on the PSAC/UPCE/CPC National Benefits Committee, the Steering Committee of the UPCE/CPC Service Expansion and Innovation Committee and the internal UPCE Finance Committee.

Reports to the National Executive

April 2008
December 2007
September 2006
March 2006

The advent of collective bargaining in the Public Service has placed an onus both on the Alliance and on its components. It has forcefully been impressed upon the Officers of both the Alliance and the Components that the responsibility for carrying out the representation of organized public servants in bargaining on their behalf with the employer and the ensuing provision deriving from agreements or arbitral awards has to be a shared responsibility. On the one hand, the Alliance provides research technical assistance to bargaining committees and negotiating teams, general representations regarding servicewide matters, fringe benefits, and working conditions demands for each bargaining group certified; arrange for the acceptance, by the membership of bargaining positions and of proposed agreements; administer the ensuing collective agreements, handle all grievances and continue to make representations on behalf of the membership with Canada Post Corporation officials and Purolator Courier Ltd.

It is important to remember that our ByLaws reflect the wishes of our members as to
a structure considered best suited to serve them, and at the same time conform to the Constitution of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

The Constitution of the Alliance may change and our own needs may change so our
ByLaws must be regarded as a "living" rather than "static" thing, and we must be prepared to change and continue to strive for improvement as circumstances warrant.

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On March 1, 1967, the Post Office Component, whose origin goes back to the convention meeting of the Railway Mail Clerks in Ottawa in November 1966, joined the Public Service Alliance of Canada. This makes the component and the PSAC the successors to the Canadian Railway Mail Clerks Federation founded in 1889 and the oldest union at Canada Post.

At the Postal Communications Component convention in Halifax in August 1975, the delegates voted unanimously to change the name of their component to the Union of Postal Communications Employees (UPCE).