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PSAC North Regional Council

Our structure

The PSAC North Regional Council is our highest decision-making body that brings together duly elected or appointed representatives from all three territories.

The Regional Executive Vice-President (REVP North) chairs the Regional Council and is the political voice for the PSAC in the Yukon, NWT and Nunavut.

PSAC North is also composed of (3) Area Councils, one for each territory and (3) Territorial Directors.

Committees are also an important part of our structure. There are 8 committees in each territory:  Indigenous Peoples, Access, Pride, Women's, Racially Visible, Health & Safety, Youth and the Regional Alliance Facilitators Network.

The North Regional Council is composed of the chairs of each committee in the North. All positions on the North Regional Council are elected from among the membership. The Regional Executive Vice President is a full-time paid position. All other members of the council work in jobs represented by the union and serve the union as volunteers. In addition to chairing the North Regional Council, the REVP represents the North on the Alliance Executive Committee, the body that runs the union nationally.

The Regional Councils meets at least three times a year to strategize on issues that affect PSAC members in the North.

PSAC North's Regional Council's role, as defined in the PSAC North By-Laws, is to:

  • Manage the business of PSAC North between its Triennial Conventions; and
  • Establish regulations to guide the operations of PSAC North.

Read the Bylaws in this section of the website that govern Regional Council.

PSAC North Regional Committees help to guide our union and protect the interests of our members. Many of today’s leaders developed their skills, abilities and talents on a committee. They not only educated themselves but became an invaluable resource to local members, components and PSAC National.

If you are passionate about one (or more!) of the issues that our regional committees focus on, you will find a warm welcome awaits you. Activists are the heart of our union – of any union – and your involvement will help ensure that our union and the labour movement continue to thrive.

Contact your PSAC Regional Office and let them know that you want to get involved.

Mission, Vision and Values Statements 

PSAC North Regional Council Meeting Minutes 2021 

PSAC North Regional Council Meeting Minutes 2020

PSAC North Regional Council Meeting Minutes 2019

PSAC North Regional Council Meeting Minutes 2018

PSAC North Regional Council Summary Report 2019 

PSAC North Regional Council Summary Report 2018

 

 

Jack Bourassa – Regional Executive Vice-President

Elwood Chan – Alternate Executive Vice-President

Steve Geick
Yukon Employees Union
President

Todd Parsons
Union of Northern Workers
President

Bill Fennell
Nunavut Employees Union
President

Vacant

YT Territorial Director

Vacant

NWT Territorial Director

Geoff Ryan

NU Territorial Director

Paige Galette 

YT Area Council

Vacant 

NWT Area Council

Lisa Kirk

NU Area Council

Brenda Weaver

 YT Regional Indigenous

  Peoples’ Committee

Holly Ferris 

NWT Regional Indigenous 

Peoples’ Committee

 Vacant  

 NU Regional Indigenous

 Peoples’ Committee

Gerard Tremblay

YT Regional Access

Committee

*Bruce Gudeit

NWT Regional Access

Committee

Vacant 

NU Regional Access

Committee

Roberta Wurtak

YT Regional Pride

Committee

Vacant

NWT Regional Pride

Committee

Nuka Fennell

NU Regional Pride
Committee

Teresa Acheson 

Whitehorse Regional

Women’s Committee

*Geraldine Penney

NWT Regional

Women’s Committee

Susan Avery 

NU Regional

Women’s Committee

*Derek Yap

YT Racially Visible

Committee

Hoa Do

NWT Racially Visible

Committee

Vacant

NU Racially Visible

Committee

Richard Wagner

YT Regional Health

and Safety Committee

Reyhan Sarikaya 

NWT Regional Health

and Safety Committee

Derek Allerton

NU Regional Health

and Safety Committee

Krisandra Reid

YT Regional Young 

Workers Committee

Vacant

NT Regional Young

Workers Committee

Joey J O'Brien

NU Regional Young

Workers Committee

Vacant

YT Alliance Facilitator Network

Vacant

NWT Alliance Facilitator Network

Vacant

NU Alliance Facilitator Network

 

 

* NHRC reps

To view and download our brochure, click here

 

March 26, 2018 - 11:41am •
Please see the attached document for information from the Government of Canada on the use of cannabis. 
March 21, 2018 - 7:36am •
2018 Theme: Promoting tolerance, inclusion, unity and respect for diversity in the context of combating racial discrimination Through the International Day for The Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the United Nations General Assembly calls on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination. The Public Service Alliance of Canada’s (PSAC) Nunavut Racially Visible Committee stands in solidarity with the United Nations in this call.
March 1, 2018 - 4:51pm •
The Public Service Alliance of Canada North hosted the annual Pink Shirt/Anti-Bullying Day at the Great Hall of the NWT Legislative Assembly on Feb. 28.  Students from four local schools gathered to mark this year's theme which was Cyberbullying.  Among the featured presentations included a video by William McDonald’s Me to We Group called “Step Up So others Don’t Get Stepped On.”
February 26, 2018 - 11:25am •
  Pictured from left: Dawn Skinner, Marie Buchanan, Suzette Montreuil, Samantha Moynes, Sheila Laity, Holly Ferris, Simone Cummings.  
February 12, 2018 - 11:28am •
A  five-year term position of American Sign Language interpreter is set to expire in Yukon in mid-March. Please see our Feb. 2 letter in support of continuing this service for citizens. 
January 24, 2018 - 1:32pm •
The Native Women Association of the NWT hosted an unveiling of the Beaded Hearts Tapestry as part of the opening of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) hearings in Yellowknife on Jan. 22, 2018. The hearings took place over three days and involved 40 families sharing their experiences.  The Beaded Hearts Tapestry was created to pay respect to Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and to acknowledge the families who have experienced great loss.

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