Agriculture Union

Agriculture Union

Full name	Agriculture Union
Founded	1960
Members	8,000 (2012)^[1]
Affiliation	Public Service Alliance of Canada
Key people	Bob Kingston, president
Office location	Ottawa, Ontario
Country	Canada
Website	www.agrunion.com

The Public Service Alliance of Canada Building in Ottawa.

The Agriculture Union has more than 8,000 members who work for Canadian federal government departments and agencies such as the:

Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, including
- Agri-Environment Services Branch
- Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal
- Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency
Canadian Grain Commission
Canadian Dairy Commission
Public Service Commission
Department of National Defence (language training)
Canada School of Public Service

History

In 1960 the Canada Agriculture National Employees' Association (CANEA), a national organization, was created to represent Canada Agriculture employees across Canada. In 1967, the CANEA became the newly formed Agriculture Union of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). The new Agriculture Union became one of the 16 founding staffing associations, representing almost 40 occupational groups, at the Presidents' Conference on Unity which negotiated a merger to form the PSAC.^[2]

Executive

Bob Kingston, President

References

↑ Membership info from Agriculture Union web site - http://www.agrunion.com/en/aboutus.html[]
↑ Andrew Stewart obituary, http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-315275-andrew-stewart.html

Public Service Alliance of Canada

Member Unions	Agriculture Union Canada Employment and Immigration Union Customs and Immigration Union Government Services Union Nunavut Employees Union National Health Union Natural Resources Union Union of Canadian Transportation Employees Union of Environment Workers Union of National Defence Employees Union of National Employees Union of Northern Workers Union of Postal Communications Employees Union of Solicitor General Employees Union of Taxation Employees Union of Veterans Employees Yukon Employees Union

Presidents	Robyn Benson John Gordon Nycole Turmel Daryl Bean Pierre Samson Andy Steward Claude Edwards

Regions	Atlantic British Columbia National Capital Region North Ontario Prairies Québec

Canadian Labour Congress

Provincial federations	Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest/Nunavut Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon

National affiliates	ACTRA BCTF CAUT CFNU COPE CPAA CUPE CUPW ETFO NUPGE OECTA OSSTF PIPSC PSAC Unifor

International affiliates	AFM ALPA ATU AWIU BAC BCTGM Boilermakers CWA GMP IAFF IAM IATSE IBEW Teamsters Canada IFPTE ILA ILWU IPP IUOE IUPAT OPCMIA SEIU SIU SMWIA UA UAW UBCJA UFCW UMW UNITE HERE USW UTU

Presidents	Claude Jodoin (1956–1966) Donald MacDonald (1967–1974) Joe Morris (1974–1978) Dennis McDermott (1978–1986) Shirley Carr (1986–1992) Bob White (1992–1999) Ken Georgetti (1999–2014) Hassan Yussuff (2014–present)

See also	Canadian Congress of Labour International Labor Communications Association One Big Union Trades and Labour Congress Workers' Unity League

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