Media Advisory: PIPSC Members Rally in Toronto Today to Protest Lack of Progress at the Bargaining Table

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Sept. 9, 2016) - Led by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) President Debi Daviau and Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) President Hassan Yussuff, some 80 PIPSC members will hold a rally in downtown Toronto this afternoon in support of their bargaining demands:

• Fair economic increases and the protection of sick leave;

• Enshrining scientific integrity in the collective agreements of science-based Groups;

• Resources to go after international tax avoiders;

• Reining in costly outsourcing.

Starting location and time: 1:50 pm, Delta Toronto, 75 Lower Simcoe Street

March to/speeches: Corner of Bremner Boulevard and Lower Simcoe Street

Keynote Speakers: Debi Daviau, President, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada

Hassan Yussuff, President, Canadian Labour Congress

The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada represents some 57,000 scientists and other professionals across Canada's public sector.

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