Association of Public Service Alliance Retirees
The Local
The Local is an important factor, vital to the development and the progression of the Association of Public Service Alliance Retirees (APSAR).
The Local is directly responsible for the development and growth of an organization whose interest it is to protect the financial security of the PSAC members’ future.
Since the pension plan is not negotiable for the vast majority of PSAC members, the Local has the heavy burden of promoting the Association constantly and persistently.
The Local must firmly encourage its members to join the Association of Public Service Alliance Retirees any time, especially when they retire.
The Local is the main source of information for the Association, to allow for the latter to contact the members who leave work to retire.
There is indeed life after work, but it must be prepared and secured.
The Association of Public Service Alliance Retirees has given itself the mandate of defending and safeguarding our pension plan, which is governed under the Public Service Superannuation Act (PSSA), and which is the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and the Quebec Pension Plan (RRQ) for many, and tied to the Old Age Security (OAS); Locals are the guardians of the interventions and the recommendations of the Association in all its political actions.
Since it can become a member of APSAR under the Constitution of the Association, the Local can also hear its members’ concerns and questions about our pension plan and pass them on directly to the National Council of the Association in order to inform them as quickly as possible of the issues raised.
With a well structured Association, based on the support of Locals who contribute regularly to its expansion, APSAR can make sure our pension plan is well protected and improved upon at several levels of its current status.
The Association is convinced that if all the Locals joined the movement, the Association could guarantee to all PSAC members a pension plan that would meet their current and future needs.
Locals are extremely powerful in the PSAC structure. They are even tougher when it’s time to support a cause with the political entities and their respective unions.
The support of Locals is essential to the survival of the Association of Public Service Alliance Retirees.
Thank you to all the Locals who give their support to the Association of Public Service Alliance Retirees.
Date Modified : 2012/01/05
