Agenda

Pre-Convention Events

Convention

Pre-Convention

Thursday, June 12

4:00–5:00 PM

  • New Delegate Orientation, FCC

6:00–8:00 PM

  • Delegate Registration, FCC
  • Delegate Registration – OPSEU/SEFPO, Delta Hotel

6:00–9:00 PM

  • NUPGE Reception, FCC

Convention

Friday, June 13

8:00 AM–9:00 AM

  • Delegate Registration, FCC

9:00 AM

  • Call to Order
  • Opening by Sakom (Chief) Polchies Sitansisk (St. Mary’s First Nation)
  • Territorial Acknowledgment
  • Singing of “O Canada” and “Solidarity Forever”
  • Welcome to Delegates
  • Introduction of National Executive Board (and Life Members)
  • Tribute to Deceased Comrades and Friends
  • 1st Report of the Credentials Committee
  • National Union Code of Conduct
  • Rules of Order
  • Adoption of Sessional Hours and Agenda
  • President’s Address
  • National Executive Board Report
  • Adoption of the NEB Report

11:00 AM

  • Order of the Day: Guest Speaker—Bea Bruske, President, CLC
  • Report of the Constitutional Resolutions Committee

Noon

  • Lunch, Crowne Plaza Ballroom
  • Women’s Caucus, Crowne Plaza Ballroom

1:30 PM

  • Muskrat Singers
  • 2nd Report of the Credentials Committee
  • Secretary-Treasurer’s Report
  • Finances
  • Affordability Crisis: Addressing the Root Problems to Build a Fairer Economy (Policy Paper)
  • 1st Report of the Resolutions Committee

4:45 PM

  • Nominations (1st call)

5:00 PM

  • Adjournment

8:00 PM

  • NBU Party, Crowne Plaza

Saturday, June 14

9:00 AM

  • 3rd Report of the Credentials Committee

9:10 AM

  • Order of the Day: Guest Speaker—Randi Weingarten, President, AFT

9:40 AM

  • Trump, Tariffs, and the End of Free Trade (Policy Paper)
  • 2nd Report of the Resolutions Committee
  • Artificial Intelligence and Workers—Threats and Opportunity (Policy Paper)
  • 3rd Report of the Resolutions Committee

11:50 AM

  • Nominations (2nd call)

Noon

  • Lunch

1:30 PM

  • 4th Report of the Credentials Committee
  • Public Services=Public Good
    • Moderator – Larry Rousseau, Vice-President, CLC
    • Panelists – Susana Barria, Sub-regional Secretary for the Andean Sub-region (PSI)
    • Sharon DeSousa, President, PSAC
    • David Macdonald, Chief Economist, CCPA
  • 4th Report of the Resolutions Committee

3:00 PM

  • Working Short: Addressing the Health Human Resources Crisis in Canada (Policy Paper)
  • 5th Report of the Resolutions Committee
  • Life Memberships

4:00 PM

  • Nominations (3rd call)
  • Elections

5:00 PM

  • Adjournment

7:00 PM

  • NUPGE Social and Entertainment, Beaverbrook Art Gallery

Sunday, June 13

9:00 AM

  • Final Report of the Credentials Committee

9:10 AM

  • Order of the Day: Guest Speaker—Fae Johnstone, Momentum
  • Resistances, Movements, and Histories of 2SLGBTQIA+ (Policy Paper)
  • Workers with Disabilities and Disability Justice (Policy Paper)
  • 6th Report of the Resolutions Committee
  • Unfinished Business
  • Installation of the National Executive Board
  • Good and Welfare
  • Singing of “Solidarity Forever”

Noon

  • Convention Adjourns