Elected officers
National President
John Gordon
National President John Gordon was first elected on May 5, 2006 at the PSAC's 14th Triennial National Convention in Toronto. Delegates re-elected him at the union's 2009 convention. He had been the Union's National Executive Vice-President since 2000.
Gordon is the union's chief executive officer, overseeing the day-to-day affairs of the union with overall responsibility for the administration of PSAC's Branches and for PSAC Holdings Ltd. As the National President, he deals with Component complaints and jurisdictional issues. He is responsible for guiding PSAC's legislative reform work and for coordinating the union's position on legislation that affects PSAC members.
As the National President, John shares responsibility for:
- Elections, Think Public, Campaigns and Political Action
- PSAC's Social Justice Fund
- PSAC's communications strategy.
And also has responsibility for :
- Pensions
- The Canada Revenue Agency bargaining unit
- PSAC Holdings Board Ltd.
- Branch Administration and Succession Planning
He sits on the following committees and boards:
- PSAC-TB Joint Learning Program Steering Committee (Co-Chair)
- Public Service Pension Advisory Committee (with REVP Jérôme Turcq)
- Public Service Modernization Act – Union/Management Advisory Committee
- Insurance Trust (with NEVP Patty Ducharme)
- Canadian Labour Congress Executive Council and Executive Committee
- Public Services International (PSI)
- UNI Global Union
and is on the following PSAC National Board of Directors' Committees:
- Roles, Responsibilities and Structure
- Strike Fund (Co-chair with REVP Jérôme Turcq)
- Political Action
- National Joint Council
- Pension
Before his election as the PSAC's National Executive Vice-President in 2000, John was the National President of the former Union of Public Works Employees (UPWE) component (now the Government Services Union) from 1982 to 1999. A PSAC activist since 1974 when he joined the federal public sector as a tradesperson with Public Works Canada, John held a variety of union positions in UPWE.
Date Modified : 2011/02/18
