Newly elected AMAPCEO President, Dave Bulmer, representing 12,000 professional public sector employees, was in North Bay yesterday on one of 10 provincial stops to speak with members about defending public services. Submitted photo.
The tour is one of the initiatives that seek to build a strategic plan that tackles the government’s risky public-private partnership schemes, austerity budgeting and the ongoing attacks on good paying, unionized jobs that help build the local economy in North Bay according to Bulmer.
“It is a short-sighted and fundamental blunder of politicians who continue to target public services in North Bay or in any community around the province,” said Bulmer. He added, “As public servants we need to consider new ways to expose this flawed, illogical approach to defend local economies and workers.”
"We're in lockstep with OPSEU. We believe the public service an do work, not only more efficiently, but more effectively," Bulmer told BayToday in a telephone interview.
At each tour stop the Bulmer is asking a single question to members, “To combat the erosion of good jobs and Ontario’s great public services, what should your AMAPCEO do in 2015?”
Photo: Michael Pettigrew, Darlene Jackson (North Bay Chapter Chair), Dave Bulmer (AMAPCEO President)
With the opportunity to engage over 200 members in North Bay, Bulmer says, “This tour is about building our AMAPCEO community, an empowering community of rank and file members who will act to defend public services, unionized jobs and workers’ rights.”
AMAPCEO is the Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario and is a bargaining agent representing approximately 11,500 professional and supervisory employees who work in the Ontario Public Service directly for the Government of Ontario, in every ministry and in a number of agencies, boards and commissions; in over 130 communities across the province and in 11 cities outside Canada.
