USGE Local Tool Box

The Local Tool Box is a USGE ‘original’.  Designed to assist our Local Officers, this convenient and comprehensive set of fact sheets covers more than three-dozen subjects on day-to-day workplace issues.

Topics are listed below in alphabetical order, available for downloading in either RTF or PDF file format.  Each Local has also been provided a hard-copy Local Tool Box binder.  The National Office periodically updates and expands the content, both electronically and through mailings to Locals.

If you have any suggestions for new topics, please feel free to pass them on!

1.	Appointments Under the Public Service Employment Act
2.	Collective Bargaining Process: Respective Roles of USGE and PSAC
3.	Collective Bargaining Process: USGE Regulation 7
4.	Collective Bargaining Process: PSAC Regulation 15
5.	Conducting Local Elections: A Step-By-Step Overview
6.	Deployments Under the PSEA
7.	Duty to Accomodate
8.	Effective Meetings: 20 Proven Tips
9.	Employer-Provided Legal Assistance to Members
10.	Essential Services
11.	Grievances
12.	Grievance Procedure: Classification-Related Issues
13.	Grievance Procedure: How Classification Grievances Are Processed
14.	Grievance Procedure: Pay and Acting Pay Issues
15.	Grievance Procedure: Work Description Problems
16.	Harassment
17.	Health and Safety
18.	Human Rights Issues: Complaint or Grievance?
19.	Labour-Management Consultation Committees
20.	Local Elections
21.	Local Grievance Co-ordinator Guidelines
22.	Local Signing Officers: Duties and Rebate Process
23.	Managerial or Confidential Exclusions
24.	Mediation
25.	Membership Discipline: PSAC Regulation 19
26.	National Joint Council
27.	Problem-Solving Tips
28.	Public Service Employment Act
29.	Public Service Staffing Tribunal
30.	PSST: 'Complaints' replace 'Appeals'
31.	Sample Local By-laws
32.	Useful Employer Forms
33.	Union Discipline: PSAC Constitution, Section 25
34.	Union Dues
35.	Union-Provided Workplace Rights
36.	USGE: A Member-Controlled Union
37.	USGE: An Overview
38.	USGE Conferences
39.	USGE Flags: Guidelines for Use
40.	USGE and the Greater Community
41.	USGE National Executive
42.	USGE National Office
43.	USGE National President: Biography
44.	USGE Policies and Guidelines
45.	USGE and the PSAC
46.	Web Sites of Interest

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