Update: FI Collective Agreement implementation and timelines

We have heard back from Treasury Board on the signing date for the public service FI Collective Agreement which has […]

Budget 2017: Positive messaging but limited action

The 2017 federal budget contains encouraging messaging about several of ACFO’s priority areas but the plan is short on the […]

"Clear choices" for a better Canada

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released their 2017 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) with a series of common sense […]

Moving forward on International Women’s Day

This January the world watched as millions of women united for the Women’s March, a massive global demonstration in support […]

ACFO in the News: President Dany Richard criticizes slow movement on Phoenix

ACFO President Dany Richard was quoted in an article in Metro Ottawa talking about the results of the latest FI […]

Collective Agreement: Next steps

As you likely know, the FI Community in the public service overwhelmingly ratified the new collective agreement in early January. […]

Collective agreement ratified

With more than 2600 votes cast, the public service FI Community has voted overwhelmingly in favour of ratifying the tentative […]

ACFO reaches tentative agreement with Treasury Board

Before the Christmas break, the ACFO bargaining team reached a tentative collective agreement with Treasury Board for FIs in the […]

Dec 18, 2016

Best wishes for the holidays

I suppose it’s sort of fitting that my first message to the FI Community since my election as president is […]

Collective bargaining: Movement anticipated at the table

As of our last collective bargaining update, the ACFO team had walked away from the table in frustration with an […]

AGM: Preliminary election results

The ACFO Annual General Meeting was held on November 24 with elections for president and two director-at-large positions, along with […]

Collective Bargaining: Frustration mounts

The ACFO Negotiating Team met with public service employer representatives for negotiations on October 25-26. We were able to reach […]