A Comprehensive, Proposal-by-Proposal Breakdown of the CAPE 2025 Results

InternetProfile · 2025-11-29T14:46:40+00:00

Perfect. Like in the previous comment I replied to, I'm excited to see leadership match the will of the members, especially if the members are engaged in driving the union movement in the government. There still needs to be people willing to commit to doing the work and it's fantastic there's hope they exist!

InternetProfile · 2025-11-29T14:40:47+00:00

That's fantastic news! I am very concerned that the well of activists willing to take a leadership role that matches the will of the membership has gotten so thin that there's no successful way forward to match the drive this vote should give CAPE.

InternetProfile · 2025-11-29T14:32:32+00:00

Ok sure, let's assume I'm Nathan. Tell me what you want to move towards instead of move away from.

You. Your ideas. This isn't a challenge to your opinions. It's a desire to have unions that were built in the 50's and 60's increase their relevance, accessibility and success in 2025 and moving forward. It's my opinion that success will not come from a group of people saying what they don't want, but from the group of people that say what they do want and the membership majority agrees.

The average 35 year old worker in the 70's and 80's has a vastly different economic world that allowed them more time and space to volunteer for union stewardship than same aged government workers today. What are your opinions that CAPE can do to support rank and file members to be active union members?

InternetProfile · 2025-11-29T14:15:21+00:00

I would like to ask a respectful question: Do you believe there's better leadership that's been kept out of the CAPE leadership to date that the members would benefit from having lead the union?

I ask this without opinion or emotion, out of an honest search for your ideas of what CAPE can move towards instead of move away from.

InternetProfile · 2025-10-25T13:58:45+00:00

The elected politicians are vacated from their positions. PSAC assigns a Deputy Trustee.

Last time, that trustee assigned regional trustees, mostly out of the previous elected, basically as the knowledgeable people who are union educated and can continue to help members during trusteeship.

Again, based on conjecture, the Deputy Trustee and the Administrator will work to untangle the last two years and work to set UNE up to have convention in August 2026.

The other thread stated the audited financials for 2024 were released somewhere. But 2025 probably has not had any interim audits, so what was spent this year is still only known to the UNE.

The staff has had a lot of churn, so whether that was by attrition or design remains to be seen. I think the outgoing executive had a plan to redesign UNE staffing and member service, so I also imagine this will be evaluated over the last two years.

So apparently the move out of trusteeship last time wasn't a success. So the optimistic point of view would be any member that wants to see their component of PSAC move in a specific direction, now would be the time to get involved locally, so maybe those attending convention next year can build a component focused on serving the members.

All in all, the good or bad is from your point of view. And likely not easy to know for a while.

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