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Pierre Lebel
plebel@acep-cape.ca
613-236-9181
1-800-265-9181
Cell: 613-889-1027
About CAPE
The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) is one of 17 bargaining agents representing federal government employees. CAPE has a total of some 14,000 members broken down as follows:
- 13,000 economists and social science services employees (ECs),
- 1,000 translators, interpreters and terminologists (TRs), and
- 85 analysts and research assistants (ROs and RAs) at the Library of Parliament.
CAPE represents its members before administrative tribunals, and it negotiates collective bargaining agreements on their behalf.
The men and women who belong to CAPE are federal government professionals whose work contributes to the making of policies that foster informed decision making. They provide linguistic services and are the leaders in linguistic standardization within the Government of Canada.
Biography of Claude Poirier
Claude Poirier is the President of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees. He was first elected in 2008, then re-elected in 2011.
As a federal government translator working in the Quebec City offices of the Translation Bureau, Claude was active within his local before he was elected CAPE President. His involvement in organized labour dates back to the student movement in the 1970s. He became a shop steward for the TR Group in Moncton around the late 1980s. Following a transfer from Moncton to Quebec City, he once again assumed the role of shop steward; he then served as a regional representative before becoming President of the Translation Bureau Local. With more than 20 years of union experience behind him, his decision to run for CAPE President in 2008 thus came naturally.
As the President of CAPE, Claude Poirier is the union’s official spokesperson. He is also a member of the union’s bargaining teams.
Media contact:
Pierre Lebel
plebel@acep-cape.ca
613-236-9181
1-800-265-9181
Cell: 613-889-1027
About CAPE
The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) is one of 17 bargaining agents representing federal government employees. CAPE has a total of some 14,000 members broken down as follows:
- 13,000 economists and social science services employees (ECs),
- 1,000 translators, interpreters and terminologists (TRs), and
- 85 analysts and research assistants (ROs and RAs) at the Library of Parliament.
CAPE represents its members before administrative tribunals, and it negotiates collective bargaining agreements on their behalf.
The men and women who belong to CAPE are federal government professionals whose work contributes to the making of policies that foster informed decision making. They provide linguistic services and are the leaders in linguistic standardization within the Government of Canada.
Biography of Claude Poirier
Claude Poirier is the President of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees. He was first elected in 2008, then re-elected in 2011. As a federal government translator working in the Quebec City offices of the Translation Bureau, Claude was active within his local before he was elected CAPE President. His involvement in organized labour dates back to the student movement in the 1970s. He became a shop steward for the TR Group in Moncton around the late 1980s. Following a transfer from Moncton to Quebec City, he once again assumed the role of shop steward; he then served as a regional representative before becoming President of the Translation Bureau Local. With more than 20 years of union experience behind him, his decision to run for CAPE President in 2008 thus came naturally.
As the President of CAPE, Claude Poirier is the union’s official spokesperson. He is also a member of the union’s bargaining teams.
Federal Public Service Unions Call for Partnership with Canadians
September 19, 2011
(Moncton) – Leaders of 18 unions representing hundreds of thousands of Canada’s public sector employees are calling on the federal government to reverse plans to cut valuable public services and jobs which Canadians depend on from coast to coast to coast. Claude Poirier, President of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, is interviewed by CPAC’s Pierre Donais.
June 21, 2011
Following an announcement that the Conservatives will be eliminating approximately 700 positions at Public Works and Government Services, Claude Poirier explains why he is so concerned about this development.
September 19, 2011
(Moncton) – Leaders of 18 unions representing hundreds of thousands of Canada’s public sector employees are calling on the federal government to reverse plans to cut valuable public services and jobs which Canadians depend on from coast to coast to coast. Claude Poirier, President of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, is interviewed by CPAC’s Pierre Donais.
June 21, 2011
Following an announcement that the Conservatives will be eliminating approximately 700 positions at Public Works and Government Services, Claude Poirier explains why he is so concerned about this development.