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RMG Elections 2018 - Richard Rice

As an RMG executive member, my current experience and accomplishments include:

  1. RMG Treasurer, managing its ongoing budget and financial expenditures
  2. Developed new promotion campaign for the Retired Members Guild, including a brochure “So You’re Retiring – What Now?”, being distributed nationwide
  3. Delivered RMG orientation presentations to pre-retirees
  4. Represented the RMG concerning Bill C-27 with members of Parliament, including meeting the Honourable Andrew Leslie, MP

My continued vision of the role for the retired members’ guild is:

  1. Pensions & Health Benefits – to ensure their continued integrity and improvement.
  2. Representation – through the core body of PIPSC, to ensure our rights and benefits continue to be protected, long after the transition from workplace to retirement.
  3. Networking – continue to engage other like-minded retirees in other associations and develop more liaisons for the exchange of ideas, united policy formulation and potential economic benefits through combined buying power.
  4. Recruitment – by bringing in past and pre-retirement members and to demonstrate the many benefits of continued PIPSC membership through the RMG.
  5. Participation –most importantly by stronger advocacy within PIPSC, to make the voice of the RMG members loud and clear, as the most rapidly growing sector of PIPSC.
  6. Support – to PIPSC bargaining or other committees, through mentorship, to harness the accrued knowledge and experience of our retired members.

I have over 20 years’ experience as a Steward with PIPSC serving as:

  1. Executive member of the Computer Systems (CS) group in Revenue Canada (Customs), Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
  2. Chairman of the CS sub group at CCRA for 2 consecutive terms.
  3. Member of PIPSC consultation teams of Union-Management Committees, at the national and local levels in Revenue Canada, CCRA and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).