Executive committee and provincial council

Her union activity began during the 1989 strike, and she became grievance officer at the CLSC in 1990. In 2004, she was elected president of the local executive for the CSSS Bordeaux-Cartierville-Saint-Laurent. A member of the APTS Provincial Council since May 2008, she has sat on a number of committees and covered several regions. She has been replacing Mélanie Bernier as 5th vice-president since May 2021.

She was elected to the executive committee by the General Council in June 2021, and became 2^nd vice-president at the APTS Convention in November of that year.

In her previous ten years’ experience with the union, she was director and then vice-president of her local executive, info-mobilization officer (AMI), and APTS provincial representative for Montérégie-Est. She was particularly active in organizing the last union allegiance campaign.

Émilie Charbonneau has also actively fought for causes that are important to her such as the environment, and has supported various political campaigns.

Over the past few years, he has been the provincial representative for Montérégie-Centre and president of the local executive for the Laurentians region. In July 2020, he joined the provincial executive committee to help cover an increased workload. He begam serving as 3^rd vice-president in March 2021, and was officially confirmed in this position at the APTS Convention in November of that year.

The APTS supported her when she faced discrimination from her employer at the time she was pregnant, and she was able to win her case without having to go to arbitration. That was when she caught the union bug. She joined the MUHC local executive as secretary-treasurer in 2014 and was elected president the following year, holding office for six years. She became a provincial representative in 2021, and was elected 4^th vice-president at the APTS Convention in November of that year.

A committed, hands-on activist and woman of action, Sandra Etienne hopes to strengthen members’ participation and sense of belonging to the union. Bringing the union closer to members at the local level is, for her, a key way of achieving this. She is a strong advocate for a public health and social services system and is also committed to fighting every form of discrimination, in particular by serving on the provincial committee on cultural diversity.

While his experience has chiefly been gained in psychosocial intake in the general social services program at the CLSC Gaston-Bélanger in Sorel-Tracy, he has also worked in other missions, including homecare support, emergency measures, and services to families, children and young people.

Joël Bélanger was elected vice-president of the Montérégie-Est local executive in 2008 and became president in 2009. He held this office until June 2021. Over this twelve-year period, he fought to keep local services going after the creation of the integrated centres (CISSS and CIUSSS). As an active participant in the last union allegiance campaign, he created a local structure that attracted members from various different certification units. He became a provincial representative for Montérégie-Est in June 2021, then APTS 5^th vice-president at the Convention in November of that year.

Defending the rights of visible minorities is another cause to which he is deeply committed, and the APTS provincial committee on cultural diversity is one of the places where he acts on this commitment.

At that point, she felt that defending the rights of health and social services workers throughout the waves of reorganization affecting the public system had become crucially important. Caroline is a fervent advocate of universal access to care and services, and she knows that the survival of the public system largely depends on the well-being of those who work for it on a daily basis.

Her passion for union activism, which continued to develop gradually over time, led her to maintain her involvement at the local level until June 2020 when she became a provincial representative for the Chaudière-Appalaches region. At the APTS Convention in November 2021, she was elected secretary to the provincial executive committee. She continues to stand for a union that is based on strong participation and close contact with members.

He has been an APTS member since integrated centres were established and youth centres became part of them. He joined his APTS local executive in the Gaspé, acting as treasurer, and then became a member of the Monitoring Committee before being elected treasurer on the provincial executive committee in February 2021.