Executive committee and provincial council

Even before the APTS was created, Robert served as a local union representative, board member and vice-president of the STRQ (Syndicat des technologues en radiologie du Québec), which was affiliated with the CPS (Centrale des professionnelles et professionnels de la santé). The CPS was one of the founding unions of the APTS.

Before taking the plunge in the early 2000s to devote himself to full-time union work and be released from his regular duties, he was also a member of the Board of the Ordre des technologues en imagerie médicale et en radio-oncologie et en électrophysiologie médicale du Québec from 1995 to 1999.

Robert joined the APTS executive committee in 2010 and took on a number of responsibilities, including provincial contract talks, training, and union organizing. He was elected president of the APTS in 2021 and reelected in 2023.

With years of experience in decision-making positions at the APTS and a keen awareness of issues involving union democracy, Robert’s contribution when it comes to union organizing, raiding, contract talks and other core issues is invaluable.

Robert’s commitment over the years has always been driven by the desire to improve the working conditions of professionals and technicians and build a broad consensus on the best ways to accomplish that.

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 was elected APTS 1^st vice-president at the November 2021 Convention and was reelected to this position in November 2023.

In over ten years’ experience with the APTS, 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 was elected to the executive committee by the General Council in June 2021. She became 2^nd vice-president at the APTS Convention in November of that year, and was elected for a second term in November 2023.

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

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. In 2023, she was reelected as vice-president.

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. He was reelected as vice-president in 2023.

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.

With a dozen years’ APTS experience to draw on, she has a deep understanding of local and provincial issues.

Her mantra is the need to combine a high degree of local autonomy with strong and coherent provincial representation.

To achieve this goal, she believes in the optimal use of shared resources with a focus on listening, communications, and training.

Pascale is a medical technologist and has also studied communications. Her approach emphasizes dialogue, transparency, and awareness of our members’ day-to-day reality.

For Pascale, solidarity is the key to success and the basis of our collective strength, and that strength must be nourished, from the bottom up, by committed activism grounded in listening.

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 developed over time, and she was involved 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, and she was reelected to this position in November 2023. She continues to stand for a union that is based on strong participation and close contact with members.

He became an APTS member when 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. He was reelected to this position at the APTS Convention in November 2023.