Canada: Foreign Service Officers

foreign service officers: The officers' union, the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers, organized the demonstration outside the citizenship and immigration department. The lunchtime demonstration was held a day ahead of a hearing at the public service labour relations board that was triggered by a bad-faith bargaining complaint from the union, according to CBC. They wrote examples of activities they do in their day-to-day jobs. One in Warsaw wrote: "facilitated shipment of humanitarian goods from Canada to neighbouring country" and "preparing to launch the anti-homophobia clip we did with a local NGO." Canada's striking foreign service officers are holding a rally in downtown Ottawa today and are taking to Twitter around the world to raise awareness about their jobs and their contract dispute with the government. In addition to Tuesday's rally, foreign service officers posted abroad are participating in a 24-hour Twitter campaign to "illustrate the importance of the foreign service in safeguarding Canada's national security, building its economy, shaping its future diversity and workforce, and protecting and promoting the values that Canadians hold dear," according to the union. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.