Regional Executive Vice President's Office

Robyn Benson
REVP Prairies

Contact

email:	revp-prairies@psac-afpc.com
post:	460 - 175 Hargrave Street Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3R8
phone:	(204) 956-4625
cell:	(204) 782-0040
fax:	(204) 943-0652

About

Robyn Benson is the Regional Executive Vice-President (REVP) for PSAC Prairie Region which includes the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In 2008, she was re-elected as REVP Prairies at the union's Prairie Region Triennial Convention.

As the REVP, Robyn is responsible for the following across the Prairie Region:

Prairie Regionl Council,
Organizing and recertifications,
Education,
Political and social action,
Women's and equity programs,
Area Councils,
Directly Chartered Locals and Separate Employers,
Federations of Labour and related committees and District Labour Councils.

She shares responsibility for the National PSAC Racially Visible Conference and is responsible for the following National Portfolios:

Education,
Human Rights,
Education and Library Science (EB) bargaining unit.

Robyn represents PSAC on the Canadian Labour Congress Executive Council, as the CLC VP, the Federal Dental Board (with Maria Fitzpatrick) and sits on the following PSAC National Board of Directors' Committees:

Education
Equal Opportunities (Co-Chair with Maria Fitzpatrick)

Robyn worked for 20 years with the Winnipeg Taxation Centre of Revenue Canada (now the Canada Revenue Agency) before her first election as the REVP in 2000. Her union involvement dates back to the 1980 strike by the Clerical and Regulatory (CR) bargaining unit when she was a term employee. She has held a variety of union positions including Regional Vice-President in the Union of Taxation Employees (UTE), a position she held until 2000.