To provide a full range of quality employment services to persons who benefit from training and follow-up supports.A History of SuccessPremier Personnel opened its doors in 1983 as the first entirely community based supported employment agency in Winnipeg. Since then we have helped hundreds of clients find meaningful employment. We are proud of our accomplishments and are thankful for the many great relationships we have developed with employers throughout Winnipeg. We are a non profit agency and our funding is provided by the government of Manitoba which recognizes the importance and value of our program. Because of this we can offer our services without charge to both clients and employers.Premier Personnel has successfully placed clients in a variety of industries and employment settings.Including:
Project Peacemakers is a body of people who are working for peace from a faith perspective and we are a local chapter of Project Ploughshares. We believe that peace is more than the absence of war. A peaceful society is one which is just and where all people are free to strive for wholeness. We try to create a peaceful society by motivating and educating ourselves and our community.We believe in a world that can love, learn and liberate. Our faith calls us to action for peace, against violence, against greed (especially in its globalized corporate form). We are in solidarity with all who share this vision.
Collective bargaining, pay on time, sick leave. Can you imagine a public sector employer that no longer cares about these things? Neither can we. Which is why the federal Conservatives' proposed changes to these and more should concern all of us. Whether it's bargaining better salaries and benefits for members, defending member grievances or advocating for better public policies, unions like PIPSC matter to you.We would like to update you on our new member engagement initiative, which is intended to help us work 'Better Together' and take up the difficult challenges we face.
A Word About LanguagePeople First is an organization that was formed because some of the people in our communities felt that they were not considered as people first. They felt that they were talked about, talked to, thought about, and treated according to the disabilities that others labelled them with.The founders of People First did not think this was fair. Over the years people have been called mentally handicapped, developmentally disabled, cognitively challenged, intellectually disabled, and many other labels.In order to avoid hurting peoples' feelings and to avoid using labels when we talk about the many different members of People First, we will use the term people who have been labelled.