PERSONS PRESENT                                                                                       REGRETS

 

Kurt Munger- President

Anne Evansin-1st Vice President

Floyd Knelsen-2nd Vice President

Kim Koch- Secretary

Tracy Arrowsmith- Executive Steward

 

Karen Collins-Treasure

 

 

 

PREPARED BY:  Kim Koch

 

 

 

REVIEW OF PREVIOUS MINUTES/OLD BUSINESS:

 

Reviewed and approved with changes the minutes from April 15, 2010. 

 

TREASURER REPORT:

 

·       See attached report for complete details.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

 

·       Kurt questioned if the executive members have been checking their UTE emails?

·       Kurt discussed the topic of the ordering the executive members the UTE pins with the various titles embossed as well as more badge holder and lanyards.

·       Kim discussed the Cookie Gram the Social Committee is conducting during the National Public Service Week.

 

GRIEVANCES:

·       No grievances at the local level.

·       Bill C-10 Grievance ongoing.

·       Tracy has followed up with new ROCCO SP07 Reclassification; she has had no questions regarding the reclassification and all effected members have been paid.

 

TRAINING:

  • Karen and Kim to attend the UTE Grievance training to be held May 28th-30th.    To be held in Richmond.
  • The Local Officers Training that was to be held in Vancouver June 18-20th has been cancelled to later date.
  • Duty to accommodate: Early 2011; Kurt would like to focus on this training as he feels it is going to be of a high concern for our membership. May just send one person to train the rest.

 

COMMITTEE UPDATES:

 

OHS COMMITTEE:

·       Kim attended the Regional Conference in Calgary, April 24-26; she found it to be a very informative conference, great speakers that spoke on following topics:

o   The role of the HRSCD and Safety Officer in relation to enforcement and their link to local OHS committees

o   Mental Health in the workplace

o   The local OHS minutes template

o   Health and Safety Problems and Solutions

o   Health and Safety Inspection & Investigation

o   Violence in the Workplace/Bullying

o   The History of Regulations and the Employer’s Responsibilities

o   Healthy Living-Stress/ Diet/Work Life

·       Floyd noted the employer OHS training is to be held June 1, 2010 in the lower mainland; 1 PIPS member to attend and Floyd will be Co-Facilitate the training.

 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY:

  • The Equal Opportunity Conference is to be held in June in Ottawa, Kurt, Anne and Thelma Taylor are to attend.
  • The Regional Plan has been released; the EO committee will be reviewing to allow for updates the plan of the local committee.
  •  Floyd commented on the email received showing the gaps in the upper management levels for minorities and women.

 

STEWARD COMMITTEE:

·       Next meeting June 9, 2010

 

STAFFING COMMITTEE:

  • Kurt consulted with Bob Hill regarding the permanent placement of the SP05 in the Whitehorse office; in review of the information Kurt endorsed the decision to place Joanne Roberts in the position.

 

UMC:

  • UMC/F&A- the F&A Management team wants to meet with the presidents from all regional offices in Vancouver; date to be announced.

 

UMC Local:

  • Discussion of sad news emails: In order the messages be delivered in a tasteful and sincere manner; management has approved the plan to draft a template for the emails. At the recent UMI training session it was decided a focus group will draft the template. More info to follow.
  • Discussions regarding the length of time Staffing processes are taking to complete and the use of the locally develop tests.
  • Management agreed to supply UTE with a filing cabinet.

 

OTHER ITEMS:

  • Donation of gift to the NPSW committee, Kurt endorsed the decision to give various UTE gifts to the committee to have for prizes for the events to be held during NPSW.

 

ROUND TABLE:

 

Kurt:

·       2010 Internal Reallocation Exercise- Kurt believes this is not good for our members and that is working towards moving the SP04 positions away from the Regional offices to National call centres.

·       Fight Back Campaign: Plant Gate scheduled for June 16, 2010 to deliver the message to the members.

·       PSAC: Regional Reports-Kim tasked with completing the reports.

·       SP04 Workloads: HQ wanted to increase the SP04 workloads per FTE, Jennifer Brosch was successful in her arguments to keep the workloads at the previous levels.

 

 

Floyd: Nothing to report

 

Kim: Nothing to report.

 

Tracy: Nothing to report

 

Anne: Nothing to report

 

MEETING ADJOURNED:

·       6:55 PM, Tracy Motioned, Kurt 2nd

 

NEXT MEETING: 

·       Tentative June 24, 2010, 5:30 pm Union of Hospital Employees Union Hall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karen to task