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Union of
Taxation Employees
Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
Pacific Region Local 20027
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Listed below are the 2005 Minutes of the Executive Council Meetings.
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Executive Minutes
December 15, 2005
Attending:
- Robert Hume,
Sharon Cowie, Richard Hyatt, Tim Rose, Janet Graham, John
Prasad, Grant Inglis, Flo Hawker
Absent:
-
Elizabeth Parsons
Guest:
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Pamela Abbott, Regional Vice President Pacific Region
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1.
Minutes
from last meeting – Moved to adopt previous minutes with
change. M/S/C.
2.
Letters
to Designated Members – Grant has not yet sent these letters.
He will do so in January.
3.
OSH
Committee (Occupational Safety and Health) – Either Tim or Gill
will be the Union rep on the Committee.
4.
Two
cheques issued to the Local by National Office are listed as
outstanding. One cheque was issued August 17th, 2005
for our Local’s dues, and the other October 25, 2005 for our
Local dues. The cheque for August was recently deposited.
5.
Pay
stubs – Pamela and Betty (Bannon) have addressed this issue
nationally . Pamela advised Regional management not to
depersonalize its employees by mailing-out pay stubs.
6.
Union
Reps in Central City – We do have employees who are interested
and at least one of those has taken the Union Steward Training
Course. More members are encouraged to take these training
courses.
7.
Local
will look into buying lanyards for the Local members.
8.
Discussion on the budget for 2006 to 2007. Amendments proposed
for forecasted budget. Richard will prepare a proposal.
9.
Due to
time constraints both Grant and Flo left the meeting.
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Attending:
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Robert Hume, Richard Hyatt, Tim Rose, Sharon Cowie, P. Gill,
John Prasad, Grant Inglis, Sharon Hargrove, Florence Hawker;
Janet Graham
Regrets:
Absent:
1.
Minutes
from last meeting. Motion to adopt the Minutes. M/S/C
2.
Business arising from October Minutes: Grant is waiting for the
data on pay. Once the data is received he will issue the
letters. Tim will do the letters for 1166 West Pender. Annual
General Meeting will be held February 9, 2005 at the Holiday Inn
in Metrotown at 6:P.M.
3.
Pension
Fight Back – Tim will have the information photocopied and
posted. .
4.
CEUDA
survey - CEUDA has been sending out a survey to its members.
Apparently the email is regarding the service provided by CEUDA.
Nycole will come out with a decision on membership for CEUDA/UTE
before her retirement next year.
5.
Local
management has a pilot project on “New Perspectives in Difficult
Situations.” It is for managers who deal with awkward
situations. Management has asked for input from the Local and
Janet will respond. Gill will work with her.
6.
Union
Management Committee – Will be on December 8, 2005 at 1:30P.M..
Executive members who want to attend must let their managers
know.
7.
Financials – Next meeting will basically be about the budget.
8.
LWOP –
Grant moved those who took leave/vacation for plantgate be
reimbursed for their time. M/S/C Flo will write a letter to
National Office to clarify their reimbursement procedures.
9.
Grievances – Review of grievances in place.
10.
OSH
(Occupational Safety/Health) – Gill & Tim will take-on being OSH
volunteers under consideration and advise the executive by the
next meeting.
11.
Payroll
Account – Sharon Hargrove will look into this.
Meeting adjourned. Next meeting will be
December 15, 2005 at the Joyeux Café at 5:15P.M.
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Attending:
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Sharon Cowie, P. Gill, Janet Graham, Florence Hawker, Robert
Hume Richard Hyatt, Grant Inglis, John Prasad, Tim Rose
Regrets:
Sharon Hargrove
Absent:
1.
Meeting
brought to order at 5:20P.M.
2.
Move to
adopt prior Minutes from September with correction.
3.
Grant –
Letter for designated members re 25% of their net pay for each
of the five strike days to be paid to the Union Hardship Fund.
Discussion held on subject. Some suggestions: Obtain the
amounts the members will have to pay based on the pay received
during the strike. Include an attachment with the letter with
the pay scales and how much the member is to pay the Union
(Public Service Alliance of Canada). A contact person is
required. Tim Rose and Grant Inglis will handle this issue.
This item will be brought back to the next meeting.
4.
AGM
Item – John Prasad has contacted a hotel at Metrotown to host
the Annual General Meeting. Executive chose February 7th
or 9th for the meeting.
5.
Kelowna
has proposed that they be established as a separate Local from
Penticton. This has to be approved by Executive Council.
6.
Marc
Piaumier is no longer a member of the Vancouver TSO Local. Marc
has transferred to Edmonton. Motion made to remove Marc as a
part of Local 20027 Executive. M/S/C
7.
Workforce Adjustment Business Windows – Apparently there are
further changes happening in the Region. There may be surplus
employees as the paper work for Business Windows is leaving our
area. We will have both surplus and affected members.
8.
Teachers’ Strike – update on the teachers’ strike.
9.
Email
Tree – Gill and Tim have started Email trees of Local members.
They are both looking for ways to further involve the members.
Local Executive members were reminded that they can have an
email address set-up on the BCUTE website.
10.
Next
meeting will be November 17, 2005 at 5:15P.M. at the Joyeux
Café.
Meeting adjourned.
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Attending:
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Sharon Hargrove, Janet Graham, Robert Hume, Richard Hyatt,
Florence Hawker, Grant Inglis, John Prasad,
Regrets:
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Marc
Piaumier, Elizabeth Parsons, Sharon Cowie, Perminder Gill, Tim
Rose
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1.
Meeting
called to Order.
2.
Adoption of August Minutes with correction to Janet’s name.
3.
Business Arising:
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News
on storage of Local’s property cancelled until next meeting.
4.
Report
on Presidents’ Conference –
a.
First
Presidents’ Conference Olympics with various competitions.
Pacific Region tied with Quebec for 2nd place. The
Local won an additional $2K for Local education.
b.
Strike
– Our Local will have to collect from the staff who were
designated employees during the last strike. Grant will contact
the PSAC to obtain the procedure to collect these funds.
c.
Nycole
Turmel, President of the Public Service Alliance of Canada,
spoke to the Presidents’ Conference. We will be receiving
Health Cards but not until 2008.
d.
The
Triennial PSAC Convention will most likely go for a dues
increase as the PSAC spent $18 million during our last strike.
e.
Captain Ed Smith from the Canadian Air Force gave
a presentation on giving money to an organization. In Cameroon
the organization Captain Smith’s group supports helped to build
a dam. The group stays out of local politics focusing on
helping the people. The group’s website is
www.icacanda.com
f.
Report
on Child Care – item from our convention. The report not yet
done.
1.
AGM –
Deadlines
a.
Aim
for February as members are in transit between Vancouver and
Surrey. Find a good location for members.
b.
Packages to be arranged
c.
Bylaw
Committee – Grant, Flo
d.
AGM
Committee – Gill, John, and Tim
1.
Finances/GICS
a.
Motion
made to stagger our investments to collect the best possible
interest available. M/S/C
1.
Next
meeting October 20, 2005 at Joyeux Café at 5:15P.M.
Meeting adjourned.
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Attending:
- Sharon
Hargrove, Tim Rose, Grant Inglis, Richard Hyatt, Marc Piaumier,
Elizabeth Parsons, Sharon Cowie, Robert Hume, Janet Graham,
Perminder Gill, Florence Hawker
Regrets:
-
John
Prasad
Guests:
- Theresa
Zadravec, Magret Johnston
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1. Review
of Minutes from July 28, 2005. Minutes can be posted but must
be noted as unadopted until the Minutes are formally adopted in
an Executive Meeting. Motion to adopt the July 28, 2005
Minutes. M/S/C
2. Betty
Bannon’s letter. A discussion was held on Betty’s letter. The
membership should be aware of the letter.
3.
Bulletin Boards – Perminder says the bulletin boards are cleaned
. He is now in the process of determining what information to
post on the boards. Suggestions were for Union Courses, or any
other material. Richard volunteered to ask Monica from the
Pacific Region PSAC office for information. Tim volunteered to
check with the PSAC office on information available as he passes
the PSAC office every day.
4. Sharon
had prepared her financial statements and took them to the
printers to have them completed for the meeting. When she went
to pick-up the statements the printing office was closed. She
will have the financials for the next meeting.
5.
Discussion was held on the renewal dates for the term deposits
held by the Local. A motion was made to defer a decision on
renewal of the term deposits until the financial statements are
reviewed. M/S/C
6. Storage
for Union Property/Information – the storage units we have will
be cleaned-out. Anyone who has Union property, i.e. t-shirts,
lanyards is to prepare a list of the items and bring the list to
the next Executive meeting.
7. Client
Services Meeting – Jane and Robert had a meeting with Loretta.
They brought forward communication problems, staffing problems,
changes taking place without employees being advised. Janet
advised Loretta Client Service problems must be dealt with now.
Janet will monitor the situation and if the changes are not made
then she will meet with the Director.
8. Members
are reminded that any member of the Local Executive is capable
of dealing with representing a member on a grievance.
9. The
next Executive Meeting will be on September 22, 2005 at
5:15P.M. The meeting was adjourned at 7:15P.M.
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Attending:
- Tim
Rose, Janet Graham, Robert Hume, Elizabeth Parsons, Flo
Hawker, Sharon Cowie, Marc Piaumier, P.
Gill
Regrets:
-
Grant Inglis, Sharon Hargrove, John Prasad
Absent:
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Richard Hyatt
1.
Motion made to adopt July 7 Minutes with
corrections. M/S/C
2.
Business arising from Minutes re the No.6 item.
Wording should reflect that it is the dates of our
Executive Meetings that are not governed by the ByLaws.
Item will be amended and adopted as amended. M/S/C
3.
Problem with Counter staff on main floor.
Employer wants to do a survey of how many clients coming
in per day. Counter staff is dealing with this issue
themselves.
4.
Discussion re AGM – further discussion to follow.
5.
PIPSC Strike – They have a tentative contract.
Rather than marriage leave they have five personal days.
6.
Per diem for grievance course should be here by
tomorrow.
7.
Plantgate – Letter from Betty – Flo will get a
copy and give it to Tim Rose for photocopying.
8.
Update on Bulletin Boards. Union Executive list
has to be updated before it is posted. The list does
not reflect that Robert Hume is the 1st Vice
President of the Local.
9.
Agenda drop meeting agenda items on Flo’s desk
three days prior to our next meeting. Agendas will be
sent to the Executive members.
10.
Marc brought-up the number of grievances. Janet
referred him to Robert who is in charge of grievances.
11.
Discussion re acting PM02’s being given to term
employees on 13th floor and not offered to
indeterminate employees on other floors.
12.
Presidents’ Conference: Observers to Presidents’
Conference. Discussion held on the monies available to
send an observer to the Presidents’ Conference in
September.
13.
Motion to send one observer to the Presidents’
Conference in September. Marc, Elizabeth, and Tim
expressed an interest in going. A vote was held. Tim
Rose will be going as an observer. Elizabeth will be
the alternate.
14.
Motion to destroy ballots. M/S/C
15.
The Local received a letter from Betty Bannon
advising member Margaret Sloan’s grandson will be
receiving a Scholarship from the Union. Margaret was
very active in the Local.\
16.
Tim Rose advised he is now on the Local’s EAP
Committee. The invitation to come on to the
Union/Management Committee was extended by Flo Hawker.
Tim advised that Flo had spoken very well on EAP at the
recent Triennial Conference in Saint John. Tim said
Flo’s speech was well-received by the convention floor.
Tim advised that due to her speech he had decided to
become a part of the Committee.
17.
Next meeting will be held August 18th,
2005 at 5:15P.M.
18.
Meeting was adjourned.
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