OPSEU LOCAL 468

L.E.C. MEETING MINUTES(Draft)

Date:Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Location:OPSEU Office, 275 Bagot St, Suite 307

Time:2:00P.M. – Information Session

3:00 P.M. Regular Meeting

EXECUTIVE MEMBERS: Cam Jay

Frank Wendling

Anne Jennings

Ann Sargusingh

Jeannie Eberle Faye Pryor

STEWARDS:Sandra Baird

Stephen Elliott

Debra Finkle

Raymond Gavel

Elizabeth Johnson

Sheila Martin

Jim Puckalo(regrets)

Allison Rafeiro

Lindsay Rymerson(regrets) Fred Stickley

Hans Witvoet

  1. Call to Order (Chairperson - Debra )
  1. Statement of Respect (read by Debra)
  1. Adoption of Agenda: Motion to accept agenda, moved by Liz, seconded byCam.Carried
  1. Minutes of Previous Meeting: Motion to accept minutes of previous meeting, moved by Liz, seconded by Ann S. Carried
  1. Business Arising from previous minutes:
  • Gift for Dave McMurray: Waiting for completion of data base to pick out gift.
  • Report from OPSEU lst VP:Cam emailed to LEC on January 11th.
  • CWW Agreements:Cam met with Dianne Wylie and she will be sending an email to the line managers. There may be some differences in each area, but each of them will meet with Cam to sign off the individual agreements. Dianne is offering something to all business units.
  • Winter Warmth Donation: Michelle Gibson has advised that they do not require the donation this year as they met their goal. A number of different ideas around the “standing donation” were discussed. In the end it was decided that this falls under our budgeted line for donations and that each year Michelle should submit a letter requesting the donation and the Local will look at how much we can afford to donate at that time. All agreed that we do want to support this charity that is both local and from within our own work place. Cam will advise Michelle that we require the letter each year and probably best to get it in early while there are still ample budgeted dollars.
  • General Membership Meeting: The meeting will be held on February 15th in the MCB Cafeteria. It was decided that we would not elect Delegates to Divisionals at this meeting, but would wait until the next GM meeting. Cam reminded everyone that while we would elect Alternates to Convention, they would not attend unless a Delegate was unable to go. Posters to be sent out soon for posting (done). Faye & Cam will set the Agenda. Frank advised that the Credit Union would like to do a presentation again and it was decided this would best be done at 5:00 before the actual meeting starts.
  • Electronic Recording Devices:A discussion had taken place at the Information Session of the December meeting of whether we should or could record meetings with the Employer (i.e. Stage 2). Cam spoke with Allison Kabayama, Grievance Officer at OPSEU Head Office and she advised that the Employer is not required to agree with this. Should anyone wish to discuss this with her further, she would be happy to do so.
  1. Standing Items:
  • Building Local Capacity: Steve advised that he will sit down with Cam, Sheila and Dave to finalize the data base.
  • Newsletter/Website:Discussion on whether or not the Local should still have a Newsletter and whether a Communications Committee should be struck. Deferred to next meeting.
  • Activist Updates: The Town Hall meeting on January 5th was tremendous! Information can be viewed on the website standupontario.org.
  1. Reports:

President: Cam had no formal report as most information addressed in the Agenda and at the Information Session.

Treasurer: Jeannie handed out the monthly reconciliation. She advised that the local rebate cheques are still being delayed which causes issues with bills being paid. The Trustee Audit report for January to June, 2011 has been sent to Head Office and the one for July to December, 2011 is almost complete.

Chief Steward: Ann S advised only 1 grievance has been received.

  1. New Business:
  • Job Description – Chief Steward & Information Officer:Cam handed out draft job descriptions for these positions.

The Communications Officer will replace the 2nd Vice President position and discussion took place on the description and it was decided to take this to the General Membership Meeting as is.

While the role of the Chief Steward is laid out in the OPSEU Constitution, it was felt that our Local wanted to expand on that definition. Discussion followed and Cam agreed to:

  1. Add the process when a grievance is denied at Stage 2. (i.e. The Chief Steward is responsible for forwarding the package to the Ministry File Review Committee, but the Steward of Record is responsible for putting together the package and the Chief Steward will then ensure that it is complete.)
  2. Add the time lines for filing a grievance.
  3. Add discussion of the Chief Steward role at Stage 2 hearings to the LERC agendas.
  1. Committee Reports:

JH&SC-1055: Debra advised they have not met and that there are issues around MGS/Service Ontario.

JH&SC-MGS/MCB: Allison advised that she has had the first part of the Certification training and there has been a very good response with management. Everyone is coming together and looking at how they are doing things. Management is also looking at re-certification for their members.

JH&SC-MOH/MCB: Fred advised that their December meeting was an informal luncheon meeting and the next meeting is set for January 26th (deferred to Jan 31st).

JH&SC-Select Dr: Sandra advised she had not received an update from the Committee.

LERC-MOH: Faye advised that they had met in December and the Employer advised that they will be going ahead with training for Managers on things like Attendance Support, Discretionary/Special Leave, etc in the spring. This is a big win, as the Local has been requesting this for some time to ensure consistency in how these programs are applied. Discussion also took place concerning the surplus notices and the union concerns over inconsistencies in how these were handled and problems that arose. This issue will also be taken forward to MERC.

LERC-MGS:Cam advised that they had an informal holiday meeting, but there was some discussion on JH&SC and how they want to see continuity with all areas and buildings. They also discussed briefly the surplus notices and requested information on Direct Assignments.

MERC-MOH: Jeannie & Faye advised that the next meeting will be January 18 and 19th, 2012 in Toronto.

MERC-MGS:Cam advised that we have no one in our Local on the team, but that a year end report had been sent out.

  1. Closure: Motion to adjourn, moved by Fred, seconded by Hans. Carried.

Meeting adjourned at 4:50P.M.

ALL LEC MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED FOR THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

Next Meeting: February 8th, 2012

Chairperson: Elizabeth Johnson