UNIFOR LOCAL 6004
130 Albert Street, Unit B-2
General Membership Meeting
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

  1. Call to Order / Ouverture de la réunion

President called the meeting to order at

4:38 pm

  1. Roll Call of Officers / Appel nominal des responsables

The roll call of officers was called by the President

PresidentDerek MacLeod Present

Vice PresidentVeronique PrevostSends Regrets
Treasurer Parneet Kullar Sends Regrets

Secretary John LittlePresent

Chief StewardPeter MackeyPresent
Chief StewardRobyn RobbinsPresent

Vice President/Aliant Ray Kolody Present

Chief Steward AliantChantalle Goulet-KiddiePresent

National Representative Ron Girardin Sends Regrets

National RepresentativeMaureen DawsonSends Regrets

  1. Anti Harassment: appointed for any investigation 1st Peter Mackey and 2nd Wallis Stevens.
  1. Motion: to approve the agenda
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  2. Motion: to approve previous minutes of December 16, 2015

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  1. President’s Report / Rapport du Président
    Derek MacLeod reported the following:
  • Update on surplus grievance in BBM Concierge - Surplus in BRS Help Desk
  • Aliant Winter Family event held in Thunder Bay on January 24th
  • Aliant bargaining and the re-integration of Aliant members
  • Grievance update re: BBM agents in profile 536/534
  • Update on VSP and outsourcing in BBM
  • Joint Labour Relations Committee meetings
  1. Vice President Report / Rapport de la vice Présidente

Ray Kolody reported that the last Aliant bargaining session took place January 18-19th . Bell Aliant will officially be decertified as a bargaining unit in June. The final step of the process will be to create and share with each Aliant member their personal statement which will show them their wage progression through reintegration. The bargaining team will be meeting in Ottawa on April 8th to decide how and when these statements will be distributed.

  1. Chief Stewards’ Reports / Rapports des Délégués syndicaux en chef

REFER TO APPENDIX A

  1. Financial Officer's Report / Rapport de la responsable des finances

REFER TO APPENDIX B

MOTION: To accept the financial report.

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  1. Committee Reports / Rapports sur les comités
    Health & Safety–Poorly organized fire alarm/evacuation at 78 O’Connor in February. Corporate EOP team will be conducting a full review of the building emergency procedures and will re-train/re-educate as needed.

Linda Murray has been appointed to the committee to replace Chris Barrette who has had to step away.
Good & Wellness –Two committee members have recently withdrawn from the committee but the remaining three would like to continue in their roles. Additionally a member from 160 Elgin in Ottawa and in Thunder Bay expressed an interest in joining the committee.

  1. Unfinished Business / Affaires nouvelles
    Road Show–Completed road show visits in February and March at 78 O’Connor, Ottawa and in Thunder Bay and Cornwall. There are plans for visits to Windsor, Belleville and Brockville in coming months.

Bylaws Ammendment Re: Proposed amendment to By-Laws Article XVI Finances of local per diem and travel reimbursement to mirror the UNIFOR travel & expense policy. This motion is tabled until such time as we are able to see the policy language from the Unifor National office.

  1. New Business / Affaires Nouvelles
    Convention Delegates- Local 6004 is entitledto send three delegates to the National Convention, August 22-26th in Ottawa.In addition we are able to send a member of an equity seeking committee and Derek MacLeod may attend as a member of a regional equity committee. The executive also proposes to send up to three observers.

MOTION: To approve sending five delegates plus three observers to Unifor’s National Convention in 2016.
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  1. Adjournment / Levée de la réunion

Motion: To adjourn the meeting at 5:34 pm

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