Happy Holidays

santa-574019_1280Happy Holidays Sisters & Brothers!

Along with our well wishes, we’d like to formally announce the new set of committee members of CUPE Local 932.

Executive Committee

Pres – Ron Gabor

VP1 – Bridie Howell

VP2 – Dale Kent

VP 3 – Jennie Hamilton

Chief Steward – Marg Mandula

Secretary Treasurer – Carol Harding

Recording Secretary – Laura Lamb

Negotiations* – Bridie Howell, Dale Kent, Mandy Grieve-Bullard

JE* – Mandy Grieve-Bullard

Grievance – Erin Olmstead

By Law – Sarah Gauthier, Kelly Bucci, Paul Martin

Health & Safety – Tanja Almon

*Members were elected for this committee, the rest were acclaimed.

UPDATE (as of 11:45pm, December 22) : The rest of the executive committee members are aware of the announcement that the employer has posted earlier this day. The posting is about the awarding of the temporary manager positions for some of the system’s branches. The remaining members of the executive committee are currently in discussion and the membership will be given an update in the New Year. Happy holidays and have a prosperous New Year.

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UPDATE: Cast your Ballot — Your Nominees

elections-536656_1280Sisters and Brothers,

As we’ve mentioned in an earlier post, CUPE 932 needs to elect new members for two committees in the local — Negotiations and Job Evaluation.

Negotiating Committee

We need to vote for 3 members for the Negotiating Committee to complete the group.  The President, Chief Steward and Vice President for Part Time automatically become a member of the committee and 3 members at large are elected to complete the group.

Our current contract expires at the end of the 2016 and negotiations will be happening in 2017. Identifying the committee members early will give us time to prepare for the next round of contract bargaining.

NOMINEES FOR THE NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE: 

  • Tanja Almon – CE
  • Sarah Gauthier – SA/ST
  • Mandy Grieve-Bullard – CN
  • Bridie Howell – CE
  • Dale Kent – BA
  • Paul Martin – CE

Job Evaluation (JE) Committee

The Job Evaluation Committee is a joint committee with the employer. The members of the committee evaluates all jobs within the local bargaining based on the skill, responsibility, effort and working conditions of the job. This ensures that jobs that are substantially equal will be paid under the same salary range and ensures that jobs are fairly paid, one compared to the other.

We need to vote for 1 person to be in the committee as an alternate. This replacement is due to a retirement.

NOMINEES FOR JE COMMITTEE

  • Tanja Almon – CE
  • Sarah Gauthier – SA/ST
  • Mandy Grieve-Bullard – CN
  • Jennie Hamilton – CE
  • Erin Olmstead – TE

Voting is on November 30. There will be 3 locations where you could cast your vote.

  • Central Library – 10am to 2pm
  • Red Hill Branch – 10am to 2pm*
  • Turner Park Branch – 3pm to 7pm

*It’s a closed day for RH but there will be staff working in the branch. Go to the front door so they could let you into the branch.

And in case you won’t be able to make it to any of those locations on November 30, you will be able to cast your ballot early on November 27 during the holiday party at Acclamation.

Now you know who the nominees are. Support your local. Cast your ballot.

 

Cast your Ballot

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We know that people are still suffering from campaign and election fatigue after the just concluded federal elections. Please bear with us as we advise that there is another election coming.

The terms of office for some committee members are finished and we would need to elect new members into these committees. These committees are Negotiating and Job Evaluation (JE).

Voting is on November 30. There will be 3 locations where you could cast your vote.

  • Central Library – 10am to 2pm
  • Red Hill Branch – 10am to 2pm*
  • Turner Park Branch – 3pm to 7pm

*It’s a closed day for RH but there will be staff working in the branch. Go to the front door so they could let you into the branch.

And in case you won’t be able to make it to any of those locations on November 30, you will be able to cast your ballot early on November 27 during the holiday party at Acclamation.

Support your local. Cast your ballot.

Nominations

Sisters and Brothers,

This year the tenure of the officers and members of the various committees will be ending and we are taking in nominations for a new set of officers and members.

Last September 25, during the general membership meeting at Sherwood, the floor was opened for nominations. The final day for nominations will be on the next membership meeting on October 26 at the Sherwood Branch.

The rules surrounding nominations are outlined in our by-laws.

Please be advised that nominees needs to be present during nominations or a written proxy needs to be given for the nomination to be valid. If you have any questions, please contact any member of the Executive Committee.

 

Below are the nominations that were put forth:

Executive Committee

President – Ron Gabor

VP1 – Bridie Howell

VP2 – None

VP3 – Jennie Hamilton

Secretary/Treasurer – Carol Harding

Chief Steward – Dale Kent, Marg Mandula

Recording Secretary – None

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Negotiations – Tanja Almon, Sarah Gauthier

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Grievance – Erin Olmstead

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By Law – Sarah Gauthier, Sue Leger, Paul Martin

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Health & Safety – Tanja Almon, Sue Leger

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Elections – Monique Koevoets, Kathy May, April Windus

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JE – Tanja Almon, Sarah Gauthier, Jennie Hamilton, Erin Olmstead

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Wage Settlement

Sisters and Brothers,

The Executive Committee is aware that details of the new contract between the City of Hamilton and CUPE 5167 have been coming out.

On page 73 of our contract under Wage Settlement, it states that “For the remainder of the years under this Collective Agreement, the wage adjustments shall match those negotiated by the City with CUPE 5167.”

We understand that there are questions from the membership regarding this matter, however, at this time, there have been no formal discussions between our employer and CUPE 932. Rest assured that the Executive Committee will be bringing this up in the next Labour Management meeting. Any updates will be cascaded to the membership accordingly. Any developments shall be posted on this website as well.

Thank you.

In Solidarity,

the Executive Committee