PEA Chapter Executive Meeting September 12, 2012, 11:30-1:00 pm
Attending: Tom Gore (chair), Susan Dempsey, Sheryl Karras, John Hall, Leslie Kenny, Abhinav Rai
Regrets: John Foxgord, Vincent Connor
1. Appointment of minute taker: Leslie
2. Motion to approve the agenda (LK, SD): carried.
3. Motion to approve the minutes from July 11th, 2012: Deferred to next meeting
4. Urgent Business or to be otherwise assigned:
41 CUPE Job Action Update (Melissa Moroz): ASB, Campus Security, Saunders and Saunders Annex have all been picketed for part or full days. Essentials services are in place for these buildings as per the global order. John Hall attended a Solidarity lunch on Sept 11 where it was agreed that CUPE would keep some of our signs available on their sites for PEA drop-ins to use. Student Affairs reps have asked staff in the counselling office to remove job action signs from their public areas, which they did.
42 Bargaining Update/Membership meetings
Bargaining set for tomorrow, September 13 with another date in progress for next week.
43 Invitation to meet with employer
Steve Gorham has offered to meet with the executive for informal discussion of the job action. We decided to decline at this time, but would consider meeting for a post-mortem once it’s all over.
44 Chapter Elections
We need to activate the elections committee to replace outgoing members. John F. to initiate when he returns from vacation. Still to be determined how many vacancies there are.
441 Appoint of new chapter V-P to replace Gore
Today is Tom’s last meeting, which leaves a vacancy in the vice-president position. Motion (SD, SK): that Leslie Kenny be appointed as vice president. Carried.
45 2012 AGM
Three possible dates for the AGM are November 6, 7, or 8. Leslie will contact Catering services to check availability of Arbutus-Queenswood on those dates. The booking should be for 90, which is the number who attended last year.
46 Fall Social Event
Deferred for the time being.
47 Filling vacant UVic position on PEA Association Executive
Tom’s retirement also created a vacancy in the Association’s VP position. John Foxgord will be moving into this role, which then triggers a vacancy in one of our chapter’s two member-at-large positions. This decision is postponed until the next chapter meeting when everyone is back.
48 Review to-do list
All of the items identified at our August retreat have been completed with the exception of writing a letter of support for CUPE to be published in the Martlet. The chapter has a new Twitter account – @uvicpea. Password is available upon request for those who wish to sends tweets on behalf of the chapter.
5. Chair’s correspondence and remarks: NTR
6. Reports
61 Treasurer (Connor):
Estimated Coast Capital balance at the end of August 2012 (based on subtracting the amounts of cheques 271 & 272 from the balance at the end of July): $5,715.42
Estimated FAST balance at end of August 2012 (based on subtracting the $237.75 cost of the LR lunch on 28 August 2012 from the current balance): $2,572.91
62 Labour Relations Officer (Moroz): Ongoing issues related to sick leave, layoffs, excluded positions and other matters.
63 Chapter Committees
631 Local Representatives (Karras): The August 28 local reps meeting was well attended, as were the two membership meetings on Aug 29 and Sept 5, which several of the reps also attended. The reps and membership are pretty well informed at this stage about the job action.
632 Seminars: NTR
633 Appointments (Connor/Dempsey): NTR
634 Bargaining Committee (Karras): See 4.2 above
64 Joint Committees
641 Association/University Committee (Dempsey): There has been one recent meeting with two appeals reviewed. The evaluations are very thorough and rigorous.
642 Benefits Committee (Kenny): NTR
643 Job Evaluation Appeals Committee (Connor/):
644 Employment Equity Advisory Working Group (Kenny): Orientation meeting for 2012/13 for the joint HRC set for October 12. Schedule of meetings for the year is in place.
645 Educational Equity Advisory Group (Dempsey): Same as above
646 Mental Health Task Force: Susan reported that a large conference about mental health issues on campus scheduled for Sept 27-29 at the Convention Centre.
647 Campus Planning Committee (Karras): Next meeting scheduled for October 31
648 Central ProD (Seager): Follow-up required to the meeting we had in July with the Pro-D committee representatives. For discussion at next meeting.
65 External Committees
651 Association Executive (Kenny): Teleconference on September 10. Discussion of provincial job action, PEA strike pay policy, BC Federation affiliation, planning of 2013 convention, negotiations to extend lease for current office space.
12:55 pm: Motion to adjourn (SK, SK). Carried.