Wednesday April 12, 2017
12:00pm-1:30pm
- Appointment of minute taker: CC
- Motion to approve the agenda: OG moved, MD seconded
- Approve minutes
3.1 Motion to Approve Minutes for 8 March 2017
- Tabled for may
- Labour Relations Officer (Montgomery):
- March for science April 22 in Victoria and Prince George, members encouraged to attend. Scott M to speak to evidence for democracy report.
- Convention is coming up on May 12.
- Discussed member issue.
- Still waiting for the list of management excluded positions across the university.
- Update on grievance.
- Discussed issues relating to supervisory positions.
- Al Gallupe has written documentation on how to deal with supervisory conduct in a PEA position.
- Discussed issue relating to termination.
- Discussed potential language changes to the collective agreement.
- Social media conduct guidelines can be found at https://www.uvic.ca/websites/assets/docs/Social%20Media%20Guidelines.pdf
- Association Executive (Doyle/Clausen):
- Report on organizing strategy proposal, looking into two year term. Looking for success metrics, i.e. cost neutrality. Discussion of capacity, strategy, and benefits for the UVic.
- Discussion of “deep organizing”, and whether we have a mandate for growth.
- Current Business or otherwise to be assigned:
61 Need to set meeting date for UVic delegates to PEA Convention, Pond Party and Chapter retreat
- Uvic delegate meeting April 28 at noon.
- Pond Party in late June.
- Chapter retreat on June 16.
62 Changes to PEA Scholarship Terms of Reference and comments.
- Recommend that the terms of reference is changed so that grad and undergrad rules are the same.
- Motion to amend the terms of reference – SK moved / DS seconded, passed.
63 Campus Planning Committee term (October 2017-October 2020) need to confirm representative. DS moved/MD second to re-appoint Sheryl Karras for a 3-year term.
- Reports
71 Treasurer (Sanderson) $5033.47 in Coast Capital account; $1411.38 FAST account. Grant $12,103.66 received today from PEA Central.
72 Chapter Committees
721 Local Representatives (Cave/Connor): Need a callout for more reps; several vacancies. Melissa needs the list from Mike and Vincent.
722 Seminars (Karras): CTO Seminar… Sheryl will follow-up with AU on who best to join us for joint facilitation of this session.
723 Appointments (Doyle): NTR
724 Website (Clausen/van Hoek): January minutes now posted. Otherwise NTR.
73 Joint Committees
731 Association/University Committee (Karras/Sanderson): 16 March topics for discussion included: JEQ, MSP changes, Centre 6, PEA Scholarship.
732 Benefits Committee (Doyle/Granot): Ori and Sam attending an information session week on our (possible) new EFAP vendor – information only/not a decision-making meeting. Nothing else to report.
733 Job Evaluation Appeals Committee (Connor/Granot): One JEQ review completed. Also, there is planned ‘process mapping session’ being planned for the JEQ process itself. There was discussion about which types of reps (e.g. from employee side, supervisor side, HR etc.) should participate to get a fuller understanding of the process.
734 Employment Equity Advisory Group (Butler): NTR
735 Educational Equity Advisory Group (Perks): NTR
736 Campus Planning Committee (Karras): March 9th – traffic survey report, seismic upgrades (library, Petch and one other), capital projects updates. April 12th meeting cancelled
737 Central ProD (Seager/Blake): NTR
738 Safety Committee (Granot/Buchanan): NTR
739 Parking Committee (Granot): NTR
- Business Arising: n/a
- Adjournment. Adjourned at 1:50 pm
