PEA UVic Chapter Executive Meeting Minutes
Wednesday March 14, 2018 | 12:00pm-1:30pm
Career Services Boardroom
Present: Ori Granot, Melissa Doyle, Katy Chan, Kristen Ficke, Chris Clausen, Mike Cave, Sam Montgomery (left at 12:55pm)
Absent: Dave Sanderson, Sheryl Karras
- Appointment of Chris Clausen as minute taker.
- Motion to approve the agenda (Moved by Ori Granot, seconded by Katy Chan)
- Approve minutes
3.1 Motion to approve minutes for 14 February 2018 (OG) – Deferred to April
3.2 Discussion of meeting minute posting process
- Labour Relations Officer (Montgomery):
4.1 Discussed position issues
4.2 Discussed local rep training
4.3 Discussed grievances
4.4 Discussed management exclusions
4.5 Discussed CTO issues
4.6 Discussed new PSEC mandate
4.7 Discussed intellectual property policy
4.8 Discussed new performance planning process
- Association Executive (Karras/Clausen): March 5th Executive Meeting (teleconference
– Reviewed financial statements and rebalanced portfolio
– The governance committee will review the role of the president and put forward recommendations on the role of the president, now that we are approaching the end of the 2-year trial with amended role/responsibilities.
- Current Business or otherwise to be assigned:
- Update on Tampon Tuesday (Sam)
- Overall the campaign collected 30 thousand products which went to help 1200 women in need.
- Reports
71 Treasurer (Sanderson):
- Hardship grant cheque in progress
72 Chapter Committees
721 Local Representatives (Cave/Connor):
- Scheduled local rep meeting on March 27
722 Seminars (Ficke):
- Had 21 Feb Know and Love your Collective Agreement
- Want to schedule a seminar for every couple months
- Discussed options for new seminars
- Kristen Ficke moves that we order pizza for Nav Bassi’s security seminar, seconded Melissa Doyle, passed unanimously.
723 Appointments (Doyle): NTR
724 Website (Clausen/van Hoek):
- Chris Clausen will fix broken links identified by Katy Chan
73 Joint Committees
731 Association/University Committee (Karras/Sanderson): NTR
732 Benefits Committee (Doyle/Granot): NTR
733 Job Evaluation Appeals Committee (Connor/Granot):
- Had one successful appeal
734 Employment Equity Advisory Group – in abeyance
735 Educational Equity Advisory Group – in abeyance
736 Campus Planning Committee (Karras): NTR
737 Central ProD (Seager/Blake):
- Update from Jan 31st deadline
- 40 applications received (37 approved; 1 withdrawn; 2 declined)
- Total amount awarded $50,931.20
- This is the largest number of applications received in a cycle, so it seems that the PEA membership is becoming more aware of the pro-d support available.
738 Safety Committee (Granot/Bowles): NTR
739 Parking Committee (Granot): NTR
- Business Arising:
8.1. Campus Planning/Cycling Survey
– We need to encourage people to engage this survey.
8.2. Contract employees discussion
8.3. CPP information/discussion
– Government of Canada will start CPP+ in January 2019
– Discussed impact on paycheques.
- Adjournment.
