PEA UVic Chapter Executive Meeting<\/b>
\nWednesday Sept 14, 2011, 11:30am- 1:30pm\u00a0Career Services Boardroom<\/p>\n
MINUTES<\/p>\n
In attendance: Susan Dempsey, Jonathan Foweraker, Catherine Franz, Lance Grant, Tom Gore, Leslie Kenny, Lynn McCaughey, Melissa Moroz
\nRegrets: Vincent Connor<\/p>\n
1. Appointment of minute taker: Leslie
\n2. Approval of the agenda: item on local rep outreach meetings added. Motion (McCaughey, Foweraker): To approve the agenda as amended. Carried.
\n3. Approval of the circulated minutes from July 13, 2011. Motion (Kenny, Foweraker): To approve the minutes as amended. Carried.
\n4. Urgent Business: none<\/p>\n
5. Chair’s correspondence and remarks:<\/p>\n
51 Staff Associations Meeting \u2013 The group will meet October 14 at UVic. Two reps are coming from UBC and two from SFU. Catherine will look at reaching out to VIU and UNBC. Catherine to find a room, Lynn will prepare a draft agenda. Association will provide wage replacement.
\n52 Executive Elections \u2013 Sept 28 deadline for nominations. Chair and three executive spots are open. If it goes to ballot, the all-candidates meeting will take place the week of Oct 10 with ballots due Nov. 7. Lynn and Jonathan intend to run for re-election. Catherine and Lance will not be continuing. Executive should encourage local reps, etc. to consider putting their names forward.
\n53 Pension Plan Trustee Board Vacancy \u2013 A call for nominations has gone out from the board. There is no dedicated PEA rep on the committee. Catherine has proposed a change in the terms of reference to have a PEA rep. This may or not be possible depending on the board terms of reference.
\n54 AGM \u2013 Set for November 9, 12-2:00 pm in the Haro Room. Melissa will ask Brett to do a poster. Reports are required in advance from the chair, treasurer, seminars committee, nominations committee and Association reps. Exec will meet the day before, on Nov. 8
\n55 Local Rep Outreach Meetings \u00ad\u2013 Meetings were held in spring and summer at six buildings on campus. Turnout and level of discussion varied, mainly dominated by the pension issue. Discussion whether to put a call out to local reps to organize remaining buildings, or to hold some larger theme-focused meetings closer to bargaining.<\/p>\n
6. Reports<\/p>\n
61 Treasurer (Franz): Balance of $2713 in the Coast Capital account as of August 31. FAST account: $3783. Estimated cost for the AGM is $750.
\n62 Labour Relations Officer (Moroz): Melissa is working with about 15 active files. A letter of agreement is in progress to settle the pension grievance. Has been reviewing job descriptions\/classification processes with the new HR recruitment advisor, Jennifer Farrow.<\/p>\n
63\u00a0 Chapter Committees<\/p>\n
631\u00a0 Local Representatives (Gore): Tom will schedule a meeting for last part of October. Agenda topics: Introduce Melissa to the group, promotion of AGM, education on collective agreement.
\n632 Seminars (Franz): Adrienne has stepped down. The committee will meet soon.
\n633 Appointments (Connor\/Foweraker): Jonathan has been re-appointed to campus planning committee.
\n634 Pre-Bargaining Committee (Franz\/McCaughey\/Grant): October 3 is next meeting.<\/p>\n
64 Joint Committees<\/p>\n
641 Association\/University Committee (McCaughey\/Franz): Recent topics discussed: PEA representation on pension plan, Pro D website and info review, PEA scholarship (which is on the agenda for the November Senate meeting), and work intensification. Mental Health Taskforce may be a good resource for this.
\n642 Benefits Committee (Kenny): NTR
\n643 Job Evaluation Appeals Committee (Connor\/Gore): The committee held a full-day session with Tony Bute for training of new personnel. \u00a0JE committee will\u00a0 meet Thursday Sept 22. Tom is retiring from the university at the end of September and from the JEQ committee but will continue on the executive until July 2012.
\n644 Employment Equity Advisory Working Group (Kenny): NTR
\n645 Educational Equity Advisory Group (Dempsey):\u00a0 NTR
\n646 Mental Health Committee (Fagan): NTR – next meets 9\/23
\n647 Campus Planning Committee (Foweraker): NTR
\n648 Central ProD (Klatt): NTR<\/p>\n
65 External Committees<\/p>\n
651 Association Executive (McCaughey\/Dempsey): Planning for education conference in May 2012 in Richmond.\u00a0 Strategic planning retreat in November.<\/p>\n
7. Business Arising: Local rep training Sept 29-30.<\/p>\n
8. Other Business<\/p>\n
8.1 Motion (Dempsey, Gore) to appoint Jonathan Foweraker to the JEQ appeals committee. Carried.
\n8.2 Lance would like to have the salary reduction resulting from the increase in members\u2019 pension contributions publicized more strongly in our chapter communications. To say we\u2019ve accepted a 0 and 0 package is not accurate, since the effect of the increase is like a functional pay cut.<\/p>\n
9. Adjournment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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