Toronto ECCC Branch Executive Meeting Minutes Q1 2024 - January 12, 2024

Toronto ECCC Branch Executive Meeting Minutes Q1 2024 - January 12, 2024

Attendance:

Executive:

Andrea Darlington, President

Bill Sukloff, Vice-President

Balbir Pabla, Treasurer

Qian Li, Secretary

Jian Feng, Member-at-large

Harry Keess, Member-at-large

Diane Pendlebury, Member-at-large

Michael Wheeler, Member-at-large

Anna Deptuch-Stapf, Member-at-large

 

Absent

MarieClaude Archambault

Alexandre Fischer

 

Guests

Helen Yang

April White

Dae Il Jeong

 

Agenda:

1. Acceptance of the Agenda
2. Review of previous Minutes - Meeting minutes OneNote file in the Executive shared area
3. Business of the day
   1. Introduction of new Executive members
   2. Vice President selection
   3. Discussion of conversion to 3 year terms
   4. Updates from PIPSC National AGM
   5. Feedback on Branch AGM
   6. Information session planning
   7. Respect Day
4. Roundtable
5. Next meeting

Adjournment.

  

• Andrea opened the meeting.
   
• Participants introduced themselves.
   
• Bill Sukloff was acclaimed as Vice President.

• Review of the Executive positions. At the Branch AGM the terms for Executive positions were changed from two to three years.

• Issue: a term employee applied to staffing action (anticipatory) to create PC-02 and PC-03 pools, The Application was rejected because he/she was not Indigenous or a person with disabilities. The individual asked for union advice. Later, he received letter from HR saying they made an error, and that he/she is not excluded from process, only that they will first evaluate applicants who have identified as indigenous or a person with disabilities. Members of the Executive commented that managers defer to HR for advice, assuming HR are experts in their field. This is an example that may not be the case.

• Executive members who have examples are to write a summary of the issue, keeping member names anonymous. Andrea will consolidate and forward to Waheed Khan for bringing forward to the HRLMCC and the respective Branches LMCCs where the issues occurred.

• Action: All Executive Members, Andrea to consolidate and forward to Waheed Khan
   
• National PIPSC AGM update.
  • Andrea, Bill and Michael provided a short summary.

• Branch AGM update
  • Discussion about the Branch AGM. Approximately 70 people were at the restaurant.

• Visibility items
  • purchased 100 baseball caps with the PIPSC logo. Will start distributing them to members who attended the Branch AGM.

• Information session
  • President Carr is available in the next few months; we just have to try to find a date.
    Action: Andrea

• Respect Day
  • Coming in the fall
  • Looking for volunteers to help with an event in the lobby

• Some Stewards have retired or stepped back from being a Steward. Only six Stewards left. If anyone would like more information about the role of a Steward please see Andrea or Bill
• Meeting adjourned at 12:33pm.

 

February 5, 2024

 

Attendance:

Executive:

Andrea Darlington, President

Bill Sukloff, Vice-President

Balbir Pabla, Treasurer

Qian Li, Secretary

Jian Feng, Member-at-large

Harry Keess, Member-at-large

Diane Pendlebury, Member-at-large

Alexandre Fischer, Member-at-large

 

Absent:

MarieClaude Archambault

Anna Deptuch-Stapf, Member-at-large

Michael Wheeler, Member-at-large

 

Guests

Helen Yang

Agenda:

1. Acceptance of the Agenda
2. Review of previous Minutes - Meeting minutes OneNote file in the Executive shared area
3. Business of the day
   1. Ontario Regional Council
   2. OHS
   3. Information session planning
4. Roundtable
5. Next meeting

Adjournment.

Andrea: Welcome to Alex Fischer.

Andrea: Ontario Regional Council, open delegate spots, contact Andrea if you would like to attend at Blue Mountain

Andrea: lots of PIPSC hats still available.

Andrea: looking for additional PIPSC reps on the Downsview OHS committee.

Andrea: RDG of East/Central, Richard Cormier, will visit Downsview on Feb. 8. Meeting with Andrea, Bill and Michael.

Issues with the open workspaces on the 2^nd floor.

PIPSC President Carr: Bill will follow up on her schedule for the next few months. Invitation to be a guest speaker.

Diane: exercise room on 1^st floor. It was surprisingly unlocked last week.

Management is tracking office attendance rates, in CWS directorate, only 60% compliance across the CWA Directorate.

Next meeting: March 8, 11:30am

 

March 8, 2024

 

Attendance:

Executive:

 

Andrea Darlington, President

Balbir Pabla, Treasurer

Qian Li, Secretary

Marie-claude Archambault, Member-at-large

Alexandre Fischer, Member-at-large

Jian Feng, Member-at-large

Absent:

Bill Sukloff, Vice-President

Harry Keess, Member-at-large

Anna Deptuch-Stapf, Member-at-large

Michael Wheeler, Member-at-large

Diane Pendlebury, Member-at-large

 

Guests

Helen Yang

April White

Kulbir Banwait

Dae Il Jeong

Megan Hartwell

 

Agenda:

1. Acceptance of the Agenda

6. Review of previous Minutes - Meeting minutes OneNote file in the Executive shared area

2. Business of the day
   1. Respect Day Nov 2024 Event
      1. Volunteers to help out
      2. How to present this
   2. Collective Agreement implementation
   3. Ontario Regional Council
   4. Chat with ARDG
   5. Info bulletin
   6. ECCC Alerts
3. Roundtable
4. Next meeting
5. Adjournment

Discussion:

1. Respect Day Nov 2024  Event
   • Push for in-person event
   • Management agrees to participate but Union likely to pay for the event
   • Let Andrea know if you are interested in helping out (call for volunteers)
   • Should we reach out to the RDG's office for secretarial support – to get management onboard.
   • April is happy to help out.

2. Implementation of Collective Agreement
   • SP, IT, MT seen recent signing of CA
   • Signing bonus was shown in last paycheck / wages updated in MyGCPay
   • RE is a bit behind.

3. Ontario Regional Council – email to register went out.

4. Chat with ARDG
   • Changes: 2 RDGs report to DM, one for Western and North and one for East and Central.
   • Richard Cormier is Acting Associate RDG for the East and Central. Tristan Landry is the new RDG
   • Andrea/Bill met with them to ask some questions
   • Downsview and Burlington will need new SBOs
   • LMCCs remain as is with RDG or ARDG in attendance

5. Info bulletin
   • Any ideas please let Andrea know

6. ECCC Alert
   • Is a real thing and not a scam email – please signup to receive notification of important events such as building closures and security incidents by phone, text and/or e-mail, at the contact details of your choice.
   • Qian indicate this can be a candidate to be included in the next Info Bulletin
   • Building alert line is still active but will not be updated anymore.

7. Round Table:
   • Helen: OSPC forecaster is interested in becoming a steward.
   • April: CWA employees cannot access to ECCC jobs unless they are informed by their managers. This is a big concern.
   • HR should push the job posters to both ECCC and CWA sites
   • Qian: new employees meets & greets. Andrea noted that both Bill and Andrea receive lists of new employees when they come in and always email them about information how to register as a union member.