July 2nd, 2020

July General Membership Meeting 

Saturday, July 25, 2020, at 10 a.m.
Zoom Video/Phone Conference

You must register in advance for this meeting. Registration Deadline is Thursday July 23 @10a.m:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoc-ihrTwqGtCzfbUbbsk9awrOpDWXFmNT

*Due to the number of items on the agenda, information needed to be sent to participants, and the time required to authenticate registrations, all participants must register by the deadline above.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

AGENDA FOR THE JULY GMM:

1. Land Acknowledgment
2. Reading of new members
3. Reading of the previous meeting’s minutes
4. Business arising out of the minutes
5. Financials
6. New Business
7. Nominations and elections:
   1. BY-ELECTION – Education Director (description on reverse)
   2. BY-ELECTION – Organizing Director (description on reverse)
   3. Balloting Committee (5)
   4. Health & Safety Committee (minimum 9)
   5. Education Committee (8)
   6. Organization Committee (8)
   7. Publications Committee (8)
   8. Trustees Alternate (1) 

8. Executive Committee Motions
9. Unfinished business
10. Correspondence
11. Executive and Committee Reports
12. Good and Welfare
13. Adjournment

In Solidarity, 

Chris Zukowsky

President 

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The New forms can accessed by logging into Intrapost, clicking on:

1.  “Resources”  then;
2. “Forms” and then scrolling down to find ;
3. “Leave Request” and then clicking;
4. “High Risk Leave of Absence form” link.

If you have any further questions or require assistance, please speak with your shop steward.

In Solidarity,

Chris Zukowsky, President

One of Canada Post’s key demands during the past two rounds of bargaining was to get some sort of flexibility or labour savings for the delivery of parcels on weekends.

During the last round, the parties negotiated Appendix “JJ” which would allow for the creation of a parcel delivery workforce. CPC has rarely used this provision. This round they put forward a new proposal for a Temporary Peak Period (TPP) workforce.

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Over the years, the Union’s top priority has been and continues to be to ensure that temporary employees have access to regular employment and that these employees, as well as part-time employees, have access to regular full-time positions. This not only ensures that they can move up the salary ladder based on their length of service as regular employees, but also gives them full rights to all benefits including, the extended health care plan and the defined benefit pension plan, to name a few.

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While the Arbitrator did not completely fix the multiple bundle delivery method for letter carriers, she did award other language that will help to address the issue of overburdening on letter carrier routes.

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The Union argued to Arbitrator MacPherson that regular employees of the Urban Unit as of the date of her decision should have full job security, meaning a limited radius of 40 kilometres for relocation if they are declared surplus.

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