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February General Membership Meeting

Thursday February 24th at 7pm
Zoom Video/Phone Conference

You must register in advance for this meeting. Registration Deadline: Wednesday, February 23 at 7pm 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvfuCgrjsjGN1Dy0KDVFfGozctOVi29XEJ

Due to the information needed to be sent to participants, and the time required to authenticate registrations, all participants must register by the deadline above. *Admission to the meeting will close fifteen (15) minutes from the start of the meeting.

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

AGENDA FOR THE FEBRUARY GMM:

  1. Land Acknowledgment
  2. Reading of Truth and Reconciliation: Calls to Action
  3. Reading of new members
  4. Reading of the previous meeting’s minutes
  5. Business arising out of the minutes
  6. New Business
  7. Nominations and elections: 
  1. MSC Route Measurement minimum (1)
  2. VDLC (1) alternate (2) 
  1. Executive Committee Motions
  2. Unfinished business
  3. Correspondence
  4. Executive and Committee Reports
  5. Good and Welfare
  6. Adjournment

In Solidarity,

Anju Parmar

President

 

**Sign Language Interpreters have been confirmed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              sr/CUPE-3338

 

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Celebrating Black History Month

February 1st, 2022

In addition to the United Nations recognition starting in 2015 to 2024, the Internal Decade for People of African Descent, we will be celebrating across the country the 34th Black History month. The theme is February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day. Building on the theme I am reframing Black History Month, as a time for recognition, reflection and the reclaiming of Black People’s excellence, economic, cultural, and social contributions as the true history that has been erased from or whitewashed within our history.

Black history in Canada began between 1600-1610 yet Black history comprises only 5% of some history texts.

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The Federal Government Amends the Canada Labour Code to Include Paid Sick Leave

Tuesday January 25 2022

                                                                                                    2019-2023/333

The Federal Government has passed BILL C-3, an Act to amend the Canada Labour Code. It received Royal Assent and became law on December 17, 2021. This amendment is not currently in effect and we don’t know when it will come into force.

This legislation amends medical leave and bereavement leave under Part III of the Canada Labour Code.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has reached out to the Canada Post Corporation (CPC) concerning these changes. CPC has informed us they are waiting for the Federal Government to set up consultation with the affected employers for guidance on how to implement these changes within their organizations.

PAID SICK LEAVE 

“The legislation amends medical leave under Part III of the Canada Labour Code to provide that:

  • thirty days after these provisions come into force employees will earn their first three days of paid sick leave to help ensure employees have adequate paid sick leave should they need it;
  • for new employees, they will earn the first three days of paid sick leave thirty days after starting a new job;
  • employees are entitled to earn one day of medical leave with pay for each month of employment with an employer, up to a maximum of ten days in a calendar year;[1]
  • any day of medical leave with pay that an employee does not take in a calendar year carries forward to January 1st of the following calendar year and counts toward the ten days that can be earned in the new year; and
  • the maximum number of days of medical leave with pay that an employee can take in a calendar year is ten; and
  • employers are permitted to request a medical certificate for medical leaves of absence with pay that are five days or longer.”

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Annual Election Notice

Nominations are now open for the following positions on the Local Executive Committee:

Full-Time/Part-Time Officer

 

1st Vice President

3rd Vice President

Secretary-Treasurer

  Table Officers

 

Education Director

Organization Director/Tyler

Health & Safety Director

   Chief Shop Stewards*

PPC/PIF Internal #2 Shift

PPC/PIF Internal #3 Shift

Transportation Group 2 MSC

Group 2 External L/C

Group 2 External L/C

 

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HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE MEETING

Saturday, January 22 at 10 am
Zoom Video/Phone Conference

Follow up discussions from September and November 2021 meetings

The Vancouver Local is having a Human Rights Committee Meeting. You must register in advance for this meeting. Registration deadline: Friday January 21 @ 10am.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkcuyprz8qG9ykcnLq6iA2OTaexwybgu45

Understanding Each Other – Solidarity in Action

We welcome all Deaf and Hard of Hearing Workers to join this month’s Human Rights meeting on November 20, since the meeting is mainly to talk about daily struggles of deaf and hard of hearing community members on the work floor.

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January General Membership Meeting

Thursday January 27 at 7pm
Zoom Video/Phone Conference

You must register in advance for this meeting. Registration Deadline: Wednesday, January 26 at 7pm 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucumpqj4rGtaJM_qwfliOxsu2cfj8cMiT

*Due to the information needed to be sent to participants, and the time required to authenticate registrations, all participants must register by the deadline above. *Admission to the meeting will close fifteen (15) minutes from the start of the meeting.

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

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Vaccine Practice Hearings on the Merit

December 15, 2021

Since the arbitrator did not issue a cease-and-desist order (similar to an injunction) as per our application regarding Canada Post Corporation’s vaccination practice, the next step is for an arbitrator to hear the merit of the case by way of priority.

The cease-and-desist application asks an arbitrator to rule on whether the practice shall be suspended while grievances are heard on the merit. The questions that will be put to an arbitrator (or the scope) on the merit will be broader and different than the narrow criteria used for a cease-and-desist application.

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