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May 27th, 2022

The Union was notified on May 25 that the Urban Postal Operations (UPO) Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) payment for the last quarter of 2021 (November 2021 – January 2022) will also be paid on June 9th (Pay Period 12), the same pay period as the RSMC COLA.

For background and details on the calculation, please see bulletin 369 (May 16, 2022)

https://www.cupw.ca/en/urban-cost-living-allowance-be-paid-november-2021-–-january-2022

For more information on how our COLA works, see bulletin 157 (June 23, 2020)

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May   27^th,2021

215 bodies of Indigenous children were found in unmarked graves in Kamloops, BC.

A year later ….

Over 10,000 children’s bodies have been found on the properties of former Residential schools throughout Canada.

Wear an orange shirt on May 27th to honour the children and families of Residential schools.

The Vancouver Local will be ordering t-shirts for National Indigenous People’s Day 21^st June.

 

In Solidarity,

Vancouver Local Human Rights Committee.

Due to recent increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Cost of Living
Allowance (COLA) for Urban regular employees will generate a COLA payment for the period of November 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022.

CLAUSE 35.09 OF THE URBAN COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT

The Urban collective agreement provides for the COLA to be paid to regular
employees as follows:
• 35.09(a)(ii)       The allowance will be paid on a basis of one cent (1 ¢) per hour
for each full zero point zero five zero four (0.0504) of a point
increase in the C.P.I. above the adjusted index which is five point
thirty‐three percent (5.33 %) greater than the C.P.I. index
published for January 2020.

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Saturday MAY 28th at 10AM
Union Hall 1880 Triumph St. Vancouver 

This is an in-person meeting at the Union hall, Lower Auditorium. Entrance at 1880 Triumph St. 

AGENDA FOR THE MAY 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:

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