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The upcoming negotiations are crucial and it may be necessary. We intend to recover our rights and benefits that were taken through the last round of this unfair process. We have experienced this before; therefore we must prepare for the worst case scenario.

PICKET CAPTAINS WANTED!

Continue reading “NOBODY WANTS A STRIKE!”

UPDATE – March 25, 2014: PubCom, PPC problems, Rest pod problems, LC and MSC staffing problems and more…

Publication Committee

One of my duties as the Education Director is to be the spokesperson for the Publication Committee on the Executive Committee. The Publication Committee is charged with producing two specific publications.

Continue reading “UPDATE – March 25, 2014: PubCom, PPC problems, Rest pod problems, LC and MSC staffing problems and more…”

ELECTED

Angelito Decena – Chief Steward VMPP #1 Shift

In addition, the following members have been elected as Shop Stewards for a 2 (two) year term:

VMPP #1 SHIFT Lynn Bacon Angelito Decena Edem Etuk Christina MacLennan VMPP #2 SHIFT Marie Cuenca Stephanie Mapatac Gina Tessaro John Tweed VMPP #3 SHIFT Mick Kosevic Denny Pasquier VMPP MSC Travis Stewart Harry Ponjani

VPDC #1 SHIFT Scott Dowling Nikki Gill Murray McKenzie Baltej Sandhu VPDC #2 SHIFT Maureen Chen Judy Green Harpreet Parhar Anju Parmar Navreet Waraich Ron Weisensel VPDC #3 SHIFT Peter Derksen Karamjit Heer VPDC MSC John Coumbos Ken Honeybourne Jayne Priest

CDC Blair Bancroft Dale Farrell Alex Pensato STATION F Ed Frymire NBDC Caroline Boback Gina Irons Trevor Mayo Dale Zerr SBDC Louise Sloan GLEN DRIVE Noe Ascencio

Congratulations to all the successful candidates and thank you to everyone who was willing to offer themselves to a position.

Thanks also to everyone who helped with this election. Without the hard work of the Balloting Committee Chair, Co-Chair, Committee members, volunteers from both our active and retired members this election would not have been possible. On behalf of the Vancouver Local, thank you.

In Solidarity,

Andy Henderson
Secretary-Treasurer

From the Pacific Region Women’s Committee: Don’t Take Unions for Granted World Social Forum – Tunis, Tunisia Pay Equity for Administrative and Clerical Workers at Canada Post Summer Institute on Union Women Dying for Fashion and more. DownloadHERE (5 mb PDF)

Our Constitution (Articles 7.06 and 7.07) sets out monthly dues for all members and/or employees. The only difference between part-time, full-time, and temporary employees is in determining whether dues will be collectible for any given month.

Part-time and full-time employees will owe a dues payment for every month, even when they are on Leave With-out Pay (LWOP). Temporary employees will only pay dues if they work in a month and arrears will NOT accumulate when they have not.

Continue reading “UNION DUES DEDUCTIONS – HOW THEY WORK”

The Union met with the employer on Wednesday August 14, 2013 to review some of the issues that have been plaguing the restructure at Depot 74/99 and from that the impact on the MSC’s.

At that consultation the employer reviewed the start times and proposed changes to those start times. The Corporation in it’s rush to complete the restructure had failed to properly add the morning breaks prior to the departure of the routes so most routes had to be moved backward by fifteen (15) minutes. Continue reading “DEPOT 74/MSC UPDATE: August 16, 2013”

CUPW is hiring four co-ordinators to help with campaigns relating to the review of the Canadian Postal Service Charter, the attack on the Rand formula, service expansion and reduction at Canada Post and the upcoming federal election. For more information on these campaigns, see Perspective May 2013 at: http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/14537/la_id/1 Continue reading “CUPW is Hiring Four Members as Co-ordinators”