
	Wednesday January 7, 2009

President’s Report
Executive Council
December 2004

Betty Bannon - Item 6

NEGOTIATIONS

Since my last report the strike has been suspended, we have a tentative agreement and the vote on the agreement has started. I have to commend the membership on their resolve and ingenious ways to implement their strike actions, whether it was rotating, strategic or all out actions. A special thanks has to go to our members from Client Services, Cash, Mailroom and Call Centres who bore the brunt of the strike actions and brought the CRA services to the public to a halt.

Why it took a strike, the intervention of no less than three Cabinet Ministers, including our own, to settle this I cannot even fathom. Our employer, the CRA by way of the Commissioner, Alan Nymark and other high ranking bureaucrats could have settled this prior to the strike even commencing. Yet they came to the Table, refusing to deal with the Term issues, many of our pay package demands and a lower economic package than all of the other six Tables. What were they thinking? I can only guess that once again they didn’t believe that the Union of Taxation Employees does speak for the membership.

The employer’s actions during the strike in certain locations by local management also clearly show the lack of respect that the employer holds our members. They were not even close to adhering to their own so called “Core Values” of the Agency. I doubt that our relationship with this employer will ever be the same. The Council will be discussing our future relationship with the CRA at this Council meeting and the fact that we are getting a new Commissioner may affect this discussion. We shall see.

ITPR REPRESENTATION

Council members have been asked to provide names at this meeting of individuals in their Regions that they believe would be able to provide ITPR Representation after receiving training. After this meeting the names will be reviewed and a few will be selected and the job training will be arranged to commence in the New Year.

GRIEVANCES

Since our last Executive Council meeting, twenty-four (24) grievances, other than classification, were received at the National Office.

During the same period, twenty-three (23) grievances were presented dealing with a variety of issues, including: three (3) suspensions and two (2) terminations.

OPENED INVENTORY	RECV’D	TO BE PRESENTED	AWAITING REPLY	ADJ.	CLOSED
Nov. 96 – Nov. 97	392			1	391
Dec. 97 – Feb. 08/98	11				11
Feb. 09/98 – May 25/98	117				117
May 26/98 – Sept. 04/98	111				111
Sept. 05/98 – Nov. 04/98	38			1	37
Nov. 06/98 – March 01/99	71				71
March 01/99 – June 01/99	83				83
June 01/99 – Sept. 10/99	64		2		62
Sept. 10/99 – Dec. 01/99	266				266
Dec. 01/99 – March 22/00	1321		3		1318
March 22/00 – June 06/00	26				26
June 06/00 – Sept. 01/00	132		2	5	125
Sept. 01/00 – Dec. 01/00	67	1	1	6	59
Dec. 02/00 – Feb. 28/01	176	3			173
March 01/01 – June 01/01	33		1	1	31
June 01/01 – Sept. 01/01	30			2	28
Sept. 02/01 – Dec. 05/01	41	2	1	1	37
Dec. 05/01 – Feb. 28/02	49		1	4	44
March 01/02 – May 31/02	59		8	13	38
June 01/02 – Aug. 31/02	54		13	2	39
Sept. 01/02 – Dec. 31/02	64		17	2	45
Jan. 01/03 – Feb. 28/03	64	8	28	4	24
March 01/03 – May 31/03	126	4	63	16	43
June 01/03 – Aug. 31/03	32	14		10	8
Sept. 01/03 – Nov. 30/03	36	7	6	1	22
Dec. 01/03 – March 31/04	100	35	13	11	41
April 1/04 – May 31/04	38	24	4	4	6
June 01/04 – Aug. 31/04	66	46	8	2	10
Sept. 01/04 – Nov. 30/04	24	22	2

. Mediation refused by employer. Referred to PSSRB and waiting for formal hearing.

. First hearing held May 25, 2004, ongoing.

There are presently one hundred and sixty-six (166) grievances in the National Office inventory, which have not yet been presented at the Final Level.

CLASSIFICATION GRIEVANCES

During this quarter, we received five (5) classification grievances.

OPENED INVENTORY	RECV’D	REFERRED TO PSAC	Pending info. or job content grievance	CLOSED
Jan. 01/02 – Feb. 28/03	116	78	4	63
March 01/03 – May 31/03	64	3	58	3
June 1/03 – Aug. 31/03	2	1		2
Sept. 01/03 – Nov. 30/03	2		2
Dec. 01/03 – March 31/04	8	4	3	5
Apr. 01/04 – May 31/04	6		6
June 01/04 – Aug. 31/04	17		17
Sept. 01/04 – Nov. 30/04	5		5

APPEALS

During this period, no appeal was received in the National Office where the Union of Taxation Employees was requested to provide representation.

INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY REVIEWS (ITPR'S)

Currently, there are sixteen (16) ITPRs remaining, which have not been presented to date. Hearing dates have been established for the vast majority of these cases all but four (4) cases have proceeded to the pre-hearing conference stage.

Eight (8) cases were presented during this quarter, with two (2) cases being allowed and the remaining six (6) pending.

NON UTE EVENTS 2004

RECIPIENT BÉNÉFICIAIRE	REASON RAISON		AMOUNT MONTANT	BUDGET BUDGÉTAIRE
2003 Carry Over / Report de 2003				740,78
15 000,00
15 740,78

G. Belanger	Health & Safety Conference Toronto		967,73	14 773,05
S. Jerrett	Clear Language for Union Communication		1 184,88	13 588,17
B. Wilson	WSIB		1 079,37	12 508,80
J. Kite	WSIB		1 048,56	11 460,24
I. Daykin	Alberta Workers' Health Centre Conference		1 030,27	10 429,97
M. Peters	Human Rights In The Unionized Workplace		845,00	9 584,97
R. Perchard	CLC Atlantic Region		1 058,38	8 526,59
*NO CLAIM RECEIVED*
A. Sinclair - Edmonton	Saskatchewan Federation of Labour Prairie School	Advance / Avance	1 250,00	7 276,59
M. Kaiser	Health & Safety Trainers Course		219,60	7 056,99
A. Duncan	CLC Disability Rights Conference	Advance / Avance	1 000,00	6 056,99

DONATIONS/SPONSORSHIPS

RECIPIENT/BÉNÉFICIAIRE	CITY/VILLE	AMOUNT	BUDGET	APPROVED BY
		MONTANT	BUDGÉTAIRE	APPROUVÉ PAR
			20 000,00
Cadette (Belle) B - Ringette	Gatineau-Hull, QC	200,00	19 800,00	Betty/Bob
Saskatoon Elite Major League of Bowling	Saskatoon, SK	500,00	19 300,00	Council
MacLennan Jr. High Boy A Basketball	Sydney, NS	1 000,00	18 300,00	Council
Saskatoon Angels Ladies Fastball	Saskatoon, SK	1 000,00	17 300,00	Council
St. Catharines Girls Soccer	St. Catharines, ON	300,00	17 000,00	Betty/Bob
Wonderdogs Agility Gang of Saskatoon	Saskatoon, SK	300,00	16 700,00	Betty/Bob
C. Bowman,Taxes Rangers Baseball	Saskatoon, SK	150,00	16 550,00	Betty/Bob
AEHA Ottawa ( Speaker)	Ottawa, ON	100,00	16 450,00	Betty/Bob
RUSC U13 Girls Division 1	Wendover, ON	500,00	15 950,00	Council
Street Cat Rescue Program Inc.	Saskatoon, SK	600,00	15 350,00	Council
The Arthritis Society	Riverside, SK	300,00	15 050,00	Council
Tarbutt Street Soccer League	Thunder Bay, ON	400,00	14 650,00	Council
2004 Bantam Nationals	Winnipeg, MB	1 000,00	13 650,00	Council
Jessica Alleva (Young Leaders Conf.)	Windsor, ON	1 000,00	12 650,00	Council
Cosmopolitan Learning Centre	Regina, SK	1 000,00	11 650,00	Council
Tiny Hearts Magazine (CHEO)	Ottawa, ON	454,75	11 195,25	Betty/Bob
North Western Ontario Amateur Wrestling	Thunder Bay, ON	345,00	10 850,25	Council
National Federation for the Blind	Saskatoon, SK	1 000,00	9 850,25	Council
Lasers Squirt Division 1	Saskatoon, SK	400,00	9 450,25	Betty/Bob
Canadian Cancer Society"Relay for Life"	Barrie, ON	500,00	8 950,25	Betty/Bob
Susan Mariash (The Brick)	Winnipeg, MB	1 000,00	7 950,25	Council
CANE	Regina, SK	1 000,00	6 950,25	Council
Khalid Ahmed (Boston Marathon)	Winnipeg, MB	250,00	6 700,25	Council
Thunder Bay Thunder 9 AAA	Thunder Bay, ON	340,00	6 360,25	Betty/Bob
Canadian Cancer Society "Relay for Life"	Orleans, ON	250,00	6 110,25	Betty/Bob
Membership Benefit Fund (Dusak Halik)	Ottawa, ON	300,00	5 810,25	Betty/Bob
St. Patrick Catholic School	Rockland, ON	100,00	5 710,25	Betty/Bob
Egale Canada	Ottawa, ON	500,00	5 210,25	Betty/Bob
Canadian Cancer Society"Relay for Life"	Thunder Bay, ON	350,00	4 860,25	Council
Roxanne Fraser - Badminton	Shawinigan-Sud, QC	500,00	4 360,25	Betty/Bob
AIDS Vancouver Island - G. Folkedahl	Vancouver, BC	100,00	4 260,25	Regulation
Les Castors de Beloeil	Beloeil, QC	1 000,00	3 260,25	Council
Margaret Burke - "Relay for Life"	St. John's, NL	500,00	2 760,25	Council
Thrill On The Hill Ball Tournament	Ottawa, ON	500,00	2 260,25	Betty/Bob
Windsor Titans	Windsor, ON	500,00	1 760,25	Betty/Bob
Canadian Arthritis Society-D. Bannon	Protocol	100,00	1 660,25	Regulation
CUPE Local 4705	Sudbury, ON	200,00	1 460,25	Betty/Bob
Westfort Maroons Bantam AA	Thunder Bay, ON	250,00	1 210,25	Council
The Mission	Ottawa, ON	200,00	1 010,25	Betty/Bob
N. Lachance - TO BE DETERMINED		100,00	910,25	Regulation
D. Rand-Waiting for Info	D. Gee	300,00	610,25	Betty/Bob


	Still to be issued in 2004/Encore à verser en 2004
The Ottawa Food Bank	Ottawa, Ont.	200,00
	To be issued in 2005/À verser en 2005
			20 000,00
MacLennan Basketball Tournament	Sydney, N.S.	1 000,00	19 000,00
Saskatoon Angels Ladies Fastball	Saskatoon, Sask.	1 000,00	18 000,00

PRESIDENT’S ITINERARY
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
DECEMBER 2004

September
7	Meeting with Dan Tucker, Claude Tremblay, Nycole Turmel, Steve Jelly
8	Meeting with Dan Tucker, Claude Tremblay, Nycole Turmel, Steve Jelly CRA Strike started
16	Meeting with Alan Nymark
19	Attended Hospitality Suite of National Staffing Course
21-23	Attended Newfoundland CRA picket lines Met with Newfoundland Constabulary
24	CRA NSCC
	Also picketed with TC and HQ in Ottawa (dates not recorded)
October
6	Meeting with Alan Nymark, Nycole Turmel, Steve Jelly
7	Met with CRA Team members who were available NBOD by phone
10	All Teams meeting
18	EO Session for Council and EO Committee
19-23	UTE Executive Council and Presidents Conference
27	NBOD
	Also picketed with TC (dates not recorded)
November
21	Travelled to Toronto
22	Toronto East Ratification Vote
23	Toronto North Ratification Vote Barrie Ratification Vote
24	Toronto Call Site Ratification Vote Oshawa Ratification Vote
25	Toronto Centre Ratification Vote Toronto West Ratification Vote
26	Traveled home to Ottawa
29	Lethbridge Ratification Vote
30	Calgary Ratification Vote
December
1	Edmonton Ratification Vote
2	Saskatoon Ratification Vote
3	Traveled home to Ottawa

In Solidarity,

Betty Bannon
National President, UTE

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President’s Report Executive Council December 2004