UNION NEWS - MAY 2022
Many of you, from our long-standing members to our newer members who have just joined our Union, seem to be having difficulty identifying which of our sixty (60) Locals to which you belong and, as a result, knowing the identity and contact information of the local union representatives should you need assistance or support.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have had a massive and constant influx of new members. The vast majority of our members are still teleworking and many of you are reporting to your manager virtually. These conditions make it difficult to establish timely contact between our members and our local union representatives when the need arises. It also makes it more difficult to establish a lasting relationship between our members and our union representatives.
In order to address this situation and to provide you with the name and number of your Union of Taxation Employees (UTE) Local and the contact information of its union representatives, we have created a new email address that we are making available to you.
The address is membership@ute-sei.org.
This email address will be monitored daily, and the UTE National Office will be reviewing the requests for information or services received from our members. We will be able to provide you with the requested information or assistance and respond to your queries, or if necessary, refer you to your Local, including contact information for your union representatives.
To help us identify your Local and update your contact information in our database, we ask that you provide us with your full name, personal email address, home address and a phone number where we can reach you. In addition, it is very important that you provide us with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) office to which you are assigned and the branch/office to which you report.
We ask for your personal email address, rather than your CRA email address, to ensure compliance with the employer’s electronic network use policy by not corresponding with you through the employer’s email system.
All information that you provide will be kept strictly confidential and will only be used for the purposes for which it is intended and will not be supplied to third parties.
UTE is committed to providing efficient and timely information to all members on matters of importance to you, including but not limited to matters of representation, advocacy, membership services, bargaining, benefits and other such matters.
We strongly encourage you to avail yourself of this new email address in order to serve you more efficiently and enhance communications between you and our representatives at the various levels of UTE.
In Solidarity,
Marc Brière
National President
Union of Taxation Employees