Minutes of the Equal Opportunities (EO) Committee Meeting

Equal Opportunities Committee
Minutes of the Equal Opportunities (EO) Committee Meeting
6 March 2014

13:00 EST to 15:00 EST
(12:00 CST to 14:00 CST)

Conference Call

  1. Welcome: Nancy Johnson, newly appointed Women’s Representative

  2. Article for the UTE Newsletter

  • Thoughts for an article? Missing Aboriginal women? Current news topics? Self-identification – for the impending newsletter.

  • Email to your distribution list

    • Women’s distribution list will be forwarded to Sister Nancy Johnson by the National Office.

  • Maturity Model update

    • National Committee meeting was held  at Ottawa, 27 November 2013; five (5) CRA priorities discussed during meeting;

    • Labour market availability (LMA) will be available during the summer of 2014 (stats from the 2011 census);

    • 16 January 2014, Sister Robin Johnson attended working group meeting for the Maturity Model; reviewed five levels of the Model; National Committee wishes to achieve Level 1 during the year 2014; questions on how the Model will be implemented at the Regional and Local levels. 

  • EO Annual Events

  • Each member of the Committee will review the Annual Events website and validate each web link is active and updated.

  • Other items submitted by the members of the Committee

    • Governance Model for the EE and Diversity Committees; Sister Linda Koenders attended meeting held with HQ Champion; uncertainty as to what constitutes “diversity”; progress at the branch level only; UTE will draft query for National Committee with how the Regional and Local Committees will be established.