Bob Campbell - Item 6
Collective Bargaining: UTE held three Telephone Town Hall meetings with the members to discuss the current state of collective bargaining - two in English on June 2 and one in French on June 3. We had great participation by the members in all three of these teleconferences. The bargaining team representatives who were present on each call explained our position and answered numerous and varied questions from the members. The Locals were asked to plan some activity in support of the team by the end of June that was tailored to their individual needs and realties. The Locals across the country responded with diverse and creative activities that showed great support for the team. Many thanks to each and every Local for their continued efforts in this regard. There were also a large number of emails sent to the Commissioner by the membership requesting that CRA return to the table and negotiate. In addition, a large number of grievances were filed that are working their way through the system in response to the bargaining communication sent by management to all employees of CRA.
We must continue to support the team and keep relaying to management that we are not willing to roll over.
POLITICAL ACTION: As you are aware, the UTE Triennial Convention approved a budget for political action geared towards the next federal election. To this end, I tasked the Political Action Committee with developing an action plan to engage the membership. The Committee should be congratulated on the job that they did in creating radio advertisements, post cards and wrist bands to inform our membership on the importance of voting on October 19th, and the provision of information.
ELECTION OF ALTERNATE RVP ATLANTIC- Following the resignation of Sister Dawn Hardy, the National Office conducted an election process for the position of Alternate Regional Vice-President-Atlantic Region. Congratulations to Brother Brian Oldford who was elected by acclamation and many thanks to Sister Hardy for her dedication to this office as well as to the members of UTE over the years.
HISTORY OF UTE: We have engaged the Workers’ History Museum to produce a book and a video on the History of UTE. Both projects are on track and the book has progressed to the editing stage. We are still anticipating completion and release in the late winter of 2016.
NATIONAL OFFICE STAFFING: We have staffed two positions in the National Office. We welcome Brother Mathieu Juneau as a Labour Relations Officer and Brother Liam Merrigan as the Assistant Finance Administration Officer.
AGMS: The AGM season is starting up again in some regions. Once again, we would ask the Locals to coordinate their AGMs with other Locals in the same region to facilitate travel by our National Officers and to ensure a National Officer presence at every AGM. All requests for National Officers should be done through the National President so that we can make sure that all of your requests are met and we do this in a manner that will best serve the membership.
Meetings with CRA: Due to the deteriorating relationship with CRA management and the current state of your contract negotiations, UTE nationally will continue to not participle in the Union/Management Consultation Committee meetings until a fair Collective Agreement is reached. We do continue to meet with the CRA when required to ensure our legislative responsibilities are met. We continue to represent our members.
WEB/COMMUNICATIONS:
We continue to update our new website. The RVP grievance system has been converted and is operational. As part of the website project, we chose to only convert the last few years’ worth of content. We have had requests for older content as some of you are using the website for reference purposes. Over time we will be converting all of the old content and putting it on the website. If there is something you need now, let us know and we will get it for you. The new site has a section that is similar to the old “For Locals” section, except that instead of one general login that everyone uses, everyone who needs access (local, regional and national executives) will require their own username and password. Please contact Susan Duncan with your name, personal email address, and local (where applicable) and she will set up your account, if you have not already done so.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
All IT systems have been running well. Regular software maintenance of internal computers and servers was performed. We upgraded the video equipment in the main boardroom at the national office. We purchased new Apple iPad Air tablets for the RVPs.
DONATION / SPONSORSHIPS :
|
RECIPIENT/BÉNÉFICIAIRE |
CITY/VILLE |
AMOUNT |
APPROVED BY |
|
MONTANT |
APPROUVÉ PAR |
||
|
BUDGET |
18,000.00 |
||
|
First Baptist Church Youth Group - Jordan Smith |
Charlottetown PE |
500.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
The Diana Gee Memorial Trust |
Toronto ON |
1,000.00 |
Council/ Conseil |
|
Linda Koenders - Education in Action 2015 Project - Guatemala |
Ottawa ON |
500.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Walk for Memories - Alzheimer Society |
Barrie ON |
250.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Sudbury & District Labour Council Women's Committee |
Sudbury ON |
300.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Earl Cahill Curling Team |
Thunder Bay ON |
250.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Tiernan Bates - Forum for Young Canadians |
Hamilton ON |
500.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Brett Ramsay |
Summerside PE |
300.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
SLAM Basketball (Jr. Mini Girls team-U10 Developmental) |
Halifax NS |
250.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
PEI 5 Pin Bowlers' Association |
Summerside PE |
300.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Tyne Valley Figure Skating Club (TVFSC) |
Summerside PE |
300.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Riverview High School Safe Grad Event |
Sydney NS |
300.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
O'Leary Skating Club (OSC) |
Summerside PE |
250.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Big Brothers Big Sisters - Bowl for Kids Sake |
Summerside PE |
300.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Nancy Johnson |
Saskatoon SK |
500.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Dawn Hardy |
Summerside PE |
500.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
UCTE - Golf Tournament |
Ottawa ON |
500.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
CRDM |
Montréal QC |
500.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Jean-Pierre Fraser - Les Petits Frères |
Shawinigan-Sud QC |
200.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Penticton Survivorship Dragon Boat Team |
Penticton BC |
300.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Canadian Cancer Society c/o Susan Frellick-Perry |
Summerside PE |
250.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Les Bons Vivants / Barbara Dufresne |
Shawinigan-Sud QC |
250.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
La Fondation Drapeau et Deschambault |
Sainte-Thérèse QC |
100.00 |
Protocol |
|
Canadian Liver |
Kingston ON |
100.00 |
Protocol |
|
Alex Sugarcamp MacDonald Memorial Golf Tournament |
Stillwater Lake NS |
300.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Sydney Mines & District Little League |
Sydney NS |
300.00 |
Bob/Madonna |
|
Tiny Hearts Magazine - CHEO |
Ottawa ON |
310.75 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Weekend pour vaincre les cancers féminins |
Sherbrooke QC |
500.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Canadian Red Cross - Saskatoon Branch |
Saskatoon SK |
500.00 |
Bob/Madonna |
|
Saskatoon District Labour Council (Summer Snack Program) |
Saskatoon SK |
300.00 |
Bob/Madonna |
|
PEI Midget All Stars |
Summerside PE |
300.00 |
Bob/Madonna |
|
Tammy Norden - CIBC Run for the Cure |
Summerside PE |
300.00 |
Bob/Madonna |
|
Rhema Ministries |
Ottawa ON |
500.00 |
Marc/Madonna |
|
Sudbury & District Labour Council |
Sudbury ON |
300.00 |
Marc/Madonna |
|
UTE Sudbury D Culgin WAKOWorld Championships |
Sudbury ON |
300.00 |
Marc/Madonna |
|
Team MacMillan |
Ottawa ON |
300.00 |
Marc/Madonna |
|
Hillside to Haiti 5K |
Halifax NS |
300.00 |
Bob/Marc |
|
Total spent / Total dépensé |
13,010.75 |
||
|
Balance - UTE / Solde SEI |
4,989.25 |
||
|
Presidents' Use / A l'usage du président |
2,000.00 |
||
|
Union of Northern Workers - Local 6 |
Yellowknife NT |
1,500.00 |
|
|
CUPE Local 101 |
London ON |
500.00 |
|
|
The Mission - Help with Christmas dinners |
Ottawa |
||
|
The Ottawa Food Bank - In lieu of Christmas cards |
Ottawa |
||
|
Salvation Army : Toy Mountain |
Ottawa |
||
|
The Snowsuit Fund of Ottawa |
Ottawa |
||
|
Total spent / Total dépensé |
2,000.00 |
||
|
Balance - President / Solde - Président |
0.00 |
||
|
Total Balance - Donations - UTE and President / |
4,989.25 |
||
|
Solde total - Dons - SEI et Président |
|||
|
Extraordinary Donations from Surplus / |
5,000.00 |
||
|
Dons Extraordinaires provenant du surplus |
|||
|
Union of Northern Workers - Local 6 |
Yellowknife NT |
5,000.00 |
Council/ Conseil |
|
Muskeg First Nation, Fire Relief Fund |
Saskatoon SK |
5,000.00 |
Council/ Conseil |
|
Total spent / Total dépensé |
10,000.00 |
NON UTE EVENTS:
|
RECIPIENT |
REASON |
AMOUNT |
|||
|
BÉNÉFICIAIRE |
RAISON |
MONTANT |
|||
|
BUDGET - 2015 |
20,000.00 |
||||
|
2014 Carry Over / Report de 2014 |
- |
||||
|
TOTAL BUDGET - 2015 |
20,000.00 |
||||
|
Céline Rousseau |
FTQ Rencontre biennale de réflexion |
Nov 4-5/14 |
Laval QC |
64.61 |
|
|
TOTAL SPENT / DÉPENSES |
64.61 |
||||
|
BUDGET AVAILABLE / BUDGET DISPONIBLE |
19,935.39 |
||||
|
Approved - No Claim Received |
Location |
Advance |
Approved |
||
|
Approuvé - Aucune réclamation reçue |
Location |
Avance |
Approuvé |
||
|
Céline Rousseau |
École des femmmes de la FTQ |
Nov 8-13/15 |
Orford, QC |
650.00 |
|
|
Lise Larouche |
École des femmmes de la FTQ |
Nov 8-13/15 |
Orford, QC |
650.00 |
|
|
NET BUDGET AVAILABLE / BUDGET NET DISPONIBLE |
18,635.39 |
||||
GRIEVANCES:
Since our last Executive Council meeting, fifty-eight (58) grievances, other than classification, were received at the National Office.
During the same period, fifty (50) grievances were presented dealing with a variety of issues. In this quarter, five (5) grievances were withdrawn and we received thirty-three (33) grievance replies from CRA, all of which were denied.
|
OPENED INVENTORY |
REC’D |
TO BE |
AWAITING |
ADJ. |
CLOSED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Nov. 96 – March 27/09 |
4513 |
|
|
2 |
4511 |
|
March 28/09– June 10/09 |
26 |
|
|
5 |
21 |
|
June 10/09 – Sept 04/09 |
36 |
|
|
3 |
33 |
|
Sept 05/09 – March 5/10 |
82 |
|
|
1 |
81 |
|
March 6/10 – Feb 28/11 |
107 |
|
|
4 |
103 |
|
Mar 1/11 – Sept 8/11 |
70 |
|
|
20 |
50 |
|
Sept 9/11 – Nov 18/11 |
18 |
|
|
6 |
12 |
|
Nov 19/11 – Feb 21/12 |
43 |
|
1[1] |
5 |
37 |
|
Feb 22/12 – May 18/12 |
12 |
|
|
1 |
11 |
|
May 21/12 – Aug 31/12 |
32 |
|
|
6 |
26 |
|
Sept 3/12 – Nov 16/12 |
41 |
|
|
3 |
38 |
|
Nov 19/12 – March 5/13 |
33 |
1[2] |
|
2 |
30 |
|
March 6/13 – May 24/13 |
29 |
|
|
2 |
27 |
|
May 27/13 – Sept 11/13 |
43 |
|
|
21 |
22 |
|
Sept 12/13 – Nov 19/13 |
14 |
|
|
7 |
7 |
|
Nov 20/13 - Mar 6/14 |
24 |
1[3] |
|
10 |
13 |
|
Mar 7/14 – May 21/14 |
41 |
2[4] |
|
8 |
31 |
|
May 22/14 – Sept 11/14 |
46 |
6[5] |
1[6] |
12 |
27 |
|
Sept 12/14 – Nov 26/14 |
70 |
|
4[7] |
17 |
49 |
|
Nov 27/14 – Mar 04/15 |
39 |
3[8] |
12[3] |
5 |
19 |
|
Mar 5/15 – May 27/15 |
38 |
15 |
2 |
4 |
17 |
|
May 28/15 – Sept 3/15 |
58 |
42 |
3 |
1 |
12 |
[1] Grievor was originally identified by the CRA as being an employee of Shared Services Canada (SSC) at time of grievance. Employee has been confirmed as an SSC employee and the grievance is held in abeyance at the request of the grievor pending changes to the SSC classification system.
[2] Grievance held in abeyance at request of PSAC pending WSIB appeal. WSIB appeal is being handled by legal services of PSAC.
[3] Job content grievances hearings scheduled for September 16, 2015
[4] Received grievor's documents in early August 2015
[5] Waiting for information on these grievances.
[6] Grievance recently presented and reply is pending.
[7] Grievances presented August 2015
[8] Grievances held in abeyance pending immigration investigation
There are presently seventy (70) grievances in the National Office inventory which have not yet been presented at the Final Level.
POLICY GRIEVANCE
There was no policy grievance filed during this period.
CLASSIFICATION GRIEVANCE
There was no new classification grievance received during this quarter.
|
OPENED INVENTORY |
REC’D |
CLOSED |
OUTSTANDING |
|
Jun 04/00 – June 1/10 |
535 |
535 |
|
|
June 1/10 – Feb 28/11 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
|
March 1/11 – March 6/14 |
6 |
6 |
|
|
March 7/14 – May 21/14 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
May 22/14 – Nov 26/14 |
0 |
|
|
|
Nov 27/14 – March 4/15 |
0 |
|
|
|
Mar 5/15 – May 27/15 |
0 |
|
|
|
May 28/15 – Sept 3/15 |
0 |
|
|
INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY REVIEWS (ITPRs)
During this quarter, one new ITPR was received in the National Office concerning staffing.
One application for judicial review of a decision from a previous quarter is still pending at the Federal Court. No date for a hearing has been scheduled yet.
There are currently two (2) staffing ITPRs in our inventory requiring representation by the National Office.
During the last quarter, five (5) ITPRs were presented before a Reviewer. All five (5) ITPRs were allowed.
Settlement discussions are underway concerning one (1) of the two (2) outstanding ITPRs.
CRA POLICY REVIEW GRIEVANCES
Currently there is one CRA Policy Grievance in our inventory pending a hearing at the third level.
September 2, 2015
President’s Itinerary
SEPTEMBER 2015
JUNE
2 UTE Bargaining – English Telephone Town Halls Ottawa
3 UTE Bargaining – French Telephone Town Hall Ottawa
2-5 PSAC NBoD Meeting Ottawa
8-11 UTE Executive Council Ottawa
23 Executive Committee Teleconference Ottawa
30 AEU Bargaining Ottawa
JULY
2 AEU Bargaining Ottawa
AUGUST
26-30 UTE Regional EO Conference Toronto
31 Travel to Rocky Mountains Region Calgary
MEMBERSHIP
|
|
JULY / JUILLET 2015 |
|
|
|||
|
|
FULL |
RAND |
SUSPENDED |
TOTAL |
||
|
|
|
|
SUSPENDUS |
|||
|
ATLANTIC REGION / RÉGION DE L'ATLANTIQUE |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Saint John (60005) |
321 |
2 |
|
|
323 |
|
|
Bathurst (60006) |
66 |
|
|
|
66 |
|
|
Moncton (60008) |
80 |
1 |
|
|
81 |
|
|
Halifax (80003) |
304 |
5 |
|
|
309 |
|
|
Sydney (80004) |
89 |
3 |
|
|
92 |
|
|
St. John's T.C. / C.F. de St. John's (90000) |
399 |
61 |
|
|
460 |
|
|
St. John's T.S.O. / St. John's B.S.F. (90001) |
469 |
25 |
|
|
494 |
|
|
Charlottetown (90002) |
109 |
1 |
|
|
110 |
|
|
Summerside (90006) |
811 |
72 |
2 |
|
885 |
|
|
|
2648 |
170 |
2 |
|
2820 |
|
|
QUEBEC REGION / RÉGION DE QUÉBEC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jonquière (10004) |
461 |
4 |
|
|
465 |
|
|
Shawinigan South / Shawinigan-Sud (10005) |
986 |
8 |
|
|
994 |
|
|
Québec (10006) |
240 |
1 |
|
|
241 |
|
|
Trois-Rivières (10027) |
42 |
1 |
|
|
43 |
|
|
Chicoutimi (10110) |
82 |
|
|
|
82 |
|
|
|
1811 |
14 |
0 |
|
1825 |
|
|
MONTREAL REGION / RÉGION DE MONTRÉAL |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sherbrooke (10007) |
94 |
2 |
|
|
96 |
|
|
Montréal (10008) |
905 |
13 |
|
|
918 |
|
|
Rouyn-Noranda (10009) |
31 |
1 |
|
|
32 |
|
|
Montérégie South Shore / Montérégie Rive Sud (10017) |
178 |
5 |
|
|
183 |
|
|
Laval (10028) |
251 |
6 |
|
|
257 |
|
|
Outaouais (70035) |
57 |
4 |
|
|
61 |
|
|
|
1516 |
31 |
0 |
|
1547 |
|
|
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION / RÉGION DE LA CAPITALE NATIONALE |
|
|
|
|||
|
Ottawa Headquarters / Administration centrale d'Ottawa (70000) |
2077 |
160 |
14 |
|
2251 |
|
|
Ottawa East / Ottawa-Est (70001) |
515 |
39 |
8 |
|
562 |
|
|
Ottawa Centre / Ottawa Centre (70004) |
433 |
66 |
12 |
|
511 |
|
|
Ottawa I.T.S.O. / B.S.I.O. d'Ottawa (70009) |
286 |
74 |
5 |
|
365 |
|
|
Ottawa T.S.O. / B.S.F. d'Ottawa (70010) |
309 |
49 |
|
|
358 |
|
|
Ottawa Technology Centre / Centre de technologie d'Ottawa (70030) |
1295 |
239 |
6 |
|
1540 |
|
|
|
4915 |
627 |
45 |
|
5587 |
|
|
NORTHERN & EASTERN ONTARIO REGION / RÉGION DU NORD ET DU SUD DE L'ONTARIO |
||||||
|
Peterborough (00008) |
72 |
1 |
|
|
73 |
|
|
Kingston (00011) |
83 |
3 |
|
|
86 |
|
|
Belleville (00012) |
138 |
1 |
|
|
139 |
|
|
Thunder Bay (00020) |
97 |
|
|
|
97 |
|
|
Sudbury T.C. / C.F. de Sudbury (00042) |
1353 |
89 |
2 |
|
1444 |
|
|
|
1743 |
94 |
2 |
|
1839 |
|
|
SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO REGION / RÉGION DU SUD-OUEST DE L'ONTARIO |
|
|
||||
|
Hamilton (00014) |
642 |
53 |
1 |
|
696 |
|
|
Kitchener (00015) |
290 |
|
|
|
290 |
|
|
St. Catharines (00016) |
171 |
|
|
|
171 |
|
|
London (00017) |
298 |
1 |
|
|
299 |
|
|
Windsor (00018) |
166 |
1 |
|
|
167 |
|
|
|
1567 |
55 |
1 |
|
1623 |
|
|
GREATER TORONTO REGION / RÉGION DU GRAND TORONTO |
|
|
|
|
||
|
Toronto East / Toronto-Est (00001) |
568 |
57 |
|
|
625 |
|
|
Toronto Centre / Toronto Centre (00013) |
719 |
249 |
1 |
|
969 |
|
|
Toronto North / Toronto-Nord (00048) |
563 |
49 |
7 |
|
619 |
|
|
Toronto West / Toronto-Ouest (00051) |
453 |
8 |
3 |
|
464 |
|
|
Barrie (00052) |
104 |
2 |
|
|
106 |
|
|
|
2407 |
365 |
11 |
|
2783 |
|
|
PRAIRIE REGION / RÉGION DES PRAIRIES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Regina (40022) |
155 |
9 |
1 |
|
165 |
|
|
Winnipeg (50021) |
420 |
17 |
|
|
437 |
|
|
Winnipeg T.C. / C.F. de Winnipeg (50031) |
1349 |
61 |
|
|
1410 |
|
|
Winnipeg C.C.S.C. / C.A.S.R. de Winnipeg (50032) |
155 |
5 |
|
|
160 |
|
|
|
2079 |
92 |
1 |
|
2172 |
|
|
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION / RÉGION DES MONTAGNE ROCHEUSES |
|
|
|
|||
|
Calgary Call Centre / Centre d'appels de Calgary (30022) |
281 |
11 |
|
|
292 |
|
|
Calgary (30024) |
433 |
18 |
1 |
|
452 |
|
|
Edmonton (30025) |
648 |
72 |
6 |
|
726 |
|
|
Lethbridge (30027) |
37 |
|
|
|
37 |
|
|
Saskatoon (40023) |
222 |
|
|
|
222 |
|
|
|
1621 |
101 |
7 |
|
1729 |
|
|
PACIFIC REGION / RÉGION DU PACIFIQUE |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North B.C. & Yukon / le Nord de la C.B. et du Yukon (20002) |
96 |
9 |
|
|
105 |
|
|
Kelowna (20003) |
61 |
3 |
|
|
64 |
|
|
Burnaby Fraser (20007) |
608 |
19 |
|
|
627 |
|
|
Penticton (20026) |
236 |
1 |
|
|
237 |
|
|
Vancouver (20027) |
520 |
98 |
1 |
|
619 |
|
|
Victoria (20028) |
275 |
3 |
|
|
278 |
|
|
Surrey T.C. / C.F. de Surrey (20029) |
760 |
97 |
|
|
857 |
|
|
Pacific Region Call Centre / Centre d'appels de la région du Pacifique (20050) |
293 |
48 |
|
|
341 |
|
|
|
2849 |
278 |
1 |
|
3128 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unallotted |
6 |
89 |
0 |
|
95 |
|
|
|
23162 |
1916 |
70 |
|
25148 |
|
Respectfully submitted,
Bob Campbell
National President