It has been a busy few weeks for our Local. Here is the checklist about where we are at right now:
Clerical Composite Collective Agreement ratified by membership.
➢ Elections for the first UHT Clerical Collective Agreement Bargaining Team will take place in March.
Clerical Merged Seniority List published on Hospital’s Intranet.
➢ Members have until January 15th, 2020 to review the seniority list for any issues. Contact HR (Ashley.Soares@unityhealth.to) with any corrections. No revisions will be accepted after January 15th. The Hospital will publish the approved list on January 29th and from that date forward seniority will be used for job postings, lay-off recall etc. in accordance with the Clerical Composite Agreement.
Clerical Disputed Positions. Many Admin. Assistant and Co-ordinator positions remain outstanding.
➢ If the parties do not reach agreement on these by the end of January, the dispute will be taken to the Labour Board for a decision.
Service Composite Collective Agreement bargaining is completed.
➢ Ratification of the interim Composite Agreement will be on January 8th from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at each site. Rooms to be confirmed.
➢ Elections for the first UHT Service Collective Agreement Bargaining Team will take place in March.
Service Merged Seniority List will be published on the intranet by January 17th, 2020.
➢ Service members will have until Friday, January 31st to review the seniority list for any issues. Contact Human Resources (Ashley.Soares@unityhealth.to) with any corrections. No revisions will be accepted after January 31st. The Hospital will publish the approved list on February 14th and from that date forward seniority will be used for job postings, lay-off recall etc. in accordance with the Service Composite Agreement.
Chaplains Scope Clause Dispute. Minutes of Settlement were agreed to at the Labour Board for a process to deal with the question of who is in or out of the bargaining unit.
➢ The Hospital’s submission is due this month, the Union’s response is due in January, and then a date will be scheduled for a hearing.
Chaplains Bargaining. We have eight more days scheduled for January and February.
➢ A unit specific membership meeting for Chaplains will be held on January 20th, 2020 from 5:30-8:00 p.m. at Metropolitan United Church. Please come out for updates on bargaining and Union Structure discussions related to your unit.
C&W Services at Providence
➢ A unit specific meeting will be held on January 7th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. at Providence, for the unit to vote on formally joining Local 5441.
Outstanding grievances at St. Michael’s. Over 40 grievances remain from 2018/2019 to be scheduled for hearing in the new year.
➢ A small sub-committee is meeting this week to review the grievances and begin contacting the grievors. In January, a dedicated CUPE National Staff person will be assigned to assist in preparing the files, attempting to reach settlements, or scheduling the files for hearing dates.
Union dues rate of 1.7% of regular wages was voted on and approved by the membership.
➢ The new Union dues rate will take effect for all Service and Clerical members with the first full pay period in January.
Local Union Structure was voted on and approved by the membership.
➢ We are awaiting formal approval of the document from CUPE National President’s Office.
➢ Nominations for the position of Local 5441 President, 1st Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, Recording Secretary, Executive Chief Steward, three Trustees and the By-Law Committee will be accepted at the January 9th, 4-6 p.m. General Membership meeting being held at St. Joe’s in the Collaboratory (adjacent to the Cafeteria).
• In order to be nominated you either need to be at the meeting on January 9th to accept your nomination, or you need to submit your nomination to someone who will be present at the meeting on your behalf. The nomination should be presented in the following format:
• I, (Name of person making the nomination), nominate (Name of Candidate) for the position (Title of the Position) of Local 5441. Both the nominator and the Candidate must sign and date the document.
Election Day is January 23rd for President, 1st Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, Recording Secretary, Executive Chief Steward, three Trustees and the By-Law Committee who will represent all the members at all three sites.
➢ Nominations and elections for all other positions will take place in February and March.
All information and documentation related to this update and events in our Local can be found on our website: 5441.cupe.ca
A reminder that we need your personal email addresses in order to communicate effectively. Please be sure to send it to kdevoe@cupe.ca if you are from St. Mike’s, or your Local officers at St. Joe’s & Providence if you have not already done so.
Thank you!
