Thank you to all who attended the meeting, it was great to see you! Some highlights:

Notice of Motion:

• By-law changes – response from CUPE National. Lois read out changes to everyone and hard copies were handed out.

November is Nominations month: List of nominees: 

First Vice President – one for position two-year term to January 2026

Nominees:

Cindy Ozouf – Incumbent

Jaspreet Kaur

Treasurer – one for position two-year term to January 2026

Nominees:

Devon Devries

Jackie Enders

Lyn Ferec – Incumbent

Shilpee Sharma

Recording Secretary – one position for remainder of term to January 2025

Nominees:

Sarah Aloisio

Kasahra Atkins

Devon Devries

Membership Officer – one for position two-year term to January 2026

Nominees:

Laszlo Nemes – Incumbent

Shilpee Sharma

Trustee – one position for a three-year term to January 2027

Nominees:

Linda Fleck – Incumbent

Shilpee Sharma

Grievance Committee – two positions for remainder of the term to January 2025. Must be active Shop Steward

Nominees:

Kasahra Atkins

Devon Devries

Shilpee Sharma

Job Evaluation Committee – one three-year term and alternate.

Nominees:

Three-year term:

Michael Dillon – Incumbent

Greg Ellis

Devon Devries – declined nomination

Alternate – 1 year term:

Michael Dhillon

Greg Ellis

Rachel McLeod

Steve Zamudio

Education Committee – two positions – one for a three-year term to January 2027, and one year remainder to January 2025.

Nominees:

Three-year term:

Dan Stultz

Cindy Ozouf – Incumbent

One-year term

Sarah Aloisio

Shilpee Sharma

Dan Stultz

Parking Appeal Committee – two for position two-year term to January 2026

Nominees:

Sarah Aloisio

Michael Dhillon

Caelan Mcammond

Vivian Oosthoek

Food Advisory Committee – one for position two-year term to January 2026

Nominees:

Mariana Abutalipova

Jon Mackintosh – Incumbent

Kamloops and District Council delegates – for remainder of term to January 2025 with maximum 11 delegates

Nominees:  Acclaimed

Kasahra Atkins

Vivian Oosthoek

Shilpee Sharma

Communications Committee – Based on interest – Acclaimed

Kayla Sanford

Caelan McAmmond

Vivian Oosthoek

Social Committee – Based on interest – no additional names put forward

Okanagan Mainline District Council – three positions available for remainder of term to January 2025.

Nominees:  Acclaimed

Leah Stubbings

Vivian Oosthoek

1 vacancy

Notice of Motion:

Letter of Understanding (LOU) on Working from Home language (moving beyond the pilot project)

 Credential Enhancement Program

Seeking applicants now. Deadline Dec 8/23

Convention

Report on Convention will be reported at Dec meeting

 Lunch n Learn on Job Evaluation and Interview process – November 23  at  Noon to 1pm  OL127

 CUPE 4879 Bursaries – Deadline for applications is January 19, 2024

Good of the Union: 

Members in attendance at the meeting were entered into a draw for our regular two $20 door prizes Winners are:

$20 draw winners:

Kasahra Atkins – in person

Nicole Singular – online

Meeting was adjourned at 5:33 PM

Thank you to all who attended the meeting, it was great to see you!

Some highlights:

Executive Report – Cindy Ozouf

• Upcoming Nominations for: First VP, Treasurer, Membership Officer, Trustee (1 year), Recording Secretary (1 yr remainder), Grievance Committee (2 members), JJEC (3 yr term & 1 yr alternate, Education Committee (3 yr term & 1 year remainder), Parking appeal Committee, Food Advisory Committee, KDLC (positions available), OMDC (3 positions available)

• Approval of our Bylaws has been received. Lois sent an email regarding a Notice of Motion regarding pending recommended changes, which will open for further discussion on this afternoon.

Motion to donate up to $200.00 to local CUPE 882 in support of members on strike with funds to come out of our solidarity budget line.

Motion to donate up to $200.00 to in support of the Rise Memorial fund (via the North Okanagan Labour Council) to honour 5 victims who perished in the Kelowna Crane incident 2 years ago, with funds to come out of solidarity budget line.

Committee Reports:

• Lois gave a report on Universities committee
• Cindy gave a report for new term as co-chair of Racialized workers committee.
• Cindy gave brief update on Post-secondary town hall that was attended with Lois and CUPE BC President Karen Ranaletta on Sept 27/23.
• Kasahra gave a report as a newly appointed Young Workers committee member.
• Vivian gave a report as a newly appointed Pink Triangle committee member.

Notice of Motion – Amendment to the By-Laws:

• By-laws approve, but there is recommended housekeeping changes.

Good of the Union: 

Members in attendance at the meeting were entered into a draw for our regular two $20 door prizes Winners are:

Turkey Draws:

Didi Ledohowski (online)

Devon Devries

$20 draw

Curtis Stebner

Jaspreet Kaur (online)

Meeting was adjourned at 5:18 PM

Thank you to all who attended the meeting, it was great to see you!

Some highlights:

New member oath of obligation:  

• Welcome to: Curtis Stebner and Sarah Porter

Executive Report – Cindy Ozouf

• Pride Parade: We are participating in Pride Parade with TRUSU on Aug 27/23. Invitation sent out to all members.
• Labour Day Picnic – MacDonald Park- We will have a table set up, please come by, and join us.
• Set Agenda for Sept 2023 meeting.
• Budget presentation (to be discussed and voted on later in this meeting

Budget Presentation

Lois presented.

Discussion:

• Devon D: asked about internet/phone cost – Lois explained.
• Edith S: asked about Blue cross cost – Lois explained

Good of the Union: 

Members in attendance at the meeting were entered into a draw for our regular two $20 door prizes Winners are:

Michael Dillon – online

David Johnson – in person

Meeting was adjourned at 6:14 PM

Thank you to all who attended the meeting, it was great to see you!

Some highlights:

Bylaw Changes – Voting

Article 11 – remove 50% to run for executive position. (motion passed)

 Article 16 – Duties of an executive:  (motion passed)

Article 21 – Add KLDC and OMDC:  (motion passed)

Article 22 – remove 50% to attend conventions, etc.  (motion passed)

Article 27 – Honorariums for executive members.  (motion passed)

Discussion: Several discussions on the floor.

Next steps – we send this to CUPE National for approval.

Spring School Update:

Kasahra gave an update – Participated in Mental Health course. Good discussion on various focus across the community and workplaces. Learned how to map health hazards in your workplace. Lots of networking.

 Jackie gave an update – Participated in Advanced Grievance Handling. It was good, they brought in a CUPE lawyer. It was good to hear from the lawyer side as we normally would directly deal with National rep. Learned more about arbitrations and a case was presented to us and we got to to participate in an arbitration exercise. Learned about a great reference Canlii website to look at past results of arbitrations. Learned about concurrent proceedings, worksafe, human rights tribunal etc. and so much more.

 Meet and Greet:

Happening tomorrow, Jun 15 from 10-1130 hope to see everyone there.

 Pickleball:

Happening all summer and schedule is online and will go through Sept 26

Good of the Union: 

Members in attendance at the meeting were entered into a draw for our regular two $20 door prizes and one grand prize of $100.00 Winners were:

$20 Daniel Stultz

$20 Cliff Harms

Congratulations.  Connie will be in touch.

Meeting was adjourned at 5:50 PM

Thank you to all who attended the meeting, it was great to see you!

Some highlights:

Discussion and updates:

Bylaw updates

• Finalizing By-Laws
• Need 2/3 approval from members. Once approved, it will be forwarded to National for approval.

2023 CUPE BC Convention

• Lois gave an update – re-elected as Alternate Regional Vice President. Liaison to Sgt of Arms Committee, attended early exec board meetings and participated in Day of Mourning
• Cindy gave an update – honoured to be elected as Alternate Diversity Vice President.
• Shilpee gave an update – thanked members for sending her, it was impactful and learned a lot
• Jaspreet gave an update – Inspired by speakers and met a lot of people
• Kasahra gave an update – She got to learn a lot about CUPE does for workers and the community. Resolutions that passed was all very important and voted on by members. It was a great experience, and she hopes to join a CUPE BC committee to learn more about CUPE BC.

 Discussion:

 Tony had questions about how resolutions were passed. Cindy gave an explanation. Further discussion surrounding convention.

 Retro Pay:

If any issues and questions, Lois advised to reach out to one of us.

 Grievances:

It’s been very busy, and we will give updates as we move forward.

Good of the Union: 

Members in attendance at the meeting were entered into a draw for our regular two $20 door prizes.  Winners were:

$20 – Catrina Ertel – Online

$20 – Zeinab Esmaeili

Everyone in attendance will also have their names entered in the $100.00 draw.

Congratulations.  Connie will be in touch.

Meeting was adjourned at 5:27 PM

Thank you to all who attended the meeting, it was great to see you!

Some highlights:

Discussion and updates:

Women’s conference

• Lois update on Women’s conference. Judy Darcy was keynote speaker. It was great experience. Lots of really good speakers. Lois attended a few sessions including facilitating, bystander training (which CUPE does own version of session). 700+ women & gender identified participants from coast to coast.
• Vivian gave update on Women’s conference as well. Attended a few different sessions including how to bring about change to make your point, using your authentic voice, young workers caucus (30 & below). Overall, fantastic experience.
• Shilpi – wonderful experience to attend conference. She felt the collective power and a jaw dropping experience, eye opener. Recommend others to attend. It was inspiring. She thanked everyone.
• Kam commented that perhaps, TRU should offer something like this as well.

Pension update

• Cindy and Karl gave an update. Recent changes to CPP, OAS, GIS, attended MEPAC AGM and included presentation from BC investment corporation, and MPRA
• Trying to Host pension Education in fall. Contact Cindy for more information.
• Karl commented on adding supporting indigenous investments in our provincial report to Convention.

Grievances

• 9 outstanding, 2 in arbitration
• Update on wage increases and retro: it will be sometime in May payroll as they are three groups that they must process. Recent retirees will also be entitled to Retro.
• Just FYI – Second increase is 6.75% effective as of April 1, 2023

 Lois reminder – Day of Mourning – St. Andrews on the Square – short service. Encourage attendance – April 28^th, 2023. Important to remember those who lost their lives while doing their job. 6:00 pm start.

 Kris Webb – last CUPE meeting. Expressing thanks for all we do. Appreciate what we have done.

Good of the Union: 
Members in attendance at the meeting were entered into a draw for our regular two $20 door prizes.  Winners were:

$20 – Marianna Abutalipova

$20 – Cindy Ozouf

Everyone in attendance will also have their names entered in the $100.00 draw.

Congratulations.  Connie will be in touch.

Meeting was adjourned at 5:24 PM

Thank you for those who attended our general meeting, here is a quick summary from the January 18, 2023.

Trustee Report for fiscal year July 2021 to June 2022 – Cristian Sonea gave the Trustees’ audit report on behalf of himself, Kathleen Johnston and Linda Fleck.  They reviewed the books, records and finances and find everything in order. The Local is following bylaws.  All files and paperwork are in order.  There was a very small list of recommendations given to Executive, and they have already been addressed. Lois gave the Executive’s response to thank our Trustees for their great work.  Thank you to our Treasurer Lyn Ferec who continues to make sound decision on behalf of our Local and a thank you to our Administrative Assistant, Connie Angman for her great financial and organizational skills.

Elections ( Please note a full list of Executive and Committees will be sent out next week ).

The 2^nd Vice-President (VP) position was recently vacated by Navin Jain. On behalf of the membership we want to thank Navin for his dedication and work for the local and wish him and his wife much success in Vancouver as they start their new careers.

2^nd VP:  Jaspreet Kaur and Jackie Enders were nominated for the position of 2^nd VP and Jackie Enders was elected. Congratulations, Jackie!

Additional members acclaimed for the following committees

Social committee:  Ernest Kwok

Communication committee:  Ernest Kwok

Shop steward committee:  Janine Rostron, Katherine Ranta  (It was noted that if persons  would like to put their name forward to be a steward they could attend  the training sessions to learn more about it before confirming).

KDLC:  Shilpee Sharma

Thank you to everyone who let their name stand.  We appreciate you.

 CUPE BC Convention, April 26-29, 2023 in Victoria

A motion was passed to send the President and 5 delegates and elect one alternate to the CUPE BC Convention in Victoria April 26-29 with preference given to the 4879 Executive, with money to come from the CUPE BC Convention budget line.

Nominations and elections were held and the following delegates will attend on behalf of CUPE 4879:

Lois Rugg, Cindy Ozouf, Melissa Schuurman, Lyn Ferec, Jackie Enders, Kasahra Atkin.  Our alternate delegate will be Shilpee Sharma.

 Discussion and updates:

• Bargaining update: currently in bargaining, going well, will bring an offer to membership when it’s ready – hopefully end of January/February.  Will have a special ratification meeting to discuss and vote
• Hybrid work query: proposal put into bargaining, and employer also has a committee working on it
• Financial report: question about if there is a baseline from CUPE national that we should be meeting?  Lois: We are exceeding what is expected
• WIT Committee: Credential Enhancement Fund given to 22 people, with over $42,000 awarded, those who received funds will get them soon
• CUPE 4879 bursary deadline is here.

Door prizes of $20 were won by Lyn Ferec and Marianna Abutalipova.

Congratulations.  Connie will be in touch. See you all at the next meeting!

Thank you to all who attended the Christmas Social this year. It was a great night of laughs, catching up, food, trivia and card making (we have some really creative members).

Congratulations to all our winners. We had 4 turkey draws, 2 $20.00 draws, and grand price draw for a staycation to Delta Hotel (Marianna Abutalipova – winner of the grand prize). Congratulations everyone!

Here are some of our members enjoying some nibbles and socializing.

We welcomed some new members and here they are taking their oath:

For those that could not make it, we missed you and hope to see you next year.

Wishing you and your family as great holiday season and all the best in the New Year!

From your executive members Lois, Melissa, Cindy, Laszlo, Navin and Lyn.

Hello All:

Here are the results from the Nomination Meeting held November 9^th.  Thank you to all who let their name stand. There will be an election for the Grievance Committee in January and there are a few vacancies open for further nomination as well. Otherwise most committees and Exec positions have been acclaimed.

President – Lois Rugg – acclaimed

2^nd VP – Navin Jain – acclaimed

Secretary – Melissa Schuurman – acclaimed

Trustee – 3 year term  – Kathleen Johnston

Negotiations Committee – agreed to keep current committee as we are in Negotiations currently.

Grievance Chair – Melissa Schuurman – acclaimed

*Nominations for Grievance Committee – include President and 4 members – Sarah Aloisio, Cindy Ozouf, Jackie Enders, Jasmine Haskell and Kam Johal – election will held on January 4, 2023.

Labour Management Committee – President and Linda Fleck, Kris Webb, Cindy Ozouf and Sarah Aloisio

Joint Job Evaluation Committee – 3 year term – Jaspreet Kaur

Joint Job Evaluation Committee Alternate – Rachael MacLeod

Education Committee – 3 year term – Tony Kuczma

*Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee – Randy Hoffman, 1 vacancy

Social committee – Tony Kuczma, Kam Johal, Dan Stultz, Cindy Ozouf, Laszlo Nemes, Shilpee Sharma, Shannon James, Lois Rugg (vacancies available)

Communication Committee –  Lois Rugg, Cindy Ozouf and Cristian Sonea (vacancies available)

Shop steward – Kam Johal, Kathleen Johnston (vacancies available)

Okanagan Mainline District Council Delegates – Lois Rugg, Cindy Ozouf, Navin Jain, Melissa Schuurman Kam Johal, Sarah Aloisio

Kamloops District and Labour Council Delegates – Lois Rugg, Cindy Ozouf, Navin Jain, Melissa Schuurman, Jaspreet Kaur, Sarah Aloisio (vacancies available)

See you at the Holiday Social on December 14, 2023 from 4:30-6:30 pm. 

Thank you to everyone who attended our General Meeting. It was nice to see some of you in person.

We welcomed New members Ryan Smith and Yi Fan Yin-Cheng

As part of the regular order of business and Cindy Ozouf gave a presentation on the CUPE National Sectoral Conference held in Ottawa October 3 to 6^th.
Over 700 delegates attended from across Canada representing sectors including the Post Secondary Education (PSE) Sector which includes Universities, Colleges and Cegeps (Quebec) representing CUPE academic workers, researchers, techs and support staff.

Major issues in PSE are most provinces are still seeing further cuts to PSE and tuition continues to increase.  Most institutions have an increased reliance on precarious forms of employment.   Outsourcing and privatization is another favorite tactic which means contracting sessional instructors and temporary assignments for support workers or contracting out.  In partnership with organizations such as Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Canadian Federation of Students and other major players, CUPE launched the “Education for All campaign” in 2021 to call on federal, provincial and territorial governments to work together on a national plan for education that is publicly funded, accessible, and high quality.  https://www.caut.ca/latest/2021/01/caut-and-partners-launch-education-all-campaign.

Discussion on Sexual Harassment and Violence in our work place and our Union was a major topic of the conference and a workshop was offered to participants on being an ally and not just a bystander.  The conference also showcased some inspirational organizing successes across the sectors.

One of the highlights of the event was a blanket ceremony and presentation by Diversity Vice President Debra Merrier.  She presented a quilt that will be displayed at the CUPE National Head office and which individual pieces were cut out for the quilt by the National Executive Board together with Debra creating a lovely symbolic blanket.  Participants at the conference were invited to write on a ribbon positive words and actions that they would take towards truth and reconciliation and those ribbons will also be attached to the blanket.

Lois Rugg, Melissa Schuurman, Jackie Enders and Cindy Ozouf would like to thank the membership for sending them to participate in the conference as CUPE 4879 delegates.

Blanket Ceremony

Strategic Plan 2022 – Presented by Lois Rugg

We did make some amendments  to the plan to include up and coming lunch n learns on work safe info and a few more.  See attached plan for more details. 

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Discussion and updates:

• Upcoming nominations at the November 9^th General Meeting, positions were announced. Please see attached list for more info on what is entailed in each position.  If persons are interested in a position but will be unable to attend the nomination meeting please send an email to cupe4879@shaw.ca or presidentcupe4879@shaw.ca stating that you will let your name stand for the position(s) you are interested in.  If there is no contest for positions those will be acclaimed.  If there is a need for an election that will happen at the January general meeting.  All acclaimed and newly elected positions will take effect in January.
• Committee Updates
  • Bargaining: no new updates but discussing dates to go to the table.
  • Grievance: waiting on arbitration dates
  • WIT: Lunch ‘n’ Learns coming up in November – Credential Enhancement Fund (Nov.8 – virtually or Hybrid) and Intro to Worksafe (Nov.10 – in-person or Hybrid).  More information to follow.

Good of the Union: 
Members in attendance at the meeting were entered into a draw for our regular two $20 door prizes and two Turkey Draws.  Congratulations to our winners:

$20 – Marianna Abutalipova

$20 – Tony Kuczma

Turkey draw – Michael Dillon

Turkey draw – Danelle Johnston

Next Meeting will be Novemer 9^th.  It will be Hybrid (in-person and via Teams) and Connie will send the agenda and information on how to rsvp the first week in November.