In Attendance
Jim Walker
Christine Cassey
Jean Levasseur
Eric Titus
Andre Lauzon
Chris Rademaker
Greg Phelan
Shop Steward Election
Held every 3 years
To be held spring 2018
Chris will contact Scott English, Elections Chair, to establish the timelines
Air Canada Flight Pass
With Shawn we used to buy flight passes to help contain travel costs
Only one option for Winnipeg that would work for us. It connects YWG with YOW, YUL, YQM, and YQX. It can only be used by one person. It’s 10 one way trips and is $5061. Passes are good for a year
This is probably good value given upcoming travel to YQM and YQX. Also good value for last minute flights to YOW and YYZ
Will cost out flight vs flight pass for each flight
Andre-Purchase this flight pass for Jim
Seconded-Jean
Passed unanimous
Bank
Greg would like to move our banking from CIBC to TD
This would allow for a GIC secured credit card (we have GIC’s available)
Currently Michelle is personally securing the union credit cards. Not ideal and makes transitioning for any change in leadership cumbersome
TD will also wave banking fees with a minimum balance of $35000 (non-issue)
TD has a couple credit card options that would work for our local. The TD Aeroplan Business Visa OR the TD Travel Visa
Andre-Move Unifor1016’s banking and credit card from CIBC to TD
Seconded-Chris R
Passed unanimous
Convention
Christine provided a spreadsheet to everyone (except Chris R-sorry) yesterday outlining the hotels she had costed for convention
The LUEB has narrowed the selection to Niagara Falls and Whistler based on hotel costs
Christine will investigate the costs of transporting delegates to each site
Eric is concerned that we be seen as moving across the country and not favouring central Canada
LUEB will decide on final location on the next call
Local Unit Funds
Couple local unit fund accounting forms for 2017 are outstanding
Adopt 2 new best practices please:
Itemized receipts (reduce discussion during audits)
Alcohol included-please include your meeting agenda and a list of members at the meeting
This will not be voted on here. If there are issues it will move to convention for vote
Retirement Gifts
Shawn served 13 years as President
Michelle served for 6 years as financial secretary
Usually get Regional Reps (now VPs) jackets
Gift suggestions? Or a budget?
Plaque in addition to a gift for Shawn
Set a budget for moving forward so we don’t have to do this every retirement
Motion by Jean. Gift budget to be set at:
President/EVP - $100/year in position with a max of $1000
VP/Financial Secretary - $50/year in position with a max of $500
Seconded-Greg
Passed unanimous
Convention Guests
When McKellar retired he was invited as a guest to convention
Observer only? Yes
Good opportunity to present the above mentioned gifts
Motion by Chris C. Invite Shawn and Michelle to convention 2018.
Seconded-Jean
Passed unanimous
Establish Priorites for President’s Term
Jim and Christine have visited 2 of the sites (YEG and YVR) for union meetings and UMC’s, with Toronto scheduled for later this week
Themes are starting to appear. We want to address these at our National UMC and establish what our priorities are for the next 3 years
Basically want to identify outstanding issues and work to resolve them while still maintaining the day to day operation of the local
We will continue to develop this list leading up to the National UMC
In order to keep upcoming meetings unbiased in terms of what issues are we won’t release the list until the cross country tour is complete
Other Business
Michelle has 3 plastic banker’s boxes of financial records for Greg
She isn’t comfortable shipping this type of documentation
Greg is asking the Trustees at their April meeting to allow him to go completely digital and purchase a higher end scanner/printer combo
He may be able to digitize the documents at that meeting
Complaints that president email is populating still as “Shawn”
Christine has changed the admin profile
People taking over someone’s old email may need to check that their personal profile is updated
People complaining may need to change their address book
ADJOURNED
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