National Local 20088

Local 20088 – June 19 meeting, PSAC Office, Joyce St, Vancouver @5:50pm

Minutes  (approved)

1) Attendance:

Present: Alistair Crawford, Andy Yung, Marie Kagan, Pacita Ho, Zelda San Jose, Rodney Hynes, Karla Backer

Regret:  Kevin Ho, Marion McLarty, Wanda Stachura

2) Agenda:  Accepted and approved.

3)  May 17, 2007 Minutes  – Minutes were accepted with minor changes with name spelling.

4) President’s Update - Alistair Crawford:

• Alistair related a message from Marion that there will be a National Human Rights Conference in September 13 –16 in London Ontario, application for delegation are open with the deadline for registration on June 29, 2007.  There will be 8 seats available for National Component’s member to attend.
• Alistair advised that the “communication tree” – a communication tool for union activities is being developed.
• Alistair advised the motion to support himself to take Leave with Pay to attend the PSACBC Selection Board is passed with majority it was motioned by Alistair C, second by Marion M.
• He was busy with harassment investigation at Passport office.
• The presentation by Megan Adam on the Collective Bargaining will be scheduled in this Fall.
• He tended the Public Service Work Week Trade Booth for PSAC.
• There will be a training session jointly organized by JLP on Collective Agreement held at WD-BC in July.
• The new President of National Component - President, Daniel Kinsella will be in town in July and available to meet with members.

5) Officer’s Report:

a) Andy Yung - Treasurer

• Andy distributed the May/07 Income and Expense Statement for members to review.
• He will be away in September/07 and back in October/07.

b) Zelda San Jose

• Zelda advised that Translink has increased its fare but no notice were given

c) Rodney Hynes:

• Rodney advised that he attended the Labour/Management Consultation Meeting.  Issues discussed included compensation for volunteering training on work activities (emergency flooding).

d) Karla Backer – Member At Large:

• Karla advised that the Shift Work Schedule is implemented at Service Canada, and there are some issues arise regarding the shift schedule.  She will seek advise from the Component Office and make reference to the Collective Agreement on page 32, article a1 and 2.

e)  Marie Kagan

• Marie advised that she is working on updating the membership list and signing new members.

g)  Pacita Ho

• No new activity to report.

7) Next Meeting – To be advised

Meeting adjourned at 7:05pm