Union of Environment Workers Local 20147

Although a full convention report will be posted on the PSAC regional website shortly, Local 20147 delegates would like to take this opportunity to report on the following positions that members of our component were elected to this weekend:

Metro Vancouver Co-ordinator - Megan Adam
North Island Co-ordinator - Gail Jewsbury
National Officers Co-ordinator - Nick Humphreys
Aboriginal Co-ordinator Alternate - Mike Ballard
North Island Co-ordinator Alternate - Tom Hopkins

The term of office for these positions is three years.

Although the convention was largely focused on procedural issues rather than political ones - we think it was very successful and that our component (and in particular our local) had good representation there. The main change coming out of this convention was an alteration to the BC PSAC By-laws which changes the delegate selection process for the next regional convention. This new process will put the delegate selection process into the hands of the locals and each local will be allocated a certain number of delegates based on the formula adopted by convention. There will be more information developed on this in time.

For more information on the BC Regional Council and what it does - please see the BC Regional Council pages on the PSAC BC website. Thanks to all our members who supported our delegates to the regional convention - the delegates from 20147 present at the convention agree that our continued involvement in the BC Regional Convention is to our benefit as well as the Region’s.