Professional
Employees Association
Chapter
Executive Meeting
Minutes
for meeting held on 09 March 2001
11:30
am in CIT 120
Present:
Tom Gore (Chair), Susan Corner, Leelah Dawson, Tony Bute
(PEA
Staff
Officer), Maggie Cooper Little, CaroLyn Schneider, Garry Sagert, Vincent
Connor.
1.
Approval of the agenda
MOTION (Schneider/Cooper
Little)
That the agenda be approved. CARRIED
2.
Approval of minutes from the previous meeting.
MOTION (Sagert/Cooper
Little)
That the minutes of the meeting held on
23
February 2001 be approved.
CARRIED
3.
Urgent Business: none
4.
Chair's Remarks and Correspondence : none
5.
Committee Reports
51 Internal
committees
511 Bargaining
(Gore)
The Bargaining
Committee is continuing to meet on a weekly basis and
is considering the
issues in detail, taking into account the advice
from
the Executive and the responses to the results of the
questionnaire.
A presentation of the issues was given
to
the local reps and useful
feedback was
obtained.
It is hoped to be
ready for bargaining in late April.
512 Local Representatives
(Corner)
The new local rep in
the Fraser building is Vicki Simmons.
The Chapter has
filled
its quota for the PEA Convention in May from
among the local reps at the last
meeting.
At that meeting
there
was a general discussion about preparedness or
for
the next earthquake. Among many things discussed, the
importance
of not pulling the fire alarm was strongly emphasized,
unless,
of course, a fire has broken out immediately after the
earthquake.
As a result of the
discussion of this report, it was agreed that the
UVic Chapter
Chairperson would write to Richard Piskor to ask what
the
University is doing to improve preparedness on-campus for the
next
earthquake and to improve communication with all
University
employees
on this subject.
In the meantime,
members were urged to re-read the 'Emergency
Procedures & Information' chart that was supplied by
the
University
a few years ago and to act on its recomendations of
things
that each of us can do now, before the next earthquake.
513 Seminars (Cooper
Little)
The RESP seminar was
well received and provided some useful
information.
On 19 March 2001,
Dana
Lynn Seaborn from the Metis Community
Services
is booked to give a seminar entitled 'Where are
Victoria's
Hundreds
of "Half Breeds" Hiding?' as the PEA contribution to UVic
Diversity
Week.
Another seminar on the UVic Pension Plan
has been booked for
Wednesday
11 April 2001.
Four Seminars on
Bargaining have been booked; the details will be
circulated
to members in due course.
The current Chair of
the Seminars Committe, Maggie Cooper Little,
has
given notice that she intends to stand down from the
Committee
when
her term finishes in November. It was agreed that the new
Chair
need
not be on the Executive.
MOTION (Corner/Connor)
That Maggie Cooper Little be
thanked for her very considerable
efforts
in running the Seminars Committee for the last 3 years.
CARRIED
514 Appointments
(Dawson)
Nothing to report.
515 Treasurer (Connor)
Nothing to report.
516 Elections
(Gore)
Four members were appointed
by acclamation to attend the PEA
Convention
in May: Vincent Connor, Maggie Cooper Little, John Hall
and Morag McNeill.
Four more members put their names forward at the local reps
meeting:
Ian Thornton, John Dorocicz, Sheryl Karras and Susan Corner;
Vicki
Simmons
was nominated as an alternate.
It was noted that Tuesday 20 March 2001 is the deadline for
resolutions
to be tabled at the Convention.
517 Staff Officer
(Bute)
The Staff Officer presented a report and presented
some
issues
that might be discussed at the Convention.
52 Joint
committees
521 Association/University
Committee (Wood)
Nothing to report.
522 Benefits Committee
(Wood)
Nothing to report.
523 Job Evaluation
Committee
(Corner)
Job evaluation is continuing on its planned course; 72 of
74
questionnaires have been evaluated and
the
Committee had another
productive
meeting with Ted Byrnes, the consultant.
It was
emphasized that the Committe has one chance to do the
benchmarks properly and, as these are
the
basis for the whole
process, it is
important not to rush this stage of the work of
the
Committee.
524 Performance Review
Committee (Gore)
A response from Human Resources to matters discussed
previously
is
still
pending. Nothing further to report.
525 Equity Working Group
(Cooper Little)
Nothing to report.
526 Discrimination &
Harassment Working Group (Gore)
Nothing to report.
53 external
committees
531 Association Executive
(Schneider)
The Government Licenced Professionals (GLP) had some problems
with
the
PEA Executive and these were likely to be raised at the
Convention. The
matter
of whether the Convention would remain an
annual
event or would become a biennial event would also be
discussed.
Some minor changes to the PEA Constitution are likely to be
proposed.
The
President and the Executive Director met the leader of
the
provincial Liberal Party at which there was a frank
exchange
of political views
and
at which the power of the PEA was
recognized.
532 Coalition of Unionized
University
Employees (Gore)
Nothing to report.
6.
Business Arising
None.
7.
Other Business
None.
8.
Adjournment
MOTION
(Connor/Schneider)
That the meeting be adjourned. CARRIED
The
next meeting is scheduled for Friday, 23 March 2001, in CIT
120.