Professional Employees Association

Chapter Executive Meeting Minutes

 

Minutes of Meeting held 2 December 2005 MAC D115

Present: Tom Gore, Tony Bute (LR Officer), John Foxgord, Sheryl Karras, Vincent Connor

Regrets: Bill McGhee, Bert Klatt

 

1. Appointment of minute taker – Karras

 

2.   Approval of the agenda –

 

3. Deferred Approval of the minutes of 18 November 2005

 

4.   Urgent Business

41. Reminder to update email lists to reflect the current PEA Executive

A call will be made to fill the two vacant executive positions.

 

5.   Chair's Remarks and Correspondence

51. Remarks – The recent bargaining incentives presented by the Labour Minister are timely with the PEA Collective Agreement set to expire on June 30, 2006.

52. Strategic Plan Document – Requests have been made of a number of groups including the PEA to comment on the Strategic Plan.

Should the PEA have official representation on the Planning and Priorities Committee?

53. Vincent Connor and Tom Gore represented the UVic Chapter of the PEA at the 21 November New Staff Orientation. Gore gave a brief and succinct survey of the reasons for choosing the PEA as the body to represent admin professional staff at UVic and its relations with other employee groups on-campus. Connor emphasized some of the social and cultural activites organized by the UVic Chapter. There was a lively discussion about the UVic Chapter's role in supporting the job action on-campus on Monday, 17 October 2005 and we thought that this was a valuable opportunity to explain the approach that the UVic Chapter has adopted for dealing with these kinds of situations which, we realize, can be difficult for our members, especially when they are not directly involved in the job action of other employee groups.

54. Pension Board Election – several notes of thanks were received regarding the email that was sent out apprising members of the PEA member running in this election

6.   Reports

61 Treasurers (Vincent) – Our current Coast Capital account and the EASY accounts are both in good state. A donation of $650 was recommended for the 2 December CBC Foodbank drive.

 

62 LR Officer (Tony) – With the PEA collective agreement set to expire in June it is once again time to prepare for bargaining. The recent announcement around signing bonuses for collective agreements signed prior to the expiration of the agreement was date specific however it has been noted that the intent was to provide this incentive for all collective agreements signed prior to the expiration. This would include the PEA Collective Agreement.

63 Chapter Committees

631 Local Representatives (Tom) – NTR

    

            64 Joint Committees

641 Association/University Committee (Sheryl) – A/U Committee met on November 21^st the agenda included discussion on the following: central professional development funds (update requested), new staff orientation, scheduling of committee meetings, distribution of Collective Agreements to new members.

642 Benefits Committee – (John) A number of items around LTD were discussed including the start time for the 6 month waiting period for LTD, as well as how time is classified for those member who return to work from LTD. The Committee is reviewing a number of options and based on input from the PEA, a request will be made to Mercer to cost options for LTD wait times and return to work times.

 643 Job Evaluation Committee (Tony) – A schedule will be forthcoming for the Appeals Committee. It is expected to that the committee will meet in the third week of January.

  644 Equity Working Group (John Hall) – The EWG will prepare a discussion paper on the Strategic Plan.

   645 Education Equity Working Group – (Sheryl) – The WG met on October 19^th and had follow up discussion from the previous meeting presentation on ways and means of fostering an inclusive classroom environment. The committee was asked to provide input on the Strategic Plan.

646 Mental Health Committee (Tony) – Committee met

647 Campus Planning – scheduled meeting was cancelled

648 Project Nova Steering Committee – (John Foxgord) – Committee met 24 November. Updates and status reports were provided. There is some concern surrounding the sufficiency of staff training.

65 External Committees          

   651 Association Executive (Tom) – NTR

 

7.     Business Arising – none

 

8.     Other Business – none

9.     Adjournment

 

Next meeting: 16 December 2005 in DSBC114