Chapter Executive Meeting
Professional Employees
Association
Minutes from Aug. 12th,
1998 beginning at noon
in Clearihue B446
Present: Glen Darling (chair), Tom Gore, Jane Kovach, Ian Thornton,
Dick Chappell, Elaine Doyle and John Forde. Guest: Ann Nightingale.
1. MOVED (Gore/Kovach) approval of the agenda as amended.
CARRIED
2. Approval of minutes of the July 22, 1998 meeting
TABLED to the next meeting
3. Urgent Business:
3.1 Association/University Committee
mandate
The mandate for the A/U from the June 24th executive meeting was re-iterated.
Nightingale recommended that in future the A/U consist entirely of executive
members to ensure that all A/U members are up to date on issues discussed
in the executive.
3.2 Performance Review
The draft form and supervisor's guide are on the PEA web site.
It was suggested that it was too oriented to positions in administrative
departments rather than positions in academic departments and that it was
too simplistic for the complexity of many positions in academic departments.
It was felt that the review would encourage excessive hours of work in
order to score well on the review document. HR wants training to
start in the fall and to use the draft form for the first year and then
consider revision. Darling will reply to Peter Sanderson's letter,
outlining the concerns raised by some of our academic department members.
Any resulting issues will be dealt with by the joint performance review
committee with Thornton reporting.
4. Chair's Remarks and Correspondence:
4.1 WOW:
Ten members volunteered to work on the WOW orientation and ten additional
members in Engineering will host EOW/ELW tours.
4.2 Chapter Bank account:
Access to the chapter bank account in the absence of the treasurer
was discussed. It was agreed that a few unsigned cheques would be
held by the chapter president in case they are neeeded when the Treasurer
is unavailable.
4.3 Donations:
Discussion about the Caring for the Future campaign centered
on the affordability of and access to day care. Gore will draft a
motion about donations which will go to the members at the Chapter Annual
General Meeting.
4.4 PEA Policies:
A set of the newly revised Provincial PEA policies was circulated
to the executive.
5. Reports:
5.1 Bargaining:
Language issues are almost wrapped up. UVic intends to hold
to the P.S.E.C. guidelines or 0, 0, and 2% over the next three years.
5.2 Staff Officer:
Doyle and Darling met with CUPE 4163 and 951 representatives to discuss
jurisdiction issues concerning reclassifications that result in members
being moved from one bargaining unit to another. Doyle introduced
John Forde who will be replacing her as the PEA Staff Officer assigned
to UVic.
Moved (Gore/Kovach) that the UVic PEA executive commend and thank
Elaine Doyle for her services to the UVic chapter over the past two years
Carried
5.3 Provincial Executive meeting:
Gore will report on the reclassification jurisdictional issue, the
PEA seminar series, performance review and will ask the provincial executive
to allow a second chapter observer to attend provincial executive meetings.
5.4 Seminar Committee:
The August series ended with a two part video presentation on dispute
resolution. A new survey of members' interests for future seminars
will be done in September.
6. Business Arising:
6.1 By-election:
Nominations are being sought for the by-election to fill the executive
vacancy resulting from Rosalie Philips' departure.
7. MOVED (Thornton) to adjourn. The meeting adjourned
at 2.00 pm.
the next meeting will be held on Sept 2nd, 1998 in Cl. B446