x

Marcya Williamson

R

Darcy Spikula

X

Present

x

Mike Palumbo

x

Jodeen Stewart

R

Regrets

x

Yvonne Maguet

x

Sheri Smyth

x

Bernadette Chabot

x

45 Members at large

Call to Order

1915, introduction of VIP’s-------Introduction of area reps and Local executive.

Marcya Williamson

Additions to Agenda

none

Marcya Williamson

Approval of Agenda

⇒     Motioned by Sheri Smyth , second by Mike Palumbo

Marcya Williamson

Provincial MNU President’s Report

⇒     Welcome to all, The past decade has been full of economic success, with wages for instance.  The PCBC committee has begun meeting and talking about how the economic down turn will affect us.  We are being strong with the need for nurses and the need to recruit and retain.  We are looking at the benefits and pension and the need to have them be competitive.  Nurses are overworked, but you can see that they enjoy what they do. 

⇒     Research has been done to find what the needs are for the nurses, and a poll of about 1200 random nurses to see how they feel about what is going on.  And this has returned with mostly positive feedback.

⇒     The tools we have now enable us to have better communication with our nurses, and through this it is ok to not have the turnout at the meetings as we all know they will be there when they are needed.

⇒     PCBC has been meeting looking at what the needs are.  There will be a survey coming-out shortly to get a better understanding of what the nurse’s priorities are.

⇒     Q—what are the main pressing topics that you have learned about…A—Pension and benefits, we will be as of April 1 be receiving a 50%deduction in what our cost is as the employer will be sharing the cost.

⇒     Please remember to be specific when you put down your wants, if it is pension what pare or how do you want to see the pension change and the same for benefits be specific.

Sandi Mowat

Director of Labor Relations,
--Regionalization--

⇒     Regionalization topic, re-confirming the letter that had been sent out to each of us

⇒     WRHA wants to make us all one local, Tom and Sudhir request a hold so as to speak with the nurses to give them the opportunity to give the general membership a working knowledge of what this will mean and how it will affect the local.

⇒     Q how will the LPN’s be directly affected if notice was to; be given to re-organize Tom-- Bumping is only able to be done within classification, there is little fear of lay-off’s at this time based on the number of vacancies. Also if there was to be reductions likely it would be to cut costs. And it would not make sense to do this. Sudhir—Regionalization is not about re-structuring. Also that there is no known indicators to suggest any lay-off’s, but the employer would not be sending thoughts of this out. IF there were to be a reduction in LPN’s there would be coverage under the contract to protect them. Sudhir, the provincial office has taken a close look at the Regionalization and it will not change a great deal how things are done presently. We firmly believe it is in our best interest to go forward with this and take control of the situation and protect our interest. Discussion ensued.

Sudhir Sandhu

Nominations Committee

⇒     Ballots are on the table,

⇒     Please note there are a few changes-----WSH, DTW and Lions place will be split in 2 separate. Running for these positions Gina Nasichuk for DTW and Lions Place will be Tanya Girouard Stringer

⇒     Also there is an addition for the NAC Gina Nasichuk

⇒     Are there any nominations from the floor, none.

⇒     Speeches made by incumbent NAC committee nominees.

Sheri Smyth & Jodeen Stewart

Treasurers Report/ Auditors Report

⇒     package on table-question regarding share with Credit Union Account-answered

⇒     discrepancy re: wage-backlog from employer; motion passed last year regarding President’s 0.4 EFT-needs to be signed by employer yet, resulting in extra money in account-money last year came out of wage replacement-report is actually a year behind meaning it looks like we have more money then we really do

⇒     motioned-1st-Sharon Bauman, 2nd-Dawn Thompson

Yvonne Maguet

Local Presidents Report

⇒     Speech made by president.

⇒     Notice to all members that there has been a move made toward communication from the excessive. This attempt to better inform our members we have started a optional e-mail list for all nurses this was started to include the respite nurses in the bulletin that would be put up on the boards in the office. As the respite nurses do not have a board to turn to the information is being sent to them via e-mail and has had a great response.

⇒     Marcya has been taking an educational opportunity to learn about RTW, and is half through.

⇒     .4 presidency needs a motion to be entered into the contract Motion passed by Dawn T. seconded by Sharon Bauman.

⇒     In the upcoming year education will be a priority.

⇒     Marcy and Yvonne to attend CFNU

⇒     Blue ribbon award. This is a new way for us to show appreciation for our colleagues who go over and above to help the members of our local. It will be in the future for the members of the local to nominate someone to accept the award. This year the Executive has chosen Dawn Thompson

Marcya Williamson

Election Results

⇒     Secretary Treasurer---

⇒     Yvonne Maguet

⇒     AREA REPS;

⇒     DTE ---vacant

⇒     DTW---Mike Palumbo

⇒     PD ---Sheri Smyth

⇒     RH ---Yvonne Maguet

⇒     FG ---Vacant

⇒     ST. B & ST. V ---Bernadette Chabot

⇒     RE & Trans ---Candice Davidson

⇒     St. J, Assiniboine ---Jodeen Stewart

⇒     7 Oaks, Inkster ---Vacant

⇒     Clinics ---Vacant

⇒     WSH REPS;

⇒     DTE ---Vacant

⇒     DTW---Gina Nasichuk

⇒     PD ---Vacant

⇒     RH ---Vacant

⇒     FG ---Vacant

⇒     ST. B & ST. V --- Vacant

⇒     RE & Trans ---Vacant

⇒     St. J, Assiniboine ---Vacant

⇒     & Oaks, Inkster ---Vacant

⇒     Clinics ---Tanya Girouard-Stringer

⇒     COMMITTEES

⇒     UM ---Sheri, President has automatic inclusion

⇒     NAC ---Jodeen, Mike

⇒     Education ---Vacant

⇒     Nomination ---Sheri Smyth, Mike Palumbo

⇒     Finance ---Vacant

⇒     Motion to destroy the ballots Heather Dyck, second Jackie Smith

Sheri Smyth & Jodeen Stewart

Other Business

⇒     Regionalization, a conscious decision has been made, to inform the nurses of this.

⇒     Needed is a motion from the floor to; support the Provincial MNU to go forward and bargain with WRHA to protect the interest of the nurses.

⇒     The WRHA will in the future go forward to the labor board and force the issue forward by choosing to go forward with this we can take contrail of the bargaining.

⇒     Concern from floor that if Regionalization goes forward, that the others would be able to take the position. ---Tom, there would be site preference, if there was a posting in homecare, it would first go to a home care nurse.

⇒     If there was bumping can they bump into our positions? If there was nothing within a .2 of there position then yes. Discussion ensued

⇒     Motion is written By Dawn Thompson to pass Memorandum re—Regionalization, seconded by Allison Lievana. Vote by show of hands taken motion passed.

Marcya Williamson

Round Table

⇒     Question about the rotations, Recent approval by president based on the contract, the Health Science nurses were able to see their rotations and get to vote on them, why can we not do this. A—possibly they have it in their contract, we get meaningful consultation, and the employer owns these positions and has the right to decide how the rotations will look as long as they are within contract. Discussion ensued

⇒     ? The BI-lingual positions, Why do we not have a grand fathering clause where nurses who have been around since before the BI-lingual positions are able to apply for those positions weather or not they are able to speak French. St Boniface has this because the difference is that they were going to implement French language wherever they wanted and the new grads who are French would get the best positions over the experienced nurses because of not having the French language qualification. Discussion ensued

Marcya Williamson

Meeting Adjournment

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