75th ARC - New Brunswick Legal Aid (NBLA) Group Report

May 25 - 26, 2018

Executive Meeting Date(s)

February 10-11, 2017 – Executive Meeting in person, with Pierre Ouellet, PIPSC staff person also present.  We completed a draft of our By-Laws for review by the By-Laws Committee.

April 4, 2017 – Our first Labour-Management Meeting following the signing of our Collective Agreement in November, 2016.

August 29, 2017 – Executive Meeting by teleconference to plan for the AGM and to discuss sending out Notice of the AGM and the election.

September 27, 2017 – Executive Meeting in person, with Pierre Ouellet, PIPSC staff also present, to plan for the AGM and the Elections.

October 24, 2017 – Our first Labour-Management Meeting with our newly elected Executive.  We held an Executive meeting after the Labour-Management meeting as it was our first opportunity to have a meeting of our newly elected Executive.

General Meeting Date(s)  

September 28, 2017 – We held our AGM.  Being a relatively new bargaining group, we discussed such matters as the status of our group’s Constitution and By-Laws, which we are working on completing, and we had Guest Speaker, Pierre Ouellet, PIPSC negotiator, attend and speak to our members.

We also had an election for all positions of our Executive team.  Misty Matthews-Emery was re-elected President, Annie Maltais was re-elected Vice-President, and new to our Executive is Melanie Michaud, as Secretary-Treasurer.

Membership Concerns    

As a relatively new bargaining unit, and member of PIPSC, it continues to be a very busy time for our Group.  We are hoping to soon have our By-Laws in place.  We are pleased that we now have a first collective agreement in place, but it did not accomplish all of the goals that we had set, so we are focused and anxiously awaiting the next round of bargaining.