13 June/juin 2024, 09h00 - 17h00 (Eastern time / heure de l’Est)
Delta Montreal - Concerto Room
Present: Jordan Loverock, Pierre Touchette, Tamara Critch, Rob Scott, Robert Séguin, Gord Bulmer, Deb Butler, Yvonne Snaddon, Denis Caissy, Karim Chaggani, Stan Buday, Lucille Shears, Stéphane Aubry, Elizabeth Morin
Regrets: Patricia Williams
Agenda/Ordre du jour
1) Welcome / Bienvenue
2) Adoption of Agenda / Adoption de l'ordre du jour
Moved by: Jordan Loverock Seconded by: Rob Scott
3) Approval of Minutes of Last meeting / Approbation du procès-verbal de la dernière réunion
13 May/mai 2024
Moved by: Jordan Loverock Seconded by: Deb Butler
CARRIED
4) Business Arising from the minutes/Action Items Affaires découlant du procès-verbal/Points d’action
ACTION: Tamara, Stan, and Robert to put together a draft template response to the emails received regarding RTO including addressing the cancellation of IT exemptions
5) Standing Items / Points permanents
a) Bargaining Update / Mise à jour sur les négociations (Robert)
i) Training Fund Plan
(1) Proposed Training Fund Plan (licenses for both Percipio and Pluralsight for members) through Navigar to employer and received enthusiastic support
(2) Employer had enthusiastic support
(3) Some fees for connecting Pluralsight and Percipio to Navigar and fees for further administration of the fund were points of contention by the employer
ii) Interdepartmental Joint Consultation Committee
(1) First meeting was held June 11 with next meeting to be held June 20
(2) Agreed to composition of the IJCC
(3) Need to provide breakdown of all costs associated with training fund
(4) Concerns raised about management allowing staff time to make use of the online courses
(5) Need to collect data on if managers are allowing staff time or not
Motion: Move to a closed session
Moved by: Gord Bulmer Seconded by: Rob Scott
CARRIED
Motion: End closed session
Moved by: Tamara Critch Seconded by: Deb Butler
CARRIED
iii) Strategic Bargaining Committee Update (Stan)
(1) Received presentation on AI and how to negotiate regarding it in collective bargaining
b) Strategic Planning Update & Review / Mise à jour et examen de la planification stratégique (Stan)
i) Agenda for Strategic Planning is in the works as well as how it will function
ii) Portfolio decisions will be made first so that each officer can be involved in discussions related to their portfolio
c) Visibility / visibilité (Pierre)
i) Inventory was completed last week
ii) Stock included ocks, tote bags, polos, notebooks, mugs and water bottles
iii) New notebooks that are refillable on the way
Iv) Looking at list of what people received in the past to ensure they don’t receive duplicates at the IT AGM
v) ACTION: Stan to raise at AC the possibility that the national AGM may not allow groups and regions to sit together so may need to give out chair covers at the caucus
vi) ACTION: Pierre will look into a new flag for Labour Day parades that says IT instead of CS
d) Return to Office / Retour au bureau (All)
i) Members are encouraged to seek exceptions or DTAs where appropriate
ii) Minister is encouraging managers to be lenient with accommodations
Motion: the IT National Executive create a subcommittee regarding our way forward on the return-to-office mandate
Amendment: a working group regarding our way forward on the return-to-office mandate be formed by the IT National Executive
Moved by: Lucille Shears Seconded by: Pierre Touchette
CARRIED
Moved by: Yvonne Snaddon Seconded by: Gord Bulmer
CARRIED
Initial five members will consist of Gord Bulmer, Pierre Touchette, and Denis Caissy, with the remaining members still to be chosen
6) New Business / Nouvelles affair
a. IT AGM (Stan)
1. Everything is ready and we are close to a full delegate count
2. 3 resolutions and 1 late resolution to be debated
3. ACTION: Tamara and Pierre will help Elizabeth with sign-ins and taking shirt sizes
i. Late Resolutions (Jordan)
1. Discussion on how to handle late resolutions
b. Composition of Bargaining Team
i. Should all members of the IT Executive also be members of the bargaining team? (Rob)
1. ACTION: Jordan to push to Strategic Planning Review agenda
c. Inactive Subgroups (Lucille)
i. ACTION: Pierre and Lucille will draft an email regarding the Portage Subgroup situation to current Hull Subgroup Executive and Gatineau Subgroup Exec to discuss next steps - dissolve or merger
d. National AGM Delegate Callout (Stan)
i. Callout letter for IT Group delegates will go out this afternoon (June 13)
ii. Deadline for responses is July 5
iii. Final deadline is July 26 for PIPSC national to have all names
e. Communications on RTO Mandate (Karim)
i. Addressed under Standing Items
f. Status of RCMP CM Deeming (Karim)
i. ACTION: Robert will look into the latest status update on this and who members can turn to with questions
g. Montreal Subgroup AGM (Pierre)
i. Pierre provided a summary of how the Montreal Subgroup AGM went
7) Reports/Activities d’executive
(Please file in the Executive Reports sub-directory / A déposer dans le sous-répertoire des rapports exécutifs)
a) President /Président (Stan)
b) Vice-President/Vice-président (Pierre)
c) Treasurer/Trésorier (Deb)
d) Steering Committee & Secretary/Comité directeur et Secrétaire (Jordan)
e) Bargaining / Négociations (Rob/Robert)
f) NOC/ROC- Mobilization / CNO/ROC- Mobilisation (Gordon)
g) Communications (Tamara)
h) Subgroup Officer/Agent de sous groupe (Lucille)
i) ACTION: Jordan to add to Strategic Planning Review agenda that the next Subgroup Officer should provide Pierre stats on the number of people in each subgroup including a breakdown of Rand vs regular members
i) Steward Officer / Agent de délégués syndicaux (Tamara)
j) Membership Officer / Agente de membership (Patricia)
k) Labour Relation & Consultation Officer & Contracting Out Officer / Agente des relations de travail et de consultation et Agente chargée de la sous-traitance (Yvonne)
l) ITYPC (Jordan/Karim)
8) Other business & Roundtable / Autres affaires et tour de table
Motion: Move to a closed session
Moved by: Rob Scott Seconded by: Stéphane Aubry
Rob presented the Elections Report
Motion: Do not show exact vote count results at the IT AGM for the IT Executive election and only show ranking
Moved by: Lucille Shears Seconded by: Denis Caissy
Moved by: Rob Scott Seconded by: Lucille Shears
Stephane: GC Digital Talent Platform is currently forming pools
Yvonne: Currently planning next COAT meeting and Doodle poll will be coming out soon
9) Next meeting / Prochaine réunion
August 23-24 Strategic Planning meeting
10) Adjournment / Ajournement
Motion: to adjourn
Moved by: Jordan Loverock Seconded by: Tamara Critch
CARRIED