Ontario Regional Executive - Record of Proceedings
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Meeting Date Time |
February 8, 2020 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
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Members (Present) |
Peter Gilkinson, Regional Director and ORE Chair, Labour day parade co-ordinator, and Provincial Employers Group Liaison Lead Din Kamaldin, ORE Vice-Chair, and Labour day parade co-ordinator John G. Purdie – Ontario Regional Council Chair, Resolution Sub-committee member and Provincial Employers Group Liaison assistant, and Training Committee Recording Secretary Tom Yantsis – Ontario Region Treasurer Yvonne Snaddon – Branch Liaison Assistant and Young Professional Liaison Assistan Christopher P. L'Estrange – Recording Secretary, Training Committee member and Events Co-ordinator Judy Chow – Social Media Manager and Branch Liaison Lead Peter S. Jozsa – Steward Council Chair, and Training Committee Chair and Newsletter Editor Tom Z – ORC Vice-chair, and Resolution Sub-committee member Tim Azab – Labour day parade co-ordinator & Legacy Foundation Champion & Social Media Manager Kuini Chuen - LGBTQ2S+ co-ordinator, Social Media Manager, Labour day parade co-ordinator and Young Professional Liaison Lead |
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Members (Absent) |
None |
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Alternates |
None |
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Invitees/Observers |
None |
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Presenters |
None |
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Secretariat |
Christopher L’Estrange |
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Item # |
Discussion Summary |
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1. |
Call to order by the Chair |
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Motion to begin the meeting promptly at 9:30 pm Moved by: Peter Gilkinson Seconded by: Chris L’Estrange Motion Carried |
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2. |
Approval of Amended Agenda |
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Discussion regarding the agenda. We decided the order of items for this meeting. Motion to approve the meeting agenda. Moved by: Peter Gilkinson Seconded by: Yvonne Snaddon Motion Carried |
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3. |
Approval the November 23, 2019 Minutes |
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Motion to approve the meeting minutes. Moved by: Peter Gilkinson Seconded by: Pete Jozsa Motion Carried |
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Items arising from the previous minutes |
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Chris went through the November 23, 2020 Action Items: ACTION ITEMS BEGIN Action Item: The Resolution sub-committee to develop a policy on Branches and submit to the Executive for review. Ongoing. Action Item: To put forward a motion to the PIPSC AGM 2020 regarding “alternates” to committees of the board Ongoing. To be further discussed at the planning meeting in June 2020. New Action Item: Yvonne to meet with Jennifer Carr that the Ontario Region would like to discuss the possibility of having “Alternates”. Is PIPSC already working on this? Action Item: Judy to price out a button maker and bring it back to the ORE for further consideration. Deferred to the next meeting. Action Item: Yvonne will contact Debbie Butler to communicate the fact that the ORE is planning to hold an event (Feb 6, 2020) and will be requesting funding. Action Item: Young Professionals involvement in 2020 PIPSC AGM; Executive of the year; Steward of the year – new portfolio. Ongoing. Action Item: That Peter Gilkinson and Pete Jozsa will work on the wording for a revised resolution on official language sub-committee to the board of directors and bring this to the February ORE meeting. New Action Item: Pete J to send the ORE the wording of a motion on this topic. Action Item: Peter Gilkinson to contact the National PIPSC President to ask what the strategy is from PIPSC standpoint – re Ontario legislation 1%. Action Item: Judy to request email distribution list is forthcoming (Branch Presidents). Action Item: Tom to bring the Financial Statements for the ORC to the next meeting in February. Action Item: Branch Liaison to gather additional information (regarding the Guelph-Kitchener Branch request for Better Together funding) and bring it to the next ORE meeting in February. (Funding for Gym). Ongoing. THIS ENDS THE ACTION ITEMS |
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Ontario Regional Council April 2020 – John Purdie |
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John went through the draft agenda for the 2020 ORC, along with a briefing on the items on the agenda; including the guest speaker list etc. Discussions and questions ensued. Childcare etc. |
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Ontario Region Motions |
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Action Item: Peter will bring back the motions from last years ORC to this year’s ORC. Peter will forward these motions to Heather by the end of February. YPC attendees at the ORC will be reimbursed by PIPSC if they are not delegates to the ORC. The Ontario Region by-law 5.5 allows 2 delegates per Branch. |
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Portfolio Reports |
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a) Branch Liaison – Yvonne Snaddon and Judy Chow Branch President’s Meeting was last Friday. The request from some Hamilton-Burlington Branch members wishing to change Branches to Hamilton CRA Branch is ongoing. John and Judy to work on this issue on behalf of the ORC. b) Event Co-ordinator - Chris L’Estrange ORC hospitality for two nights. John will provide details to Chris secretarially regarding any specifics at the hotel. c) Labour Day Parade Strategizing. Planning starts in June or July. Emails will go out in July. d) Legacy Foundation Champion – Tim Azab Tim has requested our YTD figures. We have no information regarding what the Ontario contributions are at this time. We are strategizing to increase Ontario donations. The ORE has extended their support. e) Newsletter – Pete J, Our Spring 2020 Newsletter needs articles. Second call will be March 4, last call will be March 24. The deadline to submit items is March 29, 2020. Action Items: Judy to send an email reminder (as above) to the ORE for newsletter items. f) Resolution sub-committee – John Purdie Report was submitted, and is on the Google drive. g) Secretary – ORE – Chris L’Estrange Nothing to report. Brainstorming regarding how we can engage our members though our social media. Some great ideas were suggested. We will suggest comments are valuable regarding submissions as we notice comments are lacking while the views are high. Instagram is comparably popular with younger members while Facebook is more popular with the older members. i) Treasurer - Tom Yantsis Tom presented the financial statements for YE 2019-12-31, and the 2020 Budget. Motion: To approve the Financial report. First: Tim Azab Second: Peter Gilkinson Carried We discussed swag for the ORC. Motion: ORE to authorize a budget of $50 per delegate to the ORC. First: Tom Z Second: John Purdie Carried j) Training – Pete Jozsa (chair), Chris, John - Basic Steward Training - we have 37 at this basic training February 2020 as we were able to increase participants due to having 57 on a waiting list. - Labour School May 23, 2020 - Executive / Leadership Training The training is scheduled for June 12, 13 2020. Each Branch can send one of their Executive to be trained, and a different person each time. We hope to have all of them trained eventually although with renewal of Executives that’s ongoing. There are 27 Branches in Ontario. k) Young Professionals liaison – Kuini
Action Item: Yvonne and Kuini will go through the list of submissions and put them on the shared google drive for consideration by the ORE. Action Item: Conference call on February 26, 2020 to select the new committee members. l) Provincial Employer liaison – Peter Gilkinson Peter has reached out but has had only one response. |
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Committee Reports |
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a) By-Laws and Policies Committee – John Purdie - BLPC meeting will meet April 6, 2020. b) Election Appeal Committee – Michael Forbes - No activity c) Election Committee – Chris L’Estrange - 2020 - first meeting March 30, 2020. d) Finance Committee – Tom Yantsis - Review Treasurer’s report above in these minutes. e) Human Rights and Diversity – Din Kamaldin - First meeting will be last week of Feb or first week of March. f) ITSPC – Yvonne Snaddon Nothing to report. g) PRQC – Tim Azab Nothing to report h) Science Advisory – vacant All committees except this one were formed at the last board meeting. i) TEC– Pete Jozsa Popular education model is being adopted. Basic Steward training will be a complete revamp. It must be rolled out to the ERO’s first, then in September the new stewards will be given the new training. Pete provided an explanation. j) Better Together |
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2020 Steward Council – Pete J |
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The agenda was shared secretarially. Comment on the agenda for the OSC. The 2021 agenda. There are quotes for the hotel which appear to all be over budget. However, Pete is working on this to see if our budget needs to be increased for 2021. |
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10. |
New Business |
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Stewards – General Discussion on Steward renewal. Ontario Logo – Judy presented some options. Action Items: More changes will be made and presented by Judy at our next meeting. |
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11. |
Director’s Report |
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Director’s Report: Peter gave his Director’s Report. |
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12. |
Round Table |
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Everyone exchanged well wishes. |
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13. |
Meeting adjourned at 5:00 pm |
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Motion to adjourn at 5:00 pm First: Peter Gilkinson Seconded: Tim Azab Carried |