1. Meeting called to order at 0912 hrs. Mike Dempsey is taking minutes.
2. Introduction: Tim Falkner, V.P. Peggy Hoffman, V.P.
3. There will be a break at 1100 hrs. for Day of Mourning.
4. Quorum declared (12 present)
5. Motion to adopt agenda as distributed M/S/C
6. Motion to accept minutes for 99/05/14 M/S/C
7. Business arising from minutes:

-instructors from Hinton want to come into Local 5 from Local 2, because they fight fire in summer. Brian has taken concerns to department. PAO is looking into it. Once dept. says OK there will be face to face negotiation; possibly looking at Forester 2 classification.

8. Correspondence:

• Dan M. sent letter to J. Dixon on subsistence regs. Regs are currently being reviewed because of increase in gas prices.
• Letter from Ed Mardell, $5000 donated to Calgary Herald striking employees. Locals being asked to donate to cover this off.
• Letter from P. Hoffman for information purposes. Health and Safety stuff.
• Copy of Memorandum of agreement.
• Letter from Lynne Gingras on Alberta Corporate Service Centers concerning fightback campaign.
• Letter of thanks from student who received Bursary for attending Lakeland College.
• Letter from Dan M. Convention is Oct. 26 - Oct. 28, 2000 at Chateau Lacombe.
• Letter from D. Gamble: Lyons legal issue.

9. Motion to accept correspondence M/S/C

1. Special recognition for Ian Tarr: presentation of Plaque to Ian for all his hard work over the years.
2. Reports of Officers
3. Chairman's report: Doug Gamble: bargaining was quick but difficult. Great rate of return on vote. Better communication than in previous years: special thanks to D. Finn and D. Hogarth. Discussion on web page. Site is checked regularly. Next year is rebuilding year, with out bargaining. Successes in past year: longterm wage employees, issue is almost dead. Most were rolled over to permanent positions. Got improvements in benefits package. M/S/C
4. Vice-chair report: on negotiations. M/S/C
5. Treasurer's report: Dave Hogarth. In checking account have $17000 right now. We have a total of about $66000 in all accounts. M/S/C
6. Report on PE: Doug Gamble: March 18^th was meeting. Now have 44000 people in Union. PE looking at restructuring. Meeting at end of June. Looked at restructuring in other provinces. Mileage changed to 30 cents from 25. Calgary building being evaluated. No parking. Pension board has been moved from one Local to another. Issue of banking; PE moving banking over to Alberta Treasury Branches. Friends of Medicare: Health Care Guild rebate to go into AFL coffers instead of Friends of Medicare. Look over criteria for merger of Locals and chapters - to be sent out to chapters. M/S/C
7. Doug passes out questionnaire on WCB/LTD.

Secretary's Report: not available. Finn is absent with regrets.

  

8. Committee Reports

Negotiations - vote count. 12000 ballots were counted. Only 600 voted no. Policy Grievance: terminal 1 position is still outstanding. Positions were being used wrongly. Should be able to resolve without formal grievance (Brian). Will most likely be made permanent. Travel and Subsistence rates: previously discussed. Dental Care provided: being changed to Blue Cross. We were not given prior notification of this. Problem with dental coverage. Blue Cross uses old schedule. Rates may not be acceptable to members. LTD committee is meeting with govn't on this.

Negotiations report: M/S/C

9. General Discussions: Brian gives history on bargaining with LPN nurses/health care. Mediator's report rejected by 83%. Employer is not moving off of Mediator's report. Supposedly judge will rule today on right to strike/essental services. It will affect all hospitals in province. LPN's nurses should be up to 70% RN's. Mediator's report only brings them up to 50%. LPN's only want parity in benefits. BILL 11 discussion: by Doug, who attended Legislature demonstrations. Demonstrations starting again on May 1^st.
10. New Business

-AUPE Convention: convention delegates submitted to D. Finn. Hospitality costs covered in policy; don't have to vote on it now.

-EMAC meeting. Bob, Dave, and Dave Hogarth, Brian, Doug will pick a new date in May. Doug would like to see new topic: classification of seasonal staff- should be project positions, not wage. Other topics: Vehicle policy (Wayne). Eyeware, boots. Saftey clothing - need consistency within the department. Protection of the officers against charges. (especially bogus ones) Not enough support from management. Lyons conviction is discussed by D. Hogarth. Next EMAC meeting: Brian will try for more dates after May Longweekend. Forward new topics to Doug Gamble at his e-mail address which is dgamble@compusmart.ab.ca.

-Pension questions: please see Local 5 web page for updates on the pension.

Ian: the pension fund is fully funded as of 1998, worth 4.1 billion dollars; rate of return is 13 or 14%.

Investments in secure funds (no more Bre-x stuff). Investments are currently being reviewed; foreign content rule being revised upward; we do need to diversify. Also, as of recently we have 2 year vesting for new members. Initiated a communication plan on internet; just started a plan review of benefits to see if improvements can be made. (could not make improvements before plan was fully funded). By this fall we should have ideas in place for fund changes. Bob Glover: can health benefits be added into pension since we have a pension surplus? Ian: a item to be negotiated. Have to make sure fund is sustainable. Union and prov. Treasurer must be on side. Doug: RCMP can be pensioned off at 25 years. Ian: police have to pay 3 or 4 times as much into their pension to get this benefit. Probably costs an individual $150000 over his career.

-Dave Hogarth: at local chapter meeting discussion of donating lieu time to long-time sick leave people who are due to be reduced to 70% of salary. Brian will put on EMAC topic list.

-Dave: learning account for health and fitness fees? Doug: this will be on EMAC topic list.

11. Next meeting: early to mid September. Doug will inform us.
12. Motion to adjourn at 1345 hrs. M/S/C