Location: Ebony 1 Room, Westwood Hotel 

Quorum Declared (Doug Gamble)

Round Table Introductions.

Chair: Doug Gamble

Review of previous General Council Meeting Minutes (99/04/09) and 1999 AGM Minutes (99/05/14) (Copies distributed to council representatives).

Motion to accept minutes as distributed. M/S/C
 
 

Correspondence:

Correspondence received since AGM 1999

Date

PAO Subsidary 2 Classification Review Final Report. October 14, 1998 

GSBC Letter requesting Wage Opener at one table. March 9, 1999 

Allan Polland Accident Report April 26, 1999 

Letter of Thanks from AUPE President to Bargaining committees. May 12, 1999 

Final Report on the Sub 2 Classification Review. May 19, 1999 

Minutes of the May 20 GSBC Meeting. May 20, 1999 

Letter to Dan McLennan from Jim Dixon concerning

Collective Bargaining Commencement. May 25, 1999 

June Classification Review Newsletter. June 1999 

Letter from NAIT informing AUPE Local 005 that without 

additional funds the 1999 Bursary will only be $353.54. 

Previous amount donated from interest earned was $500.00 

(need address change) June 17, 1999

Letter from Dan Mclennan informing all Local Chairs that 

the Policy 6-10 (No Smoking) is to be inserted into the 

Policy and Procedures Manual. June 29, 1999 

At the Table Newsletter informing of changes to the Health 

Care Plan, Wage Re-opener, Bonus and Bargaining Committee

Members. June 30, 1999 

Letter to Local Chairs from Safety Committee Chair Peggy 

Hoffman on Defensive Driving Policies and inclusion of AUPE 

Representation on JWH&SC’s. July 7, 1999 

Letter to Doug Gamble from COPA/Anti-Privatization Chair

Guy Smith concerning Parks Privatization. July 9, 1999 

Convention 1998 Minutes. July 13, 1999 

Letter to Dan Mclennan from Jim Dixon (PAO) introducing

Department desire to move to the Modified Hays System

for classifying all Gov’t Employees. July 20, 1999 

News Release concerning AUPE Local 010 Arbitration. July 21, 1999 

News Release concerning AUPE Local 010 protest at PAO office

over arbitration tactics. August 5, 1999 

Dennis St. Arnaud email concerning Sub. 2 Classification 

Review. August 20, 1999 

Letter to Local Chairs from Dan Mclennan outlining events of 

The 1999 Convention. August 24, 1999 

Letter from Dan Mclennan to F&W Officers Association and

Information package to Dan from F&W Assoc. concerning 

the education requirments for entry level positions in the 

CO 1 series. September 7, 1999

1999 AFL Labour School Syllabus. September 13, 1999

Discussion concerning entry level requirements for CO I’s.

Note: Correspondence listed above is on file with Local 005 Secretary Dave Finn

Motion to accept correspondence as listed. M/S/C

Chair to Bob Glover

Doug Gamble Chair Persons report: (Oral)

Averaging about a half day a week in Union Business.

Had been busy working on getting long term and super wage employees rolled over to Permanent.

(Chair to Bob Glover)

Union is becoming stronger and more financially solvent. The Union is now in a surplus financial position and has been very busy (and quite successful) negotiating contract agreements. There have been considerable renovations to the AUPE building. Some major decisions upcoming in the size of the Union. The Alberta Health Guild has seven thousand members and are looking at merging with the Union. This would make us the largest Union in Alberta, and a significant part of the health care membership. This will be decided by the November Convention. At the Convention this year there will be elections. No one has declared yet to run against Dan McLennan, but there will be competition for the position of Treasurer.

Brian Randall: Discussion on Heath Care Guild members. These are private health care nurses etc. They decided to apply to join with AUPE after the assistance AUPE gave them in settling their last contract negotiation. We have agreed to take 10 of their staff into our Union staff. They will pay 1.5% Union dues until they have paid off the financial assistance AUPE gave them, after which their dues go to 1.25%. They have to have 75% in favor to ratify this merger. This merger will likely force some major changes in AUPE organization to accommodate this influx of new members. There are other Health Care Unions out there, and probably within 10 years or so, there will likely be only a couple of major Health Care Unions.

(Doug) There Conventions are very different from ours. We have a limited number of delagates, whereas they have unlimited attendence.

Motion to accept PE Report. M/S/C

Treasurer Report: (Dave Hogarth)

Presently sitting at $3000 Chequing, $3500 Savings, $7000 coming in rebates and about 45 thousand in GIC certificates.

Motion to accept: M/S/C

Committee Reports:

Negotiating Committee:

Doug Gamble: Next meeting September 21.

Brian Randall: GSBC met and decision is that Wage Re-opener go ahead in-spite of Local 010 (Nurses and Rehabilitation workers) not being settled. The Gov’t may not go for this. Local 010 tried to get a reclass. They were unsuccessful, so they tried arbitration. This is a lengthy process and the Government brings in their high level Lawyers. Ron Hodgins with help from Tom Fuller was assigned to put a brief together for the Union. Local 005 figured in this process because of our successful reclassification. David Ross (Lawyer) represents the Government, and put a preliminary objection right off the bat that Local 010 could only base their position based on the general 2.5% settlement and not allow the Local 005 reclass agreement in the arbitration process. The Arbitration Board Chair ruled in favor of the Government, and this was appealed to the Labour Relations Board, who also ruled in favor of the Arbitration Board. There was then a two day meeting to put our position ahead, and Brian spoke at this. Our position was heard, and the Local 005 Reclass position was put forward at that meeting. We are waiting for a ruling from that meeting. We have been told that there would be no leniency to the AUPE in the courts. We have served notice to PAO that Jim Campbell would no longer be negotiated with because of the pull back of the original Reclassification offer. 

Motion to accept Negotiations Report. M/S/C

Introduction of Dan McLennan, AUPE President.

Discussion on Alberta Peace Officers Memorial. They are talking about including past Peace Officers killed in the line of duty.

Dan has the Supreme Court Decision concerning the BC female firefighter. 

Discussion concerning the Health Care Guild joining the AUPE.

Comment that AUPE could look at negotiating extended benefits after retirement.

Modified Hayes System discussion. The Hayes system should be on the Internet. 

The Government is looking at Department wide classifications. All Locals have been approached to take part in the Classification Assessments and are encouraged to do so. We could benefit from this, but will have to make sure we have lots of input into the process. We will need a committee to do this and take part in these proceedings. 

Comments that Local 5 should have a committee separate from the Negotiation committee, and could be composed of general membership, but should have a Council liasion.

Motion to have the Local 005 Chair write a letter to the AUPE President and express our interest and our intention to get involved in the Hayes Reclassification process and further, to negotiate Benchmarks and awarding of Points for our employees with the Department. M/S/C

Discussion on ramifications of the Hayes system to Local 005. The implementation of this may cause our Local to cease to exist as we know it. We could be split up and blended with other Government staff in similar classifications.

Lunch Break: 11:45 to 12:45

EMAC Committee

(Doug Gamble, Stan Webb, Al Gibson, Wes Nimco, AUPE Representatives)

Directive to Brian Randall to re-establish the EMAC meetings.

New Business:

Standby pay: (Brian Randall) There is disagreement with the method the Department uses to calculate standby pay (the Dept. has rescinded the letter drafted by Ken Higginbotham). 

Brian will take this up with the Department. There is some question that this may be in contravention with Article 21.03

CO I positions. They were screening out people who didn’t have the third year of education. Brian raised hell and now they are including those with two years of education. They may go to the third year requirement for new positions. 

AUPE Convention (Dave Finn)

Motion to adopt the Local 005 Policy as it pertains to Convention. M/S/C

General Discussion:

Doug Gamble: What is happening with the Staff Survey with Morale held around the Province?

There was some discussion, then the Minutes were sent to Edmonton. The Liberals somehow got ahold of the results and made some media attention over it.

ESRA: Program is one year old. There are three major objectives, one to save money, (which they did and exceeded), reducing the average amount of time to return employees back to work, and reducing the numbers of people going to long term disability(they did, but not as much as they projected). Overall, the Department is happy with the results of the ESRA program.

Brian Randall: some ideas for additions to the AUPE Local 005 website. Request to have updates on the Wage Re-opener posted on the web page.

Date of Next Meeting: Friday, December 3^rd, 1999.

Motion to adjourn. M/S/C

Meeting adjourned at 1:35 PM

Minutes typewritten during meeting by Secretary Finn
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Attendence List:

Doug Gamble

David Finn

Bob Glover

Dave Hogarth

Jackie Gerwing

Wayne Bowles

Brad Mackenzie

Marty Paetz

Brian Randall

Dan Mclennan (Guest Appearance)