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All Local 012 Council Reps: Annual General Meeting
Date: Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Time: 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Location: Coast Terrace Inn, Edmonton AB
Executive Meeting: Friday May 9th after supper. See Joe Michielsen
for location.
Local 012 Committee Meetings: At the Coast Terrace Inn, Saturday
prior to the General Meeting
Education, 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM
Finance, 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Anti-Privatization, 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Policy, 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
There will be an organized supper at 6:00 PM Friday May 9th, 2008.
Please confirm your attendance for this meeting and supper with Meredith Day at Meredith.day@gov.ab.ca
Save My Pension Campaign
Background information on this issue is available at www.SaveMyPenion.ca . However, for this campaign to have an effect, it is essential that AUPE members in significant numbers call or email their MLAs and the office of the Premier.
Here is a quick summary of the 2007 AUPE Convention held October 25-27 that I attended as an Observer (as part of the Young Activists Committee). I am just giving the main points in bullet form, if you would like more details, feel free to give me a call. If anyone has any questions about the convention, or may be interested in attending in the future, don't hesitate to contact me and I will tell you all about it.
The
convention, which with 688 voting delegates and about 820 participants was
the largest in the union’s history.
During convention, delegates also approved AUPE’s $28.5-million budget and
unanimously passed a resolution demanding that the
Please note that all AUPE standing committees
are up for renewal, so if any of you are interested in sitting on a
committee you should send a letter or an e-mail to Doug Knight stating your
interest, as he appoints all committee members. There are 12
committees:
Legislative
Membership Services
Finance
Committee on Political
Action
OH&S
Anti-Privatization
Women's Committee
Pension
Member's Benefits
Pay Equity
Young Activists
Human Rights
Standing on a committee is a great way to get
involved in the union, and time commitments vary from committee to committee
but generally are in the range of a day-long meeting every 3-4 months plus
travel time, expenses and time off are reimbursed by AUPE. If you
would like more information on the committees, go to http://www.aupe.org/about_aupe/organized/index.php#standing.
Applications for the
2007 Local 012 Member Continuing Education Bursary are now closed.
We have a Contract!
The ballots have been counted and we have a new Collective Agreement
effective September 1, 2007. 57.87% of the ballots were returned and of that
55.6% voted yes.
In Local 012 1515 ballots were mailed out, 905 ballots were returned. 616 of
those voted yes and 289 voted no or 68.6% voted in favor of the Mediator's
report. The increases may not appear on your pay cheque until October.
Thank you to those who took the time to vote.
Ballots Mailed out: 21,968 (includes LTDI and other approved LOA's)
| Local | Sent | Returned | Yes | No |
| 001 | 7,758 | 4,683 | 2,130 | 2,553 |
| 002 | 4,157 | 2,537 | 1,613 | 924 |
| 003 | 2,245 | 1,464 | 912 | 552 |
| 004 | 663 | 350 | 229 | 121 |
| 005 | 1,610 | 623 | 362 | 261 |
| 006 | 2,467 | 1,388 | 612 | 776 |
| 009 | 1,118 | 542 | 428 | 114 |
| 010 | 435 | 211 | 167 | 44 |
| 012 | 1,515 | 905 | 616 | 289 |
Spoiled - 11
Total - 12,714
For - 7,069
Against - 5,634
To read
one of the top rated essays
submitted for the 2007 Educational Scholarship Fund click here.
Notes
from the 14-15 September 2007 Provincial Executive
Meeting have been posted.
Check
out the updated Local 012 Policies document, Click Here.
CMR Canada has been providing professional counseling services to AUPE
members and families since 1994 for more information Click
Here!
LOCAL 12 EMAIL CONTACTS:
Education Committee send to education@aupelocal12.net
Policy Committee send to policy@aupelocal12.net
Chair send to chair@aupelocal12.net
Vice Chair send to vicechair@aupelocal12.net
Secretary send to secretary@aupelocal12.net
Treasurer send to treasurer@aupelocal12.net
AUPE
Classification contact for Local 12 is:
Micheal Fownes 780-930-3405
The policy committee has finalized the Local's policy document to view
it
Click Here!
Have a look at our Committees and Local Executive . Stay in touch and tell them how they are doing and what you want to see happening in the Local they represent you and want to hear from you!
If you have any concerns regarding the current policies or if you would like to see new policies added...please send us your comments.
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