Membership Meeting

Membership meeting

Wed. October 22 2008

At the Niagara Falls Hose

Brigade

time: 9 am 1 pm 5 pm

Nominations for the

Negotiating team and

elections for 2 new

stewards, a chief

Steward, and a

secretary are part of the

agenda

Principles of Leadership

The main response ability for every leader should be to create more leaders, not more followers. Leaders should encourage the follower to take on tasks that have a steadily increasing level of difficulty. At no time should the needs of the leader outstrip the needs of his subordinates and it is the true leader that realizes he works for his men not the other way around. Leaders should be the voice of confidence and calm, and display rational decision making abilities in the most extreme of conditions. Knowing what your physical and mental limitations are will go a long way  in fostering respect and loyalty from your boss as well as your subordinates.

Leadership Principles

1. Know yourself and seek self-improvement
2. Be technically and tactically proficient
3. Know your staff and look out for their welfare
4. Keep your Staff informed
5. Set the example
6. Ensure the task is understood, supervised, and accomplished
7. Train your staff as a team
8. Make sound and timely decisions
9. Develop a sense of responsibility among your subordinates.
10. Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities
11. Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions

What Have The Unions Ever Done For Us?

This is a good video, check it out it makes a point.

We will retreat no further !!

OK guys here it is the first post in my Local 278 blog, Iam writing this blog in an attempt to get some communication going here between officers. The biggest problem we have always had in our executive and our union as a whole is the inability to communicate and pass on information. I
hope this bog and my face book page will fix this.



The first thing I would like to say is that the local is only as strong as the membership and we cant do anything without the membership. Second do not confuse this blog with support for OPSEU. I have made my view on them very clear and this forum is not the appropriate place for that discussion.



On another note, we must move forward and upward. The next few months are going to be difficult ones and we all need to think about how we are going to handle the things that come our way. We need to have a positive attitude and we need to begin the advance, we will retreat no further.