Update

Just a quick update. Last night I sent the employer an email requesting a meeting of the Accommodation Committee. The purpose of this committee for those that don't know is to discuss on going officer accommodations. In advance of this meeting I have asked the employer for all articles, policies, and documents that the company relies upon to implement work, or shift accommodations. I have asked that all of these documents be provided to me at least 2 weeks before any scheduled meeting. These documents have been asked for before, but to my knowledge have not been provided.

I have requested this meeting in good faith, with an intent to move the local forward in a positive manner. The employer has yet to respond on this issue.

Many of you may be wondering as to why I have not posted a contact list of the new executive. Well the biggest reason is that my Executive Committee is not complete and changing. Keeping that in mind I hope to have one up shortly.

Also I must the thumbs up to my limited Executive and Stewards they are all doing an excellent job, under some difficult conditions. One of our stewards has already stepped forward for training. Luke Degraff will be taking basic grievance handling, a very valuable tool.
That's all for now, I'm sure there will be more to follow.
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UPDATE

The local treasurer Dave Haywood has resigned his position but remains a steward and for the time being I have made Rob Gale the Fallsview Chief Steward until such time that we can have an election. The local is organizing our first executive meeting for Oct 3 as well as a stewards meeting as well. Shortly after that we will be scheduling a General membership meeting.
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VTO grievance.

Just to let everyone know that there was Policy grievance filed on Sept 11 surrounding booking / assigning VTO days after Sept 17th. This grievance is currently going through the grievance process.
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Thank you

The first thing I would like to say is thank you.
Thank you all for showing your trust and confidence in the new team an myself. I also wish to extend my hand to the out going executive and say job well done.
The orderly transition of documents and union property, has already begun, and so far is going smoothly. I hope to have that completed by the end of next week. I have asked that the local news letter be started again, that should be comming out on a regular bases.

One of the areas that I will focus on is to create leadership within the Local Executive. A leaders job is not to create followers, it is to create more leaders, so that when my time as president is over there will be someone to take my place.

Another area that will be focused on is transparency of the local. There will be increased postings on the union board in the way of health and safety, financial and grievance reports. There will be a time table for this at a latter date.

Personal initiative of stewards will be encouraged when filing grievances, and there will be a push to get new stewards educated in the grievance process.

These are just a few of the ideas that I want to work on. I intend to build on the successes of the past and learn from the mistakes. So once again on behalf of the new executive I would like to say thank you.
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