October GMM: Tentative agenda

General Membership Meeting

Wednesday, October 22
4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
205 Accolade West Building
York University

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Agenda *

1) Roll call of the officers and the Bargaining Team (5 minutes)

2) Reading of the Equality Statement

3) Reading of the Mississauga Land Acknowledgement

4) Reading and approval of minutes of previous meeting(s) (10 minutes)

  • September 23 GMM

5) Matters arising (40 minutes)

  • Motion(s) served at last meeting (30 minutes)
  • Notice of donation requests (10 minutes)

6) Treasurer’s report and approving expenditures (20 minutes)

7) Correspondence (5 minutes)

8) Executive Committee report(s) (10 minutes)

  • Notice of SGMM on bargaining priorities on Wednesday, November 5 from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (location TBA)

9) Reports of committees and delegates (60 minutes)

  • Bargaining Team report-back (10 minutes); Please see Bylaws Article 17 (4) (b): “The Bargaining Team, with the support of the Executive, shall have ongoing and wide consultation processes with the membership to support its work. To that end, the Bargaining Team shall give report-backs to the membership at all General Membership meetings.”
  • Bargaining Mobilization Committee (30 minutes)
  • Communications Committee (20 minutes)

10) Nominations, Elections, or Oath of Office (15 minutes)

  • Committee elections: two positions on the Communications Committee; three positions (one co-coordinator and two representatives) on the Professional Development Fund Committee; three positions on the Ways and Means Committee

11) Unfinished business (15 minutes)

  • Anti-Racism Working Group report
  • Election bylaws committee report

12) New business

13) Good of the union

14) Adjournment

* Please note that this is only a tentative agenda. It may be slightly amended/updated by the Executive Committee in the days before the GMM.

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