General Membership Meeting – May 31st (1–4pm)

We are hosting a General Membership Meeting via Zoom on May 31st at 1:00pm to 4:00pm! All members are encouraged to attend.

Please register in advance for this meeting here.

In order to register, you will need to provide your employee number, which will be kept confidential. Your employee number is on your monthly pay stub. If you don’t know your employee number, please click here for instructions.

Keep reading for the tentative agenda, accessibility information and more.

If you have items to add to the agenda please contact the Recording Secretary, Jacob McLean, at recsec.cupe3903@gmail.com. Items must be received by Sunday, May 30th at 5 pm.

If you require any of the following: ASL interpretation, reimbursement for childcare/caregiver/attendant care, or other requests for accommodation, please contact our Equity Officer Nadia Kanani at cupe3903equity@gmail.com.

Tentative Agenda

  1. Roll call of officers (2 minutes)
  2. Reading of the Equality Statement (3 minutes) (Page )
  3. Reading of the Mississauga Land Acknowledgement (2 minutes) (Page )
  4. Approval of agenda (3 minutes)
  5. Notices (5 minutes)
  6. Approval of Minutes (30 minutes) [See separate document]
    1. March 16th, 2021 AGM
    2. March 26th, 2021 Bargaining SGMM
    3. April 16th, 2021 Bargaining SGMM
    4. April 28th, 2021 GMM
    5. May 19th, 2021 Bargaining SGMM
  7. Nominations, Elections, Installations (5 minutes)
    1. Open nominations for elections
    2. Phone Bank canvassers
  8. Unfinished Business (30 minutes)
    1. Endorsement Request: YU Fossil Free
    2. Bylaw Amendment (Article 10 – Committees)
    3. Bylaw Amendment (Appendix J – Casual Hiring Process for Councils, Committees, Working Groups, and Caucuses)
    4. Bylaw Amendment (Article 20 – Strike Vote)
  9. Finances (5 minutes) 
    1. Treasurer’s Report [Report will be shared on-screen] 
  10. Matters arising (5 minutes) 
    1. Donation request: Alvin Brown’s GoFundMe ($500)
  11. New Business (15 minutes)
    1. Motion to pay for translation work
    2. Motion for Palestine
  12. Fall Re-opening (20 minutes)
    1. Report-back
    2. Q & A
  13. Bargaining (40 minutes)
    1. Report-back 
    2. Q & A
  14. Executive Report-backs (5 minutes)
    1. Executive Committee May 2021 reports
  15. Reports of Committees and Delegates (10 minutes) 
  16. Adjournment – standing item