General Membership Meeting – September 20th (1–4pm)

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We are hosting a General Membership Meeting via Zoom on September 20th from 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, Kaitlin Peters, at recsec.cupe3903@gmail.com. Items must be received by September 18th at 5pm.

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. Reading of the Equality Statement
  3. Reading of the Mississauga Land Acknowledgement
  4. Approval of agenda
  5. Approval of Minutes
  6. Nominations, Elections, Installations
    1. Vacancies on committees
      1. CUPE Toronto District Council (4 vacancies)
      2. Distribution Committee (4 members)
      3. Joint Health and Safety Committee Reps (6 vacancies)
      4. Labour Management Committee, Unit 4 (3 vacancies)
      5. Childcare Committee (4 vacancies)
      6. Ways & Means Fund (4 vacancies)
      7. Unit 2: Research Grants Fund and Travel Costs Fund Committee (2 vacancies)
      8. Nursing Specific Posting Officer (2 vacancies)
  7. Finances
  8. Matters arising
    1. Donations
      1. The Productive Workers’ Army (EPO), $2,000
      2. Naujawan Support Network, $2,000
      3. Briarpatch Magazine, $1,000
      4. Three Sisters Group, $3,000
    2. By-law Amendments
      1. Code of Conduct Update: Appendix E
      2. Professional Development Fund Committee
        1. Proposal : Raise cap from $600 to $800 for conference presentations and from $250 to $400 for other category expenses.
      3. EHB Committee
        1. Proposal: Raise cap from $3,000 to $5,000
        2. Proposal: Increase honorarium by 15% ($2,000 to $2,300)
  9. New Business
    1. CUPE 3903 ‘We Keep Each Other Safe’ Campaign
    2. OCADFA’s #sessionalscount campaign
    3. Motion to hire temporary coordinator to facilitate the reopening of union office
  10. Executive Report-backs
    1. Executive Committee September report
  11. Reports of Committees and Delegates (15 minutes)
  12. Adjournment