Official Minutes
Meeting Minutes: Thursday, July 23, 2020 – 6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Location: via phone
Present: Lynne Chichakian, Ines Colabrese, Matt Guerin, Naomi Robinson, Julian Uzielli, Wendy Walker, Lorne Szatmary, Joe Fiorino, Natasha MacDonald-Dupuis, Olena Sullivan, Vish Gajadhar, Krista Joliffe.
Regrets: Brent Cousland
Late: Natasha MacDonald-Dupuis.
Meeting begins at time 6:00 PM
A motion to adopt agenda as amended — moved by Ines, seconded by Lynne, passed unanimously.
A motion to adopt June 19, 2020 minutes as amended — moved by Krista, second by Lynne, passed unanimously.
NEW BUSINESS
NR Survey Results
- Survey put together by BEC about issues working during COVID from May 21-June 1: 579 responses in total — 523 English, 56 French with 13 pages of comments.
- Synopsis of survey result to be shared with employees at upcoming Town Hall.
- The high level results were presented to management and CMG will have a look at the issues raised by the results.
PDD Online Workshop
- Doing an online workshop for the PDD in September when the new PDD conversations begin.
- Date TBD.
- Wendy moves that we pay 1 release day to prep a PDD workshop: second Matt, passed unanimously.
LEC Best Practices
- Any cost of more than $100 that doesn’t get discussed in full committee and needs to be decided on before the next meeting then 4 table officers have the ability by majority vote to OK that expense.
- Have a discussion about online and cyber security at the next meeting.
- Be it moved that the LEC cover costs for the recent purchase made online on July 14th: Krista moves, Matt seconds, Olena and Wendy abstain, motion passes.
ON-GOING BUSINESS
LEC Roles and Descriptions/Fall Election Prep
- The blurbs for each position are posted on the website in both French and English:
- If you have a mix of experience and fresh viewpoints have a look and apply.
- If you wish to apply but have questions about any of the positions, please speak to Vish Gajadhar.
Anti-Racism
- The open letter with the 250 signatures on it from all provinces was acknowledged at the town hall by Catherine Tait.
- If you would still like to add your signature, you can do that at https://www.cmg.ca/en/2020/07/14/cbc-union-members-demand-action-on-systemic-racism/
Ice Cream Day
- Ice Cream Day was a big success and we gave out 198 cones to the employees working on-site during Covid.
- 150 more staff will be coming back to the office with Phase 2. We will book another Ice Cream Day in September. Minimum of 300 cones.
REPORTS & QUESTIONS
- Health & Safety Report (BC) sent in vial email
2020 LEC Dates
- September 18 (Friday)
- October 21 (Tuesday)
- November 17 (Tuesday)
- December 3 (Thursday)
Motion to adjourn – moved by Vish, seconded by Natasha, passed unanimously.
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