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Report #2
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Most if the day was dedicated to occupational group meetings. Delegates went to their own group: custodial, maintenance, library workers, technical workers, secretarial, para-professionals or instructors where they discussed the issues particular to their own occupational groups and what was needed, the upcoming elections, and the OSBCC structure for bargaining and what their particular group suggested. Each group kept notes to give a report back to the conference later in the day.
Half way through the afternoon the delegates met back in the main ballroom were they were given the reports from Don Postar, the OSBCC Health and Safety Rep, Darryl Day, the OSBCC Injured Worker Rep and Blaine Morin, the CUPE National Health and Safety Rep. Sue Hanson from the Violence Working Group that met with the Ministry along with Don Postar, Blaine Morin and Brian Blakely reported back on what has been happening with that PDT committee.
At 3:30 pm, we started into our last session of the day. Elections for the Chair of the OSBBC was held. Terri Preston from Local 4400 was re-elected as chair. Don Postar was re-elected as the Health and Safety Rep and Darryl Day was re-elected as the Injured Worker Rep. While delegates were waiting for the ballots to be counted they listened to the reports from the occupational group meetings earlier in the day.
The Custodial group reported that the main issues discussed was square footage, replacement when sick, etc. and suggested that they should campaign to get a custodian for every school into the foundation grant. The Library Tech group talked about planning a campaign that would inform the public on the importance of their roles in the schools. Suggestions were for qualified library technicians with provincial standards, standard numbers and hours with minimum of 35 hrs/week per school, specific funding required in the PDT and pay equity across the province. The Educational Assistants had a group of over 70 delegates present and discussed supervision, H1N1, violence in the workplace, PPM 81 - medical procedures, etc. The Instructors are in Boards in English as a second language programs, new immigrant programs, international language programs and other adult education programs. Some of the challenges they face are space for their classes. They are campaigning to convert closed schools into adult education centres. The Maintenance group discussed a need for a standardized workforce provincially, contracting in languages, appropriate common wages and employer supplied vehicles. The IT groups issues were the use of their own vehicles for work and the need for money for insurance, need for satellite phones for communication in the North and rural areas, wage parity, work hour parity and workload. The Para-professionals were CYCs, social workers, sign language interpreters and a food service worker. They discussed college certification, PPM 149 and worked on flyers for a campaign on their different types of jobs. Finally the secretaries discussed workload, more money required for staffing for both elementary and secondary, lack of respect from admin and many other issues.
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