We had over 30 members attend our virtual online GMM last night which is great. Both the LHIN and City of Kitchener will be in negotiation this year. For City of Kitchener members a survey for bargaining will be sent out this week to members who have given us their personal email, so please look out for that.
Congrats to the 5 members who won our monthly draw at our meeting. Hope to see you all and more at the next general membership meeting March 9th.
In Solidarity.
CUPE 791 Executives
Thank you to all whom attended our GMM last night. We had over 30 members attend and were able to pass our budget for 2021.Hoping 2021 is nothing like 2020. We also passed a motion for Temporary CUPE 791 members to begin attending our GMM’s so it would be nice see a few in January.
Reminder about the Christmas Party alternative on the 9th, 10th, 14th, & 15th 11:00am-6:00pm. Emails did go out to all members with the particulars.
We hope everyone has a Safe and Happy Holidays and we will see you in January.
In Solidarity.
CUPE 791 Executives
We had our 1st Zoom GMM on Tuesday Sept 29th. 28 members attended which was great. There were a few technical hiccups but we managed to get through them with a few laughs.
Nominations for our elections did occur at the meeting. Elections were scheduled in June but due to COVID they were delayed. Cupe National did agree to let us postpone them but we now need to have the elections at our October GMM. Nominations can still be made at the meeting before elections begin.
Hope to see everyone there.
In Solidarity,
Mike Eckert
President, CUPE 791
Hello CUPE 791,
We are happy to announce that Council ratified our one year contract with a 10-1 vote.
We want to again thank everyone who took the time to vote. We were very pleased with the turn out.
Stay safe, stay strong.
In Solidarity,
Mike Eckert
President, CUPE 791
The reusable masks have now arrived that we had ordered. It does appear that the use of masks will continue in the Region and I can attest it’s always handy to have extra ones around.
Starting Tuesday September 8th for City of Kitchener members you can reach out to Marc Hilker at the KOF or Scott Gibson at City Hall to pick up a few. We did order enough for up to 4 for each member for themselves or to share with family.
Since most of our LHIN members are currently working from home we are still figuring out the best way to get masks to those who want them.
Stay safe,
Mike Eckert
President, CUPE 791
The Bargaining Committee is happy to announce that our contract has been ratified by the membership. We want to thank everyone who was able to attend the meeting.
We had over 251 members vote on the contract. That by far is the most votes ever casted by Cupe791 membership for ratification.
I do want to remind everyone that until the Corporation ratifies the contract we are not to share details of the contract publicly. That includes your Management. That should happen on September 14th.
In Solidarity,
Mike Eckert
President, CUPE 791
Just a reminder To CUPE 791 Kitchener members that we have our online Zoom ratification meeting tonight at 6pm followed by a 24 hr window to place your vote online. A reminder email was sent to all members yesterday.
Hope everyone can attend. Due to COVID this was a difficult time to negotiate but the Bargaining Committee feels this is a good contract for our members and are happy to be able to present it tonight to the membership.
In Solidarity,
Mike Eckert
President, CUPE 791
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues there does seem to be a turn in the right direction.
As everyone is aware we had to cancel our last 3 general membership meetings. Due to that we did not have our June elections. Now that our Region has moved in to stage 3 of re-opening we are very hopeful we can resume meetings in September and hopefully have our elections in October. When we can confirm those details we let everyone know.
With the surrounding Regions now having mandatory face mask requirement we are in the process of purchasing reusable masks for our members. When they arrive we will try to figure out how best to get them to our members who would like them.
Again we want to take this time to thank all our members for continuing all their hard work and sometimes thankless work that the members of the public rely on us for.
If COVID-19 had shown us anything is how vitally important PUBLIC SERVICES are to the community.
Stay Safe, Stay Strong,
In Solidarity,
Mike Eckert
President, CUPE 791
A sincere thank you to all our CUPE 791 members from the City of Kitchener and The Waterloo Wellington LHIN for keeping both our work places running during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The commitment to your communities and your professions speaks volumes for our union.
CUPE 791 executives are very proud of our members and know we all will be stronger and more united going through these difficult times.
It may be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever!
Stay safe, stay strong.
In Solidarity,
Mike Eckert
President CUPE 791