President – Mike Eckert,
VP LHIN – Aimee Proux, Patsy Ruigrok & Dale Hanke
Grievance Chair (COK) – Mona Bauman, Marc Hilker
Member at Large (LHIN) – Nadine Bell, Janet Camera, Pat Jones, Alison Baxter
Recording Secretary – Siobhan Delaney, Alison Baxter
Treasurer – Janet Camera, Nadine Bell, Scott Gibson
Trustee – Michelle Boegli, Laura Anderson
Stewards – Brigit Loveday, Michele Boegli, Marc Hilker, Lynann McNulty, Laura Anderson
Returning Officer – Maureen Manning

Thank you to all whom attended the May GMM.

At the meeting nominations were accepted for the June elections for the following positions: President, WWLHIN Vice President, Grievance Chair COK, WWLHIN Member at Large, Recording Secretary, Trustee and Stewards. Nominations will still be accepted at the June GMM before the scheduled elections..

We will also be voting of the trustee recommendations from the last audit at the next GMM on June 11th.

We had a good turn out for our meeting tonight. Thank you to all whom attended.

Congratulations to Shannon Parsons who was elected as our new Vice President (COK). We now have an opening for Grievance Chair (COK). Shannon has agreed to continue  to assist with grievance duties until a new Grievance Chair is elected.

We will be taking nominations at the May GMM for Grievance Chair (COK) as well as for President, WWLHIN – Vice President, Member at Large for WWLHIN and  Recording Secretary for elections taking place at the June GMM.

We are in need of at least 2 new  Health and Safety Reps at City Hall. At least one will need to get certified at no cost to the member.

Inspections are done EVERY month and take 1/2 to 1 day to complete (depends on how many assisting)

Every other month there is a meeting in the afternoon that you would be required to attend.

Training will be made available and reps have the opportunity to attend union schools, and a Health and Safety Conference in the fall

If a member is interested please contact an Executive or Scott Gibson for more information. It is the Unions obligation to have Health and Safety reps available so we do hope we can get some members who would be willing to assist.

Thank you in advance,

CUPE Local 791 Executives

All the Executives would like to thank the members whom attended last nights GMM. We feel there were a lot of good conversations and information shared at the meeting.

Mike Eckert was acclaimed  as our new President of our Local for the duration of the previous term. Elections for President will occur again at the June GMM.

We now have a vacancy for the Vice President position and nominations took place. Mona Bauman and Shannon Parsons were nominated. The Election will be held at the next GMM which is scheduled for April 9th, 2019. Nomination will still be accepted for the position on the night of the election.

We hope to see you all there.

We finally have an approved copy of the Collective agreement, we are still waiting for the City to officially sign off on the final copy. Printed copies will hopefully be available soon.

Click the link below to view. Please note only Job Titles that have been through the Job Evaluation process by January 15, 2019  will be shown in this Collective Agreement.

Collective Agreement

The Executives have made the decision that due to the inclement weather and the safety of all our members the GMM for tonight has been cancelled. All matters that were on the agenda for tonight will be deferred to next months meeting and any new items arising will be shown on the agenda that will be sent out no later than March 12, 2019.

Nominations for President will again be accepted on the night of the election which is now scheduled for Mar 19, 2019.

An election for the Vacant President position  will be held at the next General Membership Meeting on February 12, 2019.

Nominations can still be accepted on the night of the election.

Justin Harris, President CUPE 791 and Mona Bauman, Member at Large present the cheque for $1500 to Angela McCall of The Waterloo Region Food Bank from the proceeds of ticket sales from the CUPE 791 Christmas Party.  We were told that our donation would provide 4500 meals for the residents of Waterloo Region.  Thank you to all those who came out from the City of Kitchener and WWLHIN.

I am pleased to announce that after today’s meetings and the final one at the Auditorium, the votes were counted and were in favour of ratification for the City of Kitchener inside workers.  Next step is to wait for council next Monday and we will have a new collective agreement!!  Big thanks to our national rep Jill Smyth and the entire bargaining team for the months of hard work.  Stay tuned to the website for more details.  The entire collective agreement will be uploaded once it has been updated to reflect all of the changes.

Justin Harris

CUPE 791 President