November 6 - Brandon

November 7 - Winnipeg (Masonic Temple)

November 8 - Winnipeg (Fairmont Hotel)

TEAM-IFPTE Local 1612012 General Meetings

Agenda Welcome and Introductions Reports:

President Executive Director Finance Pension Lawsuit Bargaining Committee

Negotiations Q&A

President’s ReportMisty Hughes-Newman

A very busy year for TEAM

Member Training: Supervisory Manager Leadership Health and Safety Labour Law Pension Law

President’s Report Member Events:

Take a Break coffee cards & Hot Dog days Health and Safety appreciation lunch New member meetings Scholarship awards

Board: Committee work Board development New Board member

President’s Report

Political Action: Lobbying the Federal Government Meeting with Provincial Government Attending IFPTE and MFL Conventions, and

Winnipeg Labour Council Hosting the Canadian Council of

Professionals conference Meeting with other unions

Board meeting minutes and reports available on our website

Executive Director’s Report

Staff changes: Farwell to Tom Milroy and Susan Bilyk Wesley Emerson – Labour Relations

Officer Serina Pottinger – Executive Assistant Doreen Oversby – Administrative

Assistant

Main member issues: Pay level, overtime, call-out, job postings, job classification, respect in the workplace, excessive discipline, and duty to accommodate

Executive Director’s ReportMember Representation

Since the 2011 General Meetings: 51 new complaints 23 new grievances; 11 proceeding to

arbitration Canadian Human Rights Commission

decided in favour of TEAM member

Current open files: 18 complaints, 31 grievances, and 1 Human Rights case

Executive Director’s ReportOngoing Major Items

Overtime and Call-out arbitrations

Contractors Letter of Understanding: transparency, caps on numbers and opportunities for members

Benefits and Pensions Committees

Executive Director’s Report

Detailed Executive Director, Benefits and Pensions reports available on our website:

www.teamunion.mb.ca(Look in News>Board Meetings)

Finance ReportDecember 31, 2011

Income: $1,304,673

Expenses: $938,157

General Fund Balance: $750,766*

Defence Fund Balance: $747,419

Financial Statements available

*Cash, savings and investments (MTS shares & Ethical Funds)

Finance ReportCurrent Status

General Fund Balance: $850,000

Defence Fund Balance: $883,499

Board reviews income and expenditure minimum of six times a year

DB Pension LawsuitSupreme Court of Canada

Feb 2012 – Sought leave to appeal Oct 2012 – Won leave? 2013 – Appear before the Supreme

Court

Percentage of cases granted leave is very low

All three unions and the retiree group (TRAM) are sharing the costs

TEAM Bargaining Survey

Excellent response; 669 members participated

Statistically significant results

Confidence interval or margin of error of 3.3% with a 99% confidence level

TEAM Bargaining SurveyWhat’s most important?

TEAM Bargaining SurveySalary adjustment preference

35.4% - Annual percentage increases

29.4% - COLA

26.7% - COLA and annual percentages

TEAM Bargaining SurveyRestoring Double-time Overtime

TEAM Bargaining SurveyVariable Pay

79.4% are willing to lower their VPP for an increase on base salary

59.9% are in favour of VPP parity

TEAM Bargaining SurveySales Bonus

TEAM Bargaining SurveyPreferred Benefit Improvement

TEAM Bargaining SurveyESOP Contribution Increase

TEAM Bargaining SurveyInterest in Compressed Work Week

TEAM Bargaining Survey

451 comments and suggestions

Full survey and comment summary will be posted on the website

Thank you for participating!

Negotiations

Contract expires February 19, 2013

What do we want?

What are we going to do to get it?

Negotiations

Will you help?

Will you be a CAR?

Q&A

204-984-9470team@teamunion.mb.ca

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