Greetings to all our Siblings & Relations!
Did you miss the Winter General Meeting on March 7, 2024? We wish that everyone could be there, but know that it isn’t possible so here are the highlights. Our next meeting will be the Annual General Meeting & due to a scheduling conflict will be rescheduled so please watch your college email account for an update to the invite.
Business
- Executive Reports
- President
- Let us help you Know Your Rights: Faculty Appraisal!
- Use your Covid-19 Settlement Days by Aug 31!
- Ed-Co Elections Nominations due before 4PM Mar 20
- LOA on Revising & Rescinding Term Appointments
- Vacation & Sick Leave
- New Collective Agreement requirements for Hiring Panels
- International Women’s Day March 8
- FPSE AGM is May 13-16, Surrey BC
- Keep in touch with us on Discord & be sure to fill out your Member Details Form
- Contract Negotiations
- Extended Health Benefits Updates
- Lifestyle Wellness Savings Account Updates
- Please contact us if your claims are denied.
- Join our next Bargaining Infosession on Mar 20, 2-3pm
- Contract Management
- 10 Arbitrations, 6 Formal Grievances, Many Informal Grievances in play, 7 Settlements
- New agreement for SD time when on graduated return to work
- New agreement on ULOA timing
- Seeking feedback on the New Medical Accommodations Procedure
- Still collecting data for Inadequate Parking Grievance, Inequitable Workloads, & Right of First Refusal
- Professional Development
- Membership changes on the PD Committee
- Increased PD funding for Term Faculty!
- Reminder that applications are due 9 AM Friday before each meeting.
- March 31 is the end of the fiscal year for PD
- 10 Long Term PD Applications Approved this year
- Nominations being taken for Elected PD Committee Member
- Sec/Treas
- Ongoing dispute about cost of faculty release with employer at Arbitration in August
- Investing priorities: time, security, green, social just
- All particulars for the 2023 Fiscal Audit have been submitted
- President
- 50th Anniversary Party Planning
- 5 – 11 PM, May 4, 2024 – Ambrosia Banquet & Events Centre 638 Fisgard Street catered by Royal Spice
- Tickets will be approximately $40 each and include Dinner, watch for our Square Site to launch soon!
- Tickets include Tote bag, T-shirt, Notebook & Pen Party Swag
- Plus ones welcome & there will be a cash bar
- We’ve hired DJ Tera Green – nova jade*, please send us your song requests
- Committee Members Update
- Review of Committee Members
- Confirmation of Ocean Lu as the Child Care Services Liaison
Congratulations to our Door Prize Winners!
- Alanna Baird (Discord)
- Stephen Scott
- Leah Hudson
- Bob Downie
- Kirstin Bundon
- Vruti Patel
- Paige Jannsen
- Lauren Hogarth
Contact our office staff if you don’t hear from them about your prize in the next week or two! I hope you’ll stop in to see me whenever you’re walking by! Mondays I can be found at Interurban in Tech 236 in the Comp Sci Department Office. Tuesdays & Thursdays you’ll find me in 222 Young and I’m available by appointment for Zoom or in person Wednesdays & Fridays!
Lynelle Yutani (she/they)
ac.ytlucafnusomac@tnediserp
President, Camosun College Faculty Association
Lynelle is a queer, leftist rabble-rouser galvanized to guard the rights of union members and is on a crusade to convince you that you get out of your Union what you put into it. Lynelle serves on Presidents Council of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE) and was elected to FPSE Executive as a Member-at-Large. She is on a number of FPSE affiliate committees, including the 2SLGBTQIA+ and Racialized Workers Caucuses for the BC Fed, and is active in the Victoria Labour Congress. Lynelle also serves as V.P. of her Strata Council & oversees a rooftop community garden which partners with Harvest & Share Food Aid Society to grow fresh produce for local foodbanks and community food security programs.
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