Bylaw Amendments Part 2

 

The bylaw amendments voting process will open on Monday, July 6, 2020, at 06h00 and close on Wednesday, July 8, 2020, at 18h00.

 

Please note that ONLY members in good standing can vote on bylaw amendments per the CUPE Constitution.

 

In order to ensure secrecy of the ballot, Simply Voting Inc. has been hired as an independent third-party election provider.

 

Ballots will be encrypted and stored anonymously on their Canadian servers. The union will not be able to consult your

ballot or voting receipt. Election results will be certified by Simply Voting.

 

 

Online and call-in votes are accepted.

 

For members who have provided an email address on the Application for membership to CUPE local 1623 form, a PIN will be sent via email (Monday, July 6, 2020, at 06h00).

 

If an email address was not included, a PIN was mailed to the address provided.

 

 

 

The Part 1 amendments, which included fifteen sets of proposed bylaw amendments, were adopted in 2019.

 

The proposed amendments related to phase 2 was prepared by the Bylaw Committee. The Part 2 included five sets of proposed bylaw amendments;

 

Motion 19-08 Revised: (The motion was referred back to the committee in 2019)

Motion 19-11 Revised: (The motion was referred back to the committee in 2019)

Motion 19-17 Revised: (The motion was referred back to the committee in 2019)

Motion 19-18 Revised: (The motion was referred back to the committee in 2019)

Motion 20-03: Rationale/Comments;

  • increase voter accessibility to the ballot
  • Independent third-party
  • The local covers a large area (Parry Sound to Kapuskasing)

 

Read the proposed Bylaw amendments (PDF)

 

If you need technical assistance with internet or telephone voting, please send an email to election@local1623.ca or call
our office at 705-674-7557.

 

National Campaign to Fix Long Term Care / Campagne nationale visant à repenser les soins de longue durée

This pandemic has hit us hard everywhere – but the staff and residents in long term care have been hit particularly hard. Four out of five COVID-19 related deaths in Canada have either been staff or residents of a long-term care home – the worst record in the developed world.


That’s why this week CUPE has launched a national campaign to Fix Long-Term Care – more details are available at www.fixlongtermcare.ca.


The campaign calls on the federal government to make Long Term Care an accessible, publicly funded, and universal health care service covered by the Canada Health Act. We are further calling for national standards of care, an increase to the number of staff and beds, and for the government to provide adequate and stable funding, removing profit from the system.


The website has an e-action where you can send a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and your MP and has a sign that can be printed and put in your window to show your support.

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Cette pandémie nous a tous durement frappés. Mais, le personnel et les résidents des foyers de soins de longue durée ont été particulièrement touchés. Au Canada, quatre décès sur cinq liés à la COVID-19 sont ceux de membres du personnel ou de résidents d’un foyer de soins de longue durée, le pire bilan du monde développé.


C’est pourquoi le SCFP a lancé cette semaine une campagne nationale visant à repenser les soins de longue durée. Pour en savoir plus, consultez https://repenserlessoins.ca/.


La campagne exhorte le gouvernement fédéral à faire des soins de longue durée un service de soins de santé accessible, public et universel, régi par la Loi canadienne sur la santé. Nous demandons en outre la mise en place de normes nationales de soins et une augmentation du nombre d’employés et de lits. Nous réclamons aussi que le gouvernement fournisse un financement adéquat et stable, éliminant ainsi toute possibilité de profit.


Le site Web propose une action en ligne qui vous permet d’envoyer une lettre au Premier ministre Trudeau et à votre député et qui com

Special offer for Ontario union members

Despite the importance of observing social distancing and stay-at-home measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, CUPE members may find they need to travel to Toronto to support family members, access medical care, or connect to other essential services that may not be available in their communities.

We wanted to let you know that the Sheraton Centre Toronto is offering a special rate of $89.00 plus tax for CUPE Ontario members until labour day. 

Click here to book at this special rate for CUPE Ontario members.

Pandemic Pay Subsidy Protest – May 14

Both of these workers care for patients at the bedside (including COVID patients), but only one is considered a front-line worker in the eyes of the Ford government. Join our action Thursday, May 14. We are all on the front line.

Organize your members to take a few moments during the afternoon shift change on Thursday to protest in front of the hospital by holding up this poster. Please respect social distancing.

Send your photos to admin@ochu.on.ca, tag us on Facebook or Twitter, or use the hashtags #SaveLivesN95s and #hcwCOVID2019 to share your photos.

Members can also write their job title on a piece of paper (write BIG and BOLD–sharpies work best!) that they can hold up along with the official poster to show disparity between job classifications.

Download the posterDownload
Tell the premier that ALL health care workers deserve Pandemic Pay

Pandemic Pay: Questions and Answers

On Saturday, April 25th the Ontario Government announced its intention to issue Pandemic Pay in the period from April 24th to August 12th for some workers in some workplaces.

Literally from the time of the announcement there have been many questions about Pandemic Pay.

CUPE Ontario has prepared a brief Q&A, available by clicking here, that addresses these issues based on what we know as of May 7, 2020.

CUPE Ontario continues to lobby the government with formal, detailed proposals to expand the list of eligible workplaces and eligible workers, to widen the applicability of pandemic pay to pensions, overtime and sick time and, most important, to make pandemic pay permanent and ongoing.

We will do our best to keep CUPE Locals and members updated about these important issues.

In the meantime, we have an e-action so that members can be part of that important lobby to apply pressure to government, available by clicking here.

In solidarity,