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General Meeting Sept/13 5pm

Saturday, August 28th, 2010
September 13, 2010
5:00 pmto8:00 pm

                               

 

                                          

AGENDA

 

LOCAL UNION BUSINESS

NATIONAL UNION BUSINESS

RECENT UNION GRIEVANCES

RECENT LOCAL UNION ACTIVITY

QUESTIONS BY MEMBERS

 

**NOMINATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:

 

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

NEWSPAPER VICE PRESIDENT

SERGEANT AT ARMS

**PLEASE LOOK AT ELEGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.

PRESIDENT

APPLICATION FOR POSITION OF PRESIDENT

**PLEASE LOOK AT ELEGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.

 

PIZZA AND POP                                                                  

                                                                                                TOONIE DRAW

                                                                                               

 

ALL MEMBERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND

                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

 

Sergeant at Arms and Executive Assistant

 

1. The member is a member in good standing.

2. At the time of nomination, the member is a member of this local for at least three (3) out of the past five (5) years.

 

 

Newspaper Vice President

 

1. The member is a member in good standing.

2. At the time of nomination, the member has served at least three (3) out of the past five (5) years on the executive committee.

3. The member is employed within the newspaper sector, namely Edmonton Journal.

 

 

Full Time President

 

This position will be elected and filled every four years, commencing in the year 2003. All applications for this position must be made in person and in writing to the Executive Council at the September Executive meeting, or prior approved arrangements made for another suitable time. The Executive Council will interview the applicants for this position. After all the interviews and discussion and consideration given, the Executive Council will put forward the name(s) of the qualified applicants for a vote to be held in December with the regular voting of  local officers.

 

Qualifications for this position that the Executive Council will take into consideration and use to help determine the best applicants are as follows:

 

-Leadership skills

-Good personnel/people skills

-Organizing/Negotiating/Grievance-Arbitration/ experience

-Knowledge of the general workings of this Local

All applicants must have worked 3 years of the past 5 years as an active and attending member of the Executive Council in the position of President, Newspaper Vice President, Commercial Vice President, Commercial Web Vice President, or Secretary Treasurer, and employed in a plant for the past five years that is under a CEP Local 255G contract.

 

 

Executive Meeting- August 18, 4pm

Thursday, August 12th, 2010
August 18, 2010
4:00 pmto7:00 pm

PRAIRIE LOCALS BENEFIT FUND

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Prairie Locals Benefit Fund  #23 - 1313 Border Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3H 0X4 (204) 949-2775 (collect)

ATTENTION PRAIRIE LOCALS BENEFIT FUND PARTICIPATES

 

NEW CLAIM PROCEDURES

 

ALL CLAIMS (DENTAL & HEALTH CLAIMS) WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SHORT TERM DISABILITY CAN NOW BE SENT DIRECTLY TO MANULIFE FINANCIAL.  SHORT TERM DISABILITY CLAIMS MUST STILL BE SENT TO THE ADMINISTRATION OFFICE ON BORDER STREET IN WINNIPEG.

 

DENTAL CLAIMS CAN NOW BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY, YOU WILL NEED TO ADVISE YOUR DENTIST OF THIS CHANGE AND GIVE THEM YOUR NEW CONTRACT NUMBER (80570 AND YOUR 4 DIGIT ID NUMBER).

 

IF YOU HAVE ANY CLAIM INQURIES (DENTAL OR HEALTH) YOU CAN NOW CALL MANULIFE CUSTOMER SERVICE DIRECT AT 1-800-268-6195, YOU WILL NEED YOUR CONTRACT NUMBER (80570) AND 4 DIGIT ID NUMBER.

 

CLAIM FORMS FOR DENTAL & HEALTH CAN NOW BE DOWNLOADED AT WWW.MANULIFE.CA/GROUPBENEFITS - COMPLETE STEP 1 & STEP 2 THEN CLICK ON FORMS

DENTAL CLAIMS CAN BE MAILED TO:  MANULIFE FINANCIAL GROUP BENEFITS, DENTAL CLAIMS…P.O. BOX 1654…WATERLOO, ON N2J 4W2

 

HEALTH CLAIMS CAN BE MAILED TO: MANULIFE FINANCIAL GROUP BENEFITS, DENTAL CLAIMS…P.O. BOX 1653…WATERLOO, ON N2J 4W1

 

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR REQUIRE ASSISTANCE CALL THE ADMINISTRATION OFFICE AT 204-949-2775 OR SEND ME AN EMAIL AT debbiey.cep191@mts.net

 

CHANGE OF ADDRESS MUST BE REPORTED TO THE ADMINISTRATION OFFICE BY PHONE, EMAIL OR IN WRITING.

 

 

THE CONTRACT RENEWAL DATE WAS JUNE 1, 2010 AND THE CARRIER IS REQUESTING AN INCREASE IN PREMIUM RATES.  THE TRUSTEE’S HAVE ASKED THAT THE RATES REMAIN THE SAME WITH A REVIEW TO BE DONE IN SIX MONTHS WITH THE HOPE THAT THE EXPERIENCE WILL HAVE IMPROVED AND THE REQUESTED INCREASE WILL NOT BE NECESSARY AT THAT TIME.

 

 

Executive Meeting

Monday, June 28th, 2010
July 26, 2010
4:00 pmto7:00 pm

Local Union Office

12547-129 Street, Edmonton

North Americian Newspaper Conference

Monday, June 28th, 2010