NAV CANADA Executive Meeting
Nov 24, 2021
Delta Hotel
Ottawa, ON
Minutes
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President (MS) Vice President (PT) Secretary (EF) Treasurer (PV) Member at Large (MK) Member at Large (LD) Member at Large (DM)
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1. Call to order 9:00AM
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2. Adoption of agenda Moved by EF. Seconded by MK.
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Executive |
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3. Approval of Minutes of Sep 13, 2021 Moved by DM. Seconded by LD.
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Executive |
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4. Business arising from previous minutes Carried over: - Action Item (PO): Invite Legal counsel of PIPSC to the next Executive meeting
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Executive |
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5. President Update
- Consultation held in October with all the unions at Nav Canada; told them how we (at PIPSC) felt. This company needs to do something quickly for everyone to heal. Safety was a concern and the imbalance of pay. - The trust with the company was broken. - Sophia T will be retiring and Amanda is the new AVP (Mora is the VP of HR) - Meeting with NCBAA to vote union members on the Nav Canada board of directors (Peter Duffey is our candidate) - Bringing back an IM member who was fired - Attended PIPSC AGM - Attended classification meeting - Chaired the west sub group meeting
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6. Vice-President Update
- Attended our weekly Executive meetings - Attended our classification meeting with MS - Assisted some members with their questions
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7. Financial Update
- Treasurer provided an update on the budget and the balance remaining - PV assisted a member with a workplace issue - Executive approved PIPSC jackets for the Executive team. Motion to accept by EF. Seconded by MK.
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8. Secretary Update
- Sent the June 25th 2021 meeting minutes for translation and publishing - Attended weekly Executive update meetings - Listened to members’ feedback re disengagement, overworked sentiment and reduction of compensation. - Mediated a resolution with DM for a member who’s dealing with issues in his current team. - Consultation with the director of FDS Engineering along with MS and LR on topics re members’ work, managers’ new requests re workday and a PI spreadsheet estimates in FDS. - Discussed SAFE processes with LACE members. - Helped member with his Vaccine related issues.
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9. Members at large update
MK: - Attended weekly Executive update meetings - Attended meetings with East sub group - Attended PIPSC classification meeting
LD: - Attended weekly Executive update meetings - Attended both sub group meetings with MS - Attended PIPSC classification meeting - Attended local OSH meeting
DM: - Attended weekly Executive update meetings - Assisted a member with his team issue; a resolution is in effect. - Consultation with Flight inspection team where manager doing union work. Suggestion from the Executive: work be done temporarily and paying union dues. - Recommending the creation of Nav Canada PIPSC Chief steward role - 3 L1 managers’ competition in EPD; And union evaluating the role to ensure they are not doing PIPSC work. - CA on PIPSC and Sharepoint websites still not the updated one. - Encouraged people to apply for stewards from different occupational groups.
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10. Negotiations |
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- Only thing at this moment is the Classification system, with a potential meeting next week for the executive.
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11. NCBAA/NCJC - Refer to section 5 (President Update)
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12. OSH report - N/A
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13. Other Business
- Action item: Officially requesting for PIPSC and NAV to update the CA and post it. - Action item: To have a discussion about staffing positions for members and the applying for competitions and members’ preferences on staffing process.
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14. Adjournment |
Executive |
Moved by EF. Seconded by DM.

