74th ORC - Kingston DND Branch Activity Report

Number of Members: 134 Regular 5 Retired 8 Rands

Pete Jozsa Branch President

Tom Zaharopoulos Branch Vice President

Sylvain Boucher Secretary

Keith Daigle Treasurer

Chris Taff Members at Large

Dr. Katherine Banko Members at Large

Lucien Gilbert Members at Large

Felix Akol Members at Large

David Hudson Members at Large

James Brace Members at Large

Previous AGM: April 4, 2017

Next AGM: April 10, 2018

Branch Executive Meetings

Last Meeting Date: Dec 13, 2017

Next Meeting Date: February 21, 2018

Meetings (#) held since last Regional Council: 5

Mobilization lunches x 2

Understanding Collective agreements

Public Service Week Participation

International Women’s Day sponsor

SMC – Service Management Centers – Centralization of CS work has impacted many our members and is a process very much in flux. We are dealing with this at local, regional and National levels. I am the National lead on this and so far have participated in talks in Winnipeg, Trenton and Ottawa on this subject already this year.
Positions staffed by Contractors – although there is a general agreement that these positions are best staffed by civilians there still seems to be reticence to do so – so far under the CS collective agreement there is language that allows us to grieve this – I have signed the first such grievance!! – more to come.
Phoenix! Phoenix! Phoenix! – I probably don’t need to say more as this is something that every Branch president and Steward is dealing with.
Concern that our Branch numbers are incorrect – we have new members that are not showing up in Branch lists – Phoenix related ?
Above were taken from Branch Report please Refer to Branch Report for the rest.

None from the Branch.

Submitted by: Pete Jozsa

Branch President