74th ORC - Kingston DND Branch Activity Report
Number of Members: 134 Regular 5 Retired 8 Rands
Current Executive Members
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
AGM
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
2017 Activities
Mobilization lunches x 2
Understanding Collective agreements
Public Service Week Participation
International Women’s Day sponsor
Issues and Concerns
- 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.
Resolutions to the Regional Council:
None from the Branch.
Submitted by: Pete Jozsa
Branch President