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………. Thank you Lynne! 
Pulp Friction is Back!!!
February 10th, 2011CEP Scholarships 2011!
January 13th, 2011It’s Scholarship time out there again! For those members who have children attending post secondary education; the 2011 CEP scholarship applications are available on-line. If you cannot open this here, send this E-mail home to yourself. If you have trouble accessing the website I have hard copies available in the Main Lab.
There are two Scholarships:
- Twelve scholarships of $2000 each available to all students of CEP members in good standing. An essay of 1500 – 2000 words on the topic ” What the labour movement means to me”
- One scholarship of $2000 for Women in Male Dominated Fields. An essay of 1500 – 2000 words on the topic “Give a brief description of the male dominated occupation you are entering and what you think the union’s role should be in promoting women in this field.”
The applications are due by April 15, 2011.
Good luck! Lynne Monteith
*** here’s the link: http://www.cep.ca/action/learning/scholarships
Discipline & Safety!
January 11th, 2011Brothers & Sisters,
Over the last few years your JSC reps have worked very hard to establish an agreement with the company that no disciple would arise out of any safety initiative. This is very important as the threat of discipline could deter people from coming forward or visiting first aid after an incident and that would prevent us from learning from the incident and putting good corrective actions in place to prevent it from happening again. The company agreed. The initiatives were defined as information from a member, first aids, near misses and incident investigations.
Early in 2010 a major lock out violation prompted the company to back track on our agreement. At that point everything stayed the same with the exception that near misses would no longer protect employees from discipline with respect to serious lock out violations.
More recently, another incident occurred and the employee immediately notified his supervisor – the individual was disciplined. …….continue reading!
Telus Unethical Billing?
December 30th, 2010An interesting developement has started with Telus. They have anounced a $2.00 bill charge to customers that choose a paper bill over electronic billing! Telus said that it did not want to penalize the customers that use electronic billing because they help reduce processing costs.
This has to be illegal! ……. continue reading!
Your Right to Privacy vs. OSHA!
December 9th, 2010Brothers and Sisters,
On Tuesday December 7, 2010 the company informed us that they would like our support in their request to discus confidential personal medical information (pre existing conditions) with employees that have been injured. They claim that this is necessary because the standard of reporting recordable incidents that they must follow (OSHA) is an American standard which puts them at a disadvantage statistically when compared to other mills. By the OSHA standard information indicating a pre existing condition may allow a current recordable incident to be re classified as a non recordable.
In an attempt to help the company with this issue ……. continue reading!
Your 2011 Executive
November 16th, 2010Your 2011 Executive has started to take shape.
President Murray Matheson
1st Vice President Pat Turgeon
2nd Vice President Dan Moffat
3rd Vice President Lindsay Seal
Corresponding Secretary Les Jenner
Secretary Treasurer Joe Knuit
Safety Chairperson Rob Bruno
Disability Management Coordinator Jeff Pentney
There will be an election for (2) Trustees and the second round nominations will close next month. We encourge all interested parties to make sure you get nominated; then attend the December meeting or give me a letter confirming your acceptance.
Thank-you to the membership for your direction and support!
Modified Work Accommodations Greivance
November 16th, 2010Local10b is fortunate to have one of the best duty to accommodate programs in the Province (Modified /transitional Work Programs). This program can be found in our JLA under local agreements. We do how ever run into issues every now and then and we presently have a grievance in regarding Rates of Pay .
Up to this point, whenever a production worker goes on to Modified work, the worker receives the hourly job rate of pay for where their seniority would place them. Read the rest of this entry »
CEP Local 686 Presidents update
November 16th, 2010CEP Local 686 Presidents update – Submitted by Roy Plotniko:
Brothers & Sisters
Finally and a long time waiting that a Pulp and Paper corporation is actively starting to promote the use of paper products that they manufacture. As you know we initiated the “Buy Paper Campaign” quite some time ago Read the rest of this entry »
Safety Eyewear Policy Changes
November 1st, 2010Hi Everyone,
A couple of weeks ago we received quite a few questions from the floor regarding company announced changes to our Safety Eye-wear Policy. Quite honestly, the questions caught us completely off guard as we hadn’t heard anything about any changes to the policy at JSC and we were pretty sure that we had resolved the issue around unilateral changes to safety policies with the company.
Bob Patterson and Eric Ashby were away that week so we started asking around but no one seemed to know anything about it. JeFF sent an email to Bob Patterson requesting information on the changes as well as an explanation as to why any changes were made prior to the issue being discussed at JSC but he did not get a reply. Finally, at our monthly JSC meeting last Tuesday, we expressed our concerns and got an answer to our question. … read the rest of the post now >>
