Incident Reports

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Please make sure that you are filling out the incident reports on eBase every time there is an incident/escalation with a student that you support.  The QR code forms are not a replacement for the incident forms. They only go to the behaviour team. I know that it feels like filling them out doesn’t do anything, but if you are not filling them out, the Health and Safety Committee don’t know there is a problem.

If you do a work refusal, they look at all the incident report forms that are filled out for that school. If there aren’t any forms, they don’t see a problem.

I am attaching a pdf on how to fill out the forms.  Many thanks to a past member of the Health and Safety Committee for making it up. If you are getting hit, threatened, items thrown at you, etc. – that is workplace violence – even if they miss. The intent/threat is there.

How to Fill out an incident form.

Bill 124

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To All Retired/Resigned members:
Payroll has given us the methodology on how to calculate the Bill 124 retro payments. If you believe that your payment was incorrect, contact me and I will send you the methodology and the pay scales to figure it out. If you find there was an error, you can contact payroll with your calculation and they will look into your payment.

September GMM

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Our first GMM of the 2024-2025 school year will be held on September 21, 2024 at 9:30.

We had previously given notice that it would be strictly in person due to the need for a secure vote for Trustee.  We have since contracted Motion Meetings on the recommendation of CUPE National and now have a secure voting/meeting platform.  The September meeting can now be held in a hybrid fashion.

As before, a link will be sent out the day before, but now, that link will be for each individual. This will allow for secure voting and security.  Only those who received the individualized link will be able to enter the meeting and vote. We will only see results, not who votes.

I hope to see you then,

Tracey

New Pay Rates/Retro Pay

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Everyone should have received a memo from Human Resources about the pay increases and the retro pay. The new rates went into effect on Monday, March 25, 2024 and will be reflected on your next pay.
The new pay grids and the new collective agreement are just being finalized and will be posted to the board website and to our website in the near future.
Until then, you will be able to see your updated rate of pay when the next pay stub is published on ESS.

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation – September 30, 2023

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This Saturday, September 30, 2023 is National Truth and Reconciliation Day.

Since 2013, September 30 has been commemorated as “Orange Shirt Day”, inspired by the story of residential school survivor Phyllis Jack Webstad.

As a young girl, Phyllis was gifted a new orange shirt by her grandmother before she was taken to a B.C. residential school. The shirt was confiscated and destroyed by her teacher on the first day of classes. The story has come to symbolize the colonial assimilation goals of the residential school system.

Please wear an orange shirt to work on Friday, September 29, 2023 to commemorate the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

Election Results

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Thank you to all who came out and voted at our last GMM

Election Results are as follows:

Position Name
President Tracey Cooper
Vice President Jan Ramsey
Grievance Officer Patty Kleber
Recording Secretary Natasha Jackson
Financial Officer Caroline Hall
Health and Safety Officer Antoinette Annan
WSIB/Injured Worker Officer Lori Berry
Information Officer Danielle Powell
Membership Officer Stasha Medeiros