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Next General Membership Meeting:
may 17, 2012
At The CEP / Firefighters Union Hall
3525 Pasqua Street, Regina SK
7:00 PM
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Four destructive myths most companies still live - by Tony Schwartz, Harvard Business Review
Nov 1, 2011
NEWS FLASH!!! "...we're not designed to operate like computers — at high speeds, continuously, for long periods of time."
Myth #1: Multitasking is critical in a world of infinite demand.
Myth #2: A little bit of anxiety helps us perform better.
Myth #3: Creativity is genetically inherited, and it's impossible to teach.
Myth #4: The best way to get more work done is to work longer hours.
Members approve new contract
A secret ballot vote was taken at a Contract Ratification meeting held in Regina SK, on June 20, 2011. The result was 95% membership approval of a new 3 - year Collective Agreement for the members of CEP Local 911 and ISM Canada, an IBM Company. The new collective agreement will see base wages increase by 9.75% by 2013. (3% in 2011 retroactive to December 25, 2010; 3.25% in 2012 and 3.5% in 2013 or 10.06% compounded across the three years.) Also included is a profit sharing scheme, increases to shift and weekend premiums as well as a modest improvement to benefits and a number of housekeeping issues.
Canada's water policies require closer scrutiny - Gary Schoenfeldt and Darwin DeLorme
Schoenfeldt is Chairperson of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour's Trade Committee and
DeLorme is Chairperson of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour's Aboriginal Committee
Most Canadians don't give a thought to the absurdity of flushing their toilets with clean drinking water.
One of the most indispensable elements that sustain human life fails to stir even the mildest of debates during an election, while spring floods rage and many communities go on year after year living under "boil water advisories."
While the public blissfully sleeps, politicians and speculators are under no illusions about the massive potential cash value of fresh water. In fact, Canada's water as a commodity to be traded on international markets is one of the items up for grabs in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement currently being secretly negotiated between Canada and the European Union (EU).
Foreign companies want Canada's water. They want access to it, and they want to be able to sell it to whomever they please, wherever they can make a dollar from it.
During a closed-door trade tribunal last year, the Harper government relinquished Canada's longstanding national jurisdiction over fresh water resources.
Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/Canada+water+policies+require+closer+scrutiny/4962319/story.html#ixzz1Pwu4AEbW
Read more about Canada's water policies require closer scrutiny - Gary Schoenfeldt and Darwin DeLorme
CEP Media Release: "Fire Minister Paradis for bragging about exporting Canadian Jobs!"
http://www.cep.ca/mediarelease/minister-paradis-should-resign-bragging-about-exporting-canadian-jobs
12/09/2010
OTTAWA -- Canada’s major oil sector union has called for the resignation of Conservative Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis over his remarks promoting Canadian bitumen exports to US businessmen because it will creates hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans.
“Mr. Paradis clearly fails to understand his responsibility to Canadians and Quebecois. His job is to ensure that our natural resources create jobs for Canadians, not Americans,” says Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
“One man supports Women’s Equality, another doesn’t.”
http://larryhubich.blogspot.com/2009/02/one-man-supports-womens-equality.html
Brainwashing 101
One of the most abusive corporate practices that has been legalized by the Brad Wall Sask Party government is the dreaded "Closed Door Meeting". Thanks to Mr. Wall, union members can now be privately, without benefit of union representation, persuaded, intimidated or coerced by corporate bullies, belligerent managers or union - busting spin doctors. This sort of thing, which we all thought went out with the horse and buggy, is back, under the guise of "freedom of speech for employers" and what the Sask Party calls, the "need to rebalance" the power between employers and unions. Take a look at this video and see how well it works in the USA. Who benefits when employers have this amount of power over unionized workers?
larryhubich.blogspot.com/2010/04/workplace-democracy-corporate-style.html
War on Labour
The International Labour Organization has ruled that the Brad Wall (Sask. Party) anti-labour legislation is a clear violation of workers rights under the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Freedom of Association. While Canada's federal government has been requested by the UN Agency to clamp down on the Saskatchewan Government, one prominent Saskatchewan blogger takes Sask Party Labour Minister Rob Norris to task for putting Saskatchewan to shame. owlsandroosters.blogspot.com/2010/03/aeel-minister-rob-norris-brings-shame.html
The "so-called" union that has been invited by Brad Wall and Rob Norris to open up shop in Saskatchewan has submitted a brief to the Saskatchewan Minimum Wage Board calling for a cut in the minimum wage for workers under the age of 21. In a submission dated October 23, 2009, the Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) made four (4) recommendations to the newly appointed Minimum Wage Board one of which urges the Board to recommend that minimum wage be "discounted by 10 percent for youth under the age of 21 years".
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CEP Western Region Events
Get involved with youir union! CEP's diverse membership is strengthened when its members participate across the region. Solidarity between CEP Locals is key to understanding how issues can be resolved within each local. There is a wealth of experience within the hundreds of CEP locals and bargaining units, and it is just waiting to be tapped. Here is a link to the Western Region Calendar of Events. If something interests you, take note of it. Bring it to a Local meeting and find out how you can be a part of something that will benefit everybody! www.cep.ca/reg_western/files/calendar.html
Gormley wrong on unions
John Gormley's column, Why unions don't want smaller government (SP, March 19), repeats the common but altogether mistaken assumption that, while unions may have advanced social progress in the long-forgotten past, they are increasingly irrelevant today.
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Young Workers Need Protection
July 22, 2009- Regina SK - The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, representing over 95,000 workers and their families, have concerns with the new minimum age regulations announced by the provincial government this week.
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Restoring the Bargain - Contesting the constitutionality of Amendments to the Trade Union Act, Bill 6
Dr. S. Muthu of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), has published a critique of the Saskatchewan Government's impugned changes to the Trade Union Act, Bill 6, which gives employers the unprecedented "right" to bypass workers' elected representatives and communicate directly with them. The labour movement sees this as an affront and a direct violation of workers' Charter Rights under the Canadian Constitution, in particular right to freedom of association without interference. The International Labour Organization's (ILO) Freedom of Association Committee of Experts, a United Nations Agency, agrees and has asked the Government of Canada to direct the Saskatchewan Government of Premier Brad Wall to stop using legislation to violate the UN's Universal Charter of Rights and Freedoms, by legislative means. For its part, the labour movement led by the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour has launched a legal challenge that could well end up in the Supreme Court of Canada. - G. Schoenfeldt, Local 911
Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan: Under fire for declaring "war" on organized labour. Workers say he is violating their rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The UN agrees. Its agency, the International Labour Organization, has criticized Canada for allowing Mr. Wall's Sask Party government to violate the Universal Declaration of Rights and Freedoms.
