August 28, 2019
F 216 – UB (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm)
Lunch will be served.
Agenda
- Approval of Agenda
- Approval of Minutes
- Business Arising
- VCTA Bylaws – Change to Audit Committee*
- eports & Announcements
- Earth Day Strike – September 27, 2019
- New Business
- Negotiations: Central Table positions**
- Negotiations: Sectorial Table bargaining project***
- Varia
- Adjournment
* a) VCTA Bylaws – Change to Audit Committee
That the VCTA General Assembly amend article 30 of the VCTA Bylaws and that it be reformulated as follows:
The Financial Review Committee
The VCTA Financial Review Committee is composed of three (3) non-Executive members of the VCTA who are appointed by Association Council. The committee meets with the VCTA treasurer and/or the VCTA employee to review the revenues, expenditures, assets, and liabilities of the VCTA once each year. The Financial Review Committee makes a yearly report to the VCTA Executive, Association Council, and the General Assembly.
5) New Business
**a) Negotiations: Central Table positions
MOTION: That Association Council recommend that the General Assembly adopt the Central Table
proposals for 2020 produced by the CCSPP-CSN (Comité de coordination des secteurs public et
parapublic) in May 2019.
***b) Negotiations: Sectorial Table bargaining project
MOTION: That Association Council recommend that the General Assembly adopt the Sectorial Table Bargaining Project proposed by the Regroupement CEGEP of May 2019 with the following modifications:
-p. 4:The lack of investment for teaching in the network…
-p. 6: under THE TEACHING LOAD AND ITS DISTRIBUTION
The chronic lack of resources for teaching in the CEGEP network…
-p. 7: under RESOURCES AND FUNDING:
The resources for teaching in the CEGEP network are underfunded.
-p. 7: last paragraph: At the local level, It would be beneficial….
Central Table proposals for 2020
1.1
That the CSN public sector federations demand:
— The introduction of clauses in the collective agreement that would ensure annual inflation adjustments based on the CPI Quebec;
— For the duration of the collective agreement of three (3) years, based on the most beneficial formula, the annual inflation adjustments based on the CPI Quebec plus zero point five percent (0.5%) or:
— The first (1st) year, an adjustment paid in the form of a fixed amount of three dollars ($3), integrated into the compensation scales;
— The second (2nd) year, an increase of three percent (3%);
— The third (3rd) year, an increase of three percent (3%).
1.2
That the federations working together in the CCSPP commit to carrying out research to assess wage adjustments, particularly in relation to starting wages and the number of steps.
2.1
That, given that the general orientation demands that the focus be placed equally on both wages and working conditions and practices, the CSN public sector federations demand that the Conseil du trésor:
— Make major investments in health and social services, education, and government agencies to improve public service quality and access;
— That such investments allow for identifying significant financial margins and mandates, in order to agree on solutions negotiated at sectoral tables that would improve working conditions and practices for public service workers. That such solutions address, among other things, issues related to job creation, job insecurity, physical and psychological health, attraction and retention, and family-work-school balance.
That the federations working together in the CCSPP assess the financial margins required to improve working conditions and practices, in particular to allow for the creation of jobs to combat work overload.
3.1
That, on the basis of preliminary findings with regard to the possible financial impacts of the RREGOP nearing maturity and the increase in the average age of its members, the CSN public sector federations commit to work aimed at protecting retirement quality offered by the RREGOP, while attempting to stabilize contribution rates to improve overall compensation for employees.
That the federations working together in the CCSPP assess the recommendations of the union side of the RREGOP working committee to prepare their demands.
3.2
That the CSN public sector federations demand the following improvements for retirement conditions with no impact on contribution rates:
— Extend the maximum length of progressive retirement provided for in the Act respecting the government and public employees retirement plan from five years to seven years;
— Establish a mechanism to adjust pensions for retirement after age 65;
— Increase the maximum age for participating in the RREGOP to 71 years.
That the federations working together in the CCSPP commit to carrying out research to identify other demands that would improve retirement conditions with no effect on contribution rates or at little cost for the plan.
3.3
That the CSN public sector federations demand that the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) proceed with a gradual, organized, consistent fossil fuel divestment from the RREGOP within a period of five (5) years.
That the CSN public sector federations demand that the CDPQ substantially improve its policy of responsible investment by increasing consideration for environmental and social aspects in the financial management of depositors’ amounts on deposit.
4.1
That, accounting for the realities of each federation, the CSN public sector federations shall demand that the Conseil du trésor reduce the burden of public sector workers with regard to the costs of group insurance and improve provisions on group insurance, in particular through the following:
— Significant annual increases in employer contributions to group insurance plans;
— Access to the full employer health insurance contributions for all workers, no matter their employment status or the number of hours they work;
— Measures to reduce medication costs;
— Any other demands regarding group insurance that are subsequently agreed upon by the federations.
4.2
That the CSN public sector federations demand a commitment from the government to establish a universal public prescription drug insurance plan.
5.1
That the CSN public sector federations demand that all current conditions of the parental rights plan be maintained in this round of bargaining.
That the federations working together in the CCSPP study requests to improve parental rights that come out of the consultations regarding the proposed central table demands, in order to identify demands to improve the parental rights plan.
6.1
That the CSN public sector federations demand that all current conditions with regard to regional disparities be maintained in this round of bargaining. That they study requests to improve regional disparities that come out of the consultations regarding the proposed central table demands, in order to identify demands to improve regional disparities.
6.2
That the CSN public sector federations demand solutions to the taxation issue related to outings if solutions are not implemented after the working committee completes its work of examining the taxation issue related to outings, and that federations that have come together in the CCSPP assess the recommendations of the union side of the working committee to prepare demands, if necessary.
7.1
That, in order to prepare their demands, federations that have come together in the CCSPP assess the recommendations of the union side for each of the working committees established following the 2015 round of bargaining and take into account the progress of the work being carried out by government agencies.
8.1
That each federation be given the mandate to harmonize central table demands with other public sector federations that have come together in the CCSPP and with other central labour bodies and union organizations with which they will form alliances, if appropriate.