February 8 Membership Meeting       

Please join your next membership meeting:

Date: Thursday February 8 2024

Time: 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Location: Health Services Building–  Auditorium A and B and virtually via Zoom link below

Pizza will be served.

The agenda will include reports from delegates to conferences and conventions

Feb 6 Bargaining Rally Report Back

A zoom link to join virtually will be sent closer to the meeting date, as well as more details on what will be discussed.

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CUPE National’s Statement on International Court of Justice Ruling

CLICK to read: CUPE National’s Statement on International Court of Justice Ruling

“…CUPE calls on the Canadian government to:

• Take all necessary steps to ensure Israel’s compliance with the ICJ decision

• Impose an arms embargo on Israel

• Call for a permanent ceasefire”

Email okeresztesi@cupe.ca about ways you can support CUPE’s call for Canada to support a ceasefire

 

TUESDAY! February 6 OCHU Bargaining Rally: 

Join me at this important rally to tell the Ontario Hospital Association, the public, and the provincial government that health care workers need a real raise.

Email okeresztesi@cupe.ca if you will attend.

 

Other important dates:

February 21, 3:30 to 5:30: Save the date for the next membership meeting where the Auditor’s report will be presented.

DATE CHANGED! February 3  February 24 Better Work For Better Care Forum

The Decent Work and Health Network

invites you to join their virtual “Better Work for Better Care” Forum, Saturday February 24, from 12pm to 1:30pm.

Register to join virtually here: https://www.decentworkandhealth.org/forum

 

All the best,

 

Orion Keresztesi

CUPE National Staff and Local 3651 Administrator

Ontario Regional Office

Phone: 705-712-0157 (no texts)

Email: okeresztesi@cupe.ca

Notice of Membership Meeting CUPE Local 3651

Date:                   Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Time:                   3:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Location:         Virtual  Only due to Weather

A membership meeting will be held at the above date and time to discuss the following:

• Continue the process of adopting by-laws proposed by the By-laws Committee. The proposed by-laws are available at 3651.cupe.ca
  • Some members have proposed amendments that they have circulated in advance, to receive a copy of the proposed amendments email malfara@gmail.com
• New Business and Good of the Union

To attend the meeting virtually use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82803989644?pwd=VVJodlVvNERvQWFjNzl3V0JvVU5Sdz09

You can also phone-in using the following information. But if you call in you will not be able to participate in voting.

Call: +1 647 558 0588 and enter: Meeting ID: 828 0398 9644; Passcode: 36511

The link has been emailed to members on the email list. To sign up to your union email list visit: https://3651.cupe.ca/contact-us/ and click the link. If you have already signed up and are not receiving emails check your spam folder.

Questions? Contact okeresztesi@cupe.ca

Notice of Membership meeting CUPE Local 3651

Date: Monday, December 4, 2023

Time: 3:30pm to 5:30pm

Location: Health Services Building – Auditorium A and B

In-Person and Virtual Meeting – Instructions to join virtually are below

A membership meeting will be held at the above date/time to discuss the following:

• Vote on adopting by-laws proposed by the By-laws Committee. The proposed bylaws are available at https://3651.cupe.ca/2023/11/27/draft-bylaws-proposed-at-november-13-2023-membership-meeting/
• Report by delegates to the CUPE National Convention
• Time for answering your questions and discussing workplace issues.

To attend the meeting virtually you must register in advance by filling out the form at this link: https://msh-on-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Etd-uhpjkrE9xYe4nreWk-FEKo4vC8IFgo

The link has also been sent out via email to members who have signed up for union emails. To sign up visit: https://3651.cupe.ca/contact-us/ . If you have already signed up and are not receiving emails check your spam folder.

The 3651 Bylaws Committee is proposing the following draft bylaws be adopted by the membership. The vote on adopting these bylaws will take place at the membership meeting on December 4 2023.

Bylaws_L3651_November 10 2023

Your Bylaws Committee is:

Cynthia Abric

Hollis Kent

Lesley Sullivan

Mamta V Saija

Sabrina Malfara

Shelly-ann Pollard

Wayne Stevenson

Xiao (Cecelia) Ying Dai

Dear Members, 

The Canadian Union of Public employees (CUPE) bargains a central collective agreement with 55 Ontario hospitals including ours.

Central bargaining covers most issues: general wage increase, employment security, seniority, contracting out, health and safety, grievance procedure, benefits, sick leave and much more.

Some issues, however, are deemed “local issues” and are bargaining by your local union. These issues include wage adjustments for classification where there is evidence that they have fallen behind their comparators, scheduling, weekend offs, cancellation of shifts, time off between shifts, vacation scheduling and others.

Our local union will be entering into local issues bargaining this fall.

Your bargaining team would like to hear what your priorities are. Please fill in this brief survey on your local issue’s priorities. We estimate it will only take 7 minutes.

Our current contract expired on September 28, 2021.  Please complete this survey by June 29, 2021.

This is YOUR contract.  We need YOUR input.

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S1MSHBC

Click Here for The June 2021 Newsletter

Good Afternoon Members,

It is our pleasure to announce that Wayne Stevenson was nominated and acclaimed to the position of Area 3 Vice President.

Having Wayne Stevenson as both Local Executive Vice President and Vice President of Area 3, Wayne is now the representative of the Seven hospitals of Area 3 (GTA) at the Ontario Council of Hospital Union (OCHU) level.

This is very important as it’s a bargaining year for CUPE and having our Vice President as our greater voice, he will be able to use his extensive knowledge to stand up for all CUPE members. We are proud that Wayne’s home hospital is Markham Stouffville Hospital.

Let us congratulate Wayne Stevenson, we have faith in his leadership as he has shown executional leadership skills.

Many years ago our previous Local President Joe Reddy held this seat. After many years and taking in Joe‘s knowledgeable foot steps, the position is back in the hands of Markham Stouffville Hospitals local executive.

Thank you all for all your support,

Shelly Pollard
President
CUPE Local 3651

The Ontario government is supporting personal support workers (PSWs) and direct support workers in the home and community care, long-term care, public hospitals, and social services sectors by investing $461 million to temporarily enhance wages.

Read the full article HERE.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Ontario government declared a state of emergency under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act (EMCPA). This allowed them to pass many emergency orders, most of which allowed employers to ignore sections of our collective bargaining rights.

THIS FACTSHEET is based on Bill 195 at the time of first reading. Bills go through a committee process and three readings before being passed, so it may change before becoming law.

For more information on how Bill 195 will affect you please contact your local executive.