Local Issue Bargaining Conference:
June 10, 2009
Attn: All OCHU Affiliated Locals
Re: OCHU Local Issues Conference 2009
Dear OCHU Presidents:
We expect the local issues award for the 2006-2009 collective agreement to
be released mid-summer.
The memorandum of conditions for joint bargaining for the renewal of the
expiring collective agreement sets out a schedule for local issues
bargaining that requires the local parties to exchange proposals in early
2010.
In order to meet that schedule, to review the local issues award, to review
the tools that are available to you to improve your success in local issue
bargaining and to agree on the process that we will use to move all locals
into a position to bargain successfully, OCHU has scheduled a local issues
bargaining conference.
Because of the Toronto Film Festival, we have scheduled this conference for
August 31-Sept. 2. to be held in Toronto at the Intercontinental Toronto Yorkville on Bloor street
Your local bargaining committee’s participation in this conference is
strongly recommended. We believe that you will find this conference very
helpful as you approach local issue bargaining. Registration will take place on Monday evening August 31st from 5:00 p.m. -- 6:00 p.m. You will find the following materials enclosed:
• Convention notice and registration information
• Credentials
• Copy of OCHU By-laws (2008)
Please register at the hotel as soon as possible to ensure your accommodation. When you are making reservations @ the Hotel you must use group code OCHU
I look forward to seeing you at the end of August.
In solidarity,
Helen Fetterly
Secretary Treasurer
Hamilton’s Local 4800 Trades and Service bargaining committees, President Mike Walters and CUPE Staff representative Tom Baker have done an excellent job of holding the line for the central pattern for their Trades and Service bargaining units. The Hamilton Health Sciences employer has been after huge concessions in the first contract after restructuring of this corporation.
Service arbitration for Hamilton has taken place and the Trades arbitration begins at the end of May, 2003.
Ottawa’s Local 870 Service bargaining, President Bonnie Saucie and CUPE Staff representative Andy Mele have also done a great job of holding for the central settlement with an employer whose funding has been reduced as a result of government policy.
Local 870’s arbitration begins in July, 2003.
Halton Health Sciences bargaining committee, President Duncan Currie and CUPE Staff representative Ralph Carnovale have begun preparations for bargaining, which starts April 24, 2003. The goal is to restore elements of the central agreement that were lost in the first contract following restructuring.
In all of these cases, Gwen Hewitt (CUPE Health Care Coordinator), Margaret Evans (CUPE Research) and Michael Hurley (OCHU President) have worked with the committees and attended the negotiations/arbitrations.
Congratulations to all of the locals who have demonstrated that even though an employer pulls out of central bargaining does not mean that they will not end up with the same result.