National Executive Meeting - December 2007 - Annex 5

GLT COMMITTEE REPORT

ASR OPI

The covering letter and annex report identifying the closure of ASR - DETAILED SYNOPSIS OF ARMY SUPPORT RESTRUCTURE (ASR) – PROJECT CLOSURE – dated October 2007, does not mention civilians once in the correspondence?

It does however mention the “offspring” of ASR –“Institutional Army (IA) Support. This additional ASR initiative has now been re-aligned as part of the IA Support Study to be launched in fall 2007 by DLSS 3 (G4 Systems). The delivery of support services to the Institutional Army, LFA dependencies and Field Force will be analyzed and restructured if necessary.”

I do not get a warm and fuzzy about when the actual rationalization of regular – reserve and civilians makeup in support to the army will be done.

The ASR committee went into the discussions with a belief that we would be following through on positions identified to transfer to civilians, but VCDS’s SWE cap and no SWE dollars showing up to make all the moves from military to civilian that were identified never came to fruition. Interestingly this was the feeling of the committee originally – that it was all “lip service”, and the outcome did little to lessen that evaluation.

That being said, UNDE will have to monitor the Institutional Army Support process and ensure our voices are at the table at every level.

With thanks to the members of the national ASR committee for their support and involvement, this will be last report on ASR.

GLT OPI

No-Zone Campaign

The PSAC No-Zone committee did not meet but had a conference call which included SV – Table 2 bargaining team members; the essence of the call was to ensure we keep up the MP lobbying throughout the campaign other issues that have been passed on to the chair of the No-Zone committee Sister Benson:

• Lack of T-shirts in the regions for UNDE members, to that end GLT Reps and locals have been asked to identified what they need for quantities and the information was being collected by Sister Linda Graham at National Office with the intent of having the National President address any shortages;
• Visibility of the No-Zone campaign on both the UNDE & PSAC web sites was identified as a concern and since then we now have the No-Zone logo very visible on both web pages as a link to the campaign’s information;
• Black Paydays have been going well in some locals and not at all in others, hopefully we will better communicate further initiatives when we request membership involvement;
• No-Zone grievance campaign, again some locals have done very well and others not at all, the3 GLT committee identified this as one of the priorities for our part of the campaign within DND, hopefully regional VP’s will be able to energize this campaign where it is stalled?

A significant push will be needed to engage members early next year when the bargaining teams are actually talking about money, to that end hopefully the Local President’s Conference will be a start on ways ahead for the campaign within UNDE.

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Tech Sub-Committee

The following is the correspondence I shared with the GLT committee, sub-committee and National Executive:

“GLT Committee Update Oct 2007

1. The following is an update on the status of the MAM committee's refrigeration trade standard presentation:

Brian,

The following is to provide an update regarding the rewriting of Standards for Gas and Refrigeration Technicians.

I have finished laying the ground work by engaging in conversations with senior Departmental and CPSA (formerly PHRMAC) officials that our organization will be putting forward an UNDE submission of a newly written Standard for the above mentioned group of members.

To that end the Draft Standard is near to being completed which I expect to deliver the package at a formal meeting with DCCO, hopefully near the end of October 2007 and at the same time copies will be provided to CPSA, who is the governing body for Classification Renewal.

Withstanding the above as this is the first step in trying to achieve a current and right Standard for Gas and Refrigeration Technicians with no perceived guarantees what the out come may be. I am hopeful the Standard will be received and taken seriously by the Department.

As things unfold I will keep you informed of any developments either way, in a timely fashion. Please forward the above to GLT Committee members.

In Solidarity,

John MacLennan
National President”

Since this correspondence we have had a conference call with Sister Jacquie De Aguayo, PSAC staff and Sister Benson, who along with Brother Halabecki are the AEC members responsible for classification within PSAC, Brother MacLennan, Brother Dagenais and I. We discussed what we had done so far on the Air Conditioning Refrigeration trade, what we intended to do as per the above correspondence and next steps, as these are fleshed out and met they will be communicated to all.

DCC

From our previous discussions on DCC, amount of work they get and their fee charges, also the increase in hiring of DCC personnel at various worksites, all Locals were asked to put this on their Local LMRC. Regional VP’s will have to monitor and report as to where this action is at.

Brother MacLennan has DCC on the National UMCC agenda, and we are hoping we will at the same time be discussing the VCDS’s SWE cap which is giving management direction to supply services in other ways rather than civilian workforce like sending more work to DCC.

Monitoring and following up on where this is at in the locals and regions will be essential.

GLT Classifications

In previous meetings we discussed the WD Library being kept at National office and the discrepancies within different regions around classification of similar positions being rated differently. I believe we have finalized the VHE study, there was to be an audit of positions in Esquimalt and an audit of classifications within the Ontario region. I will leave these for our Classification USO Brother Dagenais to update as required.

I would like to thank the GLT committee and the MAM sub committee for the work they have done on behalf of the GLT membership. I would also like to thank Brother MacLennan and Brother Dagenais for their support and participation on the committee.

Brian Molsberry
VP Man/Sask