Picket Captains

While we have some picket captains signed up, please let us know if you are able to be a picket captain at your site or another site. If you are able, please e-mail us with your name and site/or sites you are willing to go to!
Good Afternoon our wonderful Picket Captains or Possible Picket Captains,
As you know we have reached an impasse and we will be entering into mediation soon. Anita, Rena, and I met with the Regional Director last night and she is working on getting the training moved up so that it can be done before mediation. We have confirmed that the picket captain training will be 1/2 day online on February 2nd in the afternoon or February 3rd in the morning. You only need to attend one, not both.

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Arbitration Update

Anita, Rena, and Michelle returned from Vancouver today with great news for our members. They were attending and participating in the arbitration hearing regarding the use of TTOC’s doing the work of EA’s. We would like to share the outcome with all our Members.

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Kootenay Lake School District support workers in favour of strike action

NELSON – School support workers in School District 8 – Kootenay Lake are in overwhelming support of taking job action if they can’t reach a fair collective agreement. Members of CUPE 748, over 400 workers who provide critical service in over 20 schools in the East and West Kootenays, voted 98 percent in favour of job action – such as a strike – in a vote held last week.

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Strike Vote

As you know, we have hit an impasse with the employer and are holding strike votes this week.

Thank you to everyone who came to the meetings in Salmo and Crawford Bay on Monday and Creston on Tuesday.
We are in Kaslo today, Winlaw on Thursday, and Nelson on Friday. You may attend any one of these meetings.

We booked the meetings throughout the area so there would not be too much traveling involved for you all to vote.

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Bargaining Bulletin – CUPE 748

December 15, 2022

Bargaining Update

We want to give CUPE 748 members an update on how bargaining has been going. As you may know, we began bargaining with the school board this month and have met four times. We have exchanged our respective proposals. Unfortunately, we are farther apart on many issues with the school board than we’d hoped.

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We want to hear from you – Bargaining

Your bargaining committee have already been working hard on your behalf to make sure that issues are dealt with, but we need your help and input too. Please take a moment to fill out this survey so we know what is important to you. Thank you for taking the time to participate in the 748 bargaining process.

https://forms.gle/HEuvu1MwcV6Afbnf7