Thank you everyone who sent in your updated CUPE Board! You sure can tell that there is a lot of pride and team work happening in these schools! Great job everyone.
Congratulations STM!
WINNERS Announced-CUPE Board competition
Congratulations STM!
Congratulations STM!
Welcome to the 2021-2022 School Year
Welcome to the 2021-2022 school year. We certainly hope that this year will bring both staff and students a more stable and consistent school year. Everyone did an an exceptional job going above and beyond to support each other and the students we service. You certainly make us all proud to be a CUPE 1479 member.
Please remember to do your attestation and offence declarations. If you are off for 5 days or longer you will require the CUPE medical certificate to be filled out, which is located in the collective agreement. You are always encouraged to contact a member of the executive if you are on a long term sick leave or have had a WSIB missed time claim. We are here to help guide you through the processes and make sure that you have been returned safely to work and have the tools and supports you need in place. If you have a return to work meeting you should always have a member of the Executive with you.
We love that each school has a representative on site to distribute information, but if you require a meeting with your supervisor or Human Resources you really need to have a trained member of the Executive there with you. We are also here to answer and questions and find concerns.
The OSBCU has also resurrected the Education Worker Wednesday campaign! Please wear your CUPE shirts or just take pictures of hard working CUPE members and send a brief summary of what you do to support students success and safety on a daily basis. We will upload them to the CUPE 1479 Twitter and Facebook pages and forward them to the OSBCU to post on the Facebook page as well.
We wish everyone an amazing, happy and healthy school year! Keep safe!
Liz James
President
CUPE Local 1479
March Break Moved To April 12-16th, 2021
Hello everyone,
As you have all heard by now, March Break is now April Break! If you had booked appointments during the March Break, booked vacation as a 12 month employee it and want to change it or had non refundable travel in the province planned you should reach out and let us know.
We are working with the board to figure out out whether vacation pay in March or April is more beneficial for our members.
You can contact your Steward, Jen Connor-VP West, Steve Caswell-VP East or Liz James-President.
Latest Doug Ford Announcemnet
Are you upset about the government’s latest plans for Education Workers?
The president of the union can only do so much, this is the government making these decisions. I am taking many calls from upset and anxious people, you need to take the time to let Lecce, Ford and Todd Smith know that they have not done what is best for students and staff and why.
Todd Smith (Bay of Quinte) Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
Contact information
Ministry office
Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
7th Floor
438 University Ave.
Toronto, ON
M5G 2K8
Tel.416-212-7432
Fax 416-212-7431
Ministry office
Mailing address: Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
Hepburn Block
6th Floor
80 Grosvenor St.
Toronto, ON
M7A 1E9
Constituency office
Unit D
5503 Hwy. 62 S
P.O. Box 6-2
Belleville, ON
K8N 0L5
Tel.613-962-1144
Doug Ford – Premier of Ontario
Legislative office
Premier’s Office
Room 281
Legislative Building, Queen’s Park
Toronto,
ON M7A 1A1
Tel.416-325-1941
Fax 416-325-3745
Ministry office
Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs
Queen’s Park
Toronto,
ON M7A 1A1
Tel.416-325-1941
Constituency office
823 Albion Rd.
Etobicoke,
ONM9V 1A3
Tel.416-745-2859
Fax416-745-4601
Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education
Ministry office
Ministry of Education
5th Floor
438 University Ave
Toronto,ON
M5G 2K8
Tel.416-325-2600
647-560-9700
Fax647-560-9701
325-2600
Constituency office
Tel.647-560-9700
Fax647-560-9701
Terry Shea, Chair of the Board ALCDSB
Kingston and Frontenac Islands
Parish: Blessed Sacrament, Amherstview, Ontario
844 Crestwood Avenue
Kingston, ON K7P 1S6
613-384-1283
sheat@alcdsb.on.ca
Ian Arthur (Kingston and the Islands)
Legislative office
Room 203
North Wing, Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park
Toronto,ON
M7A 1A8
Tel.416-325-0168
Fax416-325-0088
Constituency office
The LaSalle Mews
Suite 2
303 Bagot St.
Kingston,ON
K7K 5W7
Tel.613-547-2385
Fax613-547-5001
General Membership Meeting – Postponed
Hello everyone,
We were scheduled to have a General Membership Meeting on November 28th but we had to postpone it until we get further consultation. We have multiple open positions that need to elected and we are trying to figure out how to run these elections in accordance to the bylaws and the CUPE National Constitution.
To find out the list of open positions check out the “Contact Us” area on our website and all vacant positions need to be filled until September 2021.
As soon as we figure out how to run an anonymous vote virtually we will post the new meeting date.
Stay safe everyone!
Liz James
President
CUPE Local 1479
General Membership Meeting
General Membership Meeting – Virtual
Positions open for election.
LRA & YW Steward (1)
Social Committee – West (1).
Come on line and join us!
Tentative Agreement Information Sessions and Ratification Vote
Due to COVID 19 restrictions we will not be able to do our in person information session and vote outlined in our bylaws. CUPE National has allowed Locals to use electronic voting and virtual information sessions due to these unprecedented times.
We have worked effortlessly to use personal email to send invites to Information sessions and online voting credentials, but out information is not able to be verified. We are asking that you provide your personal email address and board email address to lizjames@cupe1479.com to verify your information. Due to these extremely time sensitive events the board has allowed us access to the board email accounts for members to be sent info session invited and credential details to ALCDSB CUPE employee email accounts. This is a one time allowance from the board as we are not allowed to use their email system for CUPE business. It is very important that we have updated information. If you have moved or changed phone numbers you should contact Nicky Lucy’s, Staffing Officer for ALCDSB and update your information.
Voting credentials will be sent to ALCDSB email addresses at 1pm July 15, 2020 by Simply Voting. Voting will remain open from July 15th at 1pm until July 16th at 9am. This is confidential and each person will be verified. Every person will get one vote, so please read carefully. Invitations to the 1pm and 6pm info sessions have been sent to these same email addresses. Emails were also sent to personal email addresses on file with the Local.
Don’t know your unit?
Unit 1: YW, EA, LRA, Custodial/Maintenance, Secretary/Clerical, IT and Yard Supervisors-plus casuals for these groups
Unit 2: DECE, Instructors- plus casuals for these groups
Thank you for your patience. We are hoping everyone can make one of the sessions.
Liz James
President
CUPE 1479