tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92954462012-04-28T14:15:00.686-04:00Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1356. We have three Collective Agreements as Local 1356, 1356-01, and 1356-02. The membership is comprised of the full-time and part-time workers of York University the Local website is at 1356.cupe.ca This Blog will include Local information and information garnered from sources other Universities, Colleges, Post Secondary/Tertiary Education and news sources supplying information.CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/11009156717397533666noreply@blogger.comBlogger666125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-24134682043170894482010-11-28T20:32:00.003-05:002010-12-02T07:38:37.886-05:00McDougall & Brown Funeral Home - Eglinton Chapel http://www.mcdbrowneglinton.ca/# The visitation is Sunday 28 Nov 2010 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm and Monday 29 Nov 2010 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm Funeral on Tuesday 30 Nov 2010 at 10 am St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church 640 Glenholme Ave Toronto, ON 416-781-8444 call ahead for specific details Osmundo was a past Steward although in the recent years he was a Supervisor on Night Shift in Custodial Services. also on Yfile...CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-76468630314993069922010-03-22T19:49:00.000-04:002010-03-22T19:49:01.513-04:00Washington State University WSU custodians say more work and less staff is affecting sanitation around campus. Rochelle Adams The Daily Evergreen Published: 03/22/2010 Some WSU custodians say that they are being given more work than they have time to complete it. Over the last few years, custodians under WSU Facilities and Operations workload per hours of work has gone up enough to prevent them from finishing assigned tasks, said Steve A.* and Jennifer T.*, two FacOps custodians. They...Ilponoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-35414412924404624172010-03-16T19:54:00.000-04:002010-03-16T19:54:29.974-04:00By Gretchen Ross Posted by Sarah Harlan EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - In a money-saving move, the city of Evansville will take over the maintenance on four buildings currently managed by SMG.Ilponoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-63200740652785083872010-03-13T16:47:00.001-05:002010-03-13T22:14:31.206-05:00By MATT LEINGANG, Associated Press Tue Mar 9, 6:26 pm ET COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt. Nathaniel Brown, 51, arrived for work at the nation's largest university dressed in dark clothing, a hooded sweat shirt and a backpack. He then opened fire in an office suite using two...Ilponoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-22952087243751576592010-03-13T16:39:00.000-05:002010-03-13T16:39:38.549-05:00Seven students were sickened by same group of bacteria Tuesday, March 9, 2010 12:20 AM By Misti Crane THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Seven cases of bacterial meningitis at Ohio University caused by the same group of bacteria also share the same genetic fingerprint, prompting public-health experts to declare an outbreak and delve deeper into an investigation of the illnesses there. The investigation by federal, state and local scientists will take at least a couple of weeks and aims to uncover what...Ilponoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-68690331738246638652010-03-13T15:44:00.001-05:002010-03-13T15:46:30.491-05:00The Not Rexes have spoken and the people have voted. rabble.ca is pleased to present the winner of our Not Rex Murphy Context -- Humberto DaSilva! Humberto is a union representative and writer born and bred in Toronto. His father and mother, now retired, were respectively a miner and a shopkeeper in their native Portugal. In 1998, Humberto led an organizing drive of his workplace after unaddressed maintenance concerns resulted in an aircraft accident and after several of his co-workers...CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-21222797110686879572010-03-13T14:29:00.004-05:002010-03-13T14:43:22.831-05:00This is one of the LabourStart Labour Video of the Year videos that you may vote for.CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-89119217154236832502010-03-08T21:27:00.002-05:002010-03-08T21:31:17.041-05:00Last week, the Harper government released a do-nothing budget, relying largely on corporate tax cuts - and completely lacking in any kind of strategy to help put Canadians back to work. Hidden in the 424 pages of the budget, though, are changes to programs that will have a huge effect on CUPE members and other working Canadians. To help understand what's actually in there, CUPE researchers have prepared a series of fact sheets. From pensions to privatization, from climate change to child care,...CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-36746628564531524762010-03-06T20:29:00.002-05:002010-03-06T20:35:35.077-05:00Wade Hemsworth (Mar 5, 2010) Four months before Patrick Deane takes over as McMaster president, the university has made his contract public. McMaster posted Deane's five-year contract on its Daily News website yesterday, demonstrating a change of course after opposing the release of current president Peter George's contract in 2006.CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-79091776338609156982010-03-06T14:38:00.005-05:002010-03-06T21:11:48.242-05:00*** The following notice is sent on behalf of Sharon Hooper, Assistant Vice President, Human Resources and Employee Relations *** On October 16th, 2009, a communication was sent to managers requesting that employee absences be reported to the Department of Human Resources on a daily basis to assist the University in monitoring absences related to the pandemic influenza outbreak. On Monday March 1, 2010, the Pandemic Influenza Planning Committee recommended to the Provost, Senate Executive and...CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-11796713546817422472010-03-02T23:15:00.001-05:002010-03-02T23:18:05.298-05:00Laurentian University teaching assistants have recently voted to join CUPE. Mar 1, 2010 01:52 PM As the economic downturn continues in Canada, CUPE’s commitment to improving working conditions, advancing workers’ rights, and ensuring workers are treated fairly at all times is more important than ever. In Northern Ontario, child and youth workers at the Sault Area Hospital in Sault Ste-Marie, and graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) at Laurentian University in Sudbury, showed their confidence...CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-65242382835624300022010-01-26T14:16:00.005-05:002010-01-26T14:22:49.621-05:00U of W mulls outsourcing teachers The Windsor Star Tue Jan 26 2010 Page: A3 Section: News Byline: Craig Pearson Source: The Windsor Star Some University of Windsor professors worry the school may soon become one of the first in Canada to outsource professorial work. The Australian-based Study Group International would recruit international students and provide them first-year instruction -- with academic, English and cultural courses. If the students pass, the University of Windsor...CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-49090028654283724362010-01-25T20:54:00.005-05:002010-01-25T22:14:00.783-05:00A new weekly presentation of international labour news is being organized on the Internet. The audiocast - called Solidarity News - will be available on RadioLabour.net every Monday morning. RadioLabour is the brainchild of Marc Belanger -- the founder of SoliNet, which was the first trade union online network back in the 1980s. Solidarity News will focus on union and workers' activities and issues from around the world with special emphasis on emerging market and developing...CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-24453481033337832932010-01-20T21:17:00.012-05:002010-03-02T23:35:10.940-05:00At the 20 January 2010 Labour-Management Meeting of 1356 the following information was confirmed, the form exists! The form that is to be used to assign the benefit to a provider, like the visit to get orthotics and you use the form and the orthotic shop gets the payment direct from Sunlife can be found at our website http://1356.cupe.ca/www/health-care-benefits-form and the direct link to the form. The York University website link is here or as...CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-59101817433637716872009-07-07T23:26:00.000-04:002010-03-02T23:27:42.495-05:00Jun 9, 2008 12:43 PM BROCKVILLE, Ont. – On Friday, part-time bus drivers with the city of Brockville have voted to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). They will belong to the same union as the full time drivers (CUPE local 115), but will possibly be negotiating a separate collective agreement. The drivers want to be treated fairly with similar wages and working conditions as their full time colleagues. They are looking to increase their job security and speak with one voice...CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-16732888708016134312009-07-07T11:41:00.002-04:002009-07-07T11:43:24.480-04:00The Parking and Security members ratified a new collective agreement today.Ilponoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-12490631195108551992009-07-07T11:37:00.005-04:002009-07-07T11:56:50.458-04:00Below is a copy of a recent press release of the YFS exposing members of the Conservative Party of Canada and the York Administration for trying undermine your democratic right to vote in an autonomous students’ union election: Conservative Politicians and York University Administrators Revealed Interfering in York Student Elections TORONTO, July 6 /CNW/ - Emails secured through a recent Freedom of Information request revealed that Conservative MP Peter Kent, MPP Peter Shurman, and senior...Ilponoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-44187856268489414882009-06-17T12:37:00.004-04:002009-06-17T12:42:54.271-04:00There is an error in the printing [and web versions] of the CUPE Local 1356 Collective Agreement in Article 24.03 part 8 only. To correct this just delete the phrase " (Employee Coverage Only) " The coverage for this benefit was, is, and continues to be for the employee and family [if the family is registered with the employer.]Ilponoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-34341538553174143412009-06-11T14:32:00.002-04:002009-06-11T14:35:06.603-04:00The Canadian Union of Public Employees is picketing McMaster’s social sciences convocation ceremonies at the Hamilton Convention Centre today. CUPE Local 3906 says the demonstration is to inform the public of “layoffs” which are the consequences of restructuring at the university. The complaints stem from the concerns of sessional faculty members – faculty serving in a temporary capacity to instruct specific courses on a course-by-course basis – represented by CUPE Local 3906.source Hamilton...Ilponoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-66820799031648268152009-06-11T09:22:00.001-04:002009-06-11T09:25:10.959-04:00One of Virginia Commonwealth University's star professors is incurably ill from dust inhaled in university studios, but the school says its facilities are safe and warnings adequate. from Richmond Times-Dispatch Contact David Ress at (804) 649-6051 or dress@timesdispatch.comCUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-54847754068313837592009-06-02T08:27:00.001-04:002009-06-02T08:29:38.890-04:00custodians at the University of Washington are coming together across ethnic lines and language barriers to keep their work shifts. The predominantly Asian, Latino, and East African workforce consists of 66 custodians who work from 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. On June 1, they will be reassigned to a day-shift that begins at 5 a.m. source Northwest Asian WeeklyCUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-45498000981498830022009-06-02T08:22:00.000-04:002009-06-02T08:24:02.033-04:00The new bylaw mandates rooftop vegetation on all new high-rise condos and offices with a floor surface greater than 2,000 square metres, mid-rise residential buildings above eight storeys, industrial plants, schools and non-profit housing. source National PostCUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-58009287202255746082009-06-02T07:53:00.001-04:002009-06-02T07:55:40.035-04:00Bruce S. Raynor, the longtime labor leader for the nation’s apparel workers, announced on Friday that he was resigning as president of Unite Here, the joint union that garment workers created with hotel workers five years ago.source - NY TimesCUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-17364969997815466342009-04-18T23:30:00.001-04:002009-04-18T23:33:16.715-04:00Canada’s Quiet Bargain: The Benefits of Public Spending responds to incessant calls for tax cuts and concludes public services make a significant contribution to the majority of Canadians’ standard of living – worth at least 50% of their income. with thanks to the CCPAIlponoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295446.post-74925990651732081732009-04-17T22:45:00.004-04:002009-04-21T11:04:22.261-04:00Do this as a write-in vote on the site.CUPE Local 1356http://www.blogger.com/profile/06482544922329686934noreply@blogger.com1