President's Update
 

• Merger Committee- This is a role that will focus on actively engaging our membership in collecting feedback.   This committee is vital in providing the Executive Board with the pulse of our local.   This will allow your Executive Board to make informed decisions on how to communicate, educate, and guide this local as we navigate the upcoming year with the upcoming combining of the WG CCMs into our WS Group.  

• Airline Division Questionnaire- you will find a link the the Unpaid work survey below.  Please continue to submit the various examples as we will now be submitting labour complaints on our strongest examples.  We encourage everyone to participate and submit as often as you experience them. 

• Read and signs vs E-Learnings- We have set up meetings with the employer to discuss when and how Ops Comms are issued vs read and signs as we have seen recently the Company has been issuing many read and signs and emails – it is the Unions position that some of these should have been E-learnings.  We would like to see a mutually agreed upon standard put into place.  We will keep you updated as more information becomes available. 

• Social Media- I would like to take a moment to remind our membership that our online activities continue to be reported to the Employer as violations of the Respect in the Workplace policy.  I would strongly encourage the membership to review the associated policy. 

• OCC Crew Sked APP – We are reminding our members to use this App to communicate with OCC. This App was created as a result of last year's winter debacle.  Please refer to the employers communication on how to upload the APP. 

Unpaid Work Won't Fly
 

Please continue to fill out the Unpaid Work Won't Fly survey with examples: 

https://survey-sondage.cupe.ca/index.php/769241?lang=en 

https://survey-sondage.cupe.ca/index.php/769241?lang=fr 

This helps to build our case as bring this to the CIRB to fight and work towards getting paid for the work we do  

Reminder

Reminder to ensure your passport is placed in one bag that is taken on all durations of pairings (1-6 days) and is a bag taken on both the 737 and 787. Forgotten passports result in an unpaid code of COS (Not Meeting Company Standards) placed in the Crew Member's schedule and requires follow-up from their Inflight Leader.

National Pink Triangle Committee
 

The National Pink Triangle Committee promotes and defends the rights and freedoms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirited (LGBTQ2+) persons. Active participation from the LGBTQ2+ community in coalitions, lobbying and campaigns contributes to the education and awareness of the lives and perspectives of LGBTQ2+ people amongst CUPE members, within CUPE structures, in workplaces and communities. 

Mauricio Mejia and Allan Ramsarran 

Canadian Housing Crisis

CUPE is calling on the government to tackle the housing crisis by making significant investments in public housing. By ending government subsidies to for-profit developers and directing spending to public housing projects, we can ensure everyone has an affordable and dignified home. 
 

Sign the petition: demand public housing now! | Canadian Union of Public Employees (cupe.ca) 

Breaking Barriers: CUPE’s Human Rights History
 

CUPE has a proud history of championing human rights in our Union, our Workplaces and our Communities. Through the human rights history project, we’ve traced our role in key human rights struggles over the years, in Canada and internationally. 

This digital timeline describes nearly 275 events since CUPE was founded in 1963. The stories touch on bargaining, political action, organizing, education and other areas of activism. 
Please scroll through the timeline here.

Save the Dates
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General Membership Meeting (GMM) 
May 8th, 2024 1100PT/1200MT/1400ET - Sign Up Here
Open only to Members in Good Standing or to those who have completed the application process. 

When you sign into the meeting the day of, please ensure your first and last name, and your employee number is showing.  Otherwise you cannot be verified and will be denied entry into the meeting.  

**DO NOT USE YOUR WORK EMAIL ADDRESS**

Galley Gossip

(Visit the Galley Gossip Wall on our website to see previous submissions and answers)
 

Galley Gossip: I heard that the company gave increases in salary to non union members due to inflation but did not to unionized groups at WestJet… it is my understanding that they could have opened up the collective agreement and still could have given us the same. First of all did they give non union employees an increase in pay due to inflation? And Secondly could they not have done the same for union members?

Answer: The Company has the ability to change parameters of non-unionized workers at any time.  When in a Unionized environment, the Union and Company are locked into the terms of the bargained Collective Agreement.  While if both sides agree, articles can be changed.  How bargaining works though, is that items of value are saved until the bargaining dates, due to creating leverage for other items that maybe desired from either party.  Monetary items are "big ticket" leverage items.