Effective October 22, 2006, we have terminated our service agreement with Teamsters Local 419. We are very grateful to the Teamsters for the assistance they have provided. We must repay that assistance. We will do this by recovering union dues that were not collected during the six-month period from January to June 2006. By increasing the monthly dues for Seniority List Employees by ¾ an hour for 18 months from November 1, 2006 until April 30, 2008 we will raise the necessary funds.
Our current monthly union dues are 2 ¼ times the terminal operator hourly rate of pay. This is multiplied by 12 months and divided by 52 weeks to calculate the weekly dues deduction.
Effective this November, the weekly dues deduction will be:
(3 X $21.50 X 12) / 52 = $14.88
We have a Labour-Management/ Scheduling Committee Meeting scheduled for November 6th. Please forward suggestions.
Shortages and a management strategy to reduce costs by forcing our customers to use self-serve terminals continue to be major problems for us with no easy fix. We will attempt to get WEG to modify some of its strategies by using every resource at our disposal to develop realistic ideas of our own and presenting them professionally.
Regarding shortages, we plan on making representation to the Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency to make their regulations more friendly to mutuel employees and not just a tool for racing associations to collect shortages. When we last made a major submission to the CPMA in 1977, they suggested that one recourse was to charge customers who were overpaid. They sent us a newspaper article, which is included here.
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We already have a number of grievances regarding shortages; one involves a wrong/stuck ticket. A satisfactory resolution to this case may reduce the risk of being stuck with a wrong ticket.
In Solidarity,
CRWU REPRESENTATIVES: as of September 28, 2006
PRESIDENT
Brian D. Henderson
519-856-0295
putz@cogeco.ca
VICE PRESIDENT
John Stafford
519-534-9051
jrstafford@sympatico.ca
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Susan Borbely
905-791-9018
sborbely1003@rogers.com
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
Fred Sykes
MEMBERS WELFARE
Maureen Innes
HEALTH & SAFETY
Ronni Dowling
Rod Horner
Angie Laurusaitis
PENSION COMITTEE
John Colacci
Tracy Duenas
Brian D. Henderson
John Stafford
Fred Sykes - (Alternate)
STEWARDS
Patricia Ashby
Susan Borbely
Lynne Bunting
Rejeanne Caya
Dave Davis - Chief Steward
Paula Gaetan
Roxanne Harlow
Rod Horner
Dawn Kelly
Nancy Mahar
Sylvia Surk
