TEAM Annual General Meetings – This week we held AGM meetings in Winnipeg at the Masonic Centre on Corydon Avenue and the Fairmont Hotel on Lombard Street. Here is the link to the Presentation. Everyone who attended one of the meetings was entered in the door prize draw for gift cards. The winners of the $20 cards were Vaughan Wheeler and Kyle Galbraith and the winners of the $10 cards were Steven Robertson, Jason Kuffner, and Josee Sala.
TEAM representatives in the workplace – contact our Executive Director, Katherine Johnson, for more information on TEAM representatives in the workplace. katherine.johnson@teamunion.mb.ca 431-371-2726
TEAM Bargaining Survey – We received 257 responses, this is 56% of TEAM’s membership. On the nature of work: 67% are concerned about job security; 63% saw their workload increase over the past year; 55% are working unpaid overtime of up to six hours per week; 35% are in jobs where the geographic scope of work extends beyond Manitoba; and 42% have barely manageable or unmanageable workloads. On renewing the collective agreement, respondents selected these factors as most important: protect vacation entitlements 91%; maintain VRTIP 91%; protect PLDs 86%; protect sick leave benefits 83%; maintain AIP as part of compensation 80%; protect standards of work 74%; and maintain overtime provisions 51%. Themes emerged in the comments section, exemplified by these quotes: “the promotional path for TEAM members within Bell is unknown and without this, future opportunities for role changes/growth seem unachievable”; “most work that I do is to move processes and workload to external processes or out east”; “it’s mentally draining… to have to worry about [job security]”; “job security… needs to be addressed. If our jobs keep getting cut, then nothing else in the agreement matters”; and “we need updated job descriptions as there is so much job creep here and day to day things change that all cause mental health issues and work home life unhealthy”.
TEAM Focus Group – on the subject of alignment of TEAM jobs with Bell jobs (classifications, descriptions, compensation). Wednesday, November 20th from 12 noon to 1:00 pm at the TEAM office boardroom, 200 – 1 Wesley Avenue, Winnipeg; pizza lunch provided. We’ve filled the eight seats for this focus group.