Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Seasons Greetings

 

Season’s Greetings

 

To all of you

Don’t save visits or calls for this time of year, don’t send cards/letters just at this time of year, I am sure someone wants to hear or see you anytime of the year.

Remember your gift is your presence!

 

On Behalf of Local 009 AUPE

 

Penny Bates (interm) Chapter Chair 005          Edmonton                         Calgary

Local Chair 009                                                 Chapter 002                             Chapter 001

Anita Lerch Chapter Secretary 005                  Greg Seirko                      Ramona Price

Secretary Local 009                                          Council Local 009                    Council Local 009

Tammy Zimmerman                               Tracy Levesque                Sue Rutledge

Vice-Chair Local 009                                         Council Local 009                    Council Local 009

Russel Clark                                         Vanessa Tomchak                                    

Treasurer Local 009                                          Council Local 009

Darrol Mason                                       Scott Hall

Provincial Executive Rep Local 009                   Council Local 009       

Mike Nesbitt                                        

Council Local 009

Jenna Baynes

Council Local 009   

Brenda Stewart

M.S.O AUPE

 

 

 

 

 

Top row

Brenda S, Jenna B, Michele H (alt), Tracy L, Greg S, Darrol M, Tammy Z, Mike N, Russel C,

Middle row

Vanessa T, Penny B, Scott H.

Bottom row

Anita L, Sue R.

Missing

Ramona P.

 

*Play Safe my friends

 

**Please see attached education calendar

 

Some Holiday Humor

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Shortly before Christmas, a business man was anxious to get home. The business trip had been grueling and he was not in a particularly good mood. The airport loudspeakers blared Christmas carols he was sick of hearing. He thought their decorations were tacky. The worst decoration, he thought, was the plastic mistletoe hung over the luggage scale.
Being in a grumpy mood, he said to the woman at the counter, "You know, even if I weren't married, I wouldn't kiss you."
"That's not what it's there for," said the attendant. "It's so you can kiss your luggage goodbye."

 


Mum, can I please have a cat for Christmas?
No. You'll have turkey the same us the rest of us.

 

Christmas is just plain weird. What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree in your living room eating candy and snacks out of your socks?

 

When you consider Christmas, there are four stages in your life:-
1) You believe in Santa
2) You don't believe in Santa
3) You are Santa
4) You look like Santa



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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Just doing my part.



I took the line 2 boxes of coffee and 2 of hot chocolate on behalf of local 009. They really appreciated it. They were feeling the cold but their spirits were high. I loved seeing Elizabeth. We recognized each other right away. I think all the hugging was probably to keep warm. Lol
 
Sue Rutledge












Thursday, December 13, 2012

Donation to Salvation Army in Red Deer

Hi
I forgot to post the pic's of the folks receiving the $ raised at the 50/50 draw at MIchener Services Christmas Join dinner.  We ran into the wife at Salvation Army and Husband at Costco's, Majors's Mr and Mrs Bridger, the donation was really appreciated.
sis Bates

Friday, December 07, 2012

A small gesture to make a huge difference!

Monterey.....
Do you know about this, if you don't take the time and read aupe.org web site and see these members have been locked out of their work site for a very long time.  Recognizing their long and unsure future, at convention Provincial Executive put a motion through 'adpot a member', this motion was passed at convention and therefore making a strong commitment to these members that we are here to support them till the end.  Local 009 adopted Elizabeth Lado . Darrol Mason and myself went down on Dec 7/12 (in Calgary at Monterey work site) and met her and gave her a gift card to Wal-Mart (basket of various donated items)to help support their family at this time of year.  Elizabeth was very grateful for this gift and this was a total surprise to her...Also this gave us the opportunity to stand on the line with these folks, the least we could do for the difficult journey they have had.  I encourage all of you to take some time out and go to this work site and help our Sisters and Brothers, all information is on AUPE.org website.
Remember its not always about the gifts its about the presence...
Sis Bates

Seasons greetings!

Greetings Folks
Now some fun stuff, on Dec 5/12, Chapter 005 (Red Deer -Michener Services) held our joint Staff Christmas Meal.  It was catered and we had over 200 attend.  What a great event to have all join together and have such a good time.  During this event Darrol Mason and myself had a 50/50 draw and raised over 898.00, 1/2 of this was then donated to the Salvation Army in Red Deer, so on Dec 7/12, we went and delivered this donation to them and they were extremely grateful.
Prior to the meal, Chapter 005 elves went out in the morning and delivered over 45 bags (to each of the homes) with goodies, lights and letter openers to Local 009 members and others we work together with. Again a great time to engage with Local 009 members and spread Christmas Cheer.
Keep coming back there will be updates from other chapters
Sis Bates

Winter greetings!

Hi Folks
What a busy time of year, I just wanted to add and let you know some other things that have happened with Local 009.
Prior to convention Local 009 submitted our sisters name Chris Dixon to the Membership Committee her name for Life membership with AUPE.  Chris was an avid Local 009 member and was on her Chapter council and Local council, started working with AUPE organization over the past couple of years and then applied and received a position with AUPE.  She still resides in Edmonton and works with many Locals and also supports organizing drives as well.  We do greatly miss her but know her passion and talents are an assets to AUPE.  So once again congratulations to Chris on her Life membership with AUPE!

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Bargaining conference completed

The 2 day bargaining conference has finished and the 8 locals under the general services sector came away with a list of requests that were identified from the 2400 responses returned on the online surveys.

There will be another bargaining session in early January.








Aupe bargaining conference

Local 009 bargaining team going over bargaining survey results

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Bargaining conference continues

Local 009 GSBC members attending the bargaining conference listen intently to a presentation


2012 AUPE Bargaining Conference

A 2 day bargaining conference begins at headquarters in Edmonton

We will be addressing the survey results sent out by aupe

Thursday, October 18, 2012

AUPE 2012 Convention

Annual 2012 convention begins today

Local 009 is represented by 11 delegates and 3 observers.

Solidarity forever!!

Sunday, October 14, 2012


Government of Alberta employees urged to complete bargaining survey by Nov 9

AUPE members employed by the Government of Alberta are urged to complete the bargaining survey posted by their bargaining committee no later than November 9, 2012.
“The bargaining survey will provide us with information that is essential to successful negotiations with the Government of Alberta. The survey will give the bargaining committee the direction we need from front line employees when we sit down with the employer in the New Year,” saidAUPE President Guy Smith, who chairs the General Services Bargaining Committee.
The survey applies to 22,000 members of AUPE Locals 001 through 012, who are directly employed by the Government of Alberta.
For this round of negotiations the bargaining committee approved a short and to-the-point survey to ensure members are able to complete it in their spare time. It should take no more than 5 minutes to answer the ten questions on the survey.
Members can access the bargaining survey by clicking here. The survey can also be accessed at any time using the button on the right-hand side of this page or on the www.aupe.org homepage.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

General Services Bargaining Committee Meets


Members of AUPE’s General Services Bargaining Committee, which represents more than 20,000 front line government service workers, met with AUPE staff in preparation for upcoming bargaining with the government of Alberta. The current GSBC contract expires March 31, 2013.

Friday, August 31, 2012

Happy Labour Day Weekend!

Hi All;
This weekend I hope, helps remind you of the work we do to ensure the AUPE members in Alberta are protected and have fair treatment and safe work areas.  Please take the time to acknowledge your fellow workers and especially the ones that are on the lines outside their work areas due to stalled negotiations.  And if you can spare the time, please join them in support of their cause.  Please refer to AUPE.org for all current Labour dispute  lines and addresses.
Till next time and in Solidarity
Penny Bates
Local 009 Chair
PS-Play safe my friends...

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Red Deer Area Council Family BBQ


Hi Folks:
Red Deer Area hosted a fantastic and delicious event, plenty of burgers and hot dogs for all!. 
Once again Local 009 would like to thank those hard working Area Council folks!  
What a great job you do, for us to enjoy!

Happy Summer All!

In Solidarity 
Sister Bates 
Local 009 Chair

PS
Next Local 009 meeting at Calgary Office, Sept 10/12, 9 am start, please drop in if you can!







Friday, June 29, 2012

Happy Canada Weekend!

Greetings my fellow Canadians!
Business continues even if there are Holidays or Vacations!
So I am asking those that are able to support our Sisters and Brothers that are on Strike at this moment.  (Refer to AUPE.org website for addresses).
Once again enjoy this Canada Day and all the events!
Place safe my friends and

In Solidarity
Penny Bates
Local 009 Chair

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Anti-Privitization conference and Rally

Greeting Folks!
Just to let you know some of your Local 009 council (8) of us had an opportunity to attend the Anti-Priv conference held in Edmonton the past couple of days.
What a great conference it was! Remember privatization affects all of us and our families and Albertans.


Here is a picture of us working hard to get some PERM Ideas!

L-R Sue R, Michelle H, Penny B, Darrol M., Tammy Z, Mike N.
missing - Anita L and Joe W

On June 11 - we also had an opportunity to walk with our Sisters and Brothers on the line at the River Bend Retirement facility, where our members are Locked out due to fighting for better wages and benefits!






And we are very Proud Local 009 AUPE Members and will continue to be wavin... our FLAG...



If you can find time to help our Sisters and Brother with Hardistry and River Bend - picket Lines
Please do!!
Thanks and In Solidarity
Penny Bates
Local 009 Chair

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Local 009 AGM complete!

Greeting Everyone!

Finally a little break in the weather...hope so. Enjoy what you can.
So we have finished up AGM season, and what a great turn out we had of
our membership. We hope more folks will come out in the future. We
now are at the turning point we need to start getting prepared for
bargaining....yes can you believe we will be back at the table
possibly early next year as our contact expires Expires Mar. 31,
2013. The Bargaining committee for Local 009 will be putting together
a strong plan of communication delivery and will try their best to
ensure every member is kept up to date. Again it is also up to each
of us to seek information and tap into all the resources that are
available.
Here is Local 009's:
Bargaining Team
Tammy Zimmerman - Chair - Red Deer
Darrol Mason – Vice Chair - Red Deer
Jenna Brueggeman- Red Deer
Sue Rutledge- Calgary
Scott Hall-Edmonton

Alternates

Russell Clark - Red Deer
Anita Lerch - Red Deer
Tracy Lavesque - Edmonton
Vanessa Tomchak - Edmonton
Michelle Heide - Calgary

Please our Sisters and Brothers within Hardisty Care Centre in
Edmonton, need our support with a difficult employer, if you can give
some time on the line it would be much appreciated!
Till next time and In solidarity
Penny Bates Local 009 Chair

Monday, April 23, 2012

Local 009 attends PIA for second year in a row!

Public Interest Alberta held their conference on April 19-21 in Edmonton at the Chateau Louis.
The theme was Shift Happens... And what an informative event it was, from speakers on health care, election concerns, Wisconsin after math, mobilizing and engaging Albertans.  And even Bridgette who was the Page that showed 'STOP HARPER' sign in the House of commons and I also hear she also was near Daniel Smith today with another 'STOP' sign.  This conference has inspired us to try and make our province and country better.  Change can happen with one vote at a time...
Till next time Sis Bates and conference attendees:
Tammy Zimmerman, Darrol Mason and Sue Rutledge
Stayed tuned!
Local 009 AGM is May 16,17/12 in Canmore

Chapter 001 AGM complete

Another well attended AGM for Calgary, held at Tony Romas. 
Great job by Sue R. and all her helpers!

Chapter 002 AGM complete

Held on April 16/12 at Teddy's on Jasper Ave in Edmonton,
there was a great turn out and lots of prizes and fun by all,
well done by Chapter Chair Pervis F. and all his helpers!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Chapter AGM completed

Happy Spring Everyone!
Yes Chapter 005 (Red Deer) completed their AGM on March 20/12.
Thanks for Dave B. for all the Door Prizes, and to all the other who
helped make it a fun time.
Thanks to each of you who attended remember this is YOUR Union YOUR meeting!
Till next time and in Solidarity
Penny Bates
Local 009 Chair
upcoming Chapter meetings
Edmonton April 16/12
Calgary April 23/12