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Hours Worked Between Christmas & New Years

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Employees Scheduled To Work On A Stat Holiday:

For this purpose, the Stat Holidays are December 26 & 27 as well as January 2 (the days that we consider “lieu days” are also considered Stat Holidays for the purpose of pay):

  • Employees who work on these days will be paid a regular days pay (per their normal pay deposit and which will be doubled either in pay or TOIL per the employee’s choice).

 

IF Employees Are Scheduled To Work During The Closure Period:

For this purpose, the Closure period days are December 28, 29, & 30:

  • Employees will receive their regular days pay PLUS additional vacation entitlements for 2023 (based on a minimum of 4 hours worked and up to a maximum of 3 full days).  For example, an employee is scheduled to come to work for 2 hrs Dec 29 & 7.5 hrs on Dec 30, that employee would receive 1.5 extra vacation days in their 2023 entitlement (the 2 hours is rounded up to a ½ day).

 

IF Employees Receives A Call-Out During The Closure Period:

For this purpose, regular call out procedures apply.  Please note that employees will also receive their normal day’s pay in addition to the doubled Call-Out hours.

 

Mechanical Shift Engineers

As with past years, as these gents work straight through the closure, they will automatically receive 3 additional days’ vacation for the closure period and no cards are required for them.

 

Here is a link to the guidelines.

 

Thanks again for all your understanding and cooperation in these matters.  If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact your Executives, Shop Stewards, or Julie Ellerton.

CUPE 917 November General Meeting

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CUPE 917 is hosting a Hybrid General Meeting on Wednesday November 16th, 2022 at 4:15pm in the MacLaurin D114

This meeting will be held in person and via zoom simultaneously..

MEETING AGENDA

  • Bargaining
  • Winter Holiday Party Tickets

Winter Party!!!

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Let’s Celebrate!!

Please join us for a party to make up for all we’ve missed.

  • We are currently only offering tickets to CUPE 917 members. Guest tickets will be circulating this Friday. Member ticket are provided for free and guest ticket will be $10.
  • Contact your department supervisor, union rep., or one of your executives (Tony, Scott, Kristen, Shane, Walter, or myself) for ticket information.
  • It will be held at Our Lady of Fatima Church Hall (4635 Elk Lake Drive, Victoria BC) on Saturday, December 3rd.

 

Employee Housing Survey

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Through the Campus Plan consultation process, issues relating to housing availability and costs were identified as high priorities for both employees and students on campus. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in rapid housing cost increases and very low availability for both rental and ownership housing. The ability to attain existing housing options close to campus is increasingly challenging for many UVic employees.

Other Canadian universities, such as UBC, have conducted regular studies on employee housing. This is the University of Victoria’s first assessment of employee housing, which is of increasing importance related to employee recruitment and retention.

Results of the study will be shared with the university executive and Board of Governors. The study will inform the university’s existing housing programs and will help identify new programs and opportunities related to employee housing. This will include exploring opportunities to use university lands to develop housing solutions and support commercial uses to increase the supply of housing in the region. The university will explore opportunities to support diverse forms of housing, complimentary commercial uses and opportunities to support Indigenous community uses and programs.

Key messages:

• We understand housing affordability and accessibility is a huge challenge across the region, which affects many of our students, faculty and staff;

• We’re the first employer in the region to undertake this work to recognize and employ a strategy for employee housing needs;

• The goal of the survey is to assess employee housing needs, availability, cost and preferences;

• Issues relating to housing availability and cost are high priorities for both employees and students on campus;

• We recognize that an assessment of employee housing is of increasing importance for employee recruitment and retention;

• The university is committed to exploring diverse forms of housing for both employees and students;

• Other universities in high priced markets, such as UBC and SFU, provide employee housing on campus.

Communications strategy:

A virtual survey will be created and distributed to all employment groups at UVic. The survey will be hosted on CitySpaces’ (company contracted to create the survey and compile the report afterwards) Survey Monkey account. Data is stored exclusively on Canadian servers to ensure privacy and data security is maintained. The survey invitation, reminders and findings will be distributed using UVic’s employee listserve.

All internal communications channels will be used to promote the survey as widely as possible.

Outreach to media via a media release or advisory will be considered as appropriate.

Please check out the designated Employee Housing Survey website for more information: https://www.uvic.ca/campusplanning/current-projects/employee-housing-survey/index.php

October General Meeting

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CUPE 917 is hosting a Hybrid General Meeting on Wednesday October 19th, 2022 at 4:15pm in the MacLaurin D114

This meeting will be held in person and via zoom simultaneously..

MEETING AGENDA

  • Bargaining
  • Winter Holiday Party
  • Member-At-Large Election

Bargaining Meeting

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On October 14th, this is the 1st meeting between our bargaining team and the employer. The meeting will be where we swap out proposals with theirs.

There will be further updates to follow.

CUPE 917 August General Meeting

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CUPE 917 is hosting a General Meeting on Wednesday August 17th, 2022 at 4:15pm in the Cornett B112

This meeting will be held in person (it will not be accessible by zoom this month – it will be for the Septembers. Sorry for the inconvenience).

If you did not receive an email with meeting information please email generalmeeting@cupe917.ca to be added to the mailing list.

CUPE 917 July General Meeting

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CUPE 917 is hosting a Hybrid General Meeting on Wednesday July 20th, 2022 at 4:15pm in the Cornett B112

This meeting will be held in person and via zoom simultaneously.

If you did not receive an email with meeting information please email generalmeeting@cupe917.ca to be added to the mailing list.

You will then receive a link with meeting details
MEETING AGENDA

  • Nominations for members at large
  • National Sectoral Conference
  • Ratification meeting and proposal highlights