Please note CULE has suspended participation in the Joint Employment Equity Committee – here is the text of an email sent to the PSAC on May 21st. Hi Catherine. I am sending this email to advise you that as of today CULE has suspended our participation in JEEC. CULE will participate in JEEC when there [...]

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As a direct result of the CEP Raid on CULE Ontario the employer has chosen to delay the start of negotiations with CULE. CULE members across the country are all thus forced into a holding pattern in regard to this round of negotiations until the OLRB decisions are complete. More information will follow soon.

Your Executive informs 31 votes were counted – 3 additional votes are in dispute – the result: CULE-16, CEP-15. A hearing will take place on June 2, 2010 to determine the regional outstanding issues. More information to follow.

Your CULE negotiating team, consisting of Marion Agadzi, Debbie MacLaughlin, Dianne Gallant, Janelle Ho-Shing, Dave Jackson and Jim Brohman will commence bargaining with the employer on Wednesday May 19 at which time we will post our package of bargaining demands. This first session will end Friday May 21. We will post employers package as soon [...]

The CULE Executive is undertaking a project of creating a commemorative video of the 2010 CULE Convention and we would like to ask members to submit photos or videos from our time in CUBA for inclusion in the project. These will be compiled and a short video will be made of the convention. Please forward [...]

Dear CULE Membersi: In response to an inquiry by a concerned brother, this is to advise that CULE’s position regarding the displacement vote in Ontario is that only those members whose substantive position is in Ontario be allowed to vote. As this vote is being conducted by the Ontario Labour Relations Board, it is this [...]

CULE members, As promised we are trying to keep you up to date on developments as they roll out. Voting on CEP’s application to displace CULE as the bargaining agent for Regional Office Staff in Ontario began on May 6 with balloting in Toronto and London. Voting will continue in Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Kingston and [...]

Dear CULE Member, In the course of the Communication Energy and Paperworker’s (CEP) raid on our members in Ontario your Executive has received many queries and concerns. What would be the impact on the Retirees Benefit Plan in the event CEP displace CULE as the bargaining agent for Regional Office staff in Ontario? In these [...]

This was just sent on behalf of the CULE Executive to CULE members in Ontario – posted for members’ information and interest Dear CULE Member, CULE would like to thank the membership of Ontario for their support in the past and as we go to the polls tomorrow we ask you to consider the following [...]

CULE has recieved two recent emails, which we are posting here, with permission, for members’ information and interest. Brothers and Sisters; I have been an employee of the Public Service Alliance of Canada for 15 years. There was a period of time when I was in an excluded position and did not have the security [...]