Update on Urban COLA Payment

May 27th, 2022

The Union was notified on May 25 that the Urban Postal Operations (UPO) Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) payment for the last quarter of 2021 (November 2021 – January 2022) will also be paid on June 9th (Pay Period 12), the same pay period as the RSMC COLA.

For background and details on the calculation, please see bulletin 369 (May 16, 2022)

https://www.cupw.ca/en/urban-cost-living-allowance-be-paid-november-2021-–-january-2022

For more information on how our COLA works, see bulletin 157 (June 23, 2020)

1 IS TOO MANY!!

May 27^th,2021

215 bodies of Indigenous children were found in unmarked graves in Kamloops, BC.

A year later ….

Over 10,000 children’s bodies have been found on the properties of former Residential schools throughout Canada.

Wear an orange shirt on May 27th to honour the children and families of Residential schools.

The Vancouver Local will be ordering t-shirts for National Indigenous People’s Day 21^st June.

In Solidarity,

Vancouver Local Human Rights Committee.

May 20, 2022

PENSION COURSE

June 25, 2022

8 AM to 4 PM

Held at the C.U.P.W. Vancouver Local Office #130-111 Victoria Dr., Vancouver, B.C. (Free parking out back. Transit stops on Powell Str. or E. Hastings Str. & Victoria Dr.)

1-day course, you will get answers to your questions about retirement. Learn how your pension contributions and benefits are calculated and about the income you will receive from public pensions and more.

URBAN COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCE TO BE PAID FOR NOVEMBER 2021 – JANUARY 2022

Due to recent increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Cost of Living
Allowance (COLA) for Urban regular employees will generate a COLA payment for the period of November 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022.

CLAUSE 35.09 OF THE URBAN COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT

The Urban collective agreement provides for the COLA to be paid to regular
employees as follows:
• 35.09(a)(ii) The allowance will be paid on a basis of one cent (1 ¢) per hour
for each full zero point zero five zero four (0.0504) of a point
increase in the C.P.I. above the adjusted index which is five point
thirty‐three percent (5.33 %) greater than the C.P.I. index
published for January 2020.

MAY General Membership Meeting

Saturday MAY 28th at 10AM
Union Hall 1880 Triumph St. Vancouver

This is an in-person meeting at the Union hall, Lower Auditorium. Entrance at 1880 Triumph St.

AGENDA FOR THE MAY GMM:

Land Acknowledgment
Reading of Truth and Reconciliation: Calls to Action
Reading of new members
Reading of the previous meeting’s minutes
Business arising out of the minutes
New Business
Nominations and elections:

The Federal Government Amends the Canada Labour Code to Include Paid Sick Leave

Tuesday January 25 2022

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The Federal Government has passed BILL C-3, an Act to amend the Canada Labour Code. It received Royal Assent and became law on December 17, 2021. This amendment is not currently in effect and we don’t know when it will come into force.

This legislation amends medical leave and bereavement leave under Part III of the Canada Labour Code.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has reached out to the Canada Post Corporation (CPC) concerning these changes. CPC has informed us they are waiting for the Federal Government to set up consultation with the affected employers for guidance on how to implement these changes within their organizations.

PAID SICK LEAVE

“The legislation amends medical leave under Part III of the Canada Labour Code to provide that:

thirty days after these provisions come into force employees will earn their first three days of paid sick leave to help ensure employees have adequate paid sick leave should they need it;
for new employees, they will earn the first three days of paid sick leave thirty days after starting a new job;
employees are entitled to earn one day of medical leave with pay for each month of employment with an employer, up to a maximum of ten days in a calendar year;[1]
any day of medical leave with pay that an employee does not take in a calendar year carries forward to January 1^st of the following calendar year and counts toward the ten days that can be earned in the new year; and
the maximum number of days of medical leave with pay that an employee can take in a calendar year is ten; and
employers are permitted to request a medical certificate for medical leaves of absence with pay that are five days or longer.”

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January 14, 2022

Annual Election Notice

Nominations are now open for the following positions on the Local Executive Committee:

Full-Time/Part-Time Officer

1^st Vice President

3rd Vice President

Secretary-Treasurer

Table Officers

Education Director

Organization Director/Tyler

Health & Safety Director

Chief Shop Stewards*

PPC/PIF Internal #2 Shift

PPC/PIF Internal #3 Shift

Transportation Group 2 MSC

Group 2 External L/C