1. November 6 - Brandon November 7 - Winnipeg (Masonic Temple) November 8 - Winnipeg (Fairmont Hotel) TEAM-IFPTE Local 161 2012 General Meetings

2. Agenda  Welcome and Introductions  Reports:  President  Executive Director  Finance  Pension Lawsuit  Bargaining Committee  Negotiations  Q&A

3. President’s Report Misty Hughes-Newman A very busy year for TEAM Member Training: Supervisory Manager Leadership Health and Safety Labour Law Pension Law

4. President’s Report  Member Events:  Take a Break coffee cards & Hot Dog days  Health and Safety appreciation lunch  New member meetings  Scholarship awards  Board:  Committee work  Board development  New Board member

5. President’s Report  Political Action:  Lobbying the Federal Government  Meeting with Provincial Government  Attending IFPTE and MFL Conventions, and Winnipeg Labour Council  Hosting the Canadian Council of Professionals conference  Meeting with other unions  Board meeting minutes and reports available on our websitemeeting minutes and reports

6. Executive Director’s Report  Staff changes:  Farwell to Tom Milroy and Susan Bilyk  Wesley Emerson– Labour Relations Officer Wesley Emerson  Serina Pottinger– Executive Assistant  Doreen Oversby– Administrative Assistant  Main member issues: Pay level, overtime, call-out, job postings, job classification, respect in the workplace, excessive discipline, and duty to accommodate

7. Executive Director’s Report Member Representation  Since the 2011 General Meetings:  51 new complaints  23 new grievances; 11 proceeding to arbitration  Canadian Human Rights Commission decided in favour of TEAM member  Current open files: 18 complaints, 31 grievances, and 1 Human Rights case

8. Executive Director’s Report Ongoing Major Items  Overtime and Call-out arbitrations  Contractors Letter of Understanding: transparency, caps on numbers and opportunities for members  Benefits and Pensions Committees

9. Executive Director’s Report Detailed Executive Director, Benefits and Pensions reports available on our website: www.teamunion.mb.ca (Look in News>Board Meetings)

10. Finance Report December 31, 2011  Income: $1,304,673  Expenses: $938,157  General Fund Balance: $750,766*  Defence Fund Balance: $747,419  Financial Statements available *Cash, savings and investments (MTS shares & Ethical Funds)

11. Finance Report Current Status  General Fund Balance: $850,000  Defence Fund Balance: $883,499  Board reviews income and expenditure minimum of six times a year

12. DB Pension Lawsuit Supreme Court of Canada Feb 2012 – Sought leave to appeal Oct 2012 – Won leave ?2013 – Appear before the Supreme Court  Percentage of cases granted leave is very low  All three unions and the retiree group (TRAM) are sharing the costs

13. TEAM Bargaining Survey  Excellent response; 669 members participated  Statistically significant results  Confidence interval or margin of error of 3.3% with a 99% confidence level

14. TEAM Bargaining Survey What’s most important?

15. TEAM Bargaining Survey Salary adjustment preference  35.4% - Annual percentage increases  29.4% - COLA  26.7% - COLA and annual percentages

16. TEAM Bargaining Survey Restoring Double-time Overtime

17. TEAM Bargaining Survey Variable Pay  79.4% are willing to lower their VPP for an increase on base salary  59.9% are in favour of VPP parity

18. TEAM Bargaining Survey Sales Bonus

19. TEAM Bargaining Survey Preferred Benefit Improvement

20. TEAM Bargaining Survey ESOP Contribution Increase

21. TEAM Bargaining Survey Interest in Compressed Work Week

22. TEAM Bargaining Survey  451 comments and suggestions  Full survey and comment summary will be posted on the website  Thank you for participating!

23. Negotiations  Contract expires February 19, 2013  What do we want?  What are we going to do to get it?

24. Negotiations  Will you help?  Will you be a CAR?

25. Q&A 204-984-9470 team@teamunion.mb.ca Join us on Facebook and Twitter facebook.com/teamunion161 twitter.com/teamunion161