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The Official Newsletter of the Occasional Teachers’ Bargaining Unit OSST District 12 The Call Out Volume 12, Issue 6 June 2014 Introducing Your 2014-2016 Executive The results of the vote for the 2014-16 Executive returned the previous Executive members to their positions for the next two years. Congratulations to the successful candidates. From Left to Right: James Whitaker, Linda Bartram, Colegride M. Browne, Lilllian Speedie (with Owen), Jennifer Mills, Ann Burke, Vincent Zambrano, Paul Bocking. Absent: Shakeel Ahad For complete election results go to the OTBU D12 website. www.otbud12.com Page 2 OT Renewal 2014-2015 OTBU members should have received an email from the TDSB. This email is important as it gives details as to how to renew your place on the Occasional Teacher Roster for 2014-2015. For your convenience and information, please note the following points in the Board email. In order to remain on the OT list you are required to complete the renewal at www.tdsb.on.ca. YOU MUST RENEW ONLINE. To access the on-line renewal form you will need the last six digits of your employee number and your network password. If you do not meet the requirements as per our Collective Agreement and were not on approved leave, your renewal may not be accepted and you may be removed from the OT Roster prior to the commencement of the school year. After June 30th any requests for late renewal must be submitted via the online Reinstatement Request Website found on the SFE website. This request page will be online between August 1 and August 16th. Please note email for phone reinstatement request will not be acknowledged. Late renewals will be considered a reinstatement request and will be renewed in the fall based on the Board’s needs. Renewal Process To access the renewal form on the web from home (if you are logging in from a school computer and are already on the TDSB web page, follow the instructions below from item #6 on). 1. Go to www.tdsb.on.ca 2. Click on Staff on the orange toolbar at the top of the page. 3. Read the TDSB Login Warning page and click on OK. 4. Enter the last six digits of your employee number and your password and click on Login. If you need to reset or have forgotten your network password, please click on change/forgot your password and refer to the detailed instructions and options available there. 5. On the welcome to the MyTDSB page click on TDSBWEB (first link selection at the top of the page) where you will be taken to the internal TDSBWEB page. 6. On the white toolbar along the top of the TDSBWEB screen, click on Employee Service, forms. If you experience difficulties logging in, please contact the Client service Desk at 416-395-4357, option 5, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday. A Reminder and an Invitation All OTBU members are invited to join the OSSTF contingent marching in the annual Labour Day Parade Monday, September 1, 2014 Details and a meeting place will be posted on the OTBU website as they become available. Page 3 From the desk of Linda Bartram... THE OTBU ELECTIONS I want to thank all of you for your support in the recent election. Your confidence in the OTBU Executive team is important as we head into what may be a very difficult round of contract negotiations. The team you have elected is the best you could hope for. They are: Vince Zambrano your 1st Vice President and Chief Negotiator and gifted organizer of all things Constitutional and pretty much everything else. Ann Burke your 2nd Vice President and PD and event organizer, art director of the Call Out. If you are the victim of allegations by students or administrators, you want Ann Burke to have your back. Shak Ahad your trustworthy and principled Treasurer and principals hate the Regulation because it attempts deals with all things financial for the bargaining unit as to limit their power and eliminate nepotism. The TDSB well as assisting with layout of the Call Out and Health has followed most of the requirements of the and Safety. Regulation. They created an OT list by seniority and an Lillian Speedie your Secretary keeps records of LTO list, as required by the Reg. But does hiring in the Executive meetings and General meetings and brings TDSB comply with the Reg.? In some cases it does: valuable union experience to our Bargaining Unit. the 5 most senior OTs who are on the LTO list, are Paul Bocking your Executive Officer who created and qualified and apply for a posted job are interviewed. manages our email list, compiles the working conditions Posted is the key word here, because what principals survey, and is our political action and human rights rep. have discovered is if they simply call in the person of Coleridge Browne is your Executive Officer who their choice for what should be an advertised LTO, willingly and cheerfully organizes registration at General such as a MAT Leave, and keep them in the job for 10 Membership meetings, takes care of office maintenance days, Voila! It is an LTO which the Board argues does and schleps whatever we need to wherever we need it. not have to be advertised. The OTBU has grieved the Jennifer Mills is your Executive Officer is a past hiring practices that do not conform to the Regulation. president of the OTBU and also runs the highly However it is detective work. These illegally successful Internationally Trained Teachers workshops established LTOs are hard to detect. We only find them and co-chairs P.D. when people report them to the union. If you think an Jamie Whitaker is our newest Executive Officer who as LTO exists that should have been posted, but was not, soon as he joined us, stepped up to become the let the union know. Regulation 274 is presently under Webmaster of our beautiful new Website. review by the government. The interviews of union leaders, boards and principals’ associations were Your OTBU Executive will continue to represent completed this spring, but there is still no word if and members, protect the Collective Agreement and the rights how Regulation 274 will be altered to make it work of members. We will continue to provide you with timely “better” and for whom. information on the website and by e-mail if we have your personal email address. If we don’t, please send it to us. Please Note: Our Collective Agreement expires on August 31, 2014. Postings for 2014-2015 LTOs will come out on the We will be negotiating a new Collective Agreement following dates: under Bill 122 as early as this fall and I believe they will Round 1 opens August 13 (9:00 a.m.) closes August 19, 2014 (12:00) be very difficult negotiations. We need to be able to reach Round 2 opens August 20 (9:00 a.m.) closes August you immediately as negotiations unfold. 26, 2014 (12:00) Round 3 opens August 25 (9:00 a.m.) closes August THE NEW NORMAL – REGULATION 274 TWO 29, 2014 (12:00) YEARS IN The intention of the Regulation was to make hiring See the OTBU web site TDSB Job Posting webpage for practices for LTOs and contract positions fairer and further info. more transparent. Has this been accomplished? Boards Page 4 Special report to the OTBU Membership By: Vincent Zambrano, OTBU Chief Negotiator An unprecedented and extraordinary meeting of against the government or their local Boards in the Provincial Assembly (Special Meeting of the support of contract demands. Provincial Assembly - SMPA) took place May 31st. Present at this event were all of our delegates who had attended the regularly More information is provided to the scheduled Annual Meeting of the Provincial membership by means of Negotiations Assembly (AMPA) in March of this year. The Bulletin #4 which is available on the Provincial Assembly is the legislative body that governs OSSTF/FEESO. Delegates meet each MEMBERS ONLY section of the year to set policy and provide direction to the Provincial OSSTF web site. elected Provincial Executive. This extraordinary meeting, the first of its kind Your OTBU Executive will be forwarding this in the 90-year history of OSSTF was specifically bulletin (#4) and other subsequent bulletins called to discuss OSSTF’s negotiations strategy directly to those OTBU members who have for the upcoming round of bargaining. provided their non-TDSB email address to the Bargaining Unit. If you have not provided your This year, negotiations will take place under Bill personal email address to our office, please do so. 122, The School Boards Collective Bargaining Act. This new Act outlines how negotiations will Information meetings for OTBU members will take place between all the education workers’ also be taking place as we go forward with the unions (OSSTF, ETFO, OECTA, CUPE, etc) strategy. The agenda, time and location of these the Provincial Government and Boards of official OSSTF information meetings will be Education. There will be negotiations at a announced to the membership, most likely in the central table undertaken by OSSTF Provincial fall. There will also be telephone Town Hall negotiators and negotiations at a local table, meetings as required. where, for example, the OTBU and the TDSB will bargain directly. The next round of negotiations has begun even as the end of this academic year is in sight. OSSTF is ready with a negotiations strategy which was outlined and discussed at the special Have a good summer and be prepared.