GM Meeting Summary Report for March 19, 2025
TO: All Members of Local Union 2251
FROM: Mike Da Prat, President
RE: General Membership Meeting Summary Report for March 19, 2025
The following notes represent my personal summary of the March General Membership Meeting and ARE NOT OFFICIAL MINUTES. They are for the express purpose of keeping the members informed in a timely fashion. Since minutes must be approved at a subsequent General Membership Meeting, any updates which would require the use of the actual minutes would result in updates being one-month old.
The following was approved at the March meeting:
- Minutes of the February 19, 2025 meeting
- The financial statement ending February 2025 and the disbursements of $136,318.72. Our receipts were in excess of our disbursements by $21,075.52. This resulted in our General Account being positive by $228,137.74.
MANNING REPORT FOR February 28th, 2025
LOCAL 2251 2112
LOCAL 2724 521
EXEMPT 124
TOTAL 2762
The following motions were approved:
1) Motion – Approved a donation of $435.00 plus tax to place a quarter page ad in the Sault College student handbook for 2025/2026.
The following committee gave a report:
- Election Committee Report - NDP Successful
President Report
- Mike gave an update on the lawsuit with the Group Health Centre - we have still not heard from the Judge on our lawsuit with the Group Health Centre. The lawyer advised that 6 months is the limit before requesting information from the Court.
- Mike stated that the Company had filed a grievance against the Union regarding Health and Safety. Grievance is in arbitration.
- Pension Arbitration - Actuary has been engaged. Arbitration date is June 17th, 2025
- Contracting Out Arbitration - Company tried to pull a fast one. Attempting to talk about moving trades out of Coke and Iron and backfilling with Contractors.
- Mike asked the stewards to find out how many trades contractors are on their schedules.
The next General Membership Meeting will be held on April 16th, 2025 at the Royal Canadian Legion at 7:30 pm.
