Annual General Meeting- OPSEU Local 4101
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Virtual and in person @ Ottawa Conference and Event Centre
200 Coventry Road, Ottawa
In person registration: 9:30 am to 10:00 am
Meeting start time: 11:00 am
OPSEU representative present: Alex Lane
Guest speakers from OPSEU: Chrissy Tremblay and Veronica Atar
Statement of Respect: Stephan Lemaire. Visualized twice as virtual attendees could not see the
first time. Land acknowledgement: Stephan Lemaire
– Stephan Lemaire demonstrates how to use OPSEU member portal and EDIT personal information to
receive timely notifications
– Quick review of OPSEU Local 4101 website
Approval of meeting agenda- Approved by Nanda Nair; seconded Jim Brophy
Approval of GMM minutes from Oct 2022- Approved by Mimi Ngassam; seconded by Lisa
Petrie-Hawes Introduction to LEC, new stewards present.
Treasurer’s report
Bank Balance as of February 28, 2023 $ 127,853.06
Outstanding cheques to be cashed $ 5,973.64
Bank Balance remaining $ 121,879.42
Income from October 2022 – March 2023: $ 15,985.21
Dues rebates from October 2022 and January 2023, plus labour council dues refund
for 2020- 2021, minus president’s full-time book off expense and wages expenses for
alternates
Detailed expenses from October 2022 – March 2023:
 Door prizes for AGM October 2022 (gift cards and iPads) $ 5,522.11 30%
 Room rental and food for AGM October 2022 $ 3,382.84 18%
 Mileage, child care and hotel expenses for AGM October 2022 $ 1,254.92 7%
 Deposit for room rental, food and audiovisual expenses for GMM March 2023 $
3,885.48 21%  Printer and new laptop for treasurer $ 1,924.71 10%
 Zoom account $ 1,134.52 6%
 Labour Council dues Nov – Dec 2022 (90% of this expense will be reimbursed by OPSEU) $
401.80 2%  Cell phone expense for president (October 2022 – February 2023) $ 385.52 2%
 Website renewal $ 216.96 1%
 Christmas/holiday social event expenses $ 140.00 1%
 Office supplies (mouse, mousepad, pen) $ 79.46 0%
 Mailing supplies and costs (stamps, tape, brown paper, mailing costs for door prizes) $
76.20 0% $ 18,404.52
Recent Audit in Feb 2023- Mimi Ngassam (trustee). New dues coming in April 2023.
No questions. Approval: Elaine; seconder: Jennifer Blaise
Report of officers
No updates from Eastern Ontario Francophone Health team
No updates from Connexion Health team- team is in the process of renegotiating their contract C4-
Demands set meeting held for their contract. Booking negotiation proposed for March 2023 but employer
not available, pushed back to June 2023.
HCCSS- Many sick leave grievances- concerning the medical note within 10 days; Quota of vacation at Intake;
Negotiation for collective agreement this coming year; workload concern form reminder (with clarification that it
usually takes 2 weeks for manager to respond accordingly); reminder that summer is coming and so is short
staff period will be here- to avoid OT, consider delegating tasks to intake at the end of the workday
Committees report- nothing to report. Stephan has updated local website.
New business
1) BPS conference- need to elect delegates and alternates to attend. Nov 17-19 2023, in Toronto.
Stephan proposes we vote by plurality for all elections.
1.1) Carefor able to send 1 delegate; 1 alternate. Election held.
Pamela Hodge nominates Nanda Nair (Delegate after plurality election)
Pamela Hodge nominates Jessica Fraser (Alternate after plurality election)
1.2) Connexion able to send 1 delegate; 1 alternate. Only Kate Anderson expressed interest and no
other members present. Kate is also automatically attending. Kate Anderson is delegate for
BPS for Connexion team.
1.3)HCCSS able to send 7 members, Stephan Lemaire (president) automatic. 3 delegates + 4
alternates. Jim Brophy nominates Liane Fox (Alternate as per plurality election)
Jennifer Blaise nominates Annie Bohnec (Alternate as per plurality election)
Catherine Tibbles nominates Nellana Chamungwana (Delegate as per plurality election)
Stephan Lemaire nominates Jessica Dionne (Alternate as per plurality election)
Jessica Dionne nominates Elaine Giles (Delegate as per plurality election)
Stephane Lemaire nominates Shari Greenhorn (Delegate as per plurality election)
Martha Kedziorek nominates Ariel Home-Douglas (Alternate as per plurality election)
2) Bill 124 + Guest speakers (Chrissy Tremblay and Veronica Atar, OSPEU executive board
members) 2.1) Regional update: Educational opportunities
Stewards 1: April 24 and May 1 @ 18:30. Online
Spring Educational weekend: June 10-11 2023. Steward 2 and other courses TBA
June 3: day of Doug Ford’s provincial election- Labor board wishes to remind public that premier won
by a thin margin of 18%. Highlight “Enough is Enough” campaign, planning/organization night in April
TBA.
2.2) Bill 124
This bill was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and decidedly infringed on members’
bargaining rights and failed to demonstrate the need for such action. Contradicting actions by
promising tax cuts and the license plate campaign, finding money for those causes.
Dec 29th 2022- Government appealed the ruling and most employers want to wait to see outcome of
appeal to open renegotiations of contracts. OPSEU wishes to move forward regardless.
2.3) There is now designated space for physical and virtual meetings at most central office
locations 2.4) For subscriptions to regular OPSEU updates, please sign up at
opseuregionfour@gmail.com
Stephan Lemaire: Since HCCSS negotiated their collective agreement centrally, HCCSS filed a
grievance to bypass the appeal and open renegotiations (+ retroactive). However, there are over 300
collective agreements going back to the negotiation table due to Bill 124 ruling- bottleneck for
arbitration.
Lorrie Montague: Can we have a walk-out day? Need everyone involved so individuals standing up
don’t feel unsupported.
Shelley Hickson: As a health care worker, I enjoy educating folks on our reality. Posting online- what
can be seen as “bashing our employer”? If you leave the employer out of it, refer to your sector
(health, lab, LCBO etc) you can mention the impact it has on you as an individual, or your family.
Employer can still take action but you can contest.
Adjourn meeting: Stephan approves; Lisa Petrie-Hawes seconds
Draws:
#1: IPAD Julie Larue (in person)
#2: Gift cards Diane Leeder (in person)
#3: IPAD Renee O’Hara (in person)
#4: Bundle of gift cards: Brigitte Baristoff (online)
#5: Gift Cards Nanda Nair (in person)
#6: Gift cards Kelly Cross (online)
#7: Shoppers gift card Melissa Lamble (online)
#8: Gift card Susanne Kellock (in person)
#9: Gift card Netflx Clara Dumontier (online)
#10: IPAD Marilyn Higgison (online)
#11: Bundle of gift cards Catherine Tibbles (in person)
Addenum, brief LEC to discuss full time book-off.
Same location, March 25 @13:45
Present: Shelley Hickson, Stephan Lemaire, Jessica Dionne, Martha Kedziorek, Lorrie Montague, Elaine Giles
Shelley Hickson proposes Stephan Lemaire has an extension of full time book off to continue with
OPSEU business full time for another year (so starting July 1 2023 to June 30 2024). Approved
unanimously. Stephan’s book off started July 1 2022. Seconded by Martha Kedziorek