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Seeking Feedback for proposed new component CEIU) structure
From: Chris Aylward, Trustee
To: Local Presidents – Ontario
c.c.: Cathy Morneau, Deputy Trustee for Quebec, & Women’s Issues-Eastern Region
Paul Croes, Deputy Trustee for IRCC
Norm Murray, Deputy Trustee for Ontario Region and IRB
Sebastian Rodrigues, Deputy Trustee for Human Rights and the Ontario Region
John Gordon, Administrator
RE: Feedback from CEIU Locals – Proposed New National Governance
Structure
The Deputy Trustees are seeking your feedback on the proposed new structure
presented below. It would be very much appreciated if your Local could put together
comments and observations that could be used at the October meeting of the Deputy
Trustees where a final decision will be made on the structure that will be proposed for a
vote at Local meetings in October and November.
Please share this memo with the members of your Local and please post the memo on
appropriate bulletin boards.
Please send your comments, no later than end of day Monday October 3, 2016 to the
attention of Sue Courchaine (courchs@ceiu-seic.ca) and Theresa MacInnis
(tmacinnisceiu@auracom.com ). Sister MacInnis was chosen by the Deputy Trustees as
the Deputy Trustee responsible for national issues.
Please copy the Deputy Trustees in your region (please see email for addresses).
Information on the proposal or answers to your questions regarding the proposal or the
vote can be obtained by contacting your Deputy Trustees and the CEIU national office.
Thank you for taking the time to take part in this preparatory consultation process. Your
CEIU Deputy Trustees and I have been meeting twice a month with the common goal of
moving the component out of trusteeship as quickly as feasibly possible. The CEIU
convention has been scheduled for February 6-9, 2017 in Ottawa and the convention
delegate election process is already underway.
The Deputy Trustees in collaboration with me have also reviewed the governance
structure of the component in great detail and are proposing some changes for
consideration by CEIU members. Ideally a new structure would contribute to the
cohesiveness and effectiveness of CEIU’s national body, to greater involvement at the
Local level, and to clearer responsibilities for National Vice-Presidents.
The Deputy Trustees want to share this proposal for a new national governance structure
with CEIU members and is seeking their comments and feedback.
The proposal is to reduce the number of NVPs without weakening the Component’s ability
to address issues that have always been important to its members: effective
representation before each department where CEIU members work; taking a leading role
on matters of Human Rights and on Women’s equality; and, providing effective support
to locals from the national office and most importantly from the regions.
Several structures were considered. At their July 7-8 face-to-face meeting, Deputy
Trustees decided on a proposal to put to CEIU members for a vote. The Deputy Trustees
mandated a small committee of Deputy Trustees to review the CEIU By-Laws and identify
the changes that would be required if the proposed structure were accepted by CEIU
members. These proposed changes to the By-Laws were reviewed by the entire group of
Deputy Trustees at their July face-to-face meeting, and then again at their August
meeting.
Information regarding CEIU National Executive elections will be provided shortly. Suffice
it to say at this time that the call for nominations can only go out to members after CEIU
members have decided on the national governance structure, i.e. on which positions
make up the National Executive. The objective is to complete the vote on the structure by
the end of November in order to begin the nomination period on December 5, 2016.
The Deputy Trustees will meet October 7-9, 2016 and will be reviewing feedback provided
Votes will be organized by Deputy Trustees in each region with their Locals between
October 12 and November 23, 2016 to provide members the opportunity to vote on the
proposal.
The Proposal
Below is the proposed new structure compared to the structure that existed when CEIU
was placed under trusteeship.
NEW PROPOSED STRUCTURE * OLD STRUCTURE
1 National President 1 National President
1 National Executive Vice-President 1 National Executive Vice-President
1 NVP for IRCC Members 1 NVP for IRCC Members
1 NVP for IRB Members 1 NVP for IRB Members
1 NVP for Human Rights 1 NVP for Human Rights
1 NVP for Women ** 4 NVP for Women **
1 NVP for Newfoundland/Labrador and Nova
Scotia
1 NVP for Newfoundland/Labrador
1 NVP Nova Scotia
1 NVP for Prince Edward Island and New
Brunswick
1 NVP for Prince Edward Island
1 NVP for New Brunswick
2 NVPs for Québec 3 NVPs for Québec
2 NVPs for Ontario 3 NVPs for Ontario
1 NVP for the National Capital Region 1 NVP for the National Capital Region
1 NVP for Manitoba/
Saskatchewan/Nunavut
1 NVP for Manitoba
1 NVP for Saskatchewan
1 NVP for Alberta/Northwest Territories 1 NVP for Alberta/Northwest
Territories/Nunavut
1 NVP for British Columbia/Yukon 1 NVP for British Columbia/Yukon
* The proposed structure takes into consideration geography, the number of members
and the number of locals, departments, Human Rights representation and the
representation of women. Further to a fulsome discussion, it was decided that a National
Executive of 16 rather than 24 members could be effective at the national level and in the
regions if it were to take on the configuration that is being proposed.
** It is important to note that the Deputy Trustees have begun discussing ways to strengthen CEIU’s ability to carry out the mandate of NVP. for women
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