Attendance: Regrets:
- Little – Chair - Dorothy McRae
- Krysty Munns – Secretary/Treasurer
- Dolly Ablitt – PSAC Staff
- Diane White
- Stephanie Erb
- Call to Order: S. Little 5:37pm
- Approval April Minutes –
- Change Shannon to Shannan
- M/S/C – K. Munns/D. White/C
- Approval of Agenda
- M/S/C – K. Munns/D. White/C
- Financial Report and update on Budget Allocation
- Opening balance $1190.66
- Payment of pool expenses $617.25
- Closing balance $508.41
- 2016 Allocation: $2775
- Total working budget for remainder of 2016: $3283.41
- AFL Childcare Lobby Day Update
- Krysty traveled to Edmonton regarding AFL’s ‘A Fair Start’ Campaign - http://www.fairstartalberta.ca
- This campaign is aimed at petitioning the government to:
i. Re-instate child-care monitoring programs that were eliminated under a previous government.
ii. Conduct a full-scale review of Alberta’s child-care system as it stands;
iii. Create regulated child-care centres at government offices; and
iv. Reaffirm a commitment to quality, accessible, regulated child care for all Alberta families
- Calgary RWC wants to do a Southern Alberta campaign
- Online postcard to get national attention
- Looking to work with Lethbridge RWC on this – touch base at regional seminar in Winnipeg
6. New and Ongoing Business
- Prairie Regional Women’s Conference – June 10-12 Winnipeg
- Regional caucus
- 55 women at the conference
- Waiting on confirmation of speakers
- Will start Friday evening
- Susan Prentice - will speak on chil]dcare
- Updated childcare lobby information kit
- Workshop related to domestic violence
- Regional caucus
- 2016 PSAC Regional Women’s Conferences: Call for Resolutions – Deadline June 1
Resolution 1: Change the health provision – to change birth control provision and overall reproductive health with Sun Life
- Dennie Moore – article http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2015/04/27/Pill-Health-Care-Plans/
- Need to research when health negotiations open, how can we bring awareness to this
- Ask for money to promote a campaign among our members
- Need to ensure the resolution speaks to creating an awareness campaign, literature to educate our members
- Research hormonal and menopause/hormonal replacement options – make the ask more broad
- $25,000 per region/per cycle = $5000/year
Resolution 2: Include language in our protective agreement that protects women in the workplace regarding domestic abuse. Education programs
Resolution 3: Family Care Policy
- Remove boundaries related to same address issues. Same house = no coverage.
- Children under a certain age, have the option to bring children and PSAC pay.
Resolution 4: Update the HERstory and Women’s Committee handbook
a) 2016 PSAC National Health & Safety Conference: Call for Resolutions – Deadline June
b) Dragon boat Call out
- Share among workplace encourage to contact Krysty
c) Beauty from the Inside Out – Graduation information – June 6th
- Talked to Renee – like to invite us to Graduation at June 6th.
- Starts at 6:30.
- Try to bring someone who would like to sponsor another girl.
d) Input Call for Public Service Dental Plan – June 10, 2016
- Encourage everyone to do the survey
e) Pride parade and Pride in the Park June 25th
- LDLC will be walking in the parade
- Parade June 25th
f) LDLC Labour Day BBQ – September 5th
- Bouncy castle
- CLC will cover insurance
g) Whoop Up Day parade – August 23rd (Early bird registration – June 30th)
- LDLC hasn’t committed in it
- Will update at a later date
7. Varia
7.1. Website/Calendar update
- Updated newsletter
- Shannan’s notes
7.2. Harsha Waila – May 18th (Lethbridge Public Library)
8. Actions:
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Who |
What |
When |
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S. Little, K. Munns, D. White, D. McRae |
Write Resolutions |
June 1st |
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9. Next meeting date, time and location: TBD – Regularly meeting time is during Women’s Conference.
10. Agenda for next meeting:
- Approval of the Agenda
- Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes
- Financial Report
- New and Ongoing business
11. Adjournment 6:40pm – K. Munns/D. White/C