Executive and Stewards
President: Rachel Head
Vice President: Trena Dergousoff
Treasurer: Rhiannon Chippett
Secretary: Krista Gilbert
Union Steward: Stan Nokleby
Union Steward: Brett Kormos
Committees
Various committees serve different functions. This page has information on the following:
- Labour Management Committee / Joint Job Evaluation Plan Steering Committee
- Joint Job Evaluation Plan Rating Committee
- Negotiation Committee
Labour Management Committee (LMC)/JJEP Steering Committee
The Labour Management Committee's purpose is to discuss matters that do not fall within the Collective Agreement , but are issues, clarifications, and a forum for the employer and the union to ask questions. This committee is in place to improve the workplace.
The JJEP Steering Committee is outside of the rating committee. Additional information on what this committee does is in the JJEP Terms of Reference.
Members
- Rachel Head
- Jenn MacDonald
This committee is elected.
Joint Job Evaluation Plan Rating Committee
The JJEP Rating Committee is a key committee in the Joint Job Evaluation Plan. The rating committee evaluates jobs using the job evaluation plan. Additional information on JJEP can be found in the JJEP – Terms of Reference and in the Joint Job Evaluation Plan.
Members
- Jeff Nicolajsen
- Jenn MacDonald
- Rachel Head
- Rhiannon Chippett
This committee is not elected.
Negotiation Committee
The Negotiation Committee or bargaining committee is elected up to six months before the expiry of the Collective Agreement. This committee will automatically disband after a new Collective Agreement is signed.
Members
- Tom Smith
- Matt Sopkow
- Alternate – Forrest Manser
This committee is elected.
What we do
CUPE LOCAL 2106
Local 2106 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees represents employees of the Regional District of East Kootenay and has been formed to:
- Improve the social and economic well-being of all of its members;
- Promote equality for all members and to oppose all types of harassment and discrimination;
- Promote the efficiency of public services; and
- Express its belief in the unity of organized labour.
CUPE Kootenay District Council
The KDC is a group that unites CUPE locals from the East and West Kootenays. In all, KDC represents 2,400 working people in 24 locals. Just as CUPE has grown by more than 5,000 members in the last few years, we in the Kootenays have grown as well. In fact, the KDC has affiliation with most Locals in the Kootenays.
CUPE Kootenay District Council
Canadian Union of Public Employees - BC
CUPE BC represents more than 100,000 workers in more than 160 locals. CUPE members work in hundreds of occupations that help keep communities strong. We work for municipalities, school boards, airlines, hospitals, nursing homes, libraries, colleges, universities, social service agencies, health care organizations, the ambulance service, public utilities, and other public institutions. For more information, please refer to:
Canadian Union of Public Employees - National
As a strong and democratic union, CUPE is committed to improving the quality of life for workers in Canada. Women and men working together to form local unions built CUPE. They did so to have a stronger voice – a collective voice – in their workplace and in society as a whole.
Health care and municipal workers constitute CUPE’s two largest sectors. CUPE is also the dominant support staff union in the education sector representing junior kindergarten to grade 12.
Equality statement
Union solidarity is based on the principle that union members are equal and deserve mutual respect at all levels. Any behaviour that creates conflict prevents us from working together to strengthen our union.
As unionists, mutual respect, cooperation and understanding are our goals. We should neither condone nor tolerate behaviour that undermines the dignity or self-esteem of any individual or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment.
Discriminatory speech or conduct which is racist, sexist, transphobic or homophobic hurts and thereby divides us. So too, does discrimination on the basis of ability, age, class, religion, language and ethnic origin.
Sometimes discrimination takes the form of harassment. Harassment means using real or perceived power to abuse, devalue or humiliate. Harassment should not be treated as a joke. The uneasiness and resentment that it creates are not feelings that help us grow as a union.
Discrimination and harassment focus on characteristics that make us different; and they reduce our capacity to work together on shared concerns such as decent wages, safe working conditions, and justice in the workplace, society and in our union.
CUPE’s policies and practices must reflect our commitment to equality. Members, staff and elected officers must be mindful that all persons deserve dignity, equality and respect.