On June 1, 2011 (WEDNESDAY), our Provincial CAS Sector Bargaining Team will be back at the bargaining table in Toronto.
Last week there were AMAZING shows of solidarity within our local , in our Wear Blue campaign, and I want to extend a huge thank you for your support.
On June 1, our local has been asked by the Provincial Discussion Table Bargaining Team (PDT- for the CAS sector), to wear a sticker and to perform a lunch time event.
WE NEED YOUR HELP, we need your support.
Please take and wear a sticker and join us from 12:00 -12:30 p.m.
At this event on June 1, we are asking for members to come and participate or support your LEC and Bargaining Team in the "Workload Structure" which we have been asked to do. It is the intention of the PDT, to send a message to our employer and to the Ministry that:
Vulnerable children shall be considered FIRST when it comes to meeting
the requirements of child protection work
Vulnerable children should never have to wait for service and be placed
further at risk
We have a dangerous situation where workers are being told to meet
required standards as a part of their day to day contact with children
and families and that this takes more time than we are being provided to
perform these duties. The result is less time with the clients and more
focus and pressures on paper work
We have incredibly high numbers of workers out on Long Term Disability,
and the rates of fatigue and burn out are bound to increase. This is not
sustainable, and negatively affects all workers and most importantly the
families and children we service
Over the past 10 years, we have been adapting to constant changes in
standards and accountability measures. These changes have had a longer
term impact on the stability of the workforce
We are currently in talks with the government about these concerns and
are asking the ministry to make a commitment to solve the workload
impasse.
We are asking the government to carry out an independent workload study
in consultation with workers from across the sector and to resource its
findings. An assessment of the workload burden is a fundamental first
step to ensuring sector stability in the future.
In Solidarity,
Chrisy (Groves) Tremblay
President, Local 454
chrisy.tremblay@hotmail.com
