We are attempting to keep the membership informed and the union environment while trying to act as a watchdog over the current leadership with their evasive and non-transparent practices.
The lack of transparency that occurred during the trusteeship debacle continues since the election. This list of characters pretending to be leaders who ran on a campaign of openness and accessibility for the members continues to hide and make decisions regarding our lives while pursuing the agenda of the old guard Teamsters Canada who are still in charge.
This kind of secrecy and non-transparency has continued with general meetings cancelled using Covid as the excuse of the day even while other meetings were going forward.
The lack of information we have received leaves us to wonder about our grievances, how is the union spending our money and leaves us with further question regarding their rushed negotiations, having produced less than stellar results.
Many of you may be unaware the local union purchased a new building for the Edmonton area. You need to ask yourself why was now the time to purchase a new building and why Sherwood Park, an area that is not home to many of our employers. Weird. Weirder still is how did they receive our approval to make this purchase and what was the complete deal?
Since April 2019 there have been a total of four general meetings province-wide while the constitution states they need at least one per month., Have these people never heard of ZOOM. Others have.
We need to have the elected leaders get up off the couch with their expanding waistlines and come out of hiding to meet with the members and maybe, with luck, do their jobs. O well, we can always dream!
The vehicles that the Business Agents drive are leased and/or owned by the Local Union. All the vehicles and gas are paid for by the Membership paying dues and our slate feels strongly that all employees receiving this great benefit should respect that to the fullest.
FUN FACT
Did you know that one of the Business Agents who is currently working on the other slate was caught driving a Union vehicle through a ditch, showed up at a meeting hauling his camper and trailer, and even showed up to important meetings with his quad in the back of his Union truck? This does not show good use of our Union dues.