A very important message from one of our members who reported breaches of the INTO Directive against JobBridge. I am very disappointed to read page 13 of Intouch this month. A 2014 motion forced the CEC to publish sanctions against those found guilty of breaching Union Directives. Head Office refused to tell anyone what sanctions were imposed. Even the people who reported the breaches never knew what happened at the end of it. I was told it was none of my business! The CEC opposed that motion to publish sanctions tooth and nail, but it was passed. The CECs way of obeying Congress is to publish a wishy washy paragraph at the bottom of page 13 of Intouch. That is bad enough, but they say that suspensions ranged from one month to five months. One To Five Months! Do you think that small sanction is sufficient? I dont. I spent longer than that policing the JobBridge website; finding the ads; reading & trying to understand the INTO rules; finding out about the school; writing out my charge very carefully so that it was obeying INTO Rules; contacting the District Secretary; writing several letters and emails; communicating with the Conciliator several times; communicating with the Clerk of the Arbitration Board; preparing for the Arbitration Board hearing; finding a babysitter; travelling a distance to attend the Arbitration hearing; facing the person I complained, giving my evidence, counteracting theirs, answering questions; travelling home again; having the person found guilty; having the guilty person appeal having being found guilty; making a formal submission to the Appeal Board in writing; having the Appeal fail. All of that work (about 12 months of it) I did at my own expense - postage, stationery, travel, food, meetings, phone calls. All of that work I did in my own time without being paid a cent. All of that work I did while working full time and juggling my family responsibilities. All of that work I gladly did to make sure that JobBridge does not sneak into teaching. I did it! I won! Then the guilty case was sent to the CEC to decide on what sanction should be given to the guilty person. Those full-time officials of INTO and the CEC reps who unlike me are allowed substitute cover to attend meetings etc... They all receive very generous expenses to do INTO work (rightly so, but I did not), THEY decided that one to five months suspension are appropriate sanctions for people FOUND GUILTY of breaching INTO Directives. [Were those months over holiday months? Did they start from the time they attended the Arbitration Board months before? We do not know and INTO are not telling us!] I spent longer than that suspension time on my work protecting the Directive! I dont think it is long enough of a suspension. I dont think it is anywhere near long enough. I think that INTO CEC have left me down (left all members down) at the last hurdle. I did ALL of the heavy lifting and they did not do their small part properly. There should be at least one years expulsion if a Directive is broken, in my opinion. What do you think?
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:03:20 +0000
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