12/21/17 Local 404 General Membership Meting Minutes

Present:

Adam Castle, Molly Kennedy, Matt Stenger, Maude, Joel Frey, Kelly Woelpern, Marvin Sullivan, Stacy Mueller, Ryan Cates, Luke Frederick, Mike Homer, Eric Hesse, Antonino Guerrero

1. Secretary’s Report: Elections are being held at the end of January

2. Treasurer-Antonino Guerrero:

STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSES FOR MONTH ENDING November 2017

CASH BALANCE BEGINNING OF MONTH: $ 76047.72

INCOME FOR THE MONTH: $ 27123.89

EXPENSES FOR THE MONTH: $ 25853.54

CASH BALANCE ENDING OF MONTH: $ 77318.07

SUBMITTED BY: Antonino Guerrero

Motion to pass subject to audit by Molly Kennedy, 2nd by Eric Hesse. Passes.

 3. Correspondence: 

MSOP Report: http://laborweb.afscme.org/sites/preview/index.cfm?action=article&articleid=36CDE4B9-FB66-49E8-B814-625022A0F527

MSH Report: http://laborweb.afscme.org/sites/preview/index.cfm?action=article&articleid=8276E41E-896D-4AF2-A46B-4F7C0960C086

4. New Business: Hesse-Janus Vs AFSCME Case is being heard in Supreme Court on January 23rd.

February 20th legislative session will begin. If they reject our new contract we are stuck with our old one. They think we are getting paid too much as they are asking for a 45 percent raise for themselves.

A very good chance this will pass. We need to continue to support the union to keep our power.

New website will be launching soon that is a big improvement from the last one.

Crystal: opening nominations.

President: molly, cates already accepted. No others

VP: admin position: Matt Stenger Currently. No others Matt is new VP

VP steward coordinator: Eric Hesse nominated-accepting. Hesse is new Coordinator

Secretary: Adam Castle, Paul Dunlap, Kari Kramer.  Election to be held

Chief Steward. Sullivan, homer. Crosby, Steve Wilking. Luke Frederick new. All are new chief stewards

E board. Shepard, Emilio Florez, Stacy Mueller, Jacob Schoenecker. No other nominations. Election for eboard will be held

Treasurer: Nick Weertz, Antonino Guerrero. No others. Election will be held

3 year trustee: Kelly Woelpern is new trustee

2 year: Kathleen lusky

1 year trustee: Ann Sullivan nominated-decline. Jacob Dougherty nominated-accepts. New trustee

Nominations closed

Hesse motion for election committee and pay per diems for people sitting elections. Thursday January 18th. 6am to 3pm. I can be the chair. Contact Hesse if you are interested. 2nd by Stenger. Motion passes

Marvin motion to give 300 to Stacy h who lost a husband. MAPE donated the same amount to two of our members recently. Friendly amendment by Kelly W for 150. Marvin S does not accept amendment. Does not pass. Kelly motion for 150 2nd. Motion carries for 150.

Marvin Sullivan motions to pay for 10 years of the new 404 website. 2nd by Stenger. Motion passes.

Marvin Sullivan motions to pay mileage to Matt Stenger for last Thursdays meeting in St Paul. 2nd by Matt Stenger. Motion passes

5. Old Business:  None

6. Items from the membership: Kathleen Luskey presents issue with workshop now being required to dress in business casual clothing.  The staff clothing is damaged constantly by doing the required work. They are currently using jeans and other clothing of choice. Requirement to change to business casual will be a major financial burden.  Crystal Kreklow will contact Melissa Gryshek as soon as possible about this. Management has given a time frame of one week to being the clothing change.

7. Officer Reports

Presidents Report-Tim Headlee:

VP-Matt Stenger: See MSH Meet and Confer Notes

VP- Eric Hesse: Hesse-Janus Vs AFSCME Case is being heard in Supreme Court on January 23rd.

February 20th legislative session will begin. If they reject our new contract we are stuck with our old one. They think we are getting paid too much as they are asking for a 45 percent raise for themselves.

A very good chance this will pass. We need to continue to support the union to keep our power.

New website will be launching soon that is a big improvement from the last one.

 

Executive Board: Ryan Cates: Intermittents fighting for Overtime. One bulletin board for AFSCME in MSH is set up. A lot of non certs and investigations at MSH. Christmas party from 6 to 12 bowling at Wow zone January 19th. Shuttle from Rochester if there are enough people.

Executive Board: Luke Frederick: CARE St Peter and other sites had wages stolen from them. If employee worked late by 5 minutes they weren’t being paid but if they were late by 3 minutes, they were being docked pay. HR said its ok. Luke cited different policies and they backed off. What about the staff that this affected? DOL calls it pay rounding but it has to be consistent. NEO Wednesday the 27th at 1145 to 1230.

Executive Board: James Hemshrot:

Executive Board: Molly Kennedy sent out email on CVS pharmacy. Let molly know if you didn’t receive it.

Marvin Sullivan: Sat a lot of investigations lately

Stacy Mueller: A lot of investigations

Executive Board: Kurt Crosby: See MSH Meet and Confer Notes

CS FACILITY SUPPORT: Mike Homer: Still working with the kitchen with their issues with their supervisors

CS MSH / CRP / Nursing Nights: Jeff Brunz

Motion to adjourn by Molly Kennedy, 2nd by Marvin Sullivan

Meeting adjourned at 545pm.