Despite the acronym, this day is not about small folk who live in the Shire; May 17th is the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. The date of May 17 was specifically chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization’s decision in 1990 to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. It is a global campaign aimed at raising awareness about…
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Many thanks to those of you who came out to last week’s JE Town Hall to learn more about Job Evaluation in general from Peter Coombes, about our plan specifically, as it is, and some of the proposed changes at the bargaining table. A few things were clear to me, as JJEC Co-chair. Primarily, there is frustration about the backlogs…
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While the Negotiating Committee and the Joint Job Evaluation Committee were aware that our members had problems with the JE process, few of us were prepared for what the bargaining survey revealed. You expressed everything from outrage to defeat in the face of what seems to many respondents an unnecessarily cumbersome and time-consuming process. You told us that Job Evaluation…
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