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Northern Area District Council

Box 1692

Fort St. James, BC

V0J1P0

Welcome to the Northern Area District Council of CUPE serving Northern BC from Quesnel to Prince Rupert and Fort Nelson and West to the Queen Charlotte Islands

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As the new website for NADC, this site gives every NADC Local an opportunity to share their stories and photos, and contact information online.

If you have a story, photos, or just updated contact information, please email them to dwlr@telus.net .

.NADC members Rob Yager Local 1050-01, Bob LeClerc Local 1050, Jason Barr and Sandi Taylor from Local 4177 were just a few of many NADC Members to take part in an anti bill 36 rally at the Legislature in Victoria.

Jessie Robson Awarded the NADC 2007 Scholarship...

At the September 2007 NADC Meeting Jessie Robson was selected as the winner of the 2007 NADC Post Secondary Education Scholarship of $1000.

Jessie is attending Thompson Rivers University in the Business Administration program.

Jessie is the step daughter of CUPE Local 1050 member Dan Weiman.

Northern Locals Support Striking Lower Mainland Locals 15, 391 & 1004...

At the September 22, 2007 general meeting the Northern Area District Council voted to donate $500. to the hardship funds of each of the three striking Vancouver Locals, for a total of $1500.00.

Prince Rupert & Area Locals Roll Out the Red Carpet For the Northern Area District Council Members And Guests...

In the fall of 2007, members of the Northern Area District Council decided to let Locals of the NADC adopt and host the Northern schools and meetings.

Prince Rupert Local President Mario Castelli volunteered to host the Spring school in Prince Rupert and started to approach area locals to get involved.

In February of 2008, 55 activests attended various workshops including a week long Basic Arbitration workshop and three shorter 2 day workshops, Harassment and Respect in the Workplace, Advanced Shop Steward and Introduction to Cupe For Aboriginal Workers all hosted at the Crest Hotel in Prince Rupert.

Together with the 55 Activests many more guests arrived to take part in the NADC Spring general meeting, including Mark Hancock Secretary Treasurer of CUPE BC, Cindy McQueen General Vice President of CUPE BC, Carleene Keddie General Vice President of CUPE BC, Bill Pegler CUPE's K-12 Coordinator and Joe Badali the Municipal Coordinator for CUPE.

Together with the Prince Rupert Labour Council, Local 113, Local 2052 and Local 105, social events were planned to keep the delegates entertained and give them a chance to get to know one another. Upon arrival in Prince Rupert delegates were picked up and welcomed personally by Mario Castelli or by members of his Local 113, Farwest Transportation, and transported to the Crest Hotel. During the week on Wednesday night there was an Ice Breaker Social and Karaoke sponsored by Local 2052, the Prince Rupert Labour Council and Local 105. On Thursday night the NADC sponsored a Meet and Greet reception for all in attendance. On the Friday night Local 105 sponsored a Fun Night at the Chances Casino with Local 105 donating free tickets to the Comic Relief show featuring comedians John Beuhler and Graham Clark to all delegates attending Prince Rupert.

All workshops were well attended and all of the delegates seemed to enjoy the time in Prince Rupert. For many delegates it was their first time in Prince Rupert, and many commented on the great hospitality, the beautiful scenery and of course the great seafood served at all of the local restaurants.

The Northern Area District Council would like to sincerely thank Mario Castelli and all of the Volunteers that helped make Prince Rupert a super enjoyable time, and the businesses and City of Prince Rupert for their great service and welcoming attitude.

First Ever NADC Workshops A Success...

Sixty three delegates took part in education workshops in Fort St. John from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3, 2008.

This is the first time the Northern Area District Council has held workshops and their general meeting in Fort St. John.

The events were attended by many guests including Claude Genereux, National Secretary-Treasurer, Gereal Vice - Presidents for CUPE BC, Cindy McQueen and Debbie Taylor.

The highlite of this fall session of NADC was the chance to welcome and vote in the members of Local 4653, Fort St. John Schools, a new Local of 350 members.

2008 Grad Scholarships Awarded....

Congratulations to Hikari Shiga from Terrace and Ryan Dirnback of Burns Lake, both will receive $500. scholarships from the Northern District Council

Steven Storch Elected CUPE BC

General Vice - President...

Steve Storch was elected as General Vice President for CUPE BC at the elections held in Victoria on April 25, 2009. Seven candidates were running for the four positions.

Dan Weiman was re-elected as Regional Vice - President for the North and Sandi Taylor was re-elected as the Alternate Regional Vice - President for the North.

Smithers Locals Put On A Great Spring School & Meeting

In March of 2009, CUPE activists from Haida Gwaii to Fort St. John

attended the NADC spring school hosted in Smithers BC at the Hudson Bay Lodge.

Fourty three delegates participated in various workshops including a week long Bargaining workshop, one 3 day Retirement Planning workshop and three 2 day workshops, Advanced Shop Stewarding, Assertiveness Training and Facing Management.

Local 1570, and Local 2145 from Smithers worked together to plan the details of the spring school. All guests received a "Proud to be CUPE" mug and many were the happy recipients of door prizes provided by CUPE BC during the Thursday evening Social. The social was well attended and fun was had by all as we mingled and danced the night away to two local bands,

"No Time Flat" and the "Lester's" from the Hungry Hill band.

Saturday morning CUPE activists gathered, joined by guests Mark Hancock Secretary Treasurer of CUPE BC, Cindy McQueen General Vice President of CUPE BC, Carlene Keddie General Vice President of CUPE BC, Bev LaPointe General Vice President of CUPE BC, Bill Pegler CUPE's K-12 Coordinator and Connie Credico Education Rep., for the NADC general meeting.

2009 Fall School and Meeting Largest Ever In Prince George...

The NADC 2009 fall school and meeting held in Prince George, November 16 to 21, was the best attended gathering so far with eighty two CUPE Members from across the north taking part in workshops.

NADC welcomed Local 4951, College of New Caledonia to the Council and their first meeting.

It was a busy few days in Prince George, with 5 workshops being held, a social, a rally in support of the Ambulance Paramedics and of course the fall NADC general meeting. NADC would like to thank local 3799 for hosting and organizing the fall gathering.

Prince George Rally in support of Ambulance Paramedics

Northern Area District Council

Box 1692

Fort St. James, BC

V0J1P0

Small School and No Quorum in Fort St. John...

A smaller than usual turnout for our Spring NADC school, meant that only three of the five workshops planned actually took place. A total of twenty four delegates attended the workshops in Fort St. John, during the week of Feb. 22- 26,2010.

For those who did attend the workshops were informative and the atmosphere was electric as the main after school activity was getting together with friends and watching the Canadians win medals in the Olympics.

The NADC meeting held on Feb. 27, 2010 did not get quorum with only seven locals in attendance. Only the matters that were time sensitive and normal activities of the council were dealt with and will be ratified at our next NADC meeting.

Council positions that were up for election will continue to be held by the person in office until elections can be held with the exception of Vaunda Dumont, who was unable to carry on due to other commitments.

Dalphena Snively was appointed by the Executive to take over as Recording Secretary until we can hold an election to fill this very important position.

NADC Returns To Prince Rupert For Fall School And Meeting...

The Northern Area District Council will be holding 5 workshops in Prince Rupert during the week of October 18 to 22, 2010 at the Crest Hotel.

Workshops will include:

The new Year of the Steward series for Shop Stewards for 5 days starting Oct. 18/10

This Workshop will include:

Labour Law Foundations,

Duty of Fair Representation,

Grievance Handling,

Essential Services,

Discipline and Discharge,

Building Your Case,

Winning Without Going to Arbitration

Facing Management for 2 days starting Oct. 21/10

Workload Relief for 2 days starting Oct. 21/10

Occupational Health and Safety for 2 days starting Oct. 21/10

Introduction to CUPE for Aboriginal Members for 2 days starting Oct 21/10

The fall general meeting will be held on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 at the Crest Hotel starting at 9 AM. This will be a very important meeting with many of the top executive positions up for election including both Vice - President positions and the Recording Secretary position.

To run for a position on the NADC Executive you must be endorsed by your local, they have to be in agreement to send you to future educational's and meetings at the Local's expense as NADC does not pay for Executive members to attend the events held by the Council.

Bus Pickup from the airport should be arranged ahead of time by emailing Mario Castelli.

Mario would also like to know if anyone would be interested in a fishing charter, so please email Mario Castelli for possible times and rates if you are interested.

Local 3799, UNBC once again is offering a bursary of $1000. to a Local of less than 50 members, that is sending a member to CUPE Education. Apply here.