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<\/a>Todd says it was \u201cdisrespectful\u201d of the college to contract the work out, as it took work away from unionized employees. He says that the contracting out of painting remains an issue for him and his members.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to contracting out, we stand up for our members,\u201d says Todd.<\/p>\n
Todd says that while there is no one at the college qualified for sidewalk and line painting, there are staffers that do similar work, so maybe something could have been arranged.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have facilities staff that paint the railings, paint the benches, paint the stairwell railings and things like that, so maybe the answer could be yes,\u201d says Todd on if there are unionized college workers who could do the job. \u201cWe do understand, you know, if four or five classrooms need to be painted, maybe that is something that could be contracted out, but we\u2019re usually consulted on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd says that when the college is going to contract out work they usually give CUPE 2081 a heads-up; they didn\u2019t this time. (The college is not required through its collective agreement with CUPE 2081 to tell the union when it is contracting out; the agreement also states that the college reserves the right to contract out when there are not qualified in-house workers.) The college also contracted out services at Conversations Day in February, which \u201cappalled\u201d Todd; he says the union received an apology from the college for that incident. Part of the problem for Todd this time around is that Camosun did not give ample notice when they contracted out.<\/p>\n
Camosun associate director of facilities Brian Calvert\u2014who is not a CUPE member, but manages workers who are\u2014says there is a difference between traffic painting and regular painting jobs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe product that\u2019s applied is a specialized traffic paint, so it\u2019s not like your regular painters that are painting buildings,\u201d says Calvert. \u201cIt\u2019s a specialty company.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calvert says the college\u2019s maintenance department, as the name suggests, maintains.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur maintenance guys are here to maintain existing,\u201d says Calvert. \u201cThe college has a settlement agreement that they follow on contracting out, and that\u2019s exactly what the college did. It\u2019s more of a miscommunication, which the college has apologized for.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calvert says Todd is \u201cabsolutely right\u201d when he says the college should give the union more notice next time they contract out.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there\u2019s work, they get to have the opportunity to question any work,\u201d says Calvert, clarifying that this only applies as long as the work in question falls under the operating budget. However, he says this project was financed through capital funding rather than the operating budget.<\/p>\n
Calvert\u2014who says that the college\u2019s maintenance staff did the prep work and clean-up for the sidewalk painting\u2014says that CUPE voicing their concerns in the past resulted in the college no longer contracting out window-filming work, and says that \u201cthe college and the union work pretty well together on this subject\u201d of contracting out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t get it right all the time, but I think generally we try to really work together on all this,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s an unfortunate incident, but we\u2019ll try to do better next time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd says that the lack of communication between the college and the union is concerning, but says that it can\u2019t be discussed until the fall because there are usually no meetings between the college and the union in the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Camosun College recently added a rainbow design to the bus loop at the Interurban campus and a rainbow crosswalk at the short-term parking at Lansdowne. Victoria company Scho\u2019s Line Painting did the painting work, which CUPE local 2081, the union that represents Camosun College support staff, is not happy about. An internal email announcing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14401,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions\/14401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}