Business Manager Bill Peters recently attended the New Business Managers Training Conference in Annapolis, Maryland February 23 – 27, 2015.  All the newly elected Business Managers attended this conference gaining a lot of valuable information to help them move into their new positions more smoothly and manager their offices with the insight needed to grow and move forward.

 

Front Row left to right: Sylvain Morrissette Local 144 Montreal QC, Jason Quiggin Local 589 Minnesota, Larry Talbert Local 367 Alaska,  Joseph Thomas Local 85 Michigan, Russell Jessop Local 527 Kitchener ON,  William Peters Local 179 Regina SK,  Mark McManus, General Secretary-Treasurer UA General Office,  Frank Palen Local 21 New York,  Curtis Mezzic Local 60 Louisiana,  Chris Doris Local 340 Nevada,  William Hite General President UA General Office,  Mike Tupica Local 146 Texas,  Kevin Cruso Local 568 Mississippi, Aaron Butler Local 469 Arizona

 

Back Row left to right: Rick Terven, Senior Executive Vice President UA General Office, William Guthrie Local 393 California,  Michael Hartley Local 230 California,  William Welsh Local 486 Maryland, Evan Wooding Local 353 Illinois,  Matthew Lydon Local 525 Nevada, Kurt Krueger Jr. Local 322 New Jersey,  Joel Zielke Local 601 Wisconsin,  Thomas McCarthy Local 34 Minnesota,  Trevor Robertson Local 496 Calgary AB,  Steven Gomez Local 460 California,  Jerry Hobart Local 125 Iowa,  Brian Almquist Local 192 Wyoming.

Unemployed Workers Help Centre If you hear family, friends, neighbors', etc mentioning they are or someone they know is having issues with EI, you can tell them that there is an outfit, the UWHC, which is supported by your union that gives help to any worker having trouble with their EI claim. Check out the website by clicking the link below: https://www.unemployedworkerscentre.org/