Support Members in Tough Times with Local 829’s Wellness Committee

Please reach out to a committee person if you know a fellow member who is experiencing prolonged illness, an overnight hospital stay, a death in the family, or a member who has passed away.

Contact the Wellness Committee with the member’s name, their circumstance, and their contact information (personal phone number is preferred) so that delivery arrangements for a sympathy gift can be made.

Committee Chairperson, Cynthia Henders: QPbiz2020@gmail.com

Committee Member, Corinne Miller-Feasey: cormill@telus.net

Local 829 President, Christina Schmidt: presidentschmidt829@gmail.com

L829 Bylaws state…

This committee may:

(i) If a member has been in the hospital overnight or off ill for one (1) month or more, send a gift of fifty ($50.00) dollars including delivery and GST.

(ii) Extend the Local’s condolences in the event of a death:

(a) Of a member and make any other appropriate gesture in accordance with the wishes of the family concerned of one hundred ($100.00) dollars including delivery and GST if applicable.

(b) A member’s immediate family (Immediate Family shall mean spouse, son, daughter, parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, parent of a spouse, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, common law spouse, and also a relative who is a member of the Employee’s household) and make any other appropriate gesture in accordance with the wishes of the family concerned of fifty ($50.00) dollars including delivery and GST if applicable.

(iii) Extend the Local’s condolences in the event of a death of a member’s extended family member (not in the above definition) with a card.