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Press Release May 16, 2012
At the Annual General Meeting of the Retired Teachers Association of Manitoba (RTAM), the delegates elected the following Board of Directors to serve a one year term:
President: Wayne Hughes of Winnipeg
Vice -president: Barbara McDole of Winnipeg
Secretary: Judy Olmstead of Brandon
Treasurer: Carol Pelton of Thompson
Past President: Richard Benoit of Winnipeg
Directors:
of DauphinRosalie Bornn
of WinnipegPeter Carney
of ThompsonJoan Dawson
of WinnipegGuy Hansen
of WinnipegDolores Hébert
of Portage la PrairieMarvin Krawec
of Gilbert PlainsJag Malik
of The PasVel McAdam
of WinnipegTed Poulter
of WinnipegPeggy Prendergast
of NeepawaDoreen Sage
of BrandonRay Sitter
of WinnipegBernice Stebbing
of Portage la PrairieJohn Sushelnitsky
of Portage la PrairieNorman Wiebe
For more information, please contact the RTAM Office at 1 (204) 889- 3660 or 1 888 393 8082 rtam@mymts.net . The Office is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-1 pm.
You may also contact John Sushelnitsky, Public Relations chair at 1 (204) 857-3014. jmsush@shaw.ca
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Powerpoint Presentations about RTAM further down the Home page...Check it out by scrolling down.
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New Information from the Pension Committee
JULY 2012 TRAF COST OF LIVING (COLA)
This year’s COLA, effective July 1, 2012, is 0.97%. That is 42.2% of the 2.30% increase in the Consumer Price Index - well short of the maximum 2/3rds of CPI COLA provision.
Check the Pension Committee Report for information and analysis regarding the July 2012 COLA and for up-to-date tracking of COLA results since the implementation of Bill 45, a bill passed in 2008 modifying our COLA arrangements. Click HERE.
PROVINCIAL ELECTION
During the 2011 fall election campaign, the RTAM Board engaged in several activities to continue to profile the COLA problem and to advocate for a fair COLA resolution. RTAM received encouraging responses from two of the political parties in their reply to our election questionnaire regarding a resolution to the COLA problem.
Check out the following information related to our election activities:
- Our information package for members, entitled Where’s our COLA?
- Our letter to the Premier
- Our letter to members about the responses to our election questionnaire and the responses to it from each of the main parties – PCs, including a letter from the PC leader Hugh McFadyen, Liberals and NDP.
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****Travel Questionnaire Click, Copy, Paste, Fill, Send****
The goal of the RTAM Travel Committee is to provide travel information of interest to retired teachers. In order to plan for the AGM and to make future workshops as relevant as possible, complete this questionnaire. Click on the travel questionnaire link above and follow the instructions.
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Teaching Opportunity in UBC's Okanagan Campus this summer
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NEW Media Watch Entries John is Back! Check them out!
What about sodium acid pyrophosphate, dimethylpolysiloxane and tertiary butylhydroquinone?
Check out John's Media Watch #141 on the Media Watch Page.
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Check out the submission above for information and volunteer opportunities.
Fall11 and Winter11 issues of KIT now published to Website
( Newsletter link )
from president Arnold Hull of ACER-CART
Interesting News coverage by CTV for Creative Retirement Manitoba:
Check out this video: Seniors on the Internet: http://youtu.be/WnkJ5JBcrgI
Creativity and Imagination
We would like to offer more articles on creative and artistic interests of our members. Here is a website that will allow you to get started on a very interesting artistic pursuit called Zentangle. Check out this website: http://www.zentangle.com/
JULY 2011 COLA REPORT
· Read the Pensions Committee Report providing information and analysis regarding the July 1, 2011 cost of living adjustment (COLA). As well, it contains up-to-date tracking and analysis of the TRAF COLA grants since the implementation of Bill 45, a bill passed in 2008 modifying our COLA arrangements. Follow the link to this Report.
News Flash! The July 1, 2011 COLA for retired civil servants was 1.57%, 2/3rds of the 2.35% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). In contrast, the July 1, 2011 COLA for retired teachers was 0.98%. That amounts to 41.7% of the 2.35% increase in CPI – well short of the maximum 2/3rds of CPI COLA provision implemented by Bill 45.
This link will download a pdf file to your pdf reader. This is the English version of the brochure, and the French version will be forthcoming soon. (Right now below)
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Welcome to the newly designed RTAM website. Here you will find all the information, memories, concerns and issues that deal with the retired teachers of Manitoba. The site is packed with information about the organization and has many pages relevant to retired teachers. The links at the top of the page or the sidebar (depending on the current design) ,will take you to the respective pages listed.
You will notice to the side that there is a pagelet which will allow you to contact us about any concerns you have about RTAM or about this website in particular. Please feel free to use it and wherever you are in the site, you may return to the this Home Page to access it.
To find out more about RTAM, click on the RTAM logo below for details. You will find a bit about our history, a list of working committees and an application form to be part of a committee which you might be interested in.
Old Board and Photos may be viewed here.
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Not a Member yet? Check out our registration page here.
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Draft minutes of 2010 AGM now posted here.
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Download a pdf file of the Interim Policy Manual 2010 here.
This policy is still available to you to peruse in pdf format. It was discussed and passed at the recent AGM.
The above link will download a Powerpoint Presentation used at Membership meetings to be held in Winnipeg and Brandon in April, 2011. The download can be read in Powerpoint or a Powerpoint reader. (We are still working on how to get it to load into your browser through our site.)
Here is a pic of RTAM board presenters (Anne Monk, Pat Bowslaugh and Richard Benoit) and some participants ( Gordon Cameron and Irene Wallis) at the seminar presented at the Caboto Centre in Winnipeg, April 23, 2011. (25 participants attended the seminar.) Evaluation comments from the seminar were very positive.
Check below
for upcoming special events, urgent notices or reminders of meetings and important events.
Notice the President's Summaries pagelet to the left. Click on it for a summary by the President of each month's meeting.
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Should I save or should I spend? How can I help my economy? Harry Koza examines the question of which government stimulus is better: tax cuts or spending on infrastructure. He says a dollar of tax cuts generates $3 of gross national product, while $1 of government spending generates $1 of GDN, and often less. If you save a dollar from your tax cut and put it into a bank it can be lent out ten times creating a credit flow. Saving money is the rational thing to do, but governments want us to spend more, consume more and borrow more. Koza is a former bond market columnist for the Globe and Mail. FP, Feb. 1/09
Can an income tax refund be a “bad thing”? According to David Christianson, a tax refund is, at best, a return of your own money and, at worst, an interest-free loan that you have made to the government. FP, March 20/09
(From John Sushelnitsky's Media Watch, April 2009)
Watch for more contributions from John on interesting articles from the media that give us some idea about where the economy stands, how the government is behaving or misbehaving and how all of this affects what we have the right to expect in the area of pensions for teachers --- those faithful contributors to the wellness of our economy through educating the future workers, professionals and entrepreneurs.
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