SPECIAL STATEMENT REGARDING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC
During the 3rd verification of our 2019-2023 mandate, the National Board of Trustees were once again required to do a virtual verification. While attempts were made by the National Union to provide the Board with all of the necessary documentation needed to complete a thorough verification, there were shortcomings.
Given the fact that there has been a rather large turnover in the administrative staff, particularly in the Finance Department, consistency in how information was provided/reported did differ from previous years.
As our verification was done virtually, we were forced to utilize the National IT network and to work with documents on a virtual desktop. This network was problematic from day one and caused intermittent connection issues throughout out verification and at times the internet connection failed entirely. This severely limited the amount of work we were able to accomplish.