LOCAL 846
Wednesday, July 14 at 5pm
Zoom Video/Phone Conference
The Vancouver Local is having a Human Rights Committee Meeting. You must register in advance for this meeting. Registration deadline: Tuesday, July 13 @ 5pm.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdu2sqzwqHtSvW_2fGB8yLFu2VfL2uwfn
If you are interested in participating in this committee, please read the information below, taken from our Vancouver Local by- laws, in regards to the committee’s mandate:
The National Executive Board decided that we would not accept CPC’s proposal but would consider pursuing discussions if CPC agreed to:
Sisters, Brothers:
This year, the heatwaves have come much earlier in some areas of the country. This is certainly welcomed with great optimism following the dark period we went through last winter with the virus and its more contagious variants. But while much of our attention is focused on COVID-19, we still have to face various other challenging conditions, including heatwaves looming on the horizon.
For the second summer in a row, we will have to deal with the heat while also wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) to counter the virus, at least as long as the Public Health Agency of Canada requires it.
Take the necessary precautions with the heat and the virus, and encourage your coworkers to do the same.
We would like to thank everyone for helping with the United Way’s Period Promise Campaign for the month of May.
With your help from all the facilities in the CUPW Vancouver Local, we were able to collect over 3,000 products to donate to those in need. Helping bring the estimated total of the product donations of 558,765 to help fight Period Poverty.
June 18,2021
Tânisi nitotem,
As I put words to paper my heart is heavy and my stomach cannot settle. The past few weeks the news about the bodies of indigenous children found buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have troubled me as well as many in this country. This school is located on the unseeded traditional territory of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc peoples. Society has been heart broken and horrified to hear of this discovery. Sadly, this discovery does not come as a surprise. Survivors of residential schools have shared their stories for decades and to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) about their siblings and cousins who went missing at the residential school and were never seen again. These schools were designed by the State to eliminate the indigeneity from the Indigenous peoples of this country. The church acting as the agents of the State would be given the contracts to operate, and to force the assimilation of Indigenous children to a white European culture: the TRC called this cultural genocide.
BRAD SIEBEN (VEO INBOUND SHIFT 1)
*WINNER* of the Vancouver local’s 50/50 draw .
$ 2421.50
Thankyou everyone for taking part in the draw and helping us in collecting donations for PERIOD PROMISE CAMPAIGN.
Friday, June 18 at 5pm
Zoom Video/Phone Conference
The Vancouver Local is having a Human Rights Committee Meeting. You must register in advance for this meeting. Registration deadline: Thursday, June 17 @ 5pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErd-yvqjIqEtxDLgtC6WoMGVkgyi81JV9c
If you are interested in participating on this committee, please read the information below, taken from our Vancouver Local by-laws, in regards to the committee’s mandate: