Seymour-Capilano Filtration Plant opens
NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT—CUPE BC president Barry O’Neill was in attendance as the largest water filtration plant in Canada and a model of public infrastructure officially opened on Friday (May 7) in Metro Vancouver—thanks in no small part to CUPE’s efforts to keep it public. “We don’t realize how lucky we are to have this,” Vancouver […]
Diversity work requires ‘visionary persistence’
Workplace, union equality a long—but rewarding—road, says CUPE disability rights activist BURNABY—Achieving equality rights and promoting diversity—both in the workplace and in one’s union—can be a long, tough road. But with visionary leadership and dogged persistence, real change does happen, CUPE 1936 vice-president and disability rights activist Sheryl Burns recently told a group of activists […]
