Aboriginal Day festivities wrap up with feasting and music
VANCOUVER — National Aboriginal Day events wrapped up in Oppenheimer Park on June 21 amid feasting and song. Events over four days honoured First Nations, Métis, and Inuit traditions and included a daily sunrise ceremony, traditional storytelling, activities for children, a neighbourhood smudge, and a daily feast. CUPE BC alternate diversity vice president (Aboriginal) Debra […]
Canadian labour loses valued pioneer
Shirley Carr was world’s first woman elected head of a national labour organization Shirley Carr, a long-time activist and labour leader whose work has created a legacy of strength and pride in the Canadian labour movement, died on Thursday, June 24, at the age of 81, in Niagara Falls, Ontario. CUPE National president Paul Moist […]
Community Social Services Bargaining Update
BURNABY— The Community Social Services bargaining committee tasked with negotiating a new collective agreement met with the employer group for four days last week. (June 21-24) The committee’s work centered around trying to establish clarity on a variety of issues raised by the employer group and gaining new contract language. The committee is working within […]
New school buses unveiled with more cost cutting studies
BURNABY—The BC government announcement that it is providing 106 new green school buses will be welcomed in school districts throughout B.C. However, the June 25 announcement included a repeat of government’s desire to further study cost savings options such as bulk purchasing. And while new buses will be more efficient, districts with higher-than-average transportation costs […]
ITUC affiliates share strategies to fight HIV/AIDS in the workplace
Strategic union partnerships, new ILO standards highlighted at congress luncheon VANCOUVER—The world’s richest nations may be dragging their heels on developing a comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy, but the same cannot be said of the international trade union movement, whose embrace of strategic global union partnerships to tackle the pandemic is making a difference in the workplace. […]
IMF, WTO charm offensive falls flat at global labour conference
Corporate sector giants fail to woo delegates with call for increased—if regulated—trade VANCOUVER—Delegates at the second World Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) experienced a rare appeal from the titans of international trade and commerce here on Tuesday, June 22. Senior representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO) […]
New “City Watch” program boosts community safety
NEW WESTMINSTER – Additional eyes and ears on the street is one of the key benefits of a new program launched in New Westminster today to promote community safety and assist local police in the fight against crime. “City Watch” is an initiative of the Canadian Union of Public Employees which combines the efforts of […]
CUPE, City of New Westminster to unveil “City Watch”
Royal City the latest B.C. community to adopt program aimed at reducing urban crime NEW WESTMINSTER—A new joint program combining the efforts of municipal workers, local police, fire and rescue services, and the City of New Westminster in tackling crime will be unveiled tomorrow (Tuesday, June 22) with a press conference at City Hall starting […]
New Westminster launches “City Watch”
NEW WESTMINSTER—The Royal City has become the latest B.C. community to adopt “City Watch”, launching CUPE BC’s successful crime-fighting program this morning with a brief ceremony at City Hall. Jeannie Ziraldo, Human Resources manager for the City of New Westminster, opened the event by noting that the majority of the City’s employees, members of CUPE […]
National Aboriginal Day: June 21
Celebrate June 18 – 21 at Oppenheimer Park (440 Powell Street). Kids Day, Storytelling, Pow Wow, Cultural and Contemporary Performances, Feast each day! Performances by M’Girl, Arlette Alcock, Indian Time Drum Group & more! PLUS: ‘Letting Go Ceremony’ • DTE Smudge Ceremony • Mini Pow Wow Coast Salish welcome: Sam George • Ceremonial Drum: Buffalo […]
