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Press Release: PSAC organizes massive strike vote

March 1st

OTTAWA – Labour unrest in the federal public sector is growing as almost 100,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) members across the country will be voting on strike action starting March 25.

"Paul Martin may be trying to put a new face on the Liberal government, but it has been business as usual at the bargaining table," says PSAC National President Nycole Turmel. "At the start of this round of bargaining, the government seemed to be interested in conducting negotiations in a more serious manner. Unfortunately, this government’s style of negotiating is leading to confrontation."

Read more at the National website (link opens in new window).

Press Release: New Revelations about Raid at BC Legislature--Cloud of Scandal over Sale of BC Rail Continues to Grow

March 2nd

B.C. Federation of Labour Calls for Halt to Sale of BC Rail and asks for Gary Collins' Resignation

Vancouver-The Liberal government must immediately stop the sale of BC Rail after new revelations connect Liberal political aides, and their activities in Finance Minister Gary Collins' office to allegations of criminal breach of trust involving the sale of BC Rail, said B.C. Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair.

"This confirms a direct link between the raid on the legislature and the sale of BC Rail.  Until the public is fully satisfied there were no criminal activities involving BC Rail, the sale of BC Rail must be stopped," demanded Sinclair.  Sinclair commented on the most recent revelation made public in connection with search warrants executed on the legislative offices of the Liberal Finance and ransportation Ministers.  "There's also a growing cloud over Finance Minister Gary Collins," said Sinclair, "a breach of trust may have occurred under his watch.  To preserve the integrity of his office Collins must step aside until this matter is resolved."

Concerns regarding the privatization of BC Rail had been raised last year during the bidding process.  "All along the government has conducted secret negotiations and closed door meetings to keep details away from the public. It's a bad deal and the public knows it, and the Liberals have been trying to hide it," said Sinclair.  "Now there are clouds of criminal activity and potential criminal breach of trust hang over this deal, communities along the BC Rail line deserve better."

"This scandal will sink what little confidence British Columbians have in Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberal government," said Sinclair.  "Working families have paid the price for lost services and privatized assets; the only people who have gained under this government are Liberal friends and insiders.  Breaking their campaign promise was bad enough, but to allow the sale of BC Rail to proceed would certainly be a moral breach of trust with the voters of BC," said Sinclair.

The campaign to stop the sale of BC Rail is continuing and the Federation plans to make representations to the Canada Competition Bureau when the issue is discussed, added Sinclair.  The Federation will also continue to support the efforts of the workers and the community in their attempts to hold this government accountable for the sale.

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For more information contact: Jessie Uppal 604-430-1421 or 604-220-0739.

March 31 Deadline Marks End To Women's Centres

March 4th

On March 31, 2004, the Campbell Liberals will eliminate 100 percent of the funding to all women’s centres in British Columbia.

This amounts to about $47,000 a year for each women’s centre, or a total of $1.7 million. The cost translates into just over 5 dollars per woman helped by a women’s centre, or 91 cents for every woman and girl in the province.

In other words, it costs less than a dollar a year per woman and girl in B.C. to save lives.The funding cut will devastate B.C.’s women’s centres. Two centres (Richmond, Surrey) have already been forced to close their doors permanently.

The remaining 35 centres are preparing to shut down unless they can find alternate funding sources.

Read more here and sign a petition here. (links to BCGEU website open in new window)

Stop Welfare Cuts Coalition Media Release

March 4th

Funding cuts mean high-risk and sexually-exploited children under 16 will have no place to go

As an organization whose members are not strangers to 'life on the streets',with its incumbent sexual exploitation, diseases, physical & emotional abuse, addiction, drugs and crime, the Stop Welfare Cuts Coalition protests, in the strongest possible terms, the closure of the only Safe Houses for children ages 13 to 15, in the Lower Mainland.

The Coalition's own investigation confirms a copyrighted CBC report of March 3rd, 2004, stating: "The Lower Mainland's only safe houses for children under 16 are being forced to close its doors by the end of the month because of a provincial funding cut.

The Vancouver Native Health Society had been receiving funding from the province to run the three underage safe houses (for children of all ethnic backgrounds). But due to restructuring in the Ministry of Children and Families, that funding has been cut.

The ministry has decided the houses are now the responsibility of the Urban Native Youth Association - which is also facing a funding cut of up to $500,000 while being saddled with new responsibilities.

The executive director of the society is worried high-risk and sexually-exploited children will be turned away.

'It's a tragedy waiting to happen now. These children are not going to have any place to go,' says Lou Demerais. 'These children are on the street, whether it's because they're runaways, whether they've been driven out of their homes, or whether they're just on an adventure trip.' There are no other government-approved organizations in the Lower Mainland that take children under 16."

Horacio Valle Torres, a community worker experienced in the Safe House program wrote to the Staff on March 02, 04 stating: "Please be aware that the Underage Safe House will stop intaking CHILDREN as of March1 18th, 2004... With great sadness in my heart for all the CHILDREN that will die as a result of these changes..."

For more information on the Safe House Program visit: http://www.vnhs.net/safe.htm

Don’t Shoot The Whistleblower!

March 9th

Our early warning system for scandals fails because sounding alarms is too risky. Let’s change that.

Rex Murphy fumes, Paul Martin sputters. Things are hopping in Ottawa. The shocking abuse of public money in the federal sponsorship program may be the biggest news to hit Bytown in years.

The question now on many lips is: If tens of millions of dollars of public money was brazenly dispensed to political chums in a way that would make Tony Soprano blush, why did no one spill the beans? Why didn’t an informed public servant "blow the whistle" on the biggest scandal in years?

The short answer is that without legal protection for whistleblowers, they would have been crazy to. In this ballooning scandal it is certain that any whistleblower would have been thrust into the cold glare of the media, and the cold stare of a vengeful Prime Minister’s Office. This is not a place where any career bureaucrat wants to be, and certainly not without any protection under the law.

And therein lies the rub. Sadly, Canada provides virtually no legal protection for people who choose to speak out publicly on principle – to "blow the whistle". Almost anyone who chooses to do so in Canada is exposed to a grim suite of abuses heaped on those deemed "disloyal" to their employer. Retribution typically includes being harassed by your boss, ostracized by your co-workers, fired, demoted, sued, or otherwise made miserable. If a whistleblower chooses to fight any of this, it is usually a long uphill legal battle at their own expense.

Read the rest here. (Link to TheTyee.ca opens in new window)

The Tyee - News and views for BC that swims against the current! - is a great alternative to mainstream news in BC.  Consider signing up to receive their weekly email!

Employment Opportunity - Vancouver RO

February 26th: Updated March 18

Position Title: Regional Representative
Branch/Section: Regional Offices Branch
Employment Type: Anticipatory term assignments

This is an anticipatory staffing.

Under the general supervision of the Regional Coordinator and as part of a regional team that includes other regional office staff, the Regional Council, and regional union bodies such as Area Councils, the Regional Representative builds the union and fosters membership solidarity by delivering union programs and services in the region. View a detailed job description at psac.com. Please note the closing date has been extended to March 31st. The posting may not reflect this yet.

Management is trying to intimidate striking PSAC/UCTE members

March 12th

Management at the Aéroport Jean-Lesage in Quebec City is trying to intimidate strikers on the picket line, as well as trying to gain concessions at the bargaining table and refusing to adjust the members’ salaries up to the level of comparable airports in Canada. On February 24, the employer dismissed two members, accusing them of committing acts of sabotage, without having any evidence.

The 50 strikers are members of the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees (UCTE) Local 10140 of the PSAC. They have been on strike since February 9 and have been attempting to negotiate a collective agreement for three years.

Read more at the National website (link to PSAC.com opens in new window).

B.C. Federation of Labour Calls for Economic Summit

March 12th

36,000 Jobs lost in BC, Highest in Canada; Unemployment increases to 7.9% - B.C. Federation of Labour Calls for Economic Summit

Vancouver - Climbing unemployment and the loss of 36,000 jobs shows the BC Liberal economic plan just isn't working and it's time for a provincial economic summit, said B.C. Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair.

"Unemployment is at 7.9 percent and British Columbians can't find any hope in Finance Minister Gary Collins' budget," said Sinclair. According to Statistics Canada youth employment fell by 28.2 percent from January 2004 to February 2004. "Young people in our province are being held hostage to skyrocketing tuition fees and the elimination of post-secondary student grants the Liberal economic plan offers nothing for their future," Sinclair stated.

"Recording Canada's highest job loss is not the way we want to be leading the country," said Sinclair. "Clearly this government has no economic plan and working families are bearing the brunt of it." Sinclair stressed the only way a solution could be found to BC's economic woes was if all stakeholders worked together. "We need an economic summit to bring forward some different perspectives on how to build our economy. We need more than the 2010 Olympics to turn our province's economy around," added Sinclair.

"And it's not getting better in the so-called heartlands, added Sinclair." While the government stubbornly proceeds with privatizing BC Rail, Statistics Canada reports unemployment in the Prince George region spiked to 14.4 percent last month from 12.1 percent in January, and climbed to 10.7 percent from 9.8 percent. "The 'heartlands' have truly become the 'hurtlands' under the Liberal watch," concluded Sinclair.

For more information contact: Jessie Uppal 604-430-1421 or 604-220-0739.

Petition To Keep MSP & Pharmacare Under Public Control

March 12th

Visit http://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/campaigns/mspprivatization.html (link opens in new window) to sign the petition and read about what the Liberal government is doing to our health care system.

Haitian Garment Workers Beaten By Rebel Troops

March 18th

On Monday 1 March, 2004, thirty-four members of the Sendika Ouvriye Kodevi Wanament (SOKOWA, Ouanaminthe Codevi Workers' Union) were fired by the management of the Grupo M textile assembly factory in northeast Haiti. The following day, as co-workers prepared to take action in support of the union, members of the so-called "rebel" forces arrived at the factory and attacked the workers. After several workers were handcuffed and others beaten up, the workforce was compelled to resume work. The "rebels" said they had been called in by the Grupo M factory management.

There is an urgent action appeal directed to Fernando Capellan, the CEO of Grupo M, in Matanzas, Santiago, Dominican Republic, with copies to Levi Strauss and the union in Haiti on Labourstart now at: http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=24 (link to labourstart.org opens in new window)

Haiti is already the poorest country in the western hemisphere and has been ravaged by civil war. The workers' movement is in a very vulnerable position and the new regime seem to be seeking to use their success to break the unions. One of the leaders of the rebels is a leading sweatshop boss. There is more on Haiti at: http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=825&mode=thread&order=0
and http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=836&mode=thread&order=0 (links to nosweat.org open in new window).

MPs quietly extend own benefits - 'Sweetheart' bill tops up medical plan at 50, not 55

March 18th Canwest News Service

OTTAWA - Government and opposition MPs took only minutes last week to pass a bill that will extend Parliament's medical insurance plan to retired MPs five years earlier than it would otherwise be available.

The legislation will allow 50-year-old former MPs to receive topped-up medical and hospital benefits until they qualify for the normal parliamentary retirement plan that kicks in at age 55.

In a deal reached earlier in private, all parties agreed to treat the bill as though it had received first reading in the usual process, second reading, committee hearings, committee report stage, and third and final reading in only 15 minutes, according to the time notations in Hansard.

The bill did not leave the Commons floor and no committee hearings took place.

Read the rest of the story, including the PSAC's response, at canada.com (link opens in new window)

MSP & Pharmacare Sell-Off

March 22nd

The following information was placed in an ad in Times Colonist (March 6, 2004) by the BCGEU.

If you feel strongly about this issue, read further and then sign the petition.

The Gordon Campbell Liberals plan to sell off the Medical Services Plan and PharmaCare to either IBM or Maximus - both "American" multi-national corporations - by August 31.

The government will give an American-owned corporation access to private records on every British Columbian. This includes health treatment, pharmacy, income tax, mental health and criminal records, as well as records from the ministries of Children and Family Development and Human Resources.

A New York expert on the new USA Patriot Act says this could even give the FBI access to our private medical record. The Patriot Act allows the FBI to demand corporations secretly hand over medical records and other personal information of innocent people.

And legal precedents suggest even if the information is held by a Canadian subsidiary, the American parent company could be required to hand it over.

Our personal medical information should not be made available to private corporations that don't answer to our privacy laws. It should remain in the care of public employees who are bound by an oath of office to keep it confidential.

To sign the petition, go to: http://www.petitiononline.com/publicpc/
To read more about BCGEU concerns & the court challenge regarding privatization, then go to:
http://www.bcgeu.ca/1710

Oppose The Lifting Of The Offshore Oil & Gas Moratorium

March 22nd

The Georgia Strait Alliance is currently distributing and gathering signatures on an Action Alert opposing the lifting of the offshore oil and gas moratorium. Visit their website (link to georgiastraight.org opens in new window) to sign the petition and read more.

The Campbell  River, Coutenay and District Labour Council have sent a letter to Minister natural resources John Efford and in they indicate that they have  passed the following motion:

"that the CRC&DLC support the Georgia Strait Alliance call to the Federal government to NOT lift the current moratorium for offshore oil and gas exploration off coastal British Columbia"

The Council, which represent 45,000 unionized works in Central Vancouver Island (many in the resource sector) passed the motion unanimously.

Integrity officer rips whistle-blower bill

March 23rd: Canwest News Service

OTTAWA - Canada's integrity officer says the government's much-vaunted whistle-blower legislation tabled Monday is too weak and could discourage bureaucrats from exposing wrong-doing and corruption.

Edward Keyserlingk said the proposed bill is a "disappointment"

that ignores the meatiest of the recommendations urged by a working group whose blueprint would have made Canada's whistle-blower laws the strongest in the Commonwealth.

John Gordon, vice-president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, said the bill offers public servants no more protection than they have now.

He said the watered down bill is "political manoeuvring" to make the government look like it's committed to whistle-blowing, knowing it will never pass before an anticipated spring election. The Liberals first promised whistle-blower legislation in the 1993 election campaign.

Read the rest of the story at canada.com (link opens in new window)

News: Quebec appeals court hands down ruling paving way for gay marriages

March 19th CNEWS CANOE Internet network

MONTREAL (CP) - Quebec homosexuals have the right to marry, the province's top court said Friday.

The Quebec Court of Appeal upheld a lower-court ruling that the traditional definition of marriage is discriminatory and unjustified. Same-sex marriages have been declared legal in Ontario and British Columbia. The Supreme Court has been asked to clarify the constitutionality of gay marriage and Prime Minister Paul Martin has promised to introduce a bill to legalize it.

The Quebec court case pitted some religious groups against Michael Hendricks and Rene Leboeuf, who want to marry after being together for 30 years.

The religious groups were appealing a September 2002 ruling by Justice Louise Lemelin of Quebec Superior Court that said restricting marriage to a union between a man and a woman was unjustified under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Urgent Action Needed - Support Brazilian Government's UN Resolution On Sexual Orientation

March 29th

Egale has received the following from John Fisher who is currently in Geneva attending a crucial meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. An important LGBT rights issue hangs in the balance and Egale is encouraging you to act immediately in order to support global human rights.

Although there is much in Canada that we still want to change and improve, the fact remains that Canada is an international leader in human rights, including protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified people. Canadians need to show the world that we believe in justice and equality for the whole planet, not just our country. Please act today to provide support to our international allies on this crucial issue!

Gilles Marchildon - Executive Director, Egale Canada

Read more on the Multi-Union Pride page.

Public Hearings About The BC Moratorium On Offshore Oil & Gas Activities

March 29th

Help Save the BC Coast! Get informed and involved.

The future of our coast is about to be decided. Right now federal and provincial governments are considering lifting a moratorium that has protected BC's coastline from oil drilling for three decades. It's a decision that could forever change the face of the province.

You can make a difference.

Public hearings are being held around the province from April 5 to May 15. Visit www.davidsuzuki.org (link opens in new window) to learn more.

Action Needed: Support Bill C-250

March 30th

From: Mr. Laurie Arron, Director of Advocacy, Egale Canada

As you may know, Bill C-250 passed the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee last week and is now back to the Senate for third and final reading. The only problem is there is likely less time before the election call than it would normally take to pass it. The only way it's going to pass the Senate and become law (short of a delay in the election call) is if the leaders of the Senate make it a priority.

There may be as little as a week left, so please voice your support as soon as you can.

Read more on the Multi-Union Pride page.

What kind of voting system do YOU want in BC?

March 31st

Communities across BC are being offered a unique opportunity to have their say in shaping the political and electoral system in British Columbia.

At 49 public hearings taking place throughout BC in May and June, residents will have the chance to present their views on the system of voting we use to determine the makeup of the provincial legislature.

These views will be weighed by members of the Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform as they prepare to recommend the best electoral system for BC.

To start this discussion, members of the Assembly have prepared a Preliminary Statement to the People of BC which is available on the Assembly website or can be requested from the office.

The Assembly is an independent, non-partisan group of 160 people randomly selected from communities across the province. Their final report is due in December. If they recommend a change, all voters in BC will decide on it in a referendum in May 2005.

For information on the Citizens’ Assembly, how to register to present your views at a public hearing or how to make a written submission to the Assembly, visit www.citizensassembly.bc.ca, e-mail hearings@citizensassembly.bc.ca, call 1-866-667-1232 or write Citizens’ Assembly, 2288-555 W. Hastings St., PO Box 12118, Vancouver  BC V6B 4N6.

Download the a flyer with hearing dates and locations below (.pdf)

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Callout: 2004 PSAC National Access Conference: Moving On Up!

March 30th

The fifth PSAC National Access Conference, will be held September 30 - October 3, 2004 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.

The objectives of the 2004 PSAC National Access Conference are:

  • Ensuring the rights of members with disabilities resonate in the Union and in the Workplace;
  • Linking decreased rights for People with Disabilities to globalization;
  • Developing and implementing Union based strategies to ensure integration of the rights of members with disabilities in the Local, the Workplace and the Government; and
  • Mobilizing Members with Disabilities to activism within the Union, their Workplace and their Communities.

More information, including on-line registration, is available at the National website (link to psac.com opens in new window).

Click below for the Callout Package.

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Youth Of Colour In Consultation Agains Systemic Racism

Announcement - March 1, 2004 : Posted March 8th

Consultation
March 27-28, 2004
BC Government and Service Employees' Union
4911-4925 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC

The Need for the Consultation

Systemic racism has intensified the struggles that all youth of colour and indigenous youth have to face on a daily basis. We see systemic racism as the racism embedded in Canada's institutions that uniformly and methodically keep communities of colour and indigenous peoples in the margins of political and economic power. Systemic racism is a complex concept that some people even deny exists. But it is high time that the discussion on systemic racism continues.

After the death of Mao Jomar Lanot, a Grade 11 student who was brutally attacked by a larger group of youth at Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School, a community forum took place on December 6, 2003. Members and representatives from various communities of colour came together to discuss with youth themselves about their experiences with personal and systemic racism, violence, and discrimination. The forum created a plan of action with several recommendations, one of which was to hold this upcoming
consultation.

You are invited to participate in the consultation, "Youth of Colour in Consultation Against Systemic Racism." This consultation will be held on Saturday, March 27, 2004 and Sunday, March 28, 2004.

This consultation will seek:
a. To gather youth of colour and members of the community to deepen our understanding of systemic racism through discussion and analysis of our experiences of racism and discrimination;
b. To empower, strengthen and build our communities of colour;
c. To understand our experieces with racism as a result of globalization.

The short-term goals of the consultation are to bring together marginalized youth from various communities to discuss issues important to them, their communities, their peers and their fellow Canadians. This consultation will allow youth to develop a statement of unity and outline an action plan to address systemic racism.

The long-term goals are exponential. At this consultation, the
development of a Statement of Unity and a feasible Action Plan is of the utmost importance. These ideas will be developed by the youth and put into practice in a way conducive to their experiences.

Hosted by:
Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada/Filipino-Canadian Youth
Alliance (UKPC)
UKPC is a grassroots Filipino youth and student organization formed in 1995 through the assistance of the Philippine Women Centre of B.C. UKPC seeks to build a just and free society where people are no longer exploited
and oppressed.

Endorsed by: BC Government & Service Employees Union, South Asian Youth Alliance, Native Youth Movement, Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, Bus Riders Union, UBC Colour Connected, Grassroots Women, Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Advocates, SFP!RG (Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group), BC Human Rights Defenders, Vancouver Association of Chinese Canadians, South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, Centre of Integration for African Immigrants, Black Historical and Cultural Society of BC, PICS - Surrey (Progressive Intercultural Community Services), Palestine Community Centre, City Councillor Ellen Woodsworth (City of Vancouver)

Registration fee: $25

Download the registration form & brochure below (pdf)

For further information and to register, contact us at:
c/o Kalayaan Centre
451 Powell St, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1G7
Tel: 604-215-1103
E-Mail: yccasr@yahoo.ca

YCCASR_Brochure.pdfYCCASR_Brochure.pdf

Strike Mobilization Tips and Ideas.

March 22nd

Are you a Local Officer or Steward wondering how you can get your members more involved in strike mobilization?

At the last Vancouver Area Council meeting, Robert Strang, President CEIU 20944, shared his tips/best practices for mobilizing for the strike vote. He also took the time to think about things and jotted them down in an email.

In his own words ...

Below is what we try to follow as much as possible. Maybe this can be useful for others.

Information distribution

  • People need to be informed as to what's happening. Sometimes we get lazy and assume everyone's up to date. We need to use whatever means work to get to as many members as possible. For us, desk drops and talking with people work the best. We also have a website and make sure people know where to check for updates on the PSAC national site.
  • Use good sources like the PSAC sites and newspaper articles. Using mainstream articles adds credibility. Some people think union info is spin. For example we printed up articles about Martin's freeze and the pay raise for cabinet aides, along with a PSAC article.
  • Avoid rhetoric and tired slogans. Or if you use them during rallies etc. make sure you also distribute news and facts.
  • When there's things happening, make sure that people know about it. Strike while the iron is hot. It's easy to elicit support for a strike when there's stories/ evidence that they're trying to stiff us.
  • Publicise the truth. People are already concerned about negotiations and their wages. Most don't really know what negotiations are like or what's happening. All we do is provide the info. Let them come to their own conclusions and reactions. That's when it's time to channel our reactions into some sort of action. In our case, we thought that this would be a good time to bring out the mass grievances. I altered the language a little bit from the original one in Peterborough so that it was more palatable to our members.
  • Don't confuse member indifference (low turnouts at AGMs etc) that we often see with complete indifference. Many members don't want to bother with extra-curricular activities most of the time because they're busy working and have lives outside work. I don't really blame them. Members do care when it comes to negotiations and their paycheques. That's when you really want to be on the ball.


Active local executive

  • Don't sleep. Stay on top of things. Stay positive.
  • Keep the executive going. Get people trained and involved. Don't allow your executive to be dominated by 1 or 2 people: Keep it informal and social. Most of us are sort of friends.
  • Make your executive representative and democratic. Ours has every ethnic, gender and sexual orientation represented in our office. Some are more into politics and campaigns, others into being well-organised and efficient. Executive meetings should be open discussions, not one person informing the rest. All important decisions should be discussed with the whole exec. even if only by email/phone if you can't have a meeting for each issue. We demonstrate that we are more democratic and egalitarian than mgmt.
  • Stay organised and divvy up the tasks. No one can do it all. Our secretary finds politics and debates boring but is super-organised and very helpful. Our treasurer wants to just be involved as a treasurer and UMCs. He does a good job of it. Even people who want a "smaller" commitment because they are very busy are very helpful. Be accepting of a variety of perspectives and levels of commitment in the exec and with the members. Not everyone is an activist. So it's flexible and open but still tightly organised all at the same time. In fact it's probably best to have a mix of loudmouth activists, more sane folks, organised bureaucratic types and whatever else is representative of your office. All of one type isn't as good.
  • Recruit from time to time. People come and go. You need to be able to deal with some flux.

Thanks, Robert!

Solidarity Week 3 - 22 March to 26 March

March 12th

I Deserve More!

The strike captains and picket captains in your work area are distributing a red ribbon that says "I know I deserve more". Please wear this ribbon at work during Solidarity Week 3. We want the employer to see a sea of red ribbons at every workplace. We also want to ensure that you are plugged into the strike structure and know where to find information about bargaining.


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