Today, May 14, 2013, is election day in British Columbia. CUPW Vancouver urges all members who are eligible to get out and vote!

The BC Elections Act states:

• “an employee who is entitled to vote in an election or who, on registration, will be entitled to vote in the election is entitled to have 4 consecutive hours free from employment during voting hours for general voting.”
• “if an individual’s hours of employment do not allow for the consecutive hours referred to in subsection (1), the individual’s employer must allow the individual time off from employment to provide those hours.” 
• “an employer must not make a deduction in pay for the time off or exact any penalty from the employee for the time off.”

Voting will take place from 8 AM to 8 PM. You are entitled to four consecutive hours to vote.

Have your voice heard, VOTE!

Barcodes on Unaddressed Admail Project

On May 3 the employer held a meeting with the Regional CUPW and some locals in which they informed us that they would be rolling out their latest program which is implementing Barcodes for Unaddressed Admail.

As usual, this initiative was conducted without any input whatsoever from workers at Canada Post. Instead it was rolled out by the “Service and Quality” department of Canada Post.

Nationally, CUPW was informed on April 8, 2013, of this project and the fact that it was to be rolled out across the country starting in early May.

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The International Day
Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO)

The first “National Day Against Homophobia” in Canada was on June 4, 2003 and was organized by Fondation Émergence in Quebec. The date was later changed to May 17th, to commemorate the day “homosexuality” was removed from the World Health Organization’s classification of diseases, in 1990.

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NOTE: Because April 28 falls on a Sunday this year, we asked Canada Post to lower all flags at half-mast and observe a minute of silence in all postal facilities and on every shift on Monday the 29^th

The Pacific Region Women’s Committee
Invites You to Submit Your Application to Attend the
32nd Annual Western Regional
Summer Institute for Union Women
Seattle, Washington
June 25, 2013 through to June 29, 2013

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