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The Spring education seminars for the Pacific Region will be held at Harrison Hot Springs Resort. The courses will run from Thursday, May 2 – 5, 2024. The following courses are being offered:

Basic Shop Steward

This course aims to provide new Stewards with basic training, knowledge, and confidence. Topics include the different roles of the Steward, how to investigate and file a grievance, communication skills, Shop Steward rights, the Steward as Organizer/Mobilizer, and key provisions of the RSMC and Urban Collective Agreements. *Note this course is for new Stewards  

Strike Prep

This course is aimed at mobilizing the membership during the rounds of negotiation as well as preparing for and conducting a strike. Many CUPW members have never been on strike. The last round of bargaining in 2018 has seen us utilize the strategy of rotating strikes before being unjustly force back to work by a prejudicial legislation made by the liberal government. There is a lot to be learned from previous strikes while also being aware of present circumstances. The course objectives are:

 To have a general understanding of the strike process

 To build support for the negotiating committee

 To develop communication strategies for mobilization and involvement of the membership

 To develop ways to involve the community and allies.

 To prepare for the administration and execution of local strike activity

*Note this course is for a member of the Local Executive Committee or the appointed Strike Coordinator. 

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On the morning of Monday, February 26^th, just as the SSD restructure was commencing at the North Vancouver Delivery Depot (Harbour), workers at the Capilano Delivery Centre gathered outside their depot to make our message clear to the corporation: SSD is not a working condition we are willing to accept! This was a grassroots solidarity demonstration organized by and for the workers, highlighting the fact that Canada Post has not and never has had any real intention of implementing the Deerfoot Model anywhere else in the country since plowing ahead with SSD restructures nationwide.

Thank you to all the workers at Capilano Delivery Centre for standing against SSD!

In Solidarity,

Jamie McCurrach, 1st Vice President

 

 

Name	Position
Lisa Quattrocchi	1
Rakesh Vashisht	2
Neerjha Bhatara	3
Salome Yusi	4
Anil Khanna	5
Navneet Dhillon	6
Jolanta Phunal	7

March 8 (Friday)		Advance Poll (Union Hall)	7:30 AM	–	5:00 PM
March 10(Sunday)		Pacific Processing Centre (PPC)	5:00 AM	–		8:30 PM
March 11 (Monday)		Station G	7:00 AM	–	9:30 AM
		Pacific Center	10:15 AM	–	10:30 AM
		Royal & Bentall Centers	10:45 AM	–	11:30 AM
		Wickets & Main Office Boxes	11:45 AM		12:30 PM
		Glen Drive	1:00 PM	–	2:00 PM
		Station D (Retail)	2:30 PM	–	2:45 PM
March 12 (Tuesday)		Pacific International Facility (PIF)	9:00 PM	–	10:15 PM
March 12 (Tuesday)		LCD 1 & 2	7:30 AM	–	3:00 PM
		Station F NBDC	7:30 AM 7:30 AM	– –	11:30 AM 12:45 PM
		CDC	7:30AM	–	1:30 PM
		NVDC (Harbour)	7:30 AM	–	1:30 PM
		West Van Retail	11:30 AM	–	12:00 PM
March 12 (Tuesday)		PPC & MSCs	Starts 11:15 PM Tuesday, March 12
			Ends   `1:00 AM Thursday, March 14
March 13 (Wednesday)		SVDC	7:30 AM	–	2:30 PM
		RDC	7:30 AM	–	11:45 AM
		Richmond Retail	12:00 PM	–	12:30 PM
March 14 (Thursday)		North Fraser Delivery Depot	7:30 AM	–	12:00 PM
		BBY 3	7:30 AM		11:00 AM
March 15 (Friday)		Post Poll (Union Hall)	7:30 AM	–	12:00 PM

Michael Seney Balloting Committee Chair	Nikki Gill Balloting Committee C0-Chair

 

Working at Canada Post many CUPW members will suffer from a Repetitive strain injury (RSI). Repetitive Strain

injuries is described as a painful condition that affects many areas of the body. Muscles, tendons, joints and nerves in the neck, chest, shoulders, arms and hands and the back.

The nature of our Job at Canada Post requires the continuous repetition of movements that are a major contributing factor of Reparative Strain Injuries. Pushing, pulling, gripping, holding, lifting, reaching and twisting as well as awkward body postures and also fixed body positions increase the risk.

*Canadian Center for Occupational Health and safety (CCOHS)

What are the Symptoms?

• PAIN!
• Joint stiffness
• Muscle tightness
• Redness and swelling of the area
• Numbness or pins and needles
• Skin colour changes and decreased sweating of the hands

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Nominations have now closed for the following positions on the Local.

 Executive Committee:

1^st Vice President

Joseph Henderson McCance

Jamie McCurrach

Secretary Treasurer

Kevin Biggs

Enrique Silvano

Health & Safety Director

Adrian Chow

Robyn Mann

John Tweed

Executive Shop Steward Internal PPC/Wickets Shift 2

Neerja Bhatara

Sukhwinder (Tony) Phunal

                                                      Nominated and Acclaimed

                                                              Part Time Officers:

3^rd Vice President

Bryan Schuck

Table officers:

Education Director

Michael Seney

Organizing Director

Kat Poch

Executive Shop Steward Internal PPC/PIFF/Wickets Shift 3

Helen De Guzman

Executive Shop Steward External LC (2 positions)

Martin Kosik

Lisa Quattrocchi

 Executive Shop Steward External MSC

Surinder Kumar

The schedule for the 2024 annual election will be presented in a future bulletin. Congratulations to those acclaimed to a position and good luck to those nominated.

In Solidarity, 

Anju Parmar, President

 

Josiah Henson

Josiah Henson, spiritual leader and author, was born into enslavement in Maryland, USA. He escaped to Dresden, Upper Canada and founded The Dawn Settlement – a place for enslavement refugees to obtain self-sufficiency. In 1842, he purchased 200 acres of land and opened the British-American Institute, one of Canada’s first trade-labour schools.

Sleeping Car Porters | Africville Genealogical Society

Labour unions originally barred Black workers from taking membership, therefore they created their own. In 1917, John A. Robinson, J.W. Barber, B.F. Jones and P. White, Black porters based in Winnipeg, formed the Order of Sleeping Car Porters (OSCP), the first Black railway union in North America.

Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees

In 1919, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Canada’s first Black labour union, joined the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees (CBRE), forcing them to remove the “Whites-only” clause from its constitution

Carrie Best

Carrie Best was co-founder of The Clarion, one of the first newspapers in Canada to be owned and published by Black Canadians. She was an avid human rights activist and used her newspaper to speak out about Black rights. In 1941, her and son James Calbert Best (who would later help found PSAC) purchased a ticket at the Roseland Theatre and would sit in the “whites only” section in protest. When they were asked to leave and refused, police were called and she was charged with disturbing the peace. She would take legal action against the theatre and later on would use The Clarion to help publicize the same treatment given to Viola Desmond 5 years later.

Stanley Grizzle

In the 1940s, labour activist Stanley Grizzle, a local president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, fought for the right for porters to have name cards so white passengers would stop calling the mainly Black porters “George” or “boy”. He also pushed the Canadian Pacific Railway to open management ranks to Black workers. Grizzle went on to become a public service worker, politician, citizenship judge, and recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, who fought against anti-Black racism

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