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July General Membership Meeting

Saturday July 24 at 10am
Zoom Video/Phone Conference.

You must register in advance for this meeting. Registration Deadline: Friday July 23 @10am

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqc-6tqj0sGNx6V9Cx6eQF3pK2eZWzfui7

*Due to the information needed to be sent to participants, and the time required to authenticate registrations, all participants must register by the deadline above. *Admission to the meeting will close fifteen (15) minutes from the start of the meeting.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

AGENDA FOR THE JULY GMM:

  1.   Land Acknowledgment
  2.   Reading of new members
  3.   Reading of the previous meeting’s minutes
  4.   Business arising out of the minutes
  5.   Financials
  6.   New Business: * Notice of motion see below*
  7.   Nominations and elections:

Publications Committee (2)

8.Executive Committee Motions

9. Unfinished business

10. Correspondence

11. Executive and Committee Reports

12. Good and Welfare

13. Adjournment

In Solidarity

Anju Parmar, President

**Sign Language Interpreters have been confirmed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              sr/CUPE-3338

Notice of motion

Because the land acknowledgments have become rote, something we say, and because our National Constitution speaks to supporting Indigenous Rights.

And because, Recent uncovering (sic) at Residential Schools of Indigenous People throughout the mostly unseeded lands of Canada, The Vancouver local change their bylaws to state:

Land acknowledgments will be followed by a reading of one recommendation at each GMM from 94 Recommendations to the TRC.

 THE VANCOUVER LOCAL 846 OF CUPW WILL inform its members of the 94 Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by reading one call to action every General Membership meeting; and

THE VANCOUVER LOCAL 846 OF CUPW WILL FURTHER  amend its by-laws as follows:

  1. Land Acknowledgment
  2. Reading of one of TRC’s ninety-four Calls to Action
  3. Reading of new members
  4. Reading of the previous meeting’s minutes
  5. Business arising out of the minutes
  6. Financial Report
  7. New Business
  8. Nominations and Elections
  9. Executive Committee motions
  10.   Unfinished Business
  11. Correspondence
  12. Executive and Committee Reports
  13. Good and Welfare
  14. Adjournment