All members in good standing are invited to apply for any course they have not participated in before. The courses on offer this April and May are:
1) CUPW And You! (1 day) - Intro to unionism.
2) Taking Back Our Workfloor (1 day) - Activist & organizer training.
3) Basic Shop Steward (3 day) - your first steps as a union advocate.
4) Advanced Shop Steward (5 day) - refining your steward skills.
Join Women for Rights and Empowerment for their upcoming International Women's Day events!
(photo by Paula Kirman)
All EMPP Shift 3 members are invited to attend a forum discussing how we can all work together to strengthen union solidarity on Shift 3 for the benefit and protection of all members.
As per the direction given by our CUPW National Executive, locals can hold GMMs via video conference as long as quorum is met and all participants have registered with all the required information by the specified deadline. For our full virtual GMM guidelines, please see the accompanying post.
In this dispatch:
1) "Freedom Convoy" & CUPW Organizing Analysis
2) Local Newsletter - February 2022
3) Delivering Community Power
Highlights for this edition: - President's Report: Hindsight 2021 / Make a difference by getting involved / The "multi-injury program" is not a program / No Relief comic - The Initiative, Part 2
The crisis of purpose facing CUPW can be solved by returning to the fundamentals of true unionism: leadership must do everything it can to develop and nurture the organizing capacity of our membership, and our membership must go about growing our own organizing capacity whether supported by our leadership or not.
As per the direction given by our CUPW National Executive, locals can hold GMMs via video conference as long as quorum is met and all participants have registered with all the required information by the specified deadline. For our full virtual GMM guidelines, please see the accompanying post.