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2018 Year in Review!

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with Sarah and Shelley at the Memorial March As I continue on this incredibly unpredictable path in the labour movement, looking back on 2018 gives me some time to reflect on the past year. It was also the year of a lot of "firsts" without my dad, which is still weird. Last year, I committed to write more about the things I attend, mostly for me so I can look back and remember what happened over the course of the year. So without further ado - here was my 2018! January With members of the first AUCE 1 bargaining committee Italian Film Festival  - I saw 6 films at the IFF. It was a great way to connect me to my dad as I was getting used to life without him. I was pleasantly surprised how good the movies were. I will be attending this year's festival starting this weekend - I have 6 tickets booked this time as well. Forza Italia! City on Edge Exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver - this was an exhibit about the history of protest in the city of Vancouver. The

Migrant Workers Organizing for the Future Conference

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Members of the Migrant Workers Centre at their AGM last weekend. A few weeks ago my friend Susanna contacted me to see if I could bring greetings on behalf of CUPE BC at the Migrant Workers Centre (MWC) AGM. Formerly the West Coast Domestic Workers' Association, I knew this group was heavily involved in legal assistance and advocacy for temporary foreign workers (TFWs), admittedly a file I don't really know much about but I was intrigued by the invitation. Once everything went through the proper channels, I was in and looking forward to hearing more about their work and how our organizations could work together.  So, I showed up and brought greetings. I talked about the natural alignment of values between the work our union does and the work they do. T he labour movement isn't just about organized labour, it's about all workers. CUPE BC delegates passed a resolution at our convention earlier this year that called on the union to advocate for TFWs and to build re

CUPE National Sector Conference - Day 3 - Sector Priorities and Jagmeet Singh

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Homestretch! We spent the morning in our sectors concluding our meetings. After a quick debrief by the room we were ready to head back into plenary to hear back from all of the sectors and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. One by one the sectors shared their top priorities, so in random order: Education address chronic underfunding and workload issues create a national campaign against privatization to highlight work in the school sector tools and resources for locals to deal with ineffective managers and employers (whatever that means) Library countering austerity - tackling precarious work, staffless libraries, underfunding and the use of volunteers  health and safety - library workers' roles in the opioid crisis, and violence in the workplace mental health in the workplac Healthcare strategies and tools to deal with workplace attendance management programs workload health and safety - violence in the workplace - prevention and lobbying for further protections