CUPE Metro will send up to 10 CUPE members to this conference.
Send an email to contactcupemetro@gmail.com to request a ticket. The first 10 request will receive a ticket via email.
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Category Archives: Solidarity
Bursary Program Launched!
Purpose:
– To support career progression and professional development
– To assist Metro locals and/or members pursuing education in their sector or profession
– To support continuing education, post-secondary, or online courses
Policy:
Five scholarships up to $1,000 awarded annually, applicable towards tuition and/or books.
Eligibility:
– Applicant must be in good standing with a local that is affiliated to Metro District Council
– Applicant may be full time, part time, or auxiliary
– The member may apply directly to Metro with an attached endorsement from an executive member from their local including contact information
– Applicant must attach proof of enrollment and/or course summary including cost
– Applications will be reviewed twice per year and must be received prior to May 31 or November 30 for consideration for that session
– Submit application via this Google Form, with supporting documents to contactcupemetro@gmail.com
Selection criteria:
Scholarships will be awarded by a committee comprised of three Metro District Council Executive members. Two of the five scholarships will be reserved for equity seeking members. Only one recipient per local will be selected per year.
CUPE 728 Red Dress event May 5
West Coast Leaf Equality Breakfast (for Dinner!)
Join us on Wednesday, March 24, 6:30-7:45 p.m., at Breakfast for Dinner, a unique virtual celebration. This is the Equality Breakfast you know and love, now in the evening and on Zoom! Join us on your own, cozied up with your household or bubble, or alongside your colleagues for a joyous and thought-provoking evening, all for a great cause.
This year, we are thrilled to present Know Us by the Stories We Tell: Imagining the Future as a Feminist Practice, a discussion featuring Kali Spitzer, photographer; El Jones, spoken word poet, educator, journalist, and community activist; and Jules Arita Koostachin, writer, performance artist, academic, and filmmaker, in conversation with CBC’s Vancouver’s Gloria Macarenko.
Read more about our panelists here.
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Time: 6:30-7:45 p.m. (virtual doors at 5:45pm)
Location: Zoom
This is West Coast LEAF’s main fundraiser of the year and your support goes directly into our work to change the laws, policies and systems that harm the most marginalized people. Together, we can co-create a society that is just, equitable, and free from discrimination.
While we will miss tucking into poached eggs and copious coffee bright and early in the lush Hotel Vancouver ballroom, we are excited to move online and be able to welcome those who are geographically distant and might not be able to attend in a typical year. Live captioning and ASL interpretation will be available.
Another bonus to holding our event virtually is that we are also going online with our beloved silent auction! You will have several days to peruse and bid on the coveted items and services you most want prior to the event, so stay tuned for more details.
We respectfully acknowledge that this event is taking place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded homelands of xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations—where many of us are settlers or uninvited guests. As we gather together, we ask you to join us in uplifting the work of Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people in resisting ongoing colonial and misogynistic violence and injustice.
International Women’s Day 2020 – event March 5th
Solidarity Statement with Wet’suwet’en
CUPE Metro Vancouver District Council is offering solidarity and support to the Wet’suwet’en Nation. Our members are committed to human rights and to the social justice principles contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and are engaged in finding ways to meaningfully respond to the 94 Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
We are troubled by the events of this past week that saw the enforcement of exclusion zones on traditional unceded territory, the forced removal of land defenders and threats to journalists. The outpouring of support across Canada for the position of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs in the form of rallies, marches, sit-ins, and blockades is a hopeful sign that people everywhere are ready for not just reconciliation but reparations, and to build a new relationship with the Indigenous Peoples of these lands.
We now have an opportunity to take the first steps in transforming and decolonizing our laws. We call on the governments of BC and Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Coastal GasLink Pipeline to respect the position of the Hereditary Chiefs and seek a peaceful resolution to the current conflict.
Rally in support of Westminster Savings Credit Union striking workers – July 5
Date: Friday, July 5, 2019
Time: 3 p.m. march; 3:45 p.m. rally
Start location: Westminster Savings Shaughnessy Station branch (2850 Shaughnessy St., Unit 6108, Port Coquitlam, B.C.)
End location: Westminster Savings Sunwood Square branch (3025 Lougheed Highway, Unit 290, Coquitlam, B.C.)
Please note that there may be some potential disruptions to traffic along Lougheed Highway from Shaughnessy St. to Westwood St. due to the size of the march. The union has worked with the local RCMP in order to minimize the impact on motorists.
Westminster Savings informed its members in June that they are planning to shut down the Shaughnessy Station branch this fall, claiming the decision is not related to the branch’s unionized status. The Shaughnessy Station branch is the only unionized branch of Westminster Savings.
Workers at the Shaughnessy Station branch, represented by MoveUP, have been on the picket line since January 22 fighting for retirement security and against their employer’s attempts to deny access to the existing defined benefit pension plan for employees hired on or after July 1, 2018. New employees at the non-unionized branches have already been affected by the change.
International Women’s Day 2019 – Richmond
Labour Day at the PNE
CUPE Metro is proud to have the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) host us this year for Labour Day in Vancouver. We will be rallying with other Unions, District Councils and the BC Fed at the Coliseum to kick off a fun day at the PNE.
We will have early entry available at Gate 6 for members to pick up wristbands.
Members must pre-register for their wristbands by contacting: contactcupemetro@gmail.com
Additional discounted wristbands and ride passes can be purchased at this link.
Rally in Support of CUPE Local 51
In support of 51 CUPE workers who have been locked out since January 2018 in Montreal, Quebec, a rally will take place:
Date: June 14, 2018
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: New Brighton Park, 93 New Brighton Road, Vancouver V5K 5J7
Meet at the crossroads of Commissioner Street and New Brighton Road, beside the overflow parking lot
All rally materials will be provided on site and a media statement will be issued June 13.
Bring your flags and show your support!
