CUPE BC UPDATES GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS & RESOURCES

NYSHN & WEA | Resources for Indigenous, Queer, Youth & Environmental Justice:                You Are Made of Medicine is a new mental health peer support manual for 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous youth, composed by the Native Youth Sexual Health Network and available in full online. The NYSHN also frequently collaborates with the Women’s Earth Alliance, and in 2016, they published Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies together, a collection of stories from lived experience towards building an Indigenous response to environmental violence. Read the report here.

Yellowhead Institute | Reporting on Indigenous issues in Canada:             Yellowhead Institute  an Indigenous-led research and education centre at Toronto Metropolitan University, publishes in-depth articles oriented to Indigenous philosophy, amplifying Indigenous voices to provide alternatives to settler colonialism in Canada today.Read this week’s in-depth analysis of the extent to which Canada has responded to Call to Action #93

BC-CHSF | LunchLAB Video:    This is a historic year for school meal funding in BC, with the 2023-24 budget issuing funding for all school districts in the province with the Feeding Futures program. In the wake of the success of their ongoing campaign, members of the BC Coalition for Healthy School Foods were recently featured in the CBC Vancouver short film Getting an Audible Education. View here.

Local Representation | Barriers Project Report:          Local Representations is a partnership between The Feminist Campaign School and Climate Caucus to investigate systemic barriers to women’s participation as leaders in local government structures in British Columbia and Alberta. Research results from 2021 to date are available in a full report with recommendations here.

Tonight’s Membership Meeting Link

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Sep 20, 2023 06:30 PM Vancouver

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpdu-sqjkuE9b8GHWTv00Uu8cIA7gh6Hz-

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

CUPE BC Updates:

CCDI Consulting | Cultural Sensitivity in Action Webinar | Sep 20Angèle Lalonde of the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion consulting group will lead Inclusive Leadership Through a Cultural Competence Lens: Part 1, to explore intercultural communication skills and showcase inclusive leadership in an era of diversity. Registration is free.        Date & Time: Sep 20, 2023 | 10:00am (Pacific).          Registration: Click here

CCDI Consulting will also be hosting the 2nd and 3rd part of their Indigenous Inclusion webinar series this fall.

ILWU 400 | Solidarity with Tugboat Workers

Send a letter to Port of Vancouver interim president Victor Pang to advocate for ILWU 400 members’ wages and working conditions. Now that the previous CEO has stepped down after having supported predatory companies’ Port of Vancouver contracts, the new leadership needs to be held accountable to ensure sure tugboat workers aren’t left behind.

Lancaster House | Fall Webinar Series | Sep 28-Dec 7Six labour relations courses are available from Toronton Metropolitan University’s Lancaster House this fall:

Truth and Reconciliation at Work

Thursday, Sep 28 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm (Eastern)

Protecting Mental Health in Remote and Hybrid Workplaces

Thursday, Oct 12 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm (Eastern)
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the CMHA in honour of World Mental Health Day

   
The Latest in Workers’ Compensation
Thursday, Oct 26 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm (Eastern)
Lancaster’s Workplace Essentials: Employee absenteeism

Tuesday, Nov 7 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm (Eastern)

   
Focus on the Federal Sector

Tuesday, Nov 21 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm (Eastern)

Hired, Fired, and Everything In Between
Thursday, Dec 7 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm (Eastern)

Invite to all members of 1936

JOIN US
Monthly Hybrid Membership Meeting on
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

This will be a Hybrid Meeting

–  meaning you can join in person at 6222 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby
(RSVP required to bway1936@gmail.com)
– Join via Zoom (see link below) Registration is required by clicking the Zoom link

 
**  Make sure you register or RSVP by September 19th and attend the meeting to be eligible for the prizes. **
We will be providing updates, unit reports & committee reports, etc.

Looking forward to seeing you in person or on Zoom. 
Please post on the union bulletin boards at your worksite and let others know.

ZOOM LINK

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Sep 20, 2023, 06:30 PM Vancouver

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpdu-sqjkuE9b8GHWTv00Uu8cIA7gh6Hz-

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Meeting ID.   824 1644 2492
Passcode.    072788

Today, August 31, is International Overdose Awareness Day. 

The opioid epidemic has become a mass poisoning crisis that affects everyone in the WISH community. Too many lives have been lost.

It’s incredibly difficult to express how deeply this impacts the community we serve. The consequences of inaction in the face of this crisis are seen and felt at WISH every single day.

To recognize #IOAD, participants and staff will gather to support each other as we struggle to understand these preventable tragedies. We will take a moment to build connections, discuss harm reduction, and share thoughts on what the day means to each of us as we remember those we have lost.

Stand with us as we combat stigma, meet people where they are, and do everything we can to prevent death by overdose.

You can learn more about overdose on the International Overdose Awareness Day website.

And please consider attending We Keep Us Alive – an event happening at Oppenheimer Park from 1-6pm today – organized by the Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War (CPDDW), the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), and the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS).

 

OCRCC & Ikake Rising | Justice & Regeneration Toolkit

Social justice consulting group Ikake Rising, in collaboration with the OCRCC initiative BIPOC Feminist Counsellors Coalition Building Project, offer a lengthy educational toolkit for supportive counselling from an anti-racism, anti-oppression & intersectional feminist lens, towards dismantling systemic inequities faced by BIPOC counsellors in the sexual assault support services sector. Download Healing Our Ancestor, Healing Ourselves and Our Communities here.

Resilience BC | Anti-Racism Tools

An extensive compilation of multi-media educational materials and informational resources are collected under different categories in Resilience BC’s Anti-Racism Tools online for anyone wishing to get more knowledge and join the struggle. View digital coursework, visit informative websites, browse recommended book lists, access free film and documentary content, or listen to audio on racial injustice, and how to combat it.