Presentation by: Patricia Chong - Panel on Organizing
The focus of my speech is on organizing in the University sector, specifically addressing our collective strengths, our collective weaknesses and how to take advantage of missed opportunities. Organizing the unorganized is of course key. What I call “Re-Organizing the organized” is another important element that is overlooked. And I will touch on both of these issues in this speech. There is much work to be done but CUPE has taken positive, concrete steps toward organizing in the University Sector. Specifically, I am referring to The Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee’s Organizing Proposal that was endorsed by CUPE. In the introduction of the proposal, the OUWCC calls this plan “ambitious, aggressive and achievable” and I completely agree. It is a step in the right direction for CUPE.