The summer 2005 edition of Organize magazine is now available. Contact your local to get your copy.
Editorial
Meeting our employers: we need to be where they are with our ideas
Frontline
Making poverty history; CUPE members win literacy awards; Web courses; Marie Clarke Walker wins second term as CLC VP; CALM awards; Organizing through diversity; Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives turns 25.
CUPE across Canada
Big win for Cape Breton school board workers; New CUPE NS president Danny Cavanagh; Ontario community living workers join forces for better conditions; Fighting private trash collection in Winnipeg; B.C. election round-up; CUPE and AUPE clash in Lethbridge; Keeping transit public in Quebec; Exploring N.B.’s labour history; CUPE NB knows the meaning of “we are one”.
Cultural Revolution
What’s new in books and film.
From the National Secretary-Treasurer
Money in, money out!
Features
Five years in hell
When Montreal educator Alvin Gibbs was falsely labelled a child molester, CUPE stuck by him. Now that he’s been cleared, the union is helping him rebuild his life.
By Robert Bellerose
Cover Story: City Limits
Across the country, CUPE members are trying to rebuild strong communities. Will Ottawa’s New Deal for Cities be a help or a hinderance?
By Karin Jordan and David Robbins
Read it and weep
From low pay to dangerous patrons, it’s not easy being a public library worker in Canada.
By Barry Doyle