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 | | Silence breeds racism | Self-congratulatory complacency about rising hate is a serious problem that can lead to more “alt-right” disasters in the wake of the Brexit vote in Great Britain, the rise of Donald Trump, and rejuvenated white supremacist groups everywhere, guest speaker Nesrine Malik told delegates on Tuesday. | | | | | |
| Today's Convention Highlights | | 12:00pm - 2:00pm | | Vigil for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls | | Delegates will gather in Olympic Park to honour murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls, and offer support to their families and communities. | | | | | | | 8:00pm - 10:00pm | | Global Justice Forum | | We are witness to, and are experiencing workers being pitted against each other in Canada and around the world; unionized vs. non-unionized, white vs. racialized, permanent vs. temporary, citizen vs. (im)migrant. The global justice forum will be an opportunity to learn how workers and marginalized communities are resisting this and how CUPE members can respond and organize here in Canada. | | | | | | | And more... | | Find everything that's happening today, and where, with the online schedule. | | | | | | |
| |  | | Joanne Foote wins Grace Hartman Award | | Joanne Foote, a 30-year activist from CUPE 6095 (Hospital Employees’ Union, B.C.), is the winner of this year’s Grace Hartman Award. The award is presented to a CUPE activist who embodies the qualities and legacy of CUPE’s first woman president. | | Learn More → | | |  | | Yolanda McClean wins Ed Blackman Award | | Yolanda McClean, an activist from CUPE 4400 (City of Toronto Education Workers), is the winner of this year’s Ed Blackman Award. The award recognizes work in the pursuit of racial justice and a strong, diverse labour movement. | | Learn More → | | | | | |  | | Workers’ health and safety the bottom line, forum told | | How much money our members earn makes no difference if they don’t get back home alive, Senior Health and Safety Officer Troy Winters told the H&S Forum. | | Learn More → | | |  | | “It’s our job to care” | | CUPE Communications caught up with the leader of our United Kingdom sister union on the sidelines of convention. Margaret McKee is president of UNISON, the UK’s largest public services union with more than 1.3 million members. In a wide-ranging interview, she describes how austerity has hurt the UK’s public sector workers as it has here in Canada. | | Learn More → | | | | | | |
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