CUPE Manitoba is proud to recognize the week of September 29th – October 4th, 2024, as School Support Staff Recognition Week. This important week acknowledges the value of School Support Staff to our education system.
During this important week, we will be celebrating the important contributions of School Support Staff in keeping our schools safer and clean, getting children and youth to school safely and on time, keeping our schools running, shelves stocked with books, and helping our children and youth learn, grow, and succeed.
While we take the time to celebrate School Support Staff this week, we also recognize the importance of continuing to call on the Provincial Government with School Division Locals to prioritize treating all School Support Staff equitably and with respect.
Our work together through the School Division Sector Council helps us work harder to ensure fairness in the workplace, fairness at the bargaining table, and achieve stronger contracts to ensure equity, wages, defined benefit pensions are prioritized throughout Manitoba. This in turn will create a more inclusive, safer, and better education system for everyone.
To recognize the 2024 School Support Workers Recognition Week in Manitoba this year, CUPE Manitoba is highlighting
the following actions:
1 – CUPE Manitoba’s “Light the Night for School Support Workers” on
October 1, 2024, where the Esplanade Riel Bridge and WINNIPEG sign at the Forks will be lit “CUPE pink” in recognition of School Support Workers.
If you are able, we encourage all to visit this remarkable show of CUPE pink lights, snap a few photos, and tag ‘CUPE Manitoba’ on social media to share your pictures!
2 – CUPE Manitoba launches a School Support Staff Recognition Week Radio Ad to be played all throughout Manitoba where CUPE Support Workers work.
Check back on September 29th to listen to the Radio Ad that encourages communities to “thank your School Support Staff” and reminding Manitobans that CUPE members are the pillars of our K – 12 school system.
3 – School Support Staff Recognition Week Proclamation:
CUPE Manitoba made an official request to the Minister of Education & Early Childhood Learning to have School Support Staff Recognition Week proclaimed by the Manitoba Government.
We are pleased to share the official Proclamation in both French & English, available by download, by clicking here:
Lastly, if you have not done so already, please consider registering for the 2024 School Division Sector Conference being held in Brandon, Manitoba – Treaty 2 on October 4th, 2024.
Highlights include: Executive Elections, an update on the CUPE K-12 education workplace violence member survey, Health & Safety keynote presentation, greetings from CUPE Manitoba, updates from your MSBA Pension Trustees, and more!
Registration will close Friday, September 27th, 2024.
Solidarity/é!