Category: Global Justice

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Global Justice

CUPE Members with Temporary Immigration Status

The following letter and resources for CUPE members with temporary immigration status has been sent to all Manitoba Locals.

Sisters, Brothers, Friends,

On behalf of CUPE Manitoba, please share this notice with members of your Local:

ATTN: CUPE Members working with temporary immigration status/temporary work permits.

Are you an international student, on a temporary work permit, or waiting for your permanent residency application?

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Abe Araya Elected as President of CUPE Manitoba

BRANDON – Delegates at the 2019 CUPE Manitoba Convention in Brandon elected Abe Araya as President of the province’s largest union. Abe Araya comes from CUPE Local 110, representing custodians, maintenance, and painters at the Winnipeg School Division.

“Our union is focused on fighting back against cuts to health care, education, social services, and privatization,” said Araya.

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Free the girls NOW rally

We would like to invite you to the following Rally on Thursday. The Institute for International Women's Rights-Manitoba will be supporting this march from Portage Place, to the Legislative Building. We hope you can make it too.
INVITATION
We are deeply touched and solicit your support and participation alongside Winnipeg based Human Rights Activists in a Mega Protest March tagged “FREE THE GIRLS NOW” on Thursday, May 15, 2014, from 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The protest march shall begin at 391 Portage Place nearby the bus shelter and end at the Manitoba Legislative building, downtown, Winnipeg.

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Action Alert: Support Workers in Cambodia in International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day in Cambodia is closely associated with the women who make the clothes you might be wearing as you read this.  Their unions play a key role in organizing IWD events in that country.

All week the Cambodian government has been moving police and troops into position.  Tomorrow an estimated 30,000 women garment workers are expected to celebrate IWD  by attending an open-air ‘Forum on Labour Rights’ in Phnom Penh.

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Filipino Labour Activist Visits Winnipeg

The National President of the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) will be speaking at two events in Winnipeg about the struggles and challenges of the labour movement in the Philippines.

Ferdie Gaite will be speaking at Sam’s Place, 159 Henderson Highway, to Manitoba labour leaders and union members on November 1, 2013, from 7 – 10 pm.