Community Alliance For Public Education

 
Free Admission
Sunday, November 29, 2009
1 pm to 9 pm
Vimy Community Hall
3968 Gibbins Rd
Duncan BC, V9L 6G4
Dear Friends,
 
This year marks the birth of a Canada-wide film festival dedicated to Workers and their Communities. Featuring films from around the world and right here at home, this festival starts to redress the balance between corporate entertainment and the [...]

Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
 

 
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
When I wanted to add an item for discussion to the board agenda I realised for trustees there is no place to go. We must wander aimlessly through the agenda looking for refuge and find there none.
If you are the secretary treasurer or the superintendent you have your name [...]

A few short weeks ago our neighbour Archie Greenwell passed away and there was considerable note given to his contributions towards advancing the conditions we have come to expect in our workplaces. He is the embodiment of trade unionism at its most generous and forward thinking and he will be remembered for that among other [...]

The eighty tellers, insurance agents, greeters and counter staff from the four unionised branches of the Island Savings Credit Union/Island Savings Insurance (ISCU) have been on the picket line since July 12th when their employers broke off negotiations.

On July 27th – in an attempt to drive a wedge between workers and their union representatives [...]

Since their contract expired on December 31st 2000 the TWU, representing 13,700 Telus employees in BC and Alberta, have been subjected to a devious program by management meant to crush morale, subvert union support and transform the workplace. Telus has demanded the right to set aside the democratic will of workers within their unions, remove [...]