CUPE 716 Richmond School District
Welcome to CUPE Local 716, Richmond School Board Employee's Union. We represent approximately 1000 support workers in School District #38
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CUPE BC Supports the Walk to Cure Diabetes
TELUS Walk 2012
The
annual TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes unites communities across Canada to
raise funds to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes. The TELUS Walk
is an outdoor celebration where families, friends and organizations can
raise funds and awareness and make a difference in the lives of over
300,000 Canadians living with type 1 diabetes.
JDRF’s signature fundraising event, the TELUS Walk raised over $7.5 million in 2011, thanks to the incredible efforts of participants, sponsors and volunteers.
In 2012, JDRF, with your support, is targetting to raise $7.9 million through the TELUS Walk, directing more funds to research than ever before! To exceed our goal, we need your support! Here’s how you can join us:
- Participate in a Walk in your community! Register, raise a suggested minimum fundraising amount of $100 and show your spirit on event day!
- Pledge a participant (search for your friend, colleague or family member), and show them your support of their efforts!
- Make a general donation to support the 2012 TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes.
K-12 Committee
The K-12 committee deals with issues specific to the K-12 schools sector.
Purpose of the K-12 Committee To promote education workers in general as a real part of a strong community and to promote CUPE BC programs.
For more information check out K-12 Sector
Terms of Reference
To represent nine areas of BC including the Northwest, Northeast, East Kootenays, West Kootenays, Okanagan, Fraser Valley, Greater Vancouver, Vancouver Island North, Vancouver Island South and include representatives of District Councils.
The committee will include one person from the Special Education Task Force to liaise with the K-12 Committee.
The committee will communicate primarily by conference call, as needed. Two meetings per year – early Spring and early Fall – will provide face to face communications for the committee.
Primary reporting vehicle will be a bulletin. In addition, the committee will report annually to the CUPE BC convention.
Research, communications and servicing representatives will be involved in the committee to ensure that no duplication of information takes place and that there is a complete exchange of information between different groups.
Members of the committee are:
Taylor, Debbie - Chair, Local 723
Marsolais, Marcel - Co-Chair, Local 409
Beattie, Dee - Local 728
Blair, Susan - Local 2098
Charley, Edie - Local 459
Craddock, Andrea - Local 723
Farino, Ronald - Local 606
Franklin, Leslie - Local 703
Kaiser, June - Local 716
Kent, Brad - Local 4653
MacLeod, Cherryl - Local 1285
Prouse, Lorraine - Local 3742
Robertson, Florence - Local 4177
Taylor, Sandi - Local 4177
Trenaman, A. Dale - Local 1851
Van Berkel, Jose - Local 523
Malcolmson, John - Staff Representative
Zander, Susan - Staff Representative
Anti Contracting Out Committee
This committee works to protect services in BC communities by monitoring attempts by employers to contract out and privatize CUPE jobs. The committee raises awareness in locals about privatization and contracting out issues and encourages locals to negotiate language to protect public services in collective agreements.
McQueen, Cindy - Chair, Local 389
Cunningham, Gerry - Co-Chair Local 7000
Albrecht, Paul - Local 403
Friesen, Gord - Local 716
Harrison, Lorena - Local 900
Jones, Maria - Local 2309
Lakes, Donna-Lee - Local 1267
Lance, David - Local 116
Oetting, Louise - Local 2081
Rutledge, Bea M. - Local 2403
White, W. Clay - Local 389
Wong, Karen - Local 3742
Magnus, Zoe - Staff Representative
Reynolds, Keith - Staff Representative
Rose, Kevin - Staff Representative
For information and resources go to our Keep it Public campaign page.
The International Centre for Trade Union Rights
New 2012 edition of ICTUR world map on trade union rights
In 2012 ICTUR's world map on trade union rights gives a uniquely accessible insight into some of the complex trends and problems that face workers and trade unionists around the world. You can access the full version online here.
A full size A1 wall poster this map looks great on an office wall or it can be a real help with facts and figures for your union education, legal or research department.
Taking respect for human rights law as a starting point the map shows ratification of international conventions on trade union rights and flags up the most serious violations of these conventions, including murders and arrests.
For a more complete picture the map also examines regional profiles and highlights trends around trade union rights in each of five geographic regions.
ICTUR's map is now in its 4th edition.
You can still access the 2010 and 2006 maps online for information about child labour, forced labour, and equality at work.
Calling All CUPE 716 Local Members
Our local
needs some good people to get together and come up with a plan that will
give us the opportunity to strengthen our ties to our community, and
positively increase the public’s perception of unionized workers.
Are
you aware of a child in our school system who would like to participate
in sports, but doesn't have the funds? Are you willing to share some of
your time giving back to our community? Can you flip some pancakes or
serve some soup to families less fortunate than us?
The goal of this
still to be a named committee would be to have unionized workers seen in
a more positive light. Too often we are only noticed when on strike,
being disruptive, demanding etc.
I truly believe that we are a very
caring, committed group of hard working people that deserve to be seen
as such. It is our responsibility to make it happen. If you would like
to help contact me, Tim Bakker at: tbakker@sd38.bc.ca (Tim Bakker on
RichNet)
The Must Read on BC Schools You Won't Like
UVic historian of education paints a bleak political picture, and blames all sides.
View full article and comments: http://thetyee.ca/Books/2012/01/03/BC-Schools-Must-Read/
- Worlds Apart: British Columbia Schools, Politics, and Labour Relations Before and After 1972
- Bendall Books (2011)
Just about everyone with an interest in B.C. schools will have to read this book -- parents, teachers, trustees, administrators, politicians, the media. None of them are going to like it.
That's because Thomas Fleming, a professor emeritus at UVic, has studied our schools for many years; he knows the system we set up back in 1849. He knows how it's changed, not always for the better. With energetic impartiality, he finds fault with teachers, trustees, civil servants, and politicians, especially since the first NDP government took power 40 years ago.
From his earlier books and articles, I was familiar with his thesis: B.C. education had been effectively nonpolitical from 1872 until 1972. A handful of dedicated ministry officials had run the schools in an "imperial" style from Victoria, while sending equally dedicated inspectors out to make sure the system was running well. Those inspectors were often veterans of rural and urban schools who had risen through the ranks.
Everyone knew everyone. Disputes were a matter of internal arguments between old-fashioned supporters of class-based schools and those who supported John Dewey's progressive new ideas. Provincial governments let the ministry carry on without political interference.
I had first considered this a little too utopian a vision, but in this book Fleming makes a fuller and more persuasive case. The school system was a patchwork of hundreds of local schools, run by local boards. They had no expertise in education; they just wanted their children to be able to read and write and do sums. While scattered over a vast area, the number of pupils and teachers was small: in 1872, the new province with almost a million square kilometres had just 1,700 students.
Moreover, it was a system in which completion of Grade 8 was a notable achievement, and only a small percentage even tried to go on to high school.
Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
Social media made free labour of us all, and now grocers are catching on. I quit.
View full article and comments: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/02/03/Shadow-Workers/
I was reminded of the old term "shadow work" recently, when a pleasant woman came bustling up to me in a Saturday grocery line-up and interrupted my weekly read of trashy celeb mags. Like cheerful veal on-the-hoof, I followed her to a newly opened till, or so I thought. It turned out she was leading me to the euphemistically named "self-serve" checkouts that I've been avoiding for years.
"Let me show you how to use this," the assistant manager said enthusiastically.
"No thanks, I'm not interested in learning to be a cashier," I replied. "Well, not unless you plan to compensate me for my labour. What do you offer people as a discount for ringing-up their own groceries?"
She looked confused. So I explained my economic reasoning. This grocery store is a publicly traded corporation that over-prices its goods, which I tolerate on the understanding that they employ people at a reasonable wage. Well, that, and they have a near-monopoly status in my neighbourhood unless I want to drive to get groceries, which I emphatically do not.
So if I consent to ringing up the groceries myself, not only am I robbing someone of a job, I'm creating financial incentive for this corporation to find new ways to bully me into subsidizing them.
Personally, I plan to hold that line as long as possible.
As she rang up my groceries for me at the misnamed self-serve checkout, I contemplated how companies off-loading labour onto their customers is nothing new, but it has taken a horrifying new turn courtesy of the Internet. Philosopher Ivan Illich dubbed it shadow work in the 1970s, when the no-service gas pump was followed quickly by the no-service banking machine and a host of other dishonestly named self-serve enterprises. But no one could have anticipated our gullibility in allowing social media to turn us all into corporate slaves who labour for free, because we're somehow duped into thinking it's "fun."
Welcome to CUPE's B.C. K-12 Presidents' Council
The B.C. K-12 Presidents’ Council includes 55 CUPE locals representing staff in school districts throughout British Columbia. Our website contains news, resources and research that it will be a useful resource for CUPE locals and members and for others who may be interested in the B.C. public school system.
The K-12 committee deals with issues specific to the K-12 schools sector.
Purpose of the K-12 Committee To promote education workers in general as a real part of a strong community and to promote CUPE BC programs.
read the latest newsWelcome School District No. 38 CUPE Employee to the Public Education Benefits Trust website
The Public Education Benefits Trust (PEBT) offers a comprehensive benefits package to participating eligible employees as negotiated between School Districts and Local unions. The benefits provided through the PEBT Benefits Program are a major part of your total compensation. The program includes a government funded Core Long Term Disability (LTD) plan for Bill-7 School Districts in British Columbia, a Joint Early Intervention Service (JEIS) for disabled employees, as well as extended health, dental, life, and if applicable at your School District, accidental death & dismemberment insurance and/or additional disability insurance to help maintain your family's health and financial security.
Depending on your School District, you may also be eligible to choose to increase your protection by purchasing optional life insurance and/or accident insurance for yourself and/or your spouse and dependent children.
This website is your primary source for information about the PEBT Benefits Program. https://www.pebt.ca/ms/en/default.asp
If you have questions about your benefits program, contact the Benefits Administrator at your School District.
Duty to accommodate
The MORE Campaign
The MORE We Get Together is a resource to further the understanding of issues that impact on lives of people with disabilities ‐ most importantly, the duty to accommodate.
The duty to accommodate falls upon employers, unions and workers to work together to accommodate the worker to the point of undue hardship. Employers and unions must be proactive and inclusive. Unions can now have more input in the workplace as a result of court decisions and collective bargaining.
This manual is a tool for union organisers and negotiators, disabled activists and their organisations, individuals with disabilities and their allies to advance issues of people with disabilities. It provides union and community activists working with people with disabilities, a comprehensive review of disability rights and collective bargaining provisions that impact on conditions of workers with disabilities. While some advancement is evident, most people with disabilities continue to face numerous obstacles to their full participation in the paid labour force. This manual is a resource for change.
The manual discusses key disability issues in the workplace. General information is in the body of the manual and more detailed information is in the Appendices.
Download the manual in PDF format or in Word format