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Solidarity Events
Think Public Campaign Prairies Region - Summer 2008
June 19 Day of Action Activities across Manitoba
17 Wing UNDE Members with Sister Dale Buck |
Members enjoying a Pork on a bun at Library Park |
Sisters Robyn Benson & Jacqueline Chartrand address Agriculture Members about TB bargaining updates |
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Sisters Deanna Kimball, Robyn Benson, Jocelyne Poirier & Pat Davis |
Sisters Deanna Kimball & Pat Davis |
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Signing the Show Your Support banner at the Passport office |
June 19 Day of Action hits the Emerson Border, MB
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Information Picket line up at the border |
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Former CEUDA Branch President Bill Paolini talking to an American driver |
Brother Dominic serving up burgers for the hungry members |
Trucks backed up for over 1 km at Emerson border crossing |
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June 19 Day of Action taking place in Lethbridge, ABPSAC Members take to the sidewalk outside Rick Casson, MP for Lethbridge constituency office |
MP's office during action |
24 members show their disgust |
Messages for the MP |
Peanuts returned |
June 19th Day of Action for Treasury Board members
from Southern Saskatchewan
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Nearly 200 PSAC members turned out to support their bargaining team and enjoy a hotdog. Bargaining Team members Michele Coe and Steve VanOpstal gave updates on happenins at the bargaining tables. Members showed support by signing a banner for the bargaining teams, sending postcards to their MP and wearing I support my bargining team bracelets and stickers. |
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Aproximatey 140 PSAC Members and supporters gathered in Estevan to enjoy a BBQ, sign banners for the bargaining team and send post cards to their MP. |
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Think Public Campaign - Canada Day July 1st Wascana Park, Regina, SK. |
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Sisters Tanya Galenzoski, Connie Gress, PSAC Staff Sister Barb Fayant "no time to properly set up, kids saw and the helium tank... and we were off to a great start !!" |
Think Public Canada Day Team " working hard on getting those balloons out on the Legislative grounds." |
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Post Tsunami Rehabilitation & Child Labour Schools Projects in IndiaPSAC as a partner in a CLC Canadian delegation to India |
I would like to preface my report with my sincerest thanks to PSAC Social Justice Fund and Sisters Louise Casselman and Robyn Benson for recommending my name for the delegation.
PSAC provided me with this incredible learning experience and opportunity to be part of the international solidarity work across the oceans. It was an amazing ten days spent with other union brothers and sisters from Canada and our union partners in India who are undertaking the groundwork– Andra Pradesh Viyavasaya Vruthidarula Union (APVVU). We also met with the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), and affiliates of Building and Wood Workers International (BWI), who are managing the initiatives on ending child labour in India. We also visited some NGO's, e.g. Sahanivasa and Forum For Women's Rights And Development (FORWORD).
We were a delegation of ten members, representing CLC staff and affiliates - PSAC, Canadian Auto Workers, Steel Workers International. PSAC was represented by Brother Mike Wing (president UCTE), Raj Dhir (National Vice President for Human Rights, National Component) and Sister Monika Duggal (PSAC staff). Needless to say that many of us came back transformed in some way or another, and were touched by the lives of people that we came to visit and know.
In Solidarity
Raj Dhir