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At its last membership meeting, UNIFOR members adopted a resolution to strike a working group whose mandate will be to examine, identify and propose ways of improving work-life balance for our members who are parents or who have legal guardianship of children. 

It has been many years since the labour movement obtained gains around childcare and family care.  It is time to reflect on our lives as workers and as individuals with child raising responsibilities in order to find better ways of supporting these roles. 

Please contact Johanne Labine if you would like to contribute to this ad-hoc working group.

Local 2025’s collective agreement with USGE expires at the end of April.

Elected bargaining team members Elaine Ouimet and Melanie McCormick are working on consolidating all the demands submitted by members. Once that work is completed, meetings will be scheduled during which members in the unit will have an opportunity to review the package of proposed demands, make any necessary changes and agree to the demands that will be presented at the bargaining table.

The Local’s Unifor representative Michelle Arruda will serve notice to bargain at the appropriate time and will lead the negotiations. Local 2025 president Rachel Besharah will also be on the bargaining team.

New vice-president joins the executive

Our new vice-president for the regions is Lesley Thompson. Originally hired by PSAC as a political/communications assistant to the Atlantic regional executive vice-president, Lesley is now working as a regional education officer in the Halifax office.

Speakers at the Canadian Council 2014 included Quebec director Michel Ouimet, CLC president Hassan Yussuff, actor and activist Danny Glover, and author and activist Linda McQuaig.