[LabComm] URGENT: ILO campaign update and next steps

[Ron Verzuh]

HI Roseanne! Sorry I had to miss the meeting. I don't see a problem with
CUPE BC being a participant in the campaign (phase 2). Will let you know if
there is one. In the meantime, I'm sure Stephen will call if he needs any
help. Cheers! R.

Ron Verzuh
CUPE Communications
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604-828-7668 (cell)
604-291-1194 fax

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: labcomm-bounces at bcfed.net [mailto:labcomm-bounces at bcfed.net]On
Behalf Of Roseanne Moran
  Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:02 PM
  To: LabComm at bcfed.net; kmackinnon at bctf.ca; Mary.Rowles at bcgeu.ca; CAROL
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  Subject: [LabComm] URGENT: ILO campaign update and next steps


  Hello to everyone. On July 3 we had a small, but productive meeting of
those labour communicators who were interested in discussing how to wind up
our LabourStart ILO campaign and what our next steps should be.  The urgency
of this message is to let you take a look at the news release and get sign
on if possible.. read on.



  At our meeting, we agreed to recommend the following strategy to our
unions. We will need to confirm the strategy in a more formal way and I will
ask Stephen Howard to take that on over the next month while I am on
holidays if that is okay.



  We agreed that we would end the LabourStart campaign on the ILO with the
issuing of a news release. Dileep Athaide from CIEA will be the nominal
spokesperson but as you will see from the attached news release, the message
is a pretty universal one. We agreed that given that BC is now hosting the
Olympics, we had a hook that we can use to close out "phase one" of the
campaign. We had a discussion about who the "group" issuing the news release
will be, as there has been no real formality about the labourstart campaign.
As you will see from the draft release, we hope to be able to list some
unions at the bottom. The unions we know are part of the campaign are BCNU,
HEU, CUPE and CIEA as we were part of the labourstart workshop that put it
together. Please let me know asap if we can say that your union is part of
the labourstart campaign. If we can't get something firm the release will
work around it. That news release is scheduled to go out on Wednesday.



  In terms of next steps, we agreed that we would recommend that our unions
(again - who exactly?) would launch a web page on labour day as phase two of
the campaign and that the webpage would focus on the BC government's poor
track record on labour-related issues. We talked about the following: Health
and Safety (Bonnie will write something); ILO and the suite of legislation;
women's issues - with a focus on the international report and child labour.
Stephen and Roseanne will write up the webpage and send it around to the
labour communicators if we get the okay to go forward on this initiative. We
are looking into whether LabourStart has the capacity to host a webpage if
we so choose.



  I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible, hopefully with a
note that your union can be described as participating in the campaign.



  Until then,



  Roseanne.





  PS. Kathleen MacKinnon of the BCTF has let me know that the Globe and Mail
will be covering the issue of child labour in its career section this
weekend. The reporter is Gwendolyn Richards and her number is 604 631-6668
if anyone would like to talk with her.













  Roseanne Moran, CIEA Communications & Policy

  CIEA's new address is 400-550 W.6th Ave.,

  Vancouver V5Z 1A1

  Phone 604 873-8988


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