[mobglob-discuss] Re: [vancouver-activist] Fw: Follow-up | suivi :Yellow Brick House

[Graeme Bacque]

I beg to differ.

Workers should have the right to organize regardless of what field they are
employed in. And how come these staff weren't offered the opportunity to
upgrade themselves to meet the educational/language requirements, rather
than being made to suffer the punitive and destructive experience of being
stripped of their source of livelihood?

That would have been the intelligent and responsible course to pursue, but
it would seem that even within the not-for-profit sector the human beings
whose labour  makes the whole shebang run are viewed as expendable and
without inherent worth. This cavalier attitude towards human lives (and life
in general) will ultimately prove our undoing.


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Subject: [mobglob-discuss] Re: [vancouver-activist] Fw: Follow-up |
suivi :Yellow Brick House


If you all do your research, as I advised last time
the CUPE sent out a message about this issue, you
would have learnt that the CUPE is in likely in the
wrong on this issue.  The Board decided to fire
workers of the shelter if they didn't meet two
requirements: one, education (ie, not having at least
a bachelors in psychology, social work, or something
of the like), and two, not being bilingual
(considering Yellow Brick House is a shelter for
imigrant women and their children, this is a crucial
requirement).  The union refused to let the Board make
this decision, demanding that all present staff remain
employed.  Since I personally have a vested interest
into social work matters, and I don't think a union
has any right to decide how a shelter, with limited
funding, is going to do its work.  I work at a
shelter, and I think unions have no place in this
field at all.

Daryl Klassen






--- Paul Browning <pnbrown at vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "CUPE webworker" <webmaster at cupe.ca>
> To: <webmaster at cupe.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:33 AM
> Subject: Follow-up | suivi : Yellow Brick House
>
>
> (le frangais suit l'anglais)
>
> Greetings,
>
> You're getting this message because you participated
> in a CUPE online
> action in support of the women's shelter workers at
> Yellow Brick House
> in Aurora Ontario.
>
> I'm writing to ask you once again to take action
> online to support the
> 38 members of CUPE 3636, locked out since Jan. 24,
> 2004.
>
> The workers are asking the shelter's main funder,
> the Ontario Ministry
> of Community and Social Services to conduct a review
> of the agency.
>
> The agency's board has more vacant seats than filled
> ones. And those
> who sit on the board have little to do with the
> community the shelter
> servers.
>
> The reorganization plan that provoked the dispute
> has been forced on
> the shelter and its clients without any consultation
> or consideration
> of how it will affect the women it serves.
>
> Please take a second to support these women in their
> struggle to get
> back to the important work of supporting women
> survivors of domestic
> violence.
>
> We've sent 250 messages so far, let's see if we can
> make 1000.
>
> Please visit:
>
> http://cupe.ca/action/yellowbrickhouse
>
> ...and send an email. Please also pass this message
> along to anyone
> else you think would share your concerns.
>
> -----
>
> Bonjour,
>
> Ce message vous est envoyi parce que vous avez
> participi ` la campagne
> en ligne du SCFP pour appuyer les travailleuses du
> refuge pour femmes
> Yellow Brick House, ` Aurora (Ontario).
>
> Je vous icris pour vous demander encore une fois
> dagir en ligne pour
> appuyer les 38 membres de la section locale 3636 du
> SCFP, en lock-out
> depuis le 24 janvier dernier.
>
> Les travailleuses demandent au principal
> subventionnaire du refuge, le
> ministhre des Services sociaux et communautaires de
> lOntario, de faire
> un examen de lorganisme.
>
> Le conseil dadministration de lorganisme compte
> plus de sihges
> vacants que de sihges occupis. Et les membres du
> conseil
> dadministration ont peu de choses en commun avec la
> collectiviti que
> le refuge dessert.
>
> Le plan de riorganisation ` lorigine du conflit a
> iti imposi au refuge
> et ` ses clientes sans consultation et en ne tenant
> aucunement compte
> de la manihre dont il affectera la clienthle.
>
> Veuillez prendre une seconde pour appuyer ces femmes
> dans leur lutte
> pour reprendre leur travail important qui consiste `
> appuyer les
> victimes de violence conjugale.
>
> Nous avons envoyi 250 messages jusqu` maintenant,
> essayons den
> envoyer 1 000.
>
> Nous vous demandons de visiter le site ` :
>
> http://scfp.ca/action/yellowbrickhouse
>
> ... et denvoyer un courriel. Veuillez igalement
> transmettre ce message
> ` toute personne qui, selon vous, pourrait partager
> vos prioccupations.
>
> --
> the new cupe.ca - now showing on an internet near
> you
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>

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