• Aboriginal workers, women, racialized workers, workers with a disability and LGBT workers experience marginalization in the workplace and a strategy is needed to develop their representation and ensure their rights; and • CUPE must continue to be on the forefront of winning and enshrining equality rights for all.
BECAUSE: • Our union needs to develop strategies to ensure that CUPE workplaces reflect the demographics of the community, particularly in urban centres where racialized workers live; and • Representative workforce agreements in Saskatchewan have dramatically increased the workforce participation rate of Aboriginal Peoples as well as the retention rate and we must build on this success in other urban centres; and • Aboriginal workers, women, racialized workers, workers with a disability and LGBT workers experience marginalization in the workplace and a strategy is needed to develop their representation and ensure their rights; and • CUPE must continue to be on the forefront of winning and enshrining equality rights for all.
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Resolution No. 71 Submitted by CUPE Ontario, Locals 1281, 4600 (Ont.) CUPE NATIONAL WILL: 1.
Organize a national employment equity/ representative workforce conference to be held in 2010 to bring together members to set goals, develop strategies and develop an ongoing network that will advance employment equity throughoutthe union; and
2.
Update the Bargaining Equality binder and develop other employment equity resources for-this conference; and
3.
Provide resources and supports to allow diverse members and members from smaller locals to attend the conference.
NEB decision - COVERED BY SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION 901
Resolution No. 70 Submitted by Local 500 (Man.) CUPE NATIONAL WILL: 1.
Organize a national employment equity/ representative workforce conference to be held in 2010, in Saskatchewan, to bring together members to set goals, develop strategies and develop an ongoing network that will advance employment equity throughout the union; and
2.
Update the Bargaining Equality binder and develop other employment equity resources for this conference; and
3.
Provide resources and supports to allow diverse members and members from smaller locals to attend the conference.
BECAUSE: • Our union needs to develop strategies to ensure that CUPE workplaces reflect the demographics of the community, particularly in urban centres where racialized workers live; and • Representative workforce agreements in Saskatchewan have dramatically increased the workforce participation rate of First Peoples as well as the retention rate and we must build on this success in other urban centres; and • Aboriginal workers, racialized workers, workers with a disability, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered workers experience margin-alization in the workplace and a strategy is needed to develop their representation and ensure their rights; and • CUPE must continue to be on the forefront of winning and enshrining equality rights for all.
BECAUSE: • Our union needs to develop strategies to ensure that CUPE workplaces reflect the demographics of the community, particularly in urban centres where racialized workers live; and • Representative workforce agreements in Saskatchewan have dramatically increased the workforce participation rate of Aboriginal/First Nations Peoples as well as the retention rate and we must build on this success in other urban centres; and
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