Summer Fun Highlights

Welcome back Members,🍂💙

We’ve put our flip-flops away, said goodbye to our last sunset at the beach, locked up the cabins, and made those last summer memories. Most importantly, we hope you took some well-deserved time for yourselves and created new memories with family and friends.

We’re heading into the new year with a lot to be proud of. We successfully ratified our new Collective Agreement, and we want to recognize and thank our Bargaining Committee—Shamus Halvorsen, Irene Shoemaker, Jill Allen, and Ari Silver—for all their hard work and dedication.

We also still have our Labour Market Adjustments coming this fall, and our bargaining units are in the middle of finalizing their collective agreements. There is lots happening within Cupe Local 561!

As we move into a new year, we’re excited about the changes ahead and about continuing to move our Local in a new and exciting direction. We’re looking forward to growing the number of education opportunities available to our members, expanding our programs, and creating more opportunities for everyone to get involved.

We also have some exciting events planned for both children and adults, with our Christmas events, and we can’t wait to share those with you in the months ahead.

As you reconnect with your colleagues and perhaps meet some new ones, take a moment to say hello to someone you don’t know. Try something new. Sign up for an education opportunity. Expand your horizons. You never know what new experience or connection may come from it!

We look forward to seeing you, hearing from you, and continuing to build our Union together.

Thank you for everything you do for our members and for our Union.

Here’s to a great new year ahead! 💙🍂

In solidarity,

Lisa Mayoh
President

 

 

 

 

CUPE 561 acknowledges that our province of British Columbia is located on the homelands of 203 distinct Indigenous Nations and cultures; with over 30 different languages and close to 60 unique dialects spoken in the province. We ask all of our members to reflect, acknowledge and honour in their own way the First Nations land on which they live work and play.

We respectfully acknowledge the traditional and unceded territory of the following Nations; Coast Salish,  kʷikʷəƛ̓əmᓪ(Kwikwetklem) , Stó:lo, sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh),  Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), Métis, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), the Semá:th and Mathxwí  and Inuit First Nations, in which our Local is able to operate. We recognize, honour and respect the presence of Indigenous people, past, present and future.