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- The following are highlights of the tentative agreement reached with the employer on April 3rd, 2012 by your CAW Local 2000 Collective Bargaining Committee. Your bargaining committee wishes to thank the membership for their support during this difficult and lengthy process. Your Bargaining Committee unanimously recommends acceptance of this tentative agreement, which protects the vast [...]
- Your CAW Local 2000 Collective Bargaining Committee is pleased to announce that a tentative agreement has been reached with the employer. Your bargaining committee wishes to thank the members of our union for their unwavering support during this difficult and lengthy process. Detailed information will be shared at the following membership meetings: April 9th – Toronto [...]
- After a brief delay, a conciliator was appointed to our collective bargaining sessions with the company last week. It is expected that our next round of negotiations will be during the first week of March. An additional update will be sent once those dates have been confirmed and further updates will follow throughout the course [...]
- CAW Economist Jim Stanford and CAW Local 2000 President Dylan Gadwa will address the City of Toronto’s Executive Committee Tuesday, January 24 as they deliberate a resolution requesting the provincial government to offer the city an exemption from the proposed Canada-EU free trade deal. Stanford, a former member of the City of Toronto’s independent fiscal [...]
- Brothers and Sisters, I wanted to take a moment to update our membership on progress with several issues that the union has been pursuing. Each of them has involved a great deal of time spent by your Local Union Executive Board, our CAW National Rep and in several cases, members of the CAW Legal Team [...]
- Your CAW Local 2000 Collective Bargaining Committee will be meeting next week in preparation for our upcoming round of negotiations. Members of the CAW Local 2000 Collective Bargaining Committee are : · Yasmina Saad – Eastern Region VP · Luc Delparte – Central Region VP · Frank Lachner - Western Region VP · Jacqueline Seguin – Eastern Region · Ian Cameron – Central Region · Darren [...]
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About our Standing Committees
Last Updated on Saturday, 3 September 2011 10:13 Written by President Monday, 25 July 2011 10:32
The following are descriptions of the Local’s Standing Committees that all members are encouraged to participate in. Our Local Union bylaws allow for committee members appointed by the Local Union Executive Board. Members of all Standing Committees will elect or otherwise designate their own Chairperson.
For more information on starting a committee, please contact a Steward or Local Union Executive Board member. Training is available and will be provided to committee members who request it via the CAW PEL Centre.
- Education – Work together with Local Union leadership to promote the various educational opportunities available to the membership. Additionally, the committee may also help determine and plan for the Local’s future educational requirements.
- Environment – Promotes environmental awareness and acts upon issues in our workplaces and the community. The CAW Policy Paper on the Environment is used as a foundation and framework to help guide the committee.
- Union in Politics (UPC) – Encourages members to participate in all levels of political life and strengthen democracy. Committee members work together with the Local Union leadership and the CAW National Office in researching and acting on issues spanning all levels of the political sphere.
- Health and Safety – This committee works in accordance with the appropriate legislation. They may also sit on the committee jointly with representatives of the company.
- Recreation – Plans, organizes and promotes leisure and recreational activities within the Local Union with an aim to strengthen solidarity throughout the local, regional and national membership.
- Community Services – Plans and acts on important social needs and issues within our local and regional communities. Often, this committee works together with the Recreation Committee to plan and organize activities.
- Human Rights – Works to promote a culture for human rights in our workplace and society by developing policies for the union which will promote and act upon.
- Pride (LGBT) – Works to identify and work on issues of particular concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered members in the Local increase participation of the LGBT community in our union.
- Women’s – The overall purpose of the committee is to identify and work on issues of particular concern to women in our union.; To encourage women to run for elected positions and participate in the various Committees within our Union; To help build women’s rights in our workplaces and the community at large.
