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CUPE researcher Cheryl Stadnichuk at the People’s Summit of the Americas in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, with Dora Martinez of ATE, the health care union in Argentina Harminder Magon, national equality branch staff, represented the CLC and CUPE at an ILO meeting on labour migration in Geneva in November 2005. Kathleen Corrigan, HEU/CUPE research staff, attended a meeting of the PSI health issues committee in Geneva in May 2006. In February 2006, Anne Didier-Floyd, national research and job evaluation staff member, provided training on behalf of the PSI at a job evaluation workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. Floyd and representatives from Kenyan unions met with the ministers of the regional and local governments. A major breakthrough was celebrated when the regional government agreed to change the existing job evaluation process, which had been undertaken without consulting the unions. The unions will now be able to review materials and comment on them. The government also agreed the process would not be implemented without the unions’ support. The local government also agreed to a joint job evaluation process. Stan Marshall represented CUPE at the UNISON health sector conference in the U.K. in April 2006. In November 2005, Janice Folk-Dawson of CUPE 1334, Frank Ventresca of CUPE 4156 and CUPE National research staff Margot Young and Paul O’Donnell represented CUPE on an Ontario Federation of Labour P3 exchange with unions fighting privatization in Britain. Peter Barnacle, a legal and legislative representative in Saskatchewan, participates with our support in the International Commission for Labour Rights (ICLR), a not-for-profit agency of labour lawyers around the world who investigate labour rights, with a focus on Colombia. 18 C U P E ’ S W O R K O N I N T E R N AT I O N A L S O L I D A R I T Y • 2 0 0 6
Coming events • World Urban Forum, Vancouver, June 19-23, 2006 • World Peace Forum, Vancouver, June 23-28, 2006 • Workers Out International Conference, Montreal Outgames, July 26-29, 2006 • International HIV-AIDS Conference, Toronto Labour Forum, Aug. 13-18, 2006 • International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Unions merger convention, Vienna, Austria, November 2006 • World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya, Jan. 20-25, 2007 • World Congress of PSI, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 24-28, 2007 CUPE advocacy We are proud to lend our union’s name and influence to a variety of international lobbying and advocacy initiatives. We continue to lobby the government of Canada to increase its international aid contribution to 0.07 per cent of gross domestic product. As members of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, we endorse “Make Poverty History”, an international campaign on debt, trade, and poverty to pressure governments to live up to their commitments. We speak out constantly against mistreatment of workers throughout the world. We share petitions and encourage our members to support such initiatives. We support our sisters and brothers in other organizations and movements to which we are aligned. cope 491 C A N A D I A N U N I O N O F P U B L I C E M P L O Y E E S 19
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