Dear Sisters and Brothers,
You are cordially invited to the press conference for the launch of “Who Cares?”, a CUPE campaign for Community Care Services (CCS).
What are Community Care Services? They are vital services that are not yet under any public administration such as home support, group homes, transition houses and special care homes. More than 10 000 individuals work in this sector, most of whom are women in precarious jobs.
The Who Cares? Campaign has three major goals:
1. Recognition of the value of these services;
2. Improve and standardize working conditions for workers in the sector; and
3. End the fragmentation of services and administration by bringing CCS under public administration.
The campaign launch will be presented by the current campaign spokesperson, Julie Doucet, a member of CUPE Local 3179. At the conference, Sister Doucet will be flanked by the campaign steering committee composed of Thérèse Duguay (Local 4598), Romana Sehic (Local 3884), Josée Mallais (Local 4598) and Betty Jo Hunter (Local 3210).
DATE: September 12, 2016
PLACE: Fredericton Inn, Room C (downstairs)
1315 Regent St, Fredericton, NB
TIME: 11:30 AM to 12:15 AM
For more information, feel free to contact Wendy Johnston, campaign coordinator, via email at wjohnston@cupe.ca or toll-free phone number 1-888-458-2873, or consult the campaign’s Facebook page : www.facebook.com/WhoCaresQuiCompte
This is great and about time as long as the home support companies doesn't decide to fire the girls/guys who decide to join the union.My wife was just recently fired from Kindred Home care out of St.Stephen for posting a picture a year and a half ago.With the union involvement she (my wife) would have had some form of protection from an unjust firing according to employment standards.
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