MoveUP

On Saturday, MoveUP Executive Board Member Dawn Lentsch, along with Executive Councillors Megi and Hanna, represented our union at the CoDevelopment Canada's annual solidarity and fundraising dinner.

CoDevelopment Canada (CoDev) links unions and civil society organizations in Canada with like-minded organizations in all regions of Latin America; establishing and sustaining partnerships to build solidarity, promote mutual understanding, and create change for a more just and equitable world.

Congratulations to our members who work at Hertz YVR (incl. Dollar-Thrifty) on ratifying your new collective agreement!

The new three-year agreement includes notable wage increases which vary depending on category, significant improvements to benefits, as well as improved language for job descriptions, holiday scheduling, and union representation.

We are very proud to announce today that 172 workers at Purity Life Health Products LP have been certified to be members of MoveUP! Welcome to our union family!

Congratulations to our members working at IBEW 213 Group of Companies on ratifying your new collective agreement!

This is the beginning of one of our favourite times of the year: Pride. It’s a season to celebrate our 2SLGBTQIA+ members, family, friends and neighbours: the contributions they make to our movement and our lives, and their enduring, invaluable presence in our community.

We celebrate even as we protest, finding joy in our unity and solidarity against discrimination, fear, hate and violence. Attacks on 2SLGBTQIA+ people have escalated exponentially, and yet we begin this season full of hope and, yes, pride.

🌈 Pride in our 2SLGBTQIA+ members, and in our members who stand with them as allies.

🌈 Pride in BC’s teachers, and the work they do to make British Columbia’s classrooms safe, open and welcoming places.

🌈 Pride in seeing our province overwhelmingly reject those seeking to exploit the terrible tragedy in Tumbler Ridge to spread ignorance, hate and fear.

🌈 And pride in everyone working to turn back the tide of hate, and to continue making our communities places where all of us can live as our full selves.

We still have a long way to go, of course. Two thirds of 2SLGBTQIA+ workers in a Canadian Labour Congress report have experienced harassment and violence at work. (That’s on top of being more likely to have trouble making ends meet.) And they’re profoundly underrepresented in legislatures and elected leadership at all levels.

But that can change. And it will, if we’re willing to do what it takes.

To 2SLGBTQIA+ members, we encourage you to consider running for office. both in our movement and in local, provincial and municipal elections. And to all of our members, we hope you’ll give them your encouragement, time and support when they do.

Be sure to show up for Pride events in your community, in a spirit of celebration and solidarity. Throughout Pride month and all year round, BC’s unions are proud to stand with 2SLGBTQIA+ workers and communities here in BC and around the world.

Today, MoveUP President and COPE National President Annette Toth joined thousands of Albertans and Canadians to participate in the province-wide Day of Protest in Alberta.

Albertans are fighting back against the UCP Government. Albertans are fighting against two-tier healthcare, attacks to their constitutional rights including their right to strike, the affordability crisis, and in support of public school funding among other issues.

Our union stands in solidarity with working people and families in Alberta as they ! It is important for us to stand with Albertans today so that the attacks they are facing now don't happen to all Canadians across the country.

Learn more: https://fightbacknow.civicdeeds.com/

Today, MoveUP staff members joined many other workers at a rally in support of the members of the Greater Vancouver Regional District Employees' Union (GVRDEU) who are on strike.