Next Meeting: Friday, May 18th at 3pm

Our next PAC meeting is this Friday! We’ll be meeting at 3pm in the CUPE office (Wentworth House B108).

Items on the agenda include donations and upcoming projects/organizing. The positions of secretary and treasurer are also available if anyone is interested. There is also a small honorarium attached to each position. Please contact politicalaction@cupe3906.org if you’re interested, or would like more info about the responsibilities of the positions.

We’ll also be grabbing some food together, so hope to see you there.

Next PAC Meeting: Thursday, March 22 @ 3:00PM

Meet at the CUPE Office (Wentworth B108).

All are welcome! 

Next PAC Meeting: Thursday, March 8th @ 3pm

As always, we’ll meet in the CUPE Office (Wentworth B108).

All welcome!

PAC Meeting Rescheduled for THIS Friday

Monday’s meeting has been rescheduled for THIS Friday, Feb. 17th at 3:00PM. 

As always, we’ll meet in the CUPE Office (Wentworth B108).

Hope to see you there.

Next PAC Meeting: Monday, February 13th @ 3pm

CUPE Office, Wentworth B108

We’ll be discussing donations requests, the PAC honoraria, and upcoming events.

All are welcome!

in soli?: A panel, open discussion and social event about what it means to be “in solidarity”

The Political Action Committee of CUPE 3906 would like to invite you to:

in soli?: A panel, open discussion and social event about what it means to be “in solidarity”

When: Thursday February 2nd, 7-9pm

Where: Artword Artbar, 15 Colbourne Street (at James N.  & Colbourne)

Cost: Free!

As a key catch-phrase for activists within and beyond organized labour, ‘in solidarity’ is often taken as a self-evident and non-contentious statement. This event aims to unpack this phrase by talking more about how we think about and practically approach ‘solidarity’ work. We will be hearing thoughts from community activists in Hamilton on how they approach being ‘in solidarity’ with others in the work that they do. Panelists’ experiences span topics such as: anti-poverty support, labour organizing, Indigenous solidarity and mobilizing against community injustice broadly defined. We hope the event can generate collective discussion and self-reflection on our various strategies and the overlaps and/or tensions that might exist between different forms of solidarity.

Panelists include: Alex, Niki, Jamila, Michelle and Holly

and

the artwork of Roberto Lavidez will be on display for the evening

Alex has been a workplace and community organizer in Hamilton since 2007. He currently organizes with Steel City Solidarity, a direct action, anti-wage theft workers’ group based out of CUPE 3906.

Niki is an anarchist anthropologist, working on her PhD at York University.  She’s been involved in solidarity organizing with Six Nations for the past five years.

Jamilé Ghaddar is a Canadian of Lebanese descent, a long-time community organizer and anti-war activist and also works in support of political prisoners.

Holly is currently involved in supporting survivors of sexual assault and intimate violence, police accountability, and community support.

There will be a cash bar and menu with light homemade meals available for purchase.

This event is free and open to all.

We hope to see you there!

Any questions, please contact: politicalaction@cupe3906.org

Link to our event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/280160285377666/

Next PAC Meeting Thursday Dec 8th @4pm

CUPE Office, Wentworth B108

On the agenda will be our elections for our new pac chair.

All Welcome!

Stop Wage Theft! Discussion/Strategization Mini-Workshop

Monday, December 5 @ the Jamesville Community Centre, 209 MacNab Street North

Folks from the Worker’s Action Centre (Toronto) and Steel City
Solidarity (Hamilton) will be converging on Jamesville Community
Centre on Monday, December 5th from 7:30PM – 9PM to discuss their
strategies & experiences in standing alongside precarious and low-wage
workers in their fight for fair wages…

WORKER’S ACTION CENTRE

The Workers’ Action Centre is a worker-based organization committed to
improving the lives and working conditions of people in low-wage and
unstable employment. The Centre provides information and education to
enable workers to organize for change.

Our work is guided by these principles:

– maximum involvement of the people affected,
– developing leadership among workers,
– shared learning, and
– action for change

www.workersactioncentre.org
Like the event on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/117581191688730/

PAC stands in solidarity with G20 Conspiracy Defendants

The Political Action Committee of CUPE 3906 stands in solidarity with our friends and allies who have faced these spurious charges over the past months, and with all who have struggled against forceful silencing and the criminalization of dissent.  We believe these charges represent broader political attacks and we extend our deepest appreciation to those charged for all the difficult choices they have had to make and the care with which they have done so.
The events of the past year and a half have shown again what many of us have seen repeatedly and in other forms – that there is endemic violence in the state system of (dis)order and that justice is something that needs to be claimed directly and daily, but also that there is much work that continues and will continue to be done to challenge oppression and exploitation, and to build just ways of living together.
We thank those who have faced these charges for sharing their thoughtful words and for reminding us that the costs of our struggles are not borne in equal ways.  We also want to take the opportunity to echo their sentiments of support for those for whom state violences and criminalizations are a daily reality and a daily struggle.
Indeed, we will meet again and anew to continue these struggles.
In solidarity,
Political Action Committee, CUPE 3906

To see the group statement by 17 people charged with conspiracy during the G20 regarding a plea deal, please see the following link:
http://conspiretoresist.wordpress.com/

If you would like to issue a solidarity statement in support, please email
toronto.g20resist@gmail.com

Next PAC Meeting Tues. Nov 1st @5pm, CUPE Office

All Welcome!

We’ll be putting together some thoughts on projects to get going for the year, so come share your ideas!