Title: May GMM
Location: DH-136
Description: Please come out and join us for our March General Membership Meeting. As always, there will be pizza.
To find out what items are included on the agenda, please contact the CUPE office.
Start Time: 17:30
Date: 2010-05-12
There are a bunch of events happening in and around southern Ontario to commemorate May Day, the International Workers Day.
Hamilton
Here in Hamilton there are two events to take part in:
Toronto
For CUPE 3906 members living closer to Toronto and looking for ways to participate there are two events:
QUEEN’S PARK – TORONTO
Saturday, June 26 @ 1:00 p.m.
March ends at Trinity Bellwoods Park (Queen Street West @ Trinity Drive)
WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT?
The G8 & G20 Summits taking place in Ontario from June 25-27 offer Canadians a rare opportunity to speak out on priorities that the world’s most wealthy and powerful nations should adopt on economic recovery, environment, human rights, decent jobs, and social justice. Decisions taken by the G8 & G20 governments impact on millions of lives in Canada and around the world.
Join us on June 26. Show the world that Canadians still share the dream of a better world for everyone.
Email ontario@clc-ctc.ca or call 416-441-3710 for more information.
Council of Canadians, Greenpeace, Oxfam Canada, Ontario Federation of Labour, Canadian Labour Congress
Written by Malissa Phung
Dr. Juliet Daniel has been organizing an on-campus event, Visions of Science Outreach, for Saturday, May 29, 2010. This day-long program of activities and talks aims at inspiring and motivating underprivileged youths in Hamilton to learn more about science and hopefully to work towards careers in science in the future. If you are interested in volunteering with the set-up of the program, please email Dr. Juliet Daniel at danielj@mcmaster.ca.
Title: Unit 2 Special GMM
Location: Divinity College Room 136
Description: We will be holding a Special General Membership Meeting for Sessional
Faculty & Sessional Music Faculty on Thursday, April 15th at 5:00pm in
Divinity College room 136.
The SGMM will be a relatively short meeting including a Bargaining Team
report and an important discussion on our Bargaining Priorities
document.
We hope to see you at this very important meeting.
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2010-04-15
Claiming a Home Office on your taxes
The University has acknowledged that Sessional Faculty are eligible, in certain circumstances, to have “Declaration of Conditions of Employment – T2200” forms filled out on your behalf when you’re filing your income tax return.
T2200 forms are filled out by Employers to confirm that individuals have employment-related expenses that they can deduct when they file tax returns. The most common reason Sessional Faculty would have for claiming under this provision, would be the existence of home office.
Certain conditions apply to be able claim a home office:Read More
The first issue of a new magazine created and edited by our own 3906 members is now available! Pick up your copy in the union office or download it here:
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Title: Worker’s Memorial Day
Description: Meet at the flag polls on campus.
The event is to recognize and remember workers who have been injured or killed at work. Please come out to this short lunch time event.
Start Time: 12:30
Date: 2010-04-28
Written by Malissa Phung
March 21, 2010 marked the 50th year anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre when sixty nine South Africans were killed by the police for peacefully protesting against the apartheid “pass laws.” The apartheid government passed legislation that forced coloured and black South Africans to carry passbooks for racial identification, a daily process of surveillance and racialization that restricted and segregated their geographical mobility, place of residence, and labour conditions on the basis of race. This day has since been declared by the United Nations General Assembly to be the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in order to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre and to mobilize a global effort of struggle against racism and discrimination.
On March 21, 2010, Gary McHale and his followers in Caledonia attempted to co-opt this day and organize a so-called “Anti-Racist Rally,” in order to claim that white residents in Caledonia are the victims of “reverse racism” at the hands of people from Six Nations and the provincial government. Some of us from CUPE 3906 joined the CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group to protest McHale’s so-called “Anti-Racist Rally,” effectively transforming his rally into a peaceful demonstration that fostered a productive dialogue with the remaining Caledonia residents: as a result, McHale’s “reverse racism” arguments were debunked.
If you would like more information about the contentious topic of “reverse racism” or about the rally in Caledonia, check out the following blog links:
Blog posting that addresses the probematic discourses of some white anti-racists: http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/why-i-hate-white-anti-racists/
CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group: http://3903fnswg.wordpress.com/
And this link to their blog to showcase the ways in which they redeploy the discourse of anti-racism and anti-oppression to protect their white privilege and colonial land claims: http://voiceofcanada.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/join-merlyn-kinrades-anti-racism-rally-in-caledonia-on-march-2110/
Malissa
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