For more information and schedule visit:
http://cupe3906.org/internationalconference/
Register for FREE:
http://international-students-workers.eventbrite.ca
For more information and schedule visit:
http://cupe3906.org/internationalconference/
Register for FREE:
http://international-students-workers.eventbrite.ca
This is a publicly fund project to help relief Mental Health issues at the university, it includes several workshops where you can participate:
All of our programming is confidential and in no way connected to either the student record or the health record unless the student requests it to be. For more information email arriveandthrive@mcmaster.ca or check their website: http://arriveandthrive.ca/
Save the Date
Monday, 11th of April 2016
For more information and schedule visit: http://wp.me/P5iRLY-2Nq
As you well know international students and workers face many of challenges and injustices in their intersecting roles as students, employees, immigrants and travelers.
You will have the opportunity to hear first hand experiences of the following issues:
Unjust tuition fees increase
Unjust access to health care
Mental health issues
Political rights
Immigration accounts
Money planning
Successful international student stories
Save the date and get involved in the Hamilton and Mcmaster international community
For any questions contact: vicepresident@cupe3906.org or politicalaction@cupe3906.org
The Criminalization of Poverty – Race, Poverty, and Policing in Hamilton
Wednesday March 9th1:30-3:00pm | ITB 139Recent debates in Hamilton around police carding and the ongoing ticketing and removal of people in the downtown core have drawn new focus to the long-standing criminalization of poverty. This event aims to bring these debates to McMaster, touching on issues such as carding (or street checks), gentrification, and police targeting of sex workers, low income residents, and aboriginal people. Through a panel discussion with academics and activists, we hope to raise awareness of the ways poverty and race become criminalized in everyday practice. Speakers will discuss both the broad issues at stake and the specific community campaigns under way challenging the status quo.
Speakers includeDr. Ameil Joseph, professor in the Social Work department at McMaster and co-founder of the new anti-racism centre in Hamilton.Kayonne Christy, member of McMaster Womanists and has led efforts against carding in Hamilton.Yvonne Maracle, Speak Now and De dwa da dehs nye Aboriginal Health Centreand more…This event is co-sponsored by the McMaster Community Poverty Initiative, OPIRG McMaster, and the President’s Advisory Committee on Building and Inclusive Community (PACBIC)
Are you a great TA/RA? Of course you are! Do you know someone else who is a great one as well? Of course you do!
the 2016 CUEP 3906 TA/RA award is open to all CUPE 3906 Unit 1 members (Graduate and Undergraduate TAs and RAs in lieu). Members may be nominated by their students, employment supervisors (supervising Professor) or other
TAs.
Successful candidates will receive a certificate recognizing their excellence, a letter of acknowledgement from the CUPE 3906 Executive Committee, a copy of this form as well as $200.00.
There will be a total of six awards given, one for each faculty listed below. Please fill out all applicable fields and deliver this form in person to the CUPE 3906 office (B111 Kenneth Taylor Hall) or via email to chiefsteward_tas@cupe3906.org before March 18th, 2016. Awards will be given out during our April GMM (date TBA)!
The nomination form is available here: http://cupe3906.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/501/2016/02/TAAward.NominationForm.pdf
CUPE 3906 ANNOUNCES THE TENTH ANNUAL MIKE SKINNER ACTIVIST AWARD!
The Mike Skinner Activist Award is a member-mandated award offered by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3906 on an annual basis. Its title honours long-time labour activist and former CUPE 3906 Staff Member Mike Skinner.
CUPE 3906 represents roughly 3 000 Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants (in lieu), Sessional Faculty, Hourly Rated Sessional Music Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellows at McMaster University each academic year.
The value of this year’s award is $500 to one person (or committee), an award certificate and an inscription on the Mike Skinner Activist Award plaque. This award is open to all current members of CUPE 3906 (this includes all Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants in lieu, Sessional Faculty, Hourly Rated Sessional Music Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellows), and anyone who has been a member of the local within the past 12 months.
The nomination period for this award is from February 1st, 2016 to March 18th, 2016.
If a suitable candidate has been active in your organization or department, or if you have seen a suitable candidate around campus or the in community, we invite you to nominate them for this award.
Specifically, the recipient of the Mike Skinner Activist Award may have been involved in the following possible issues over the course of his or her stay at McMaster University:
This is not an exhaustive list, but includes a few common examples of the things that past award winners have been involved in and that the selection committee considers.
Award Criteria:
Please review the award criteria, and, when writing your letter of nomination and seeking supporting letters from others, include the nominee’s specific contributions. The main criterions are:
The selection committee is comprised of members of the CUPE 3906 executive and members-at-large. Members of the selection committee cannot nominate a candidate. Members of the selection committee cannot nominate a candidate. Members of the selection committee who have personal ties with the nominees must yield their place to another member of the Executive or a CUPE member-at-large nominated by the members of the selection committee.
This year’s Activist Awards will be presented at the Annual General Meeting in late March or early April, 2016.
We look forward to receiving your nomination of an amazing CUPE 3906 member activist.
The nomination for is available here: http://cupe3906.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/501/2016/02/mike-skinner-activist-award-call-out-2016.docx
For further information please contact president@cupe3906.org or staff@cupe3906.org
Just a heads up, we’ll be in the Mills library entrance from 10:30 to 3:30 with bargaining surveys for TAs/RAs in lieu and post-docs for our upcoming negotiations. We hope to see you there. This is an important way to make sure that your voice and priorities and reflected in the bargaining process.