UVic Outside Workers
On May 10, 2017 at the CUPE 917 General Meeting, Steve Nixon became our newest Member-at-Large.
Steve works in the Mechanical Shop of Facilites Management. He will be representing our “Young Workers” at the upcoming National Convention in Toronto later this fall. Steve is replacing Dave Mitchell who has “retired” from the executive team.
The executive would like to welcome Steve to the fold and thank Dave for his time and effort in supporting our Local over the years.
With the CUPE BC Convention being held in Victoria again this year, several members of our local were fortunate enough to be able to attend. Attending this year were: Byron Spiers, Claude Champagne, Rosie Marykuca, Craig Marykuca, Brad Lockwood, Cory Yetman and Steve Nixon.
The annual Convention is where resolutions brought forward by BC Locals are debated and voted on. Changes to our CUPE constitution are debated and voted on as well. It is also a forum for our delegates to meet other members from Locals from all over BC and hear their stories of successes and defeats in the struggles for fair and equitable treatment from their employers and from governments.
There was a lot of work to do with over 170 resolutions eligible for debate and adoption. There were at least 6 constitutional amendments being tabled as well. Also on the agenda was the election of CUPE BC executive officers as well as Regional officers for District Councils. The Convention ran for 4 days and was well attended with over 500 delegates and alternates representing over 85000 members from Locals all across the province.
After several years of dormancy our local website is now live again!! With some help from CUPE National and their new WordPress based system we should be able to keep this site up and running with all the information our members might need.