http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress Welcome! Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:02:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The strike/lockout of 2007 and 2008 made history for Local 410, and indeed for the Capital area community at large, since there has never before been an extended strike of Library workers in Victoria region. This blog formed a major part of our strategy for communicating to the public, and as ... http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=60 The energy, creativity, and leadership shown by Library workers and so many members of the public during the recent lockout has succeeded, the ten year overdue promise has been delivered, and Library workers in Victoria and lower Vancouver Island ... http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=59 Everyone is encouraged to join the rally in support of locked out library workers on Saturday March 8. Meet at Centennial Square at 1:45 pm and join the walk to the legislature. There will be activities for children at Centennial Square as well. It's International Women's Day, and what better way to ... http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=57 GVLRA representatives have been saying through various media outlets and personal communications that the jobs in the library aren't comparable to ones at city hall. They are ignoring their own history. Pay equity is "equal pay for work of equal value", and that's what we are asking for here. That's what ... http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=55 An editorial appeared in the local weeklies of Black Press on February 20. Titled Lock out missing voice of local leadership, the editorial challenges politicians to take responsibility for resolving the labour dispute. Here is part of the editorial, with our italics added: The essence of the disagreement has to ... http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=54 A report from 2005 on the CUPE National Web site, titled "Read it and weep" observes that "When a community loses its library, it loses a chunk of its soul. It’s knowing this that makes CUPE’s library workers show up at their jobs every day, in spite of the risks and ... http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=53 We learned today that CUPE Local 410 workers will be locked out by our employer, the Greater Victoria Public Library Board.  The Greater Victoria Labour Relations Association met this morning and voted in favour of the lockout, which will begin Sunday February 17 or possibly Monday the eighteenth. http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=52 It's hard to believe, but we are going into week 22 of our continuing strike action, and have been nearly thirteen and a half months without a collective agreement. The current plan is to talk to politicians. One of the difficulties is that many of them refuse to meet with us, ... http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=51 Disputes are only finally settled by negotiations. Successful negotiations can only happen between equals. By threatening individual members of our bargaining unit with discipline for taking a legal strike action, and by refusing to even address at the bargaining table the very serious concerns raised by Library workers, the Library Board ... http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=50 January 1, 2008, marked the first anniversary of the expiry of our collective agreement. After a full year without a contract, the Greater Victoria Labour Relations Association, and the Municipal politicians who run it continue to show contempt for Library workers by refusing to even talk to us about important ... http://www.cupe410.ca/wordpress/?p=49