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General Events Calendar in html format: Updated July 20, 2010

RALLY in SOLIDARITY with

UNITEHERE Local 40

Thursday, July 22, 2010
5:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Vancouver
655 Burrard Street
(between Hastings & Cordova)
 
Join hotel workers across North America in a historic protest against global hotel
corporations.  In 14 cities including Vancouver, hotel workers will be demonstrating
their unity and their determination to fight for respect in an industry dominated by
wealthy multinational companies that continue cutting jobs and trying to squeeze
more from workers

MORE INFO
or call 604 473 4815

Update on Oplan Sagip Bayan
Disaster Response

VDLC pays homage to peace activist
Kinuko Laskey

The Vancouver and District Labour Council has been working for the past few years to erect a memorial honouring peace activist Kinuko Laskey. The official unveiling of the finished memorial erected at Seaforth Peace Park took place on Saturday, October 24, 2009.

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Newsworthy

Philippines Bloody for Unionists, But Invest There Says Ottawa: Canada's government is too quiet on abuses say human rights advocates. By Tom Sandborn writing in TheTyee.ca

Why is Canada's government promoting the Philippines as a prime place to invest, even as workers in that nation face abduction, torture and death for trying to organize unions?  
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

David Chudnovsky is the 2009 recipient of the VDLC's
Syd Thompson Labour Community Service Award
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PRESS RELEASES:

VDLC Endorsed Candidates Fare Well in Municipal Elections

YOUNG WORKERS SAY “We Can’t Live on $8.00 per hour”
Rally in front of Gordon Campbell's office
on Saturday, February 16th. Read More

Editorial on Canada's role in Afghanistan by CLC President Ken Georgetti

Calculating a Living Wage for Vancouver

The VDLC congratulates their partner in education,
Queen Alexandra Elementary School
on their Centennial: 1908–2008
http://queenalexandra.vsb.bc.ca/

VDLC opposes the closure and sale of the Queen Elizabeth School Annex

"a bad precedent says labour council"

VDLC Presentation to Vancouver School Board
on the proposed closure and sale of Queen
Elizabethe School Annex.
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