Saturday July 23rd
Gage Park
Noon-11pm
Free food, kids rides & live music!
No pets or coolers.
For more info email info@uswa1005.ca.
Jun 162011
The nation-wide Canada Post lockout will affect the processing and delivery of your benefits in a variety of ways. Please read the following post carefully.
Equitable Life will continue to process Unit 1 (TA and RA in lieu) and Unit 3 (Post-doc) dental claims. The Prosure group will continue to process Unit 2 benefit claims and Unit 1 childcare. Both Equitable Life and Prosure have agreed to send benefits cheques to CUPE 3906 via courier. These cheques can be picked up at the CUPE 3906 office in the basement of Wentworth Hall.
We will try to notify members by email if a cheque is available for pick up. Members who are expecting a cheque are encouraged to email their up to date contact info to the benefits officer, Rebecca Strung, at benefits@cupe3906.org.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has indicated that there is a lot of mail in the system that will not be delivered. This means that benefits claims might be held up on route to Equitable life or Prosure. It also means that benefits cheques that were already mailed out may be stuck in the system. Members who recently submitted a claim should thus expect long delays. Inquiries about the status of a benefits claim should be directed to the benefits officer at benefits@cupe3906.org.
Please note that Unit 1 vision care and UHIP claims are being held until the end of August and will not be affected by the Canada Post lockout. Click here for more information.
Please feel free to contact Rebecca at benefits@cupe3906.org or the CUPE office if you have any questions or concerns about how the Canada Post lockout will affect your benefits.
May 182011
May 28th at 8pm
This Ain’t Hollywood
$5 or PWYC – ALL AGES
RESIST against a culture in which rape is far too common – one in three Canadian women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime.
REFUSE to participate in victim blaming and woman hating.
REBEL against the idea that women can’t rock out.
Apr 092011
We wish to inform our membership that Staff Representative Nancy MacBain will have limited availability for the next three and a half weeks because she is running as a federal candidate in Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale.
For more info on her platform and the other candidates running in the riding, as well as the national vote boycott campaign, please see the following links:
David Sweet – Conservative
Dave Braden – Liberal
Nancy MacBain – NDP
Peter Ormand – Green
Jamilé Ghaddar – Marxist-Leninist
Anthony Giles – Libertarian
National Vote Boycott Campaign
This message does not constitute an endorsement of the Nancy MacBain campaign, or any other political candidate running for office in this or any other riding.
Apr 072011
Meaghan Ross accepts the 2011 Mike Skinner Activist Award from her nominator (and last year's recipient) Alex Diceanu.
Congratulations to Meaghan Ross who was awarded the 2011 Mike Skinner Activist Award at the AGM on April 6th.
Meaghan, a former member of the CUPE 3906 Executive, was nominated for her tireless activist work as a member of numerous groups around Hamilton including, but by no means limited to: Steel City Solidarity, Big Susie’s, The Skydragon Centre, Common Cause, and the Unit 1 Bargaining Team for the upcoming round of negotiations.
Congratulations to Meaghan, and thanks for all of her hard work.
