UNITED STEELWORKERS
USW LOCAL 8782
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UNITED STEELWORKERS USW LOCAL 8782
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Local 8782 Collective Agreement S.L.C. and Pension Information |
Get the lead out
On Wednesday September 26 and Thursday September 27, 2007, the United Steelworkers Women’s Committee launched their ‘Get the Lead Out’ campaign. This campaign is the direct result of the growing danger of toxic imports surfacing in North America and is a direct result of under-regulated globalization and the gutting of regulatory agencies from companies choosing to do business overseas. During the International women’s conference the USW Women’s Committee has taken over the campaign and will be starting USW safe home sessions throughout North America with the distribution of lead screening kits. This serious situation was taken care of years ago by strict legislation to protect our children, grandchildren and families from toxins used in consumer products. Now it is starting again. The Women’s Issue’s Committee of Local 8782 will be holding a USW Safe Home Session at our Union Hall hopefully during November. Please check for details about “Stop Toxic Imports” campaign. For more information and lists of recalls pleas visit: www.stoptoxicimports.org
WOMEN IN TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY
On Dec 7, 2007 I attended a Women’s in Trade and Technology conference to talk to High School Girls interested in getting into the trades or more into technology. We had a very good representation of all kinds of trades. We had discussions on the barriers and difficulties of working in predominately male based industries. The feminist movement is definitely different. The women in that room that day, approximately 30, did not have the attitude of ‘I can do anything you can do, I can do it better’ they had the attitudes of ‘I can do the same job you do but sometimes I do it different’ These women don’t go to their jobs to prove they can do the job better than anyone else. They go because they want to make good money and have the training and education to do it. Did they start out in their current position? A lot have changed their professions by choosing to go along another branch of what interested them in the first place, and some have incorporated their previous years of training and education into their next endeavor. Every woman in that room was considered different in earlier years. Now those different girls are proud wives, mothers, hockey moms, soccer mom’s and dance moms. They still cook, clean, and bake without the stigma of being a just a ’Housewife’. A Housewife is a choice and incorporates so many facets of life. The majority of these women are also; electricians, instrument techs, system operators and welders. They have hobbies from knitting and scrapbooking to playing baseball and hockey. We are now getting the best of both worlds. Thinking outside the box is not necessarily a bad thing. We as women have come a long way and are evolving daily but we still have a long way to go.
Life is getting better for us all the time, so keep up the good work and I thank you for all your hard work at helping to constantly change the roles of women in the workplace, the community and the world. Donna Wingrove Womens Committee Co-chair
NDP WOMENS CONFERENCE REPORT CLICK HERE
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