Arbitration confirms
employers must pay for drivers license renewals!
(click
here)
Community Social
Services Walk in Victoria to support services!
Local
1936 and the HEU Chartered a bus to Victoria on Saturday March 31st
so members could attend the fourth annual Walk for Community Social
Services.
Each
year, the Walk is the culmination of March is Social Services Month.
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here to see more photos
Pathways
forced to close its doors Friday
April 30
Community
and staff celebrate nine years in the DTES with afternoon party
VANCOUVER—This
afternoon’s “Party at Pathways,” with community members and
local politicians in support of Pathways Information Centre, has
turned into a wake. Pathways had secured limited funding from
alternative sources, was considering how to maintain services, and
was hoping to celebrate this achievement. Instead, Pathways will be
closing its doors at day’s end.
Sadly,
the Tradeworks Training Society has been unsuccessful in convincing
the Provincial Government to continue funding critical social
services available at Main & Hastings. Without that support,
this trusted and highly effective centre will no longer have the
option to continue serving the public as of March 30th.
During
the month of April, staff has been instructed by the Ministry to
offer no services and refer “clients” to the new contract
holders: the Open Door Group. Staff is concerned about former
patrons’ reactions to being denied service on the basis of race
since Pathways shares space with two other programs, Aboriginal
Connections to Employment and Bladerunners.
(see news page for more)
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