Highlights for this edition: - Delivering in the dark / Retirement tips / Is the vaccine policy an effective organizing issue? / No Relief comic - The Initiative, Pt. 3

As per the direction given by our CUPW National Executive, locals can hold GMMs via video conference as long as quorum is met and all participants have registered with all the required information by the specified deadline. For our full virtual GMM guidelines, please see the accompanying post.

CUPW National does not support CPC’s current vaccination policy and is challenging it with a National group grievance and cease & desist application. CUPW leadership believes in the science of vaccination and seeks to challenge vaccine-hesitation with alternatives like rapid testing while patient and persistent education builds toward the needed vaccination rate threshold to end the pandemic.

In this dispatch: 
1) Vaccine policy update
2) EMPP bidding 
3) PCI clawbacks
4) Nov GMM

As per the direction given by our CUPW National Executive, locals can hold GMMs via video conference as long as quorum is met and all participants have registered with all the required information by the specified deadline. For our full virtual GMM guidelines, please see the accompanying post.

In this dispatch: 
1) Federal vaccine mandate
2) EMPP scheduling proposals 
3) Civic election campaigns

In observance of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30^th will now be a statutory holiday. Federally regulated workplaces like Canada Post will be closed, to commemorate the tragic legacy of residential schools in our country. 

Highlights for this edition: - Contract extension debrief / Values for on-demand pick-ups / Attack on women's rights at EMPP / No Relief comic - "The Grievance Investigation"