Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

via Vancouver & District Labour Council

Dear Brothers, Sisters and Friends:

CUPE’s 12,000 Lower Mainland civic workers need your support. They are facing demands for unprecedented concessions and slow or stalled negotiations everywhere. Almost all Lower Mainland CUPE civic collective agreements expired on December 31, 2006. They feel that they are being forced into job action in order to get a fair contract.

Civic workers make our communities work, providing vital public services that we all rely upon. To avert job action, Lower Mainland civic workers launched a public campaign this week called “FAIRNESS for civic workers” that DEPENDS ON YOU taking action now to put pressure on your local municipal politicians to:

• REMOVE all proposed concessions from the table.
• RETURN to the bargaining table with the intent to make progress.
• RESPECT civic workers and vital services they provide by negotiating fair contracts.

Taking Action is as easy as 1-2-3

1. Visit www.fairnessforcivicworkers.ca
2. Click on the flag of the municipality in which you reside and press take action.
3. Press send.

The success of this campaign depends on your support!