Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

Are you active in advancing public health care or medicare issues? The PSAC  B.C. Region would like to sponsor a member active in these areas to attend the following conference:

• S.O.S Medicare 2: Looking Forward
• May 3-4, 2007 in Regina at the Queensbury Convention Centre

This is a two day national conference sponsored in part by the Canadian Health Coalition and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The conference is open to the general public and will have representation from a wide spectrum of sectors including community, health care, labour, and anti-poverty.

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Fighting The Blues, the Canadian Labour Congress 13th National Women’s Conference will be held in Ottawa from June 11 to 14, 2006. This is a timely conference for the Labour movement. With the election of a minority Conservative government the challenges for working families and especially for women are greater than ever. The labour and women’s movements have made some important gains over the last decades. We must build our movement to ensure that we maintain the advances we have achieved and move our agenda forward in our workplaces, our communities and our legislatures.

Visit the CLC website for the call letter, registration and more information.

Subsidies have been made available by the National and Regional Offices to assist a PSAC member in BC to attend the conference. Please note the PSAC BC Regional Council conference grant guidelines. Applications for a subsidy (available here) should be received in REVP’s office no later than May 1st. The conference registration deadline is May 23rd.

The third international “Workers Out” conference for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) trade unionists and allies will be held in Montréal from July 26 to 29, 2006.

The CLC and PSAC will be sponsors of the event and a decision has been made by the AEC to allocate one fully subsidized delegate spot per PSAC region. This is your opportunity to express your interest to represent the PSAC BC at this international event. Please send to the REVP’s office at ducharp@psac.com a brief outline of what you could contribute to the PSAC and to the conference by your attendance. Here is some more information about the conference, or check out their web site at www.montreal2006.org.

Deadline for expressions of interest is the end of day on February 28, 2006.

Approved at the RC meeting May 13-14, 2001

Requests for conference grants should

• be in writing (email or paper) to the REVP’s office
• be received 3 weeks prior to registration deadline
• contain a rationale why this conference would be valuable for the applicant
• give an indication how the information/experience obtained at the conference will be used by the participant in union activities
• indicate any other efforts the applicant has made to obtain funding

All requests will be forwarded to the Grant’s Committee for approval.

The following considerations will be used to award grants:

• is the conference is labour, political or social activism related?
• will the Region benefit from our participation in this event?
• has the applicant been awarded previous grants for conferences? if yes, when?
• normally we will not fund more than 3 participants for the same conference
• exceptions to the above should be mostly in the lower-cost category

Grants:

Conference outside BC: $500.00
Conference in BC, and participant has to fly: up to $500.00
Conference in BC and no need to fly: $250.00

There should be a written report to the REVP’s office within one month of the event.

Download a conference subsidy application (pdf).