IWD Dinner 2024 – Early Bird Ticket Sales End February 9th!

The VDLC Women and Gender Rights Committee is pleased to announce details of our Annual International Women’s Day dinner.

The dinner will be held Friday March 8, 2024 at Fraserview Hall, 8240 Fraser St. Vancouver. Doors open at 5:30pm. Buffet starts at 5:30pm. Welcome and panel starts at 7:00pm.

The theme for 2024’s event is Leading the Way: Women Shaping the Future of the Labour Movement.

Guests speakers include:

Sussanne Skidmore – President, BC FED
Karen Ranalletta – President, CUPE BC
Barb Nederpel – President, HEU
Louella Vincent – President, NWDLC
Wakenniosta Cooper – IBEW Local 213

Our MC for the event is Joey Hartman, Past President of the VDLC.

Early bird tickets are $90.00 per person until February 9, 2024. After this date, tickets are $100 per person. Tables of up to 10 people. If you wish to purchase a table and be invoiced, please phone Elizabeth at the VDLC office at 604-254-0703. Low-income tickets are available by contacting the office by email or phone 604-254-0703.

TICKETS can be purchased HERE

Please help us spread the word! Copies of both posters can be found here:

IWD 2024 – Dinner

IWD 2024 – Event Speakers

 

CUPE 4500 members withdrawing all services from Coast Mountain Bus Company

BURNABY – CUPE 4500 and Coast Mountain Bus Company concluded mediation today but were unable to reach a tentative agreement. Without a settlement in place, CUPE 4500 members will be withdrawing all services from Coast Mountain Bus Company at 3:00 a.m. PT, Monday, January 22 for 48-hours. 

 

“With the help of our mediator, CUPE 4500 put in an honest effort to find some common ground with Coast Mountain. But we are still not near where we need to be in addressing our key issues,” says Liam O’Neill, spokesperson for CUPE 4500. “For a fair settlement, CUPE 4500 members need wage discrepancies closed between them and other TransLink supervisors, and we need to tackle critical workload issues.”

 

Starting Monday morning, CUPE 4500 members will have up picket lines at Coast Mountain Bus Company Transit Centres in Vancouver, Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby, Port Coquitlam, and the SeaBus North Vancouver Terminal. Transit users in the Lower Mainland can expect the suspension of all bus and SeaBus services operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company.

 

“CUPE 4500 members are proud of the job we do for our passengers. Like them, our families and friends depend on transit too. We regret these disruptions and the challenges this will cause for the people we serve every day,” says O’Neill. “But Coast Mountain could have avoided this. Instead, they put us, and, through their inflexibility, transit users, in this situation.”

 

https://www.cupe.bc.ca/2024/01/22/cupe-4500-members-withdrawing-all-services-from-coast-mountain-bus-company/