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Union Meeting

Sunday, December 18, 2022

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Unifor Local 112

30 Tangiers Road, Toronto, ON, M3J 2B2

Public Health measures will be followed

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Unifor Statement on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities

PWD

In 1992, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed December 3 as International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD).

This year, the theme of IDPWD 2022 is “Transformative Solutions of Inclusive Development”.  Unifor seeks to build upon innovation and technology to maintain meaningful employment for persons with disabilities.

Unifor remains committed to addressing the challenges and barriers faced by people with disabilities seeking meaningful employment and those who are seeking to continue meaningful work when experiencing a disability.

Technology offers an opportunity to redesign and rethink the way work is done. Employers and society can look beyond perceptions and stigmas around disability and integrate innovative means and approaches to ensure persons of all abilities are able to participate in the workforce.

As a union, Unifor understands the importance of accessibility, inclusion, belonging and recognizes the importance of meaningful work to human dignity.  We are asking members of the diverse abilities communities to share their successes and achievements on social media with the hashtag #IDPWD2022.

Within our workplaces and within our Union, members can begin by taking steps towards inclusion:

  1. Encourage the use of the Inclusive Practices Tool Kit in your local union and workplace.
  2. On December 3, use Unifor’s social media shareable to highlight the abilities of people with disabilities.
  3. Challenge your perceptions about disability and consider how your workplace can be made more inclusive.
  4. At your next General Membership Meeting play Unifor’s Workers with Disabilities video.

Unifor invites all workers with disabilities to become involved in their locals and union. Please reach out Derek MacLeod, Workers with Disabilities Staff Liaison at derek.macleod@unifor.org  For more information, please visit: unifor.org/disabilities

Read this statement on our webiste here.

 

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Remembrance Day November 11 2022

Source: https://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/after-the-war/remembrance/remembrance-day/

Canadians recognize Remembrance Day, originally called Armistice Day, every 11 November at 11 a.m. It marks the end of hostilities during the First World War and an opportunity to recall all those who have served in the nation’s defence.

Armistice Day

Armistice Day was inaugurated in 1919 throughout much of the British Empire, but on the second Monday in November. In 1921, the Canadian Parliament passed an Armistice Day bill to observe ceremonies on the first Monday in the week of 11 November, but this combined the event with the Thanksgiving Day holiday. For much of the 1920s, Canadians observed the date with little public demonstration. Veterans and their families gathered in churches and around local memorials, but observances involved few other Canadians.

In 1928, some prominent citizens, many of them veterans, pushed for greater recognition and to separate the remembrance of wartime sacrifice from the Thanksgiving holiday. In 1931, the federal government decreed that the newly named Remembrance Day would be observed on 11 November and moved Thanksgiving Day to a different date. Remembrance Day would emphasize the memory of fallen soldiers instead of the political and military events leading to victory in the First World War.

11 November

Remembrance Day rejuvenated interest in recalling the war and military sacrifice, attracting thousands to ceremonies in cities large and small across the country. It remained a day to honour the fallen, but traditional services also witnessed occasional calls to remember the horror of war and to embrace peace. Remembrance Day ceremonies were usually held at community cenotaphs and war memorials, or sometimes at schools or in other public places. Two minutes of silence, the playing of the Last Post, the recitation of In Flanders Fields, and the wearing of poppies quickly became associated with the ceremony.

Remembrance Day has since gone through periods of intense observation and periodic decline. The 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1995 marked a noticeable upsurge of public interest, which has not ebbed in recent years. It is now a national holiday for federal and many provincial government workers, and the largest ceremonies are attended in major cities by tens of thousands. The ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa is nationally televised, while most media outlets – including newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and internet sources – run special features, interviews, or investigative reports on military history or remembrance-related themes.

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Feds, Ontario to spend $56M for high-speed internet to 16,000 rural homes in eastern Ontario

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9224533/high-speed-internet-funding-eastern-ontario/

More than $56 million in government funding is being committed to bring high-speed internet access to 16,000 homes in rural communities across eastern Ontario, officials announced Wednesday.

Federal, Ontario and Canadian Infrastructure Bank officials made the joint announcement at the Selwyn Public Library’s branch in the village of Bridgenorth, just north of Peterborough.

Read more: Ontario, feds invest $45M for high-speed internet upgrades in Northumberland County

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