OTTAWA -- The president of one of Canada’s largest unions, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, says both the Colombian and Canadian governments need to act now to denounce the latest murder of a trade union leader in Colombia.
Duncan Brown, Executive Director, CEP Humanity Fund,(left) Barb Dolan, CEP Administrative Vice- President, Milugros Oulles Silot, General Secretary, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de las Comunicaciones, Informática y la Electrónica de Cuba (Cuban telecommunications union), Anibale Melo Infant, Central de Trabadadores de Cuba.
The CEP Humanity Fund today announced a $5,000 donation to the
Canadian Red Cross Ontario Disaster Relief Fund to support emergency relief
efforts for the community of Goderich, Ontario recently affected by the
tornado.
CEP has joined a joint effort by Canada’s leading unions to support the
more than 11 million people affected by the drought in east Africa. In
total, Canadian unions have donated more than $100,000 to the Oxfam
appeal.
LITTLE BUFFALO, ALTA -- The CEP Humanity Fund has donated $20,000 to build an outdoor hockey rink for the Lubicon Cree, a community of about 500 in Little Buffalo, a six-hour drive north of Edmonton. CEP Local 707 has also donated thousands of dollars in hockey equipment.
“We are now going to raise funds to put up night lighting, and to build a warm shed so the kids can get changed,” says CEP President Dave Coles who visited the community last week in time for a celebratory hockey game. CEP Local 707 and the Alberta Federation of Labour are also working on a program to get the kids to stay in school.
SURREY, B.C. -- Alex Charles, a Surrey resident and President of Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union Local 525G, presented a cheque for $2000 to The Realistic Success Recovery Society President Susan Sanderson and Executive Director Gary Robinson.
CEP Western
Administrative VP Wendy Sol, Graphical and Humanity Fund Director Duncan Brown
and Human Rights and Education Director Gisèle Pageau were among the 23
Canadian delegates to the recent UNI Global Union world congress in Nagasaki,
Japan.
