Following the footsteps of our ancestors, while building a future for our children

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June 18, 2010

IUOE is welcoming a decision from the province’s Labour Relations Board dismissing all raid applications submitted by the BC Nurses’ Union to represent LPNs who are members of IUOE, HEU and other unions of Facilities Bargaining Association.

“Today’s ruling confirms what the vast majority of LPNs have told us all along – they want to remain united and independent within their unions, where they can continue to advocate for their own, unique professional interests.”

“In dismissing each of BCNU’s seven separate raid applications, the Board has made it crystal clear that BCNU could not garner enough support for its raid in even a single health region, let alone on a province-wide basis.”

I want to thank LPN members for standing by their union, often under intense pressure from BCNU organizers.  I also want to thank members across the province for standing with their LPN colleagues throughout the year-long raid.

“Facilities Bargaining Association members understand the true meaning of solidarity,” says Darcy, Chair and Spokesperson for the Facilities Bargaining Association. “They know an attack on one group of members is an assault on all members. And they know our strength is forged by standing strong and united for one another.”

She says she is hopeful that today’s unequivocal decision by the LRB will give the BCNU leadership an opportunity to reconsider their direction and abandon their divisive tactics in the future.

“As colleagues in health care, Facilities Bargaining Association and BCNU members share common values and objectives that are worth preserving,” says Darcy.

“Now it’s time to focus on the work that unites our members on the health care team.”

As a result of today’s ruling, the BCNU has been barred from mounting a future raid for 22 months from the date of their original application filed on November 30, 2009.

Please Come and join the Walk4Justice

Kamloops, BC to Winnipeg, Manitoba

June 22, 2010 to July 28, 2010

This walk is to continue to voice our concern about on-going violence against our women and children in Canada.

We want to honour our lost, but not forgotten, women who have died through violence and/or are still missing for over 40 years.

We will continue to walk to seek justice, closure, equality and accountability for the families of these victims. We are still demanding a public inquiry into all of the cases we have already presented to all the politicians and leadership nationwide. We want them to stop ongoing genocide and the legacy of “systemic racism” still happening in this country.

We want Accountability for the children of these women who are still missing and unaccounted for, they are our future leaders and we want them to know that somebody cares.

We will be leaving Kamloops, BC on June 22, 2010 and arriving in Winnipeg, Manitoba on July 28, 2010.

For more information, please visit our Website: http://www.walk4justice.com

Contacts:

Laurie Rogers: admin@walk4justice.com

Gladys Radek: frillyfrog08@yahoo.ca

604-569-5989

Petition for the Missing and Murdered Women of Canada

“JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL!”

Good day all my relations.

This petition is to gather names and support for all women who have been missing or murdered across Canada in the last 4 decades.

Walk4Justice needs to take a stand

for justice, closure, equality, basic human rights and ACCOUNTABILITY

for the missing and murdered women, their families and the children they left behind. We need to let them know that these women were loved and never to be forgotten. We need to be their voice so that we can stop this ongoing legacy of genocide by murder. Please, if you know someone who is missing or has been found murdered and still unsolved, give us their names, where and when they went missing. Then we can present, to the leaderships of this country a true sense of the numbers of our women who have been victimized by this horrible legacy. We can be the voices for their children, our future leaders. Let them know that we want all these acts of violence towards women to stop. Prayers to all for safety, health and prosperity and thank you for your invaluable time and support for this worthy cause.

Respect, Walk4Justice http://www.petitiononline.com/gjustice/petition.html

To make it a successful journey we need volunteers, drivers, vehicles, walkers spiritual guidance, cash donations, drummers, singers, traditional medicines such as sage and tobacco, community involvement, medical supplies, food, accommodations, water, adequate clothing such as shoes, socks, hats and raingear, memory cards for camera’s, batteries, calling cards, cell phones, sleeping bags, large tarps, propane tanks, portable barbeque, sun screen, bug repellent, Coleman lamps, grocery, gas and coffee cards, safety signs for vehicles, letters of support and the names of the loved ones from the family members, and lots of love and respect for the families of these beautiful women.

All cash donations can go to the Union of BC Indian Chief’s Scotia Bank account number 00271-11, transit number 10140. For checks mark memo Walk4Justice. Contact Don Bain at UBCIC 604-684-0231

Our thanks to the BCGEU in Burnaby, CEP457/ COPE 378 and BC Federation of Labour for their invaluable support!

We want to raise funds for the children for health facilities, counselling, cultural awareness, treatment centers and education facilities. We want to help build for these children’s futures and stop the violence for their generations.

Walk4Justice 2010 Route Plan

1. Kamloops, BC to Chase (21st – events, 22 Walk) – 58.1 km

2. Chase to Salmon Arm – 51.9 km

3. Salmon Arm to Sicamous – 31.4 km

4. Sicamous to Enderby – 37.2 km

5. Enderby to Armstrong – 13.8 km

6. Armstrong to Vernon – 23.7 km

7. Vernon to Kelowna – 52.3 km (Presentation,June 24)

8. Kelowna to Peachland – 24.3 km

9. Peachland, to Summerland – 22.2 km

10. Summerland to Penticton – 18.6 km

11. Penticton to Oliver

Presentations, Penticton, June 28) – 39.8 km

12. Oliver to Osoyoos – 21.1 km Total kilometers Kamloops to Osoyoos – 394.4 km

13. (Drive Sicamous to Revelstoke ( June 29)

14. Osoyoos to Penticton – 60.9 km

15. Penticton to Summerland – 18.6 km

16. Summerland to Peachland – 22.2 km

17. Peachland to Kelowna – 24.4 km

18. Kelowna to Vernon – 52.4 km

19. Vernon to Armstrong – 23.7 km

20. Armstrong to Salmon Arm – 38.7 km

21. Armstrong to Sicamous – 51.2 km

22. Salmon Arm to Sicamous -31.4 km

23. Sicamous to Revelstoke -73.4 km

24. Revelstoke to Glacier National Park – 60.3 km

25. Glacier National Park to Golden – (July 1) 69.8 km

26. Golden to Lake Louise, Alberta - 84.7 km

27. Lake Louise to Banff, Alberta - 58.7 km

28. Banff to Canmore – 23.9 km

29. Canmore to Morely, Alberta – 35.6 km

30. Morely to Calgary, Alberta – 56.9 km

31. Airdrie to Red Deer -116 km

32. Red Deer to Hobbema, Alberta – 79.2 km

33. Hobbema to Edmonton, Alberta – 95 km

34. Edmonton – Vegreville – 102 km

35. Vegreville, AB to Innisfree, Saskatchewan -41.3 km

36. Innisfree to Lloydminister, SK (Powwow, July 16) -109 km

37. Lloydminister to North Battleford – 140 km

38. North Battleford to Saskatoon -138 km

39. Saskatoon to Viscount – 81.2 km

40. Viscount to Wynyard, Saskatchewan – 110 km

41. Wynyard to Foam Lake – 49.4 km

42. Foam Lake to Yorkton – 92.1 km

43. Yorkton, SK to Russel, Manitoba – 104 km

44. Russel, Manitoba to Shoal Lake, Manitoba – 76.4 km

45. Shoal Lake to Neepawa – 90.5 km

46. Neepawa to Portage LaPrairie – 100 km

47. Portage La Prairie to Winnipeg, – 82.9 km

W4J WISH LIST 2010

 Donations of any of the following would be greatly appreciated:

Memory Cards for cameras Batteries, double AA, Triple A Flashlights

First Aid kits

Rain Gear, Shoes, and socks

Lap top with wireless stick

Cell phones. Calling cards

Gas cards

Sleeping Bags

Portable Barbeque

Large Tarps

Propane Tanks

Coleman Lamps

Sun screen

Bug repellent

Water

grocery cards

Coffee gift cards

Sage, tobacco and traditional medicines

locks for trailer

Money

Caution Walker signs for vehicles

Safety vests for walkers

Please visit our website for further information and to see the finalized route plan. Website: http://www.walk4justice.com

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