LDLC September 2024 Hybrid General Membership Meeting

London and District Labour Council

Agenda: General Membership Meeting

Sept 11 at 7:00 p.m.

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1. Call to order. Roll Call
2. Indigenous Land Acknowledgement and reference to Labour Council Harassment Policy.

Tina Stevens to speak on Truth and Reconciliation

3. Acceptance of the agenda.
4. Initiation of new delegates or officers (if necessary).
5. Guest speakers and special topics

Trevor Shearing CUPE 2361 Strike and Actions

Patti Dalton- Provincial and Federal Elections

6. Nominations and Elections for Office
7. Acceptance of Minutes (Jun 12), 2024 GMM
8. CLC Report
9. Union reports; reports of delegates.
10. Treasurer’s report.
11. Executive Board report from the secretary, with any executive recommendations
12. Communication & Social Media report.
13. Committee reports. (Political Action; Equity & Social Justice; Finance; Women; Occupational Health & Safety; Environment; Education; Strike Support; ad-hoc)
14. Community reports.
15. President’s report.
16. Unfinished business.
17. a)
18. New Business
19. a) October Executive Board Elections
20. Good and Welfare

Canadian Labour Congress/London and District Labour Council Harassment Statement

1. a) The CLC takes seriously its responsibility to ensure that all union functions are free of harassment. Discrimination and harassment are against the law and are in violation of the Constitution of the CLC.
2. b) Harassment includes but is not limited to:
3. Unwelcome remarks, jokes, innuendos or taunts about a person’s body, clothing, race, ancestry, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation or sexual self-identification, handicap/disability, age, marital status, family status, political or religious affiliation, place of national origin or record of offences;
4. Insulting gestures and practical jokes, for example, of a sexist, racist or homophobic nature;

iii. Displaying of pornographic or racist pictures, graffiti or other material;

1. Leering;
2. Refusing to talk to, or work with, a person because of their race, ancestry, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation or sexual self identification, handicap/disability, age, marital status, family status, political or religious affiliation, place of national origin or record of offences;
3. Unwanted physical contact, such as patting, touching, pinching; vii. Sexual overtures;

viii. Sexual assault; and

1. Physical assault.
2. c) Complaints of harassment at all Labour Council functions will be taken seriously and will be investigated immediately by CLC Representative and a member of the Executive Board.

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

We begin this London and District Labour Council Meeting by acknowledging that we are meeting on aboriginal land that has been inhabited by Indigenous peoples from the beginning.

As settlers, we’re grateful for the opportunity to meet here and we thank all the generations of people who have taken care of this land – for thousands of years. Long before today, as we gather here, there have been aboriginal peoples who have been the stewards of this place.

In particular, we begin by acknowledging that these events like everything else we do take place on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee (pronounced Hoe –doe – no – show – knee), Anishinaabek (pronounced A-nish-naa-bek), Huron-Wendat, Attawandaron-Neutral and Lenape peoples, and that respect for the land and water and the Indigenous people and the treaties is fundamental to everything we do.

We recognize and deeply appreciate their historic connection to this place. We also recognize the contributions of Métis, Inuit, and other Indigenous peoples have made, both in shaping and strengthening this community in particular, and our province and country as a whole.

As settlers, this recognition of the contributions and historic importance of Indigenous peoples must also be clearly and overtly connected to our collective commitment to make the promise and the challenge of Truth and Reconciliation real in our communities, and in particular to bring justice for murdered and missing indigenous women and girls across our country.