YEU Newsletter, July 2016
In this issue: Pride, Myths about Canada Post, Trans Rights at Work, Keep Calm & Call your Union, Shop Steward Training & more.Read full newsletter HERE (PDF)
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Opportunity for Yukon Aboriginal Youth: World Social Forum
Click Image below to open Information sheet & YOUTH APPLICATION FORM.
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The YG Fact-Finding Meeting; What to Expect
It’s another day at work, everything seems to be going well and it’s shaping up to be a good day. Then it happens; you receive a request to attend a meeting the following day and your supervisor advises that you are entitled to bring a union representative to the meeting!What...
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I Need a UNION REP for a Meeting?!
It’s another day at work, everything seems to be going well and it’s shaping up to be a good day. Then it happens; you receive a request to attend a meeting the following day and your supervisor advises that you are entitled to bring a union representative to the meeting!...
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Myths & Inaccuracies: An Open Letter to RYTS Manager Mike Healey
Mr. Healey: Last Friday you held a press conference as part of your media blitz in response to YEU’s June 8 Risk at RYTS media release and blog post. You expressed confusion and told the press that my worry for the safety of staff & residents is based on nothing...
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Open Letter to Mike Healey, Manager of RYTS Homes in Whitehorse
Please click on the image below to read YEU President Steve Geick’s open letter in response to Mike Healey’s media blitz. YEU presents the concerns of our members in an effort to achieve resolution and ensure safety for all parties.Download Full PDF
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Trans at Work; Dignity & Discrimination in Yukon
This week we have seen discrimination at its ugliest, its most vile. We watched in horror as news broke from Orlando Florida of the hate-inspired murder of so many at a gay nightclub but this is only the most recent in a long list of attacks. While we may try...
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YEU Newsletter, June 2016
In this issue: Risk at RYTS; YG Failing Youth-in-Care & Caregivers; YG Bargaining Update; Tentative Agreement Reached; Friends & Comrades – Isn’t it Time for Gender-Neutral Solidarity? Where’s Tony Thomas? and more.
Read full Newsletter here (PDF)
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RYTS Caregivers and Youth-in-Care at Risk
Understaffing puts Vulnerable Residents & Workers at Risk Kids-in-care have faced more trauma than most of us will experience in a lifetime, most with first-hand exposure to violence & addictions. Many have been subjected to instability, uncertainty and the absence of caring, consistent authority figures. Ensuring an environment that provides stability,...
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RISK at RYTS: Government of Yukon Fails to Ensure Safety in Residential Care Homes
PDF of Press ReleaseBackgrounder
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