Equality and Human Rights Posters
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The National Union has produced a series of ten equality and human rights posters. Each poster commemorates a national and international human rights and equality day that NUPGE and its Components celebrate each year. The theme of the poster series is "Full Human Rights for All" and each poster contains the same important message:
Full human rights for all include:
- the right to organize and bargain collectively;
- a national network of community-based services that allow us to fully participate in society;
- an end to poverty and homelessness; and
- elimination of discrimination in respect of employment.
No Sweat: Changing our clothes to change lives
Duty to Accommodate
The Duty to Accommodate is an essential principle for unions in trying to ensure that workplaces are equitable and fair. The Duty to Accommodate is the legal requirement for employers to proactively eliminate employment standards, requirements, practices or rules that discriminate against individuals or groups on the basis of a prohibited ground, such as race, sex, disability, age and so on. The most significant development around Duty to Accommodate is directly related to a 1999 Supreme Court decision, known as the Meiorin case, brought forward by one of the National Union's B.C. components, the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU/NUPGE). The Meiorin decision broadened the definition of Duty to Accommodate to place a positive obligation on both employers and unions to design the workplace so that equality and accommodation are built into all policies and practices. This primer is a guide for union advocates in how best to represent members with respect to our obligations around the Duty to Accommodate.
Why This Hell? Free Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier is an American Aboriginal leader, who has been in jail in the United States for the past 26 years, unjustly serving a double life sentence for the murders of two FBI agents in 1975. After the incident at Oglala, Peltier fled to Canada where he was eventually arrested and then extradited from in 1976. Peltier has always maintained his innocence and there is a great deal of evidence showing that Peltier's extradition and subsequent conviction was obtained through false testimony and coerced evidence. The National Union has been active in the international movement to win Peltier's freedom for the past decade. This pamphlet provides an excellent introduction to the facts of the case and can be used as a tool to organize support for Leonard's cause.
Rainbow Flag: Solidarity and Pride
Trade unions arose out of the struggle of women and men for dignity, equality and freedom from discrimination. The experiences of injustice and harassment in the workplace based on sexual orientation are taken as seriously by the National Union as all others are. We must, as working people and trade unionists, take the principled stand to support the struggle of our lesbian and gay sisters and brothers in their goal of attaining full equality. This pamphlet is intended as a popular education tool to assist workplace activists in their activities to battle homophobia.
Recognizing the Past and Building a Future (First Nations workers)
This pamphlet explores the issues that First Nations workers have had to deal with and how unions can help build a stronger future for our First Nations brothers and sisters. The injustices that First Nations people have suffered can not be denied, and we must all work to see justice for everyone in the future. We encourage you to read this pamphlet and take the steps needed to build this future.
Disability Rights: an Integral Part of our Union
This pamphlet talks about the struggle of Canadians with disabilities to gain full participation and equality, why disability rights are a union issue and how we can make disability rights an integral part of our Union's agenda.
Strength in Diversity: Building the Union
A union's strength can be found in the diversity of its membership. This diversity embraces opinions and life experience of people from all backgrounds, physical abilities and sexual orientations, and increases knowledge of issues facing our unions and Canada as a whole. We must promote the diversity of our membership by ensuring that equity issues are not forgotten or ignored.
Equality Fact Sheets
- Poverty, Inequality and the Fight for Economic Justice
- Homelessness: Our National Disgrace
- An Anti-Poverty Agenda for Persons with Disabilities
- Racial Inequality in Access to Work and Incomes
- Canada's Aboriginal Peoples: Social Inclusion and Communities at Risk
- Moving Toward Equality
- Poverty and Democracy: Limits on Third Party Election Spending
- A Different Word is Possible
- (Book Format)
