Privatization and the Schools Sector

• New and Improved P3 School Presentation, CUPE Local 1253 NB Council of School District Unions
• Doing the Math: Why P3’s for Alberta Schools Don’t Add Up, Hugh Mackenzie

Schools Sector Documents and Presentations

• Submission to the Ontario Declining Enrolment Working Group, Submitted by The Ontario Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, August 8, 2008
• RECOGNITION & RESPECT: Addressing the unpaid work of Education Assistants in British Columbia, John Malcolmson
• CUPE’s School Board Sector: Presentation to CUPE’s First National School Board Sector Meeting, Regina March 2-4, 2009, Paul O’Donnell
• CUPE Provincial Table Settlement: Presentation to CUPE School Board Leadership, Toronto, June 9, 2008
• CUPE Provincial Discussion Table Agreement, May, 2008

Literacy

• Clear Language Tool: The Clarity Kit -fact sheets on workplace literacy
  • Fact Sheet #1
  • Fact Sheet #2
  • Fact Sheet #3
  • Fact Sheet #4
  • Fact Sheet #5
• Putting Literacy on the Public Agenda: A Briefing Package for CUPE Activists
• Literacy pamphlet: It’s our right. Literacy is a union issue.
• Invest in literacy, create Labour Market Partners’ Forums, CUPE urges governments: CUPE Communiqué, September 8, 2008

Health and Safety

• Fact Sheets
  • Critical Incidents
  • Eliminating Violence
  • Healthier Workplace, Healthier Workers
  • Hepatitis B
  • HIV Aids
  • Indoor Air Quality
  • Moulds
  • Noise
  • Overwork
  • Repetitive Strain Injuries
  • Stress
  • What is Working Alone
    
• Guidelines
  • Enough Overwork Taking Action on Workload
  • Enough Workplace Stress Organizing for Change
  • Helping Ourselves Employee Assistance Programs
  • Stopping Violence at Work

Bargaining Women’s Equality

• Recipes for Setting the Table: Getting What You Want in Bargaining, National Bargaining Women’s Equality Conference, February 2009
• Recipes for Setting the Table: Appendix- Collective Agreement Language: National Bargaining Women’s Equality Conference, February 2009

Bullying and Harrassment

• The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander [Barbara Coloroso © 2002]
• The Net Neighbourhood [excerpts from the bully, the bullied, and the bystander, Barbara Coloroso © 2005]
• An Ethic Rooted in Deep Caring [Excerpts from Just Because It’s Not Wrong, Doesn’t Make It Right, Barbara Coloroso © 2006]
• The Bullying Circle [From The Bully, The Bullied, and The Bystander Barbara Coloroso ©2002, 2005, 2009]
• Excerpts from the Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander [Barbara Coloroso © 2002]

Resources/ressources:

1. Environment/environnement:
   1. Green bargaining for CUPE locals: http://cupe.ca/environment/green-bargaining-guide
   2. CUPE's green workplace guide: http://cupe.ca/environment/enviroguide
   
   
2. Privatization:
   1. P3 Schools: Public Interest vs Private Profits (2005)
      http://cupe.ca/updir/P3_Schools_Power_Tool.pdf
   2. Saskatchewan cools to P3 schools
      http://cupe.ca/privwatchnov08/saskatchewan-government-P3-schools
3. CUPE Strategic Directions for/orientation stratégique du SCFP 2007-09:
   1. http://cupe.ca/updir/Strategic_Directions_Program_-_Final.pdf
4. Literacy
   1. http://cupe.ca/literacy/workplace-literacy-factsheets
   2. http://cupe.ca/literacy/New_Clear_Language_T
   
   
5. Canada-schoolboards list serve (English only)
   1. http://lists.cupe.ca/mailman/listinfo/canada-schoolboards

A list for CUPE JK-12 members, across Canada  that will be of interest to CUPE members who work in the school board (JK-12) sector. It is intended to facilitate the flow of information about school board (or school division) issues that have national rather than just local or provincial implications.  For more information contact Paul O’Donnell This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it