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Another year that went by very quickly. Since the last Union Echo, the Local has been dealing with some negotiations, grievances, arbitrations, and meetings. The Women’s committee meeting, the USW District 6 Conference, the Health & Safety council meeting, the Stewards meeting, and the Wood Council Conference. Take the time to read our Local's representatives' reports.

On May 23rd, the Local’s Women of Steel committee met at our Thunder Bay office. 19 Local 1-2010 Sisters attended the meeting where they were given training on “Gender Transitioning in the Workplace”, training provided by Sibling Mayson Fulk, USW District 6 Trans Liaison. All were very pleased with the presentation given by Sibling Fulk, as they found it to be very informative.

From July 8th to 12th, the Local sent 8 delegates, namely Siblings Julie Larochelle (North Cochrane Addiction Services), Roger Beland  (Interfor Gogama sawmill), Keith Caldwell (Resolute Forest Products Atikokan sawmill), and Local representatives Wesley Ridler, Guy Veilleux, Jason Lacko, Eric Carroll, and Jacques Jean, to the USW District 6 Conference held in St- John’s, NL. All delegates enjoyed the conference as they found it to be very well organized, structured, and very instructive.

On October 10th, as many as 28 Stewards attended the Local’s annual Stewards meeting held in Hearst. They received training on grievances from 3 of our own facilitators. What’s a grievance or complaint, grievance investigation, grievance procedure (time limits), how to write a grievance. The whole day was spent in giving the above-mentioned training.

On October 28th, 7 delegates from our Local attended the USW Wood Council Conference in Winnipeg Manitoba. A very interesting Conference with many different speakers.

On behalf of Local 1-2010's Executive Board, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year 2025.

In Solidarity; 

Jacques Jean