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Professional Development Opportunity – Decentering Whiteness
The VSTA continues to commit to creating opportunities that will engage our members in conversation that will challenge racism. Please consider the professional development opportunity described below. The VSTA will be providing the meeting location for a few of these...
Solidarity with the Indigenous Community
Honour the lives lost and act in solidarity with Indigenous colleagues, their families and the wider Indigenous community.
UNITE HERE LOCAL 40
Thus far over 30 women from the Pacific Gateway Hotel in Richmond have been permanently fired. Unite Here Local 40 believe that they are trying to use the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to replace people, many of which are immigrant women, and to hire new workers at a lower wage. As a response, workers from the Pacific Gateway Hotel have voted to go on strike.