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District works to set up local
union Women’s Committees
District 3 ea Steve Hunt,
who met with the Women's
Committee ae right), has
asked the committee to do its
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Adams, June Wellings, Lana Heaman, Carol Landry, Amor roe Lee ae Brandis
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has already bash i in our dis:
trict," he adds. "Today there are

have been in the past. More

women are leading local plant

committees and more are
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advocates for
“More women are taking
courses today than we have
ever seen before and that's
credit to our education pro-
gram and the activities of
Women of Steel," adds Hunt.
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will get together in each
region of the district. Some
will work on multiple local
unions. Local union leaders
will be contacted by phone, e-
mail eae ke to start to set
up comm

“Some iece already have
very active and others are in
their early stages of getting up
and running while yet others

Women
of Steel program a success.”

DISTRICT 3 WOMEN’S COMMITTEE SETS NEW DIRECTION

Building Power with Women

The United Steelworkers District 3 Women's
Committee has been recently reconstituted
to become an increasingly active advocate
group for working women.
early April the committee met in
puta, BC for two days to hold elections,
ities and receive train-
ing ‘on how to promote Women's
Committees in e: i
Atthe United eee PACE merger
convention in April of last year, the union's
tion was amended, calling for the
establishment of a Women's Committees in
every local union in the international. And
that covers the whole gamut — from stand
alone locals, to amalgamated locals to geo-
graphically-based ones, like those from the
former IWA Canada.
do," says USW Local raqyr! 's Brenda Wagg,
who was elected as a new co-chair of the
committee. Sister Karen Adams, a member
of Local 2952, recently stepped down after
serving the committee since 2001.
Taking Sister Adams’ place as the other
committee co-chair is Julie Nery, from the

amalgamated Local 9074 in Winnipeg.
Sister Nery is also an organizer. Elected as
the recording secretary is Lenette Terry from
Kelowna Local 1-423.

Other committee members include Local
1976's June Wellings from Calgary;
Winnipeg Local 7826's Amor Laganse;
Calgary Local 6034's Lana Heaman;
Cranbrook, BC Local 1-405's Veronica
Tanner; Flin Flon Local 7975's Kim Bryson;
Regina Local 6717's Kathy Whyte, and Port
Alberni, BC Local 1-85's Crystal Doucette.

Carol Landry, District 3's Assistant to the

day course that has been developed to assist
local unions to set up and run a women's
committee. The name of the course is

interested in building their local unions,"
says Sister Landry. "This course will offer
them some of tie tools necessary to
become more active

18 T JUNE 2006 THE ALLIED WORKER