FAIR (Fostering Acceptance of Indigenous Rights) Committee
Committee Members |
Alternates |
Norm Guihan, Public Service
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Albert Zwozdesky
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Jocelyn Hargreaves, Crown
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Ryan Favel, Health
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Sheri Gardner
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Sheena Yew, Education
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Peggy Chartier
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Darryl Firth, Community Services
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Vacant
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Echo Stringer, Retail Regulatory,
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Tamara Bailey, HR/E
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Vacant
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Greg Eyre, Staff Advisor
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FAIR Committee Mandate:
- To support and advocate for First Nations, Inuit and Metis (FNIM) SGEU members in the workplace and to ensure the emotional, mental, and physical well-being of FNIM SGEU members
- To represent the interests of FNIM SGEU members
- To develop and promote anti-racist policies, provide education and programs for use internally and/or externally.
- To collaborate with FNIM organizations on behalf of SGEU
- To promote related areas of the SGEU Strategic Plan
FAIR Committee Objectives:
- Promote anti-racism education in the workplace (employer and union) and within union leadership.
- Ensure that every available avenue and job opportunity is open to all FNIM members by promoting such options as SGEU negotiating mandatory, and properly funded, Employment Equity plans.
- Act as a resource to approved organizing initiatives to bring FNIM workers into SGEU.
- Develop long term plans to ensure FNIM representation in SGEU through the establishment of an Aboriginal Sector in the union.
- Actively ensure that all racial incidents concerning FNIM members are positively addressed through the co-operation of the FAIR Committee and other internal SGEU structures.
- Reach out to FNIM SGEU members and co-operate with other organizations committed to racial equality.
- Support and promote the Representative Workforce for Aboriginal Workers Strategy.
- Promote SGEU principles in our communities and workplaces
FAIR Membership Criteria:
Members must have:
- Aboriginal ancestry
- Awareness and understanding of Aboriginal issues
- Knowledge of union principles would be an asset
- Union membership in good standing for one year
Committee Composition, where possible:
- Gender parity
- North/South representation
- Urban/Rural representation
- Chairperson elected internally
Committee Structure:
- 6 = One member elected from each of the (6) SGEU Sectors
- 1 = One Provincial Council member
- 1 = One equity member from any Sector elected at the Biennial Equity Conference
- 8 = Total size
- Term for FAIR Committee Members = two years
Term for FAIR Committee Members
- Each member is elected for a two-year term
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