FAIR (Fostering Acceptance of Indigenous Rights) Committee

 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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