Communication
General Membership Meeting Reminder
Just a reminder that the May General Membership Meeting (GMM) is this Sunday May 7, 2018 at 10:30 am. If you have ever wondered what happens at a GMM and how you can get involved this is a great place to start. All Standing committees are looking for members… Are you interested in Politics, the Environment, Technology or ever thought you’d like to practice your photography hobby more? Are you interested in Human Rights or Women’s issues? Are you interested in Recreation and social events or helping the Community? There’s a Standing committee for you! A reminder to newly elected members…swearing in for your position will happen this Sunday as well a photography booth will be set up so we can get your picture for the website contact info page. Hope to see everyo...
The International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 17
From National. Unifor calls to End the Ban The International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 17, is an annual reminder that although progress that has been made, there is further to go. Unifor joins the international call for action to address the inequality that too many, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in our workplaces and communities face. Unifor encourages all people to recognize and embrace this day, to support the ongoing struggles for inclusion, acceptance and respect of all LGBTQ people, including supporting the call to end the discriminatory blood donation policy here in Canada and Quebec. LGBTQ all across the country and around the world are faced with legal, social, and institutional barriers. It is these barriers that isolate and divide...
Amber Alert for Ontario – Update
Amber Alert for Ontario Updated 1:06 pm – child found safe
Canadian Association of Labour Media Awards
For those that are not aware Local 88 is a member of the Canadian Association of Labour Media (CALM). Once a year the association holds an awards night to honour excellence in the print, broadcast, online and graphics arts for material produced in the previous year from all across Canada. Tonight, Friday May 11, 2018, the ceremony is being held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Local 88 has won 3 Awards! Best photograph Winner: volunteer produced. Sister Doris Weir snapped the winning pic during our strike in 2017 of Sister Ashley Osbourne and her son on the picket line. Rosemarie Bahr award for excellence in print layout and design Winner – volunteer produced. For our April 2017 Off the Line newsletter. Best website Winner Volunteer produced: unifor88.ca. I’d like to personally thank E...
JERSEYS FOR HUMBOLDT.
As a show of solidarity to the Humboldt Broncos and their families after the tragic event that happened in Saskatchewan Thursday April 12 2018 will be Jersey/Green Shirt day at Cami across all 3 shifts. This initiative is Canada wide. So tell your friends and neighbours! Members are encouraged to take pics of their teams participating and share on Social Media using the hashtag #jerseysforhumboldt *please use discretion and common sense when posting pics of in plant areas.
Changes to Facebook and how they affect us
We have/had an autoposting system set up on this website to automatically post anything from the news section of this website over to our Facebook group. Now with the newly reported security concerns at FB they have decided to pull that ability along with many others, including our FB members area login, away from groups, pages, and most third party apps until these concerns can be dealt with. Until they figure out what they are doing we will have to post in our Group the old fashioned way. Copy and paste content over manually. Unfortunately that adds the human element back in to the equation so there may be some delay between posts on the site and FB group. We will be testing the functionality of our FB login for the members area this weekend and may need to disable that as well. If we do...
App Issues Help Form.
Because technology…. Issues will arise when the app doesn’t do what you want it too. It going to have growing pains as we add more users. This app belongs to everyone in Local 88. So if you experience any issues lets work together to fix them. We have created a form to help with letting us know the issues. Simply tap the Quick Links tab inside the app and scroll down to the form. Fill it out, We will work to fix the issues. Thanks again for your support. Unifor 88 Communication Committee
App sign up info
with the launch of our app today we have been swamped with requests to join the members area. Everyone needs to be vetted individually so please be patient. We will get to everyone ASAP. We forgot to mention a couple of things in our launching post. 1) to receive members area notifications you need to stay logged in to the app (just like your FB one) it needs to be able to target your personal notifications to you 2) our site will send you a cookie so it knows that it is your device has been here before. We will NEVER Sell any data you provide to any third parties. Anything you give us stays securely with us. Thanks.
Introducing our NEW Unifor Local 88 APP!!
Introducing the NEW Unifor Local 88 App. We have been real busy working on a new app for the members. Our previous one was glitchy and when we moved sites to the new server they basically stopped supporting us You will find new features in the new app including access to the members area, Quick link to the Calendar and a ALERTS section to filter all notifications. in regards to notifications, Those are triggered whenever someone makes a post on the website. So on some days you may not get any., others you may recieve multiple. Also NEW is members area notifications. Including friend request and Messages. We will soon be adding the new contract to the members area as well. Keep your alerts on and watch for the notification to appear in your “alert” inbox for the link. As Allan a...
Beta testing our new app
First off have a happy and safe Easter Weekend. Second, we will be testing our app this weekend and we’ve noticed that some have already updated to this newest version. We apologize for the number of Test notifications you may receive. You can turn off notifications for the weekend if you like under the alerts button in the bottom right of the screen. Were almost there! Thanks.
New App Update
We have been charging ahead with the new app build and things are moving quickly. Graphics are approved and ready to go. The technical bit is well underway. iOS users: If you already have our Unifor Local88 app we will be able to make this entirely new app appear as an update on your device. No need for you to do anything but update the app when it’s ready! Android users: Unfortunately we will not be able to save the old app and you will have to delete it and download the new one when it’s ready. We tried to save it but without some vital missing files we are unable to. We will provide links to the apps locations in the Apple App and Google Play stores when it is ready. Keep an eye on the website for further updates.
Local 88 Sister Honoured at ApprSHEation Awards
Local 88 Sister Linda Smith was honoured today at the 9th annual International Women’s Day event. “Linda Smith is a recipient based on her many years in organizing the Take Back the Night March, and volunteering in providing food for folks that don’t have food, and volunteering on various women’s boards.” Congratulations Linda!! You are an awesome activist, Co-Chair, mentor, and friend. See the full Heart.fm story here.
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