I have no objection. The United Way is 50% labour supported so it’s quite appropriate to host them.

julie

Hi everyone,

I’m forwarding an email from Gina McKay about a “United Way Winnipeg & Labour” table at the conference.  I had meant to bring this up at the meeting, but forgot.  My feeling is that I think this is fine.  It does raise some policy issues, though, for the conference.  First is, if they are in the publishers’ exhibit area, should they have to pay the $200 – my feeling is no.  Where this becomes an issue is if other groups want an information table.  As yet, we haven’t had any requests from political groups, etc., for tables.  But what if we do?  My feeling is that we have to allow them to display, but in a hallway somewhere.  Is the United Way different?  Might others be different?  This may turn out to be a non-issue, but I thought it worth raising and sounding people out.

Jim

From: Gina McKay <gmckay@unitedwaywinnipeg.mb.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2019 12:53 PM
To: Brandon University 1919strikeconference <1919strikeconference@BrandonU.CA>
Subject: tabling opportunity

Good afternoon,

I wanted to reach out to you folks to inquire about the possibility of setting up a United Way Winnipeg & Labour table at the conference. I will be attending as a delegate already, and am a volunteer with the 1919 events committee, but wanted to reach out to help make connections for delegates to our Labour Program services, our national labour education & training opportunities with the Cdn Labour Congress, our social stewarding resource app across Canada (and in Manitoba: mb.211.ca), etc.

I think it is a great opportunity to help build stronger relationships with the communities we live and work in, and I’m hoping that you might consider this opportunity. We also have created a window display timeline of Labour & the building and funding of the social service sector in Winnipeg that will be launched in early May that might be of interest to delegates. I have connected with Anna Rothney already about including information for the conference delegate kits, but with that said, I could also see if we might be able to bring along a few of our mounted panels of artifacts and images to have on display. It might be a great eye catching way to make a local, community connection to social justice activism, the work sector, and the supports and resources for our labour movement.

Thank you for considering the opportunity and ask. I look forward to hearing from you!

Solidarity,

Gina McKay

Gina McKay

Labour Director

United Way Winnipeg
580 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB   R3B 1C7
Ph. (204) 924-4261 | Fx. (204) 453-6198

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