Sandy Hits the USA

Sandy started as a hurricane in the Caribbean. It affected Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. As of Tuesday, October 30th 2012, the storm's death toll in the Caribbean rose to 69.

Click on the links below to watch the CTV news clips on Sandy. hitting the USA.

 Sandy Hits New York

Sandy Hits Atlantic City, New Jersey



Click on the link below to look at the pictures of  the devastation Sandy left behind.
Sandy Hits the USA in pictures

No school on October 30th, 2012 due to strike

CUPE workers at VCC set to strike

 

Labour event

 October 30th, 2012 there will be no classes, information sessions or general campus services due to strike.  CUPE support staff at Vancouver Community College are going on strike.

 CUPE 4627 represents library technicians, clerical workers, administrative, technical, warehouse, program assistants and cafeteria workers at VCC.

Regular schedules will resume on Wednesday, Oct. 31st.

For further updates, please visit http://www.cupe4627.com/

Students or prospective students who require urgent information about registration, financial aid or the like, may call 604.443.8400. 

Why?
On Friday, Oct. 26, CUPE local 4627 served Vancouver Community College 72-hour strike notice and advised the college of plans to establish picket lines at both the Broadway and Downtown campuses.

CUPE 4627 chief steward Jo Hansen says the 420 members are tired of waiting for the government’s Public Sector Employers’ Council (PSEC) to approve the college negotiating in good faith for a settlement. Their last contract expired more than two years ago in 2010.
“The college is still waiting for PSEC ‘permission’ to negotiate monetary items under the province’s Cooperative Gains Mandate,” says Hansen adding, “We’re through waiting.  Our members have the right to free collective bargaining and we will be taking escalating job action at VCC until that happens.” 
The union says an overtime ban will be initiated on Monday as soon as the 72-hour waiting period is complete, followed by a one-day full-out strike on Tuesday at both campuses (Broadway and Downtown).  After that the union is planning rotating, escalating job action to push for productive negotiations. 

Retrieved on October 29th, 2012  from  http://cupe.ca/strikes/workers-vcc-set-strike

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Saidi's Video

 

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Can you recognize him in the video?