"Raising public awareness of this issue and its prevalence is one of the keys to addressing this issue. It is very clearly ‘not part of the job!’ All workers deserve to work in a safe environment and to be treated with respect regardless of their gender identity, religion, or ethnicity." Bert Blundon, NUPGE President. Domestic Violence and the Workplace, Women's Issues Bert Blundon , Bea Burske
“With the ongoing rise of the far right at home in Canada, and around the world, we must be extra vigilant at pushing for legal protections for transgender and gender-expansive people and for education for the public about transgender and gender-expansive issues.” ― Bert Blundon, NUPGE President Diversity and Inclusion in our Unions, Equality and Human Rights, LGBTQI2S+ Rights, Transgender Rights Transgender Day of Remembrance, Rita Hester, TDoR transgender
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“Together with labour and civil society colleagues, NUPGE will be there to call for bold climate action that not just gets us to our climate targets but addresses inequities and upholds human rights." Bert Blundon, NUPGE President Environment/Climate Change, Equality and Human Rights, International Solidarity Bert Blundon, Climate Action Network Canada, Canadian Labour Congress Conference of the Parties, climate action, climate justice
"We are where the power in this province resides. They might only be coming for education workers now, but when you come for one of us, you come for all of us. Let this last week be an example workers united will shut this province down whenever we need to." JP Hornick, OPSEU/SEFPO President OPSEU Equality and Human Rights, Labour Rights, Component Bargaining Bert Blundon, JP Hornick, OPSEU/SEFPO, NUPGE, CUPE, Doug Ford education workers, notwithstanding clause, labour rights