Daily Bulletin, September 11
This issue of the bulletin concerns only
1) Today’s Membership Meetings
2) our Friday Rally Action
President’s Message and Membership Meeting
[The below is only an excerpt from the President’s Message email sent by Catherine Wall on Wednesday, Sept 10, at 9:36 p.m. Please refer to that email for the full information.]
We will hold two townhall-style meetings for DFA Members Thursday, September 11, at 12:00 noon and 4:00 pm. Please make every effort to attend at least one of these meetings. The meeting links are at the end of the original email. (Note: There are two meeting times which will allow for picketers and those with alternate lockout duties to attend.)
At the meetings we will do our best to explain to everyone what has been happening in collective bargaining because the situation has become complex and confusing to many people. The meetings will be a chance to hear from me, David Wallbridge, and other members of the DFA Bargaining Team and Executive Committee, and it will be a chance for you to ask questions of us. We will discuss important procedural matters, but also the substance of the offers that remain on the table at this time.
David Westwood, President
DFA
Friday One-Membership, One-Line Solidarity March
We were planning this action before yesterday’s events, but now it seems even more on point. On Friday, September 12th, in place of our usual picket lines and shifts, we will instead be asking everyone who normally pickets a Halifax campus (and any member who can come) to gather in a full-membership line from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
We recognize that some people will have conflicts that can’t be changed, but we want as many of our members as possible to gather together for one giant picket line to show our solidarity, our strength, and our resolve to save our university and our students’ education. Members in Truro and Saint John campuses and our virtual picketers are welcome to participate from their locations–let us know and send pictures or notes!
We will meet outside the Killam Library, then march single-file down University Ave. to Robie St.; we will then turn around and march back on the other side of University Ave. until we reach the university quad, where we will hold a rally.
We need to show the administration and the board that we are united against their backhanded dealings, and we need to show our students and the public that we will fight to bring our Dalhousie back from the brink.
ONE MEMBERSHIP, ONE LINE, ONE DALHOUSIE!