Notes From the Brockville Campus Picket Lines

by Lynne Gardiner  Phone: 340-6224

 

Notes from March 16th   17th   20th   21st

 

Please note: rally on Thursday is at 4 pm

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Well,

Crap.

What else can I say.  The talks have broken off. 

 The negotiating team has delivered the message that they want our lines to remain ‘strong’ during this very tenuous time.  I’ve noticed that most of you have remained consistent and responsive to the needs of the pickets, and I’m very grateful for your attitude.  You are an amazing group of people.  We’ll really need to care for each other through this difficult and demoralizing time.

 My sincere thanks to Kip for the numerous thank you notes she made and addressed.  Any of you who know the people to whom these notes belong, please feel free to take them and deliver them to their rightful owner.  While you’re there, take a peak at the cards – they’re really quite wonderful.

 Announcements:

1)      The pay is in!  Please see Jim Miller for your cheques.

2)     There will be a rally, with support from other Unions (OSSTF etc.) on Thursday at 4:00 , at the Parkedale entrance to the College.  Please join us and invite your friends to support.  This rally is at the request of the central Negotiating Team, in order to help ‘keep pressure’.

3)      There are extra raincoats in the trailer.  Please feel free to use them at any time – even if you just need to have an extra windbreak.

4)      Please help me out by keeping record (in the trailer) of all the donations to the line.  We have a couple of people working on thank you notes for the donations thus far, and I really want the donors to be aware of our gratitude.  

In solidarity,

Lynne