Status of Women committee  No, there are none, Dr. Fry.

Status of Women committee  That's correct.

Status of Women committee  I would just add these quick comments.

Status of Women committee  Recruitment is on a fifty-fifty basis by the collective agreement, which we can't unilaterally change ourselves. When we get a failing grade as BCMEA, in fact we all get a failing grade. Our proposals are about going forward and leaving our failing grades as an industry—and I mea

Status of Women committee  We have not advertised recently because of the economic downturn, but that's what we would intend to do going forward. I think that is really one of the critical issues here. We should concentrate on the go-forward position as opposed to our sad history on these issues. We pro

Status of Women committee  We would anticipate... When we did that on our website... You see, the recruitment process is interesting; what BCMEA has done is... It's mandated fifty-fifty in terms of recruitment by the collective agreement, so for anyone to suggest otherwise is completely inaccurate in terms

Status of Women committee  They give them--

Status of Women committee  Yes. What ends up happening, of course, is that these are mostly given to brothers, uncles, and sons, which is why we have the statistics we do vis-à-vis the list that Mr. Dufresne references.

Status of Women committee  Yes. The ILWU is comprised approximately 50% of full-fledged union members, and 50% of the workforce are what are termed “casuals”. Casuals have no representation and no vote within the ILWU.

Status of Women committee  The collective agreement calls for the same rate of pay for both.

Status of Women committee  On these lists to which Mr. Dufresne refers, the people on the lists have no official status within the waterfront. Official status within the waterfront occurs when an individual is issued what's called a registration number. So after they've gone through the recruitment process

Status of Women committee  We have the statistics for you. Ms. Marynuik, if you would.

Status of Women committee  If I may add to that, the significance of these statistics is that the way the union is structured only full union members have the vote and representation in their terms and conditions of employment, which is why the casual statistics cited are dreadful. But worse than that ar

Status of Women committee  Well, the success appears to be almost legislative in nature, if I could coin it in those terms. On the U.S. west coast, the ILWU had the same issues that we now confront. The way they dealt with that was through their gender equity legislation, which essentially forced on the IL

Status of Women committee  This is the base reason for us filing the human rights complaint that we did file. We have tried to bring the union along with several proposals that have been tabled and would address the long-standing issues of recruitment, transparency of access to training, and basically the