Status of Women committee  I arm-wrestled the other arm.

Status of Women committee  Okay. Very quickly, my experience is a little different, because I go into a lot of places of work to help. In small communities, in mills, for instance, women want to go in there for the money, right, because it's really, really good money. So what you have to do is go into pl

Status of Women committee  That's a big question. It is part of my mandate with the union and with the CLC to try to develop better procedures in terms of education, but it is the employer's responsibility; the environment is the employer's responsibility. The employer has sole liability for the environme

Status of Women committee  Okay. If punishment is necessary, I've been told that we can pull them off work for a day--

Status of Women committee  The employment equity legislation requires federal employers or contractors to report on their progress every so many years--I'm not sure, but it may be five years--in building the status of women and in changing the workplace, not just for women, but for minorities, people with

Status of Women committee  No. It's linked to recruitment, to environment, and to whether there's a human rights policy--those equitable measures inside the workforce. It's not linked to benefits.

Status of Women committee  May I answer that?

Status of Women committee  I think that's the one weakness of Vince Ready's report. He went to San Francisco, so what he was looking at was the affirmative action program of the United States of America. What he was looking at was a suit under that program, where a judicial order happened to order this num

Status of Women committee  I can't really dispute what she says about the environment because I'm new to this. There has been a lot of literature, but my problem as a human rights person is that the literature is all subjective and has all been done in confidentiality. So the stories that have been told by

Status of Women committee  Thanks, Tom. Did you know that currently there are no provisions for maternity leave at Pacific coast ports, beyond legislated minimums? The same holds true for paternity leave. Also, there are no child care provisions. Waterfront workers do not have any workplace policies that