If Facebook posts are anything to go by, there is a lot of Club activity this fall and some meetings are actually taking place in-person! As Clubs begin to meet after the summer hiatus, some questions are being asked about the decisions we have made around financial support for GWI (the opt-in/out option) and the bylaw changes that were made at the AGM in June. Currently, we are working on a protocol for Policy Meetings and we will share that as soon as it is available.

I would like to clarify something that I said in the last Club Action News about the payment of dues at clubs where a member is a primary member or where a member is a dual member. This is the first time that we have separated CFUW dues from GWI dues. Previously, when a club collected the dues for CFUW National, they submitted $76 per capita of which $54.30 was allocated for CFUW and the additional amount was to pay GWI expenses. At the AGM this past June, we passed a motion to make CFUW National dues $55 and to have a formula for the calculation of the GWI dues. Going forward, all Clubs collect $55 for National and opt-in Clubs also collect an amount to pay the GWI dues. Dues should be seen as being comprised of 2-3 components:

• Club dues:  The amount retained by clubs to fund club activities
• CFUW dues:  $55 for dues owing May 1, 2022
• GWI dues:  $30.10 for dues owing January 1, 2022 (based on 21.5 CHF at an exchange rate of 1.4)

Therefore, a member can pay her CFUW dues in her primary club and her GWI dues in another club that has agreed to forward her GWI dues to CFUW. Click here for a more detailed explanation & examples.

The past eighteen months has shown us that social distancing does not have to mean social isolation.  Clubs have been sharing events and speakers and joining cross- Canada meetings. If your Club has something to share, an event or a speaker, please don’t hesitate to send details to Brittany or Charlotte at the National Office and we will include them in Club Action Newsletter.  

Take care and keep safe and I hope before my presidency term is up, I will actually get to meet a few more of you in person.
 

 

Kathryn Wilkinson

 

1. Pay Equity ‘ hands-on’ Salary Negotiation: This workshop is geared toward graduating college and university students and offers practical tools to help young women identify their transferable skills, bolster their resumes and learn evidence-based negotiation strategies. 
2. ‘Train the Trainers’: Participants are trained as facilitators to effectively deliver the Pay Equity Salary Negotiation Workshop for future utilization.  
3. Pay Equity Advocacy Campaign: This workshop focuses on how to raise public awareness about the pay gaps in Canada, how to mount a campaign, and how participants can become pay equity leaders in their community.

The CFUW Charitable Trust is inviting you to join their Speakers Panel on Saturday, October 16th at 1:00 - 3:00 PM EST.

This event is free; however, a donation of $30 to the Charitable Trust to attend would be most appreciated. Here is HOW TO DONATE. 

 

Join UWCNY's Gender-Based Violence Advocacy Group on Tuesday October 19, 2021, at 5-5.45 p.m. on Zoom for screening of the 20 min. CTV documentary – W5: Unrestrained, on how the justice system fails to protect women from partner violence. CTV Journalist Avery Haines will be present to talk about her work and answer questions. All CFUW members are welcome!

Join CFUW Nepean for their speaker series on Wednesday, October 20 at 7pm ET. Women Unsilenced explores the impact of unthinkable violence committed against women and girls through multiple perspectives - women's recall of life-threatening ordeals of torture, human trafficking, and organized crime, society's failure to recognize and address such crimes, and close examinations of how justice, health, political, and social systems perpetuate revictimizing trauma. Registration link coming soon!

"As illustrated by our GWI Webinar in April and long before, many GWI members around the world have a deep interest in the perilous situation for women in Afghanistan. As the situation grew even more serious in the months that followed, NFAs worked in their own countries to do what they could. GWI then shared a letter of concern with all members in mid-August "to have Afghan women ’s voices heard in the global space.” The Taliban had taken control of their country. We knew that women and girls had been denied access to education during the Taliban rule two decades earlier and, in the 20 years of relative peace, had shown themselves to be passionate about their own education, and indeed their human rights. Was there anything we could do to support these brave women?" Click here to continue reading the full article by Dorothy Phillips and Hally Siddons!