National Women’s Committee

The National Women’s Committee is co-chaired by the two National Vice-Presidents for Women’s Priorities and is comprised of the Chairs of each Regional Women’s Committee.

The mandate of the Committee is to:

• Establish Regional Women’s Committees;
• Explore, develop, and review initiatives to promote and support the rights of women;
• Review policies of the union and Departments;
• Represent and respond to concerns relating to women’s priorities;
• Monitor and evaluate the progress of CEIU as a union and as an employer on women’s priorities;
• Make recommendations and provide resolutions to Convention on women’s priorities;
• Encourage increased participation of women at all levels of the union by promoting women’s conferences, training, and activities, and by ensuring accountability for the fair and equitable representation of women at all union activities;
• Review bargaining demands and Convention resolutions dealing with women’s priorities.

Our Women’s Committee Logo

Our logo combines both the silhouettes of women with the silhouettes of trees in the wind. The overlapping of arms and roots symbolize growth, stability, depth, solidarity and unity. The open roots symbolize far reaching and the ever-deepening relationships. The trunks symbolize diversity and the strength of the women in the union. Like women; trees support the network of life around them. Like trees; women communicate and cooperate with each other to sup- port a healthy balance of community. Our strength comes from the coming together of every contribution, no matter how small or large. It is the roots, that you often don’t see, that keep us united and strong as they stabilize the earth below. The logo reminds us to always go back to our roots with full gratitude for the women who came before us.