CUPE: December 6 a Time to Mourn, Then Work for Change
TRURO, NOVA SCOTIA–(Marketwire – Dec. 4, 2009) – On the anniversary of the Dec 6 electrocute in Montreal, the boss of CUPE Nova Scotia says the provincial supervision needs to take a mount and stop the abuse of women and their children.
Danny Cavanagh says, “Canadians from seashore to seashore should outlay a little time this week finish remembering CUPE part of Maryse Laganiere and the thirteen alternative women who were killed in the 1989 electrocute at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.
“This comfortless action has served to charge with electricity the finalise to put an finish to assault opposite women in all the forms,” says Cavanagh.
“A good place to begin here in Nova Scotia would be to sufficient account the women’s shelters. It is appalling, for instance, which there were 1,269 admissions of women and their young kids to shelters opposite Nova Scotia in between Apr 1, 2007 and Mar 31, 2008.
“We need to work with government, with the members and inside of the communities to learn people and to learn people how to stop abuse. Sadly, 85% of women residing in shelters on Apr 16, 2008, were victims of abuse,” says Cavanagh.
Cavanagh says we all have a shortcoming to work towards elucidate this complaint by increasing recognition and becoming different the mindset about how we understanding with it as a society.
