Your Women’s Issues Network is pleased to announce your new regional committees. Votes were held across Ontario to help select regional representatives for your Women's Issues Network (WIN). In each of the network’s six regions, a Chair, Co-Chair and an Alternate were chosen to serve as the regional committee for a four-year term.
"On behalf of Local 1000A, I am proud to congratulate and welcome our WIN regional representatives," said President Pearl Sawyer. “With the help of local union staff and officers, the regional representatives will play a critical role in mobilizing members within their regions and in ensuring that WIN continues to be a powerful and compassionate voice for women across Ontario.”
The WIN regional representatives gained the recommendation of members at each of the regional votes and were appointed to their roles by the president. The members of WIN play an crucial role in empowering women within our local union and giving voice to issues faced by women at work and in our communities.
As noted in an excerpt from our WIN mission statement:
“The Women’s Issues Network will focus on identifying areas of concerns and make recommendations on issues that primarily affect working women. They will work towards dissolving barriers that may discourage or prevent the involvement of women in their local union and workplace. The Women’s Issues Network will be a communications link of interested members. It will encourage participation and input and also enable the Women's Issues Network to provide materials in order to educate and raise awareness on a range of subject matter of interest to working women. WIN is the voice of solidarity on the path to promoting and achieving equality, support and respect; and will work to inspire confidence for women in themselves and in the efforts of their local union on their behalf."
Local 1000A WIN coordinator Diana O'Brien and local union staff conducted the votes across the province.
"I am excited to work with our regional representatives to help raise awareness and grow activism in their regions about the issues facing women and their families," said O’Brien.
Below is a list of the WIN Regional Committees:
Region 1 East
Chair Caroline Brisebois
Co-chair Katherine White
Alternate Maria Shouman
Region 2 Central East
Chair Nancy Prout
Co-Chair Rose Krstervski
Alternate Lorraine Anderson
Region 3 Central
Chair Mary-Joe Eaton
Co-chair Diane Wilmot
Alternate Maria Bocangel
Region 4 Central West
Chair April Inata
Co-Chair Lisa Van Altena-Walsh
Alternate Shirley Steptoe
Region 5 West
Chair Sheri Storey
Co-Chair Cindy Mueller
Alternate Al McDougall
Region 6 North
Chair Cathy Watson
Co-Chair Laura Lee Robineau
Alternate Anna Alers-Alers
