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    :: Friday, October 22, 2004 ::

    CEP EMERGENCY RESOLUTION BC Carpenters Union / fax
    PRESENTED BY CMAW
    WHEREAS British Columbia Carpenters union members have voted 84% to leave their American union to form a Canadian union; and
    WHEREAS the British Columbia Carpenters Union have now affiliated with CEP through the Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers Council; and
    WHEREAS on September 28, 2004 the International Union attempted to hold trustee hearings against the British Columbia Provincial Council of Carpenters; and
    WHEREAS this attempt to remove the leadership and take-over the British Columbia Carpenters Union was prevented by an order of the British Columbia Supreme Court;
    THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT CEP will take all necessary steps to support our affiliate members in CMAW in their struggle for a democratic, progressive Canadian union.
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    Passed by unanimous decision by 1000 delegates at the CEP Convention, Quebec, 20 October 2004

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