Union continues yummy breakfasts in Iqaluit

By NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Hunter Tootoo, the MLA for Iqaluit Centre, informed the legislature that the Iqaluit District Education Authority will be able to continue its breakfast program.

In February 2004, Buzz Hargrove, the president of the Canadian Auto Workers Union, Jim O’Neal, its vice-president and Carol Phillips, director of the Union’s Social Justice Fund, were in Iqaluit and presented a $50,000 checque to the IDEA for its breakfast program.

“That contribution salvaged a very worthy program last year. It is unfortunate that there is a lack of government funding and resources for something that is so fundamentally necessary to the successful education of our children,” Tootoo said.

Recently, Tootoo learned that the CAW’s Social Justice Fund has decided to contribute towards the breakfast program once again, providing $25,000 a year for the next three years.

In Nunavut, First Air’s luggage handlers are members of the Canadian Auto Workers’ Union and contribute to the union’s Social Justice Fund.

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