Volume 2, number 4, Summer/Fall 2000
CLC announces new literacy project
The CLC has launched a new literacy project, Learning in Solidarity: Integrating a Vision of Union Literacy. CLC Executive Vice-President Jean-Claude Parrot said that with this project, the CLC will continue to provide co-ordination and technical support over the next year to Congress affiliates and federations of labour involved in literacy. "When workers gain skills individually and collectively, the labour movement is strengthened immeasurably," said Parrot. "We are very pleased to be able to carry on our work in the area of literacy."
"When workers gain skills
individually and collectively,
the labour movement is
strengthened immeasurably"
The new initiative will begin to integrate literacy needs and issues into the CLC's daily work, particularly in labour education. The project will provide support for the valuable work of the CLC Literacy Working Group. It will also publish three issues of the newsletter, Learning Together: Solidarity at Work, and continue the development of curriculum, tools, resources, courses and research to do with literacy and clear language. Tamara Levine, who has co-ordinated the CLC's literacy project since 1996, has been re-confirmed in her position.
The project receives funding from the National Literacy Secretariat and will run until May, 2001.
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