Young Activists
Committee Members (2011-13)
Jason Heistad, Vice President, Chair
Elba Botelho, Local 047
Joanna Brosseau, Local 054
Brendan Grant, Local 057
Jennifer Letawsky, Local 054
Brittany Murphy, Local 003
Crystal Plester, Local 003
Rebecca Strople, Local 047
Michelle Szalynski, Local 048
Leslie Davies, Staff Advisor
Duties of the Young Activists Committee
AUPE’s Constitution sets out the duties of the Young Activists Committee as follows:
The Young Activists Committee shall:
- establish ongoing connections with AUPE members 30 years and younger to determine their needs, issues, concerns as younger workers and as AUPE members;
- establish a network of AUPE’s younger members to share common issues, interests, and concerns as younger workers, and to provide a forum to raise their issues and concerns;
- encourage younger members’ participation in AUPE, their worksites and their communities;
- bring forward issues of concern for younger members to the Provincial Executive and Convention;
- present appropriate resolutions at Convention;
- to educate younger members on youth movements in the community and to establish links with youth movements which share the same goals and objectives as AUPE;
- keep younger members informed of the issues affecting AUPE through articles in “Direct Impact” and through a Young Activist Committee web-page; and
- establish a network of elected Local contacts to develop a line of communication between the Young Activists Committee and the membership.
Young Activists Conference