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E. Viurphy goes shopping

NEXT WEDNESDAY, Nov.
23, the Emily Murphy
Transition House will co-host
a fundraising shopping party at
Points West Fashion Outlet.
This holiday shopping event is
open to guests from 5-9 pam., and is
located at 3695 Grandview Hwy.,
at Boundary Road in Vancouver.
Throughout the evening, gues

Centre u

WO RECENT decisions made by
the board and staff of North Shore
Women’s Centre (NSWC) will
result in opening the centre to even
more women on the North Shore.

The centre decided in its recent

planning day to initiate the Room of

One's Own Project, a pilot project
offering free space and facilities to
women's daytime discussion groups.

The centre is looking for propos-
als from women who want to form
self-run discussion groups or social
action networks.

A Room of One's Own is the title
of Virginia Woolf's 1929 classic
where the author states that “a
woman must have money and a room
of her own if she is to write fiction.”
The phrase has been affectionately
adopted by many women to illustrate
the need for space for many things
besides writing.

Inquiries and proposals for the
Room of One's Own project can be
directed to Kathy Dorman at NSWC,
3093 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancou-
ver, B.C. V7N 36, or by calling 980-
4661.

Resources available at the centre
include an extensive lending library.
a news-clipping file, computer equip-
ment, and a wealth of community
resources.

“These are things that all women

will be treated to door prizes, com-
plimentiry coftee and dessert, plen-
ty of helpful staff and some of the
best prices in town on brand name
and designer fashions, accessories
and footwear for the whole family.
Ten percent of the evening's
total sales will be donated to Emily
Murphy Transition House, a shelter
for women and children escaping
violence in their relationships.

Funds ritised will be used to help
renovate a kirger lacility that will
allow the society to assist more
people than can currently be
accommodated,

Points West Fashion Outlet is
B.C.'s only fashion outlet “club.”

For more information about
Emily Murphy House, phone the
North Shore Crisis Services Society
at 987-1773.

Ss access to women

want and need ac to, says Andrea
Taylor, coordinator of NSWC
“Somehow, a lot of people think that
a women's centre is exclusively for
women in crisis. Our experience is
that our centre can assist women in
many stages of their lives.”

Hours of operation are Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-
4 p.m., and Tuesdays from noon to 7
p.m.

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NSWC and Women for Better
Wages (WBW) will present a special
workshop, “Organizing for Better
Wages: Working Conditions,
Benefits and Job Security.” on
Thursday, Nov. 24, from 7-9 p.m. at
NSWC.

The workshop will explore “sec-
toral” or broader-based bargaining as
one potential strategy towards
improving women's wages, bencfits
and working conditions by making it
easier for women to unionize.

Under current labor legislation, it
is almost impossible for women in
private-sector jobs or in small wor
places to organize collectively.

At present, B.C.‘s Labour Code
does not support workers who wish
to join a union with workers at other
work siles in the same job sector,
such as banking, childcare, retail
sales, domestic work or industrial

home wor
Workers in these sectors tradition-
ally receive low wages, few or no
benefits and have litle chance of
improving their working conditions,
The workshop is intended for
women working in job situations that .
could benefit from sectoral bargain-
ing, as well as for those who support
and advocate on behalf of women’s
employment-equality rights.
Feedback from the workshop,
others like it throughout B.C., will be
used to develop an educational pack-
age addressing sectoral bargaini
and its value to women workers.
Women for Better. Wages
coalition of women’s groups, indiv:
ual women and union women in the
Lower Mainland, and NSWC is a
non-profit organization working to
improve the social, economic and
political status of women.

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