Hi! My name is Jackie. I am 25 years old. I am a member of UFCW Local 832 here in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I work as a part-time cashier at Canada Safeway (grocery store) for 6 years. I am very involved in my local. I was just on a 4 week National Youth Internship Program that my union offers. It is for anyone 26 and under. The main idea for the internship is that UFCW wants to get youth involved in there locals as we are the future of tomorrow, to learn the history of UFCW. The first week we just did a summary of the history of UFCW Canada. In the 2nd week we had the pleasure of going to the CLC (Canadian Labour of Congress) convention in Montreal, Quebec. While we were there, we did a protest against Wal-Mart because they close a store down in Jeanquiere, Quebec because the workers wanted to unionize it. I have my magazine articles from my local about it, if you guys would like to see them.   The last 2 weeks we went to Brooks & Calgary, Alberta. In Brooks we worked on a very tough organizing drive for a meat packing plant called Lakeside Packers. Lakeside is owned by Tyson foods. If you guys want, there's a website all about what happened. It's www.terribletyson.com.  Basically what happened was the workers were all ready to strike on July 20th but Ralph Klein (Alberta's premiere) ordered the workers back to work because he claimed they were an 'essential service' which they are not. As of right now, the company & union are in negoations but Tyson keeps walking away from them.  They need a union in there so badly.  The last couple of days we did 'Talking Union' training. Talking Union is a program run by our national office where we go into high schools and talk about the advantages of unionized jobs compared to non-unionized ones. I am also on my youth committee's executive board. I am the recorder, so I take notes at every meeting.  I also attened every meeting my union has, and have also atteneded 3 confrences. My whole family is involved in there unions.  If any of you have questions, please don't be afraid to ask.