getting the work. You hear stories from certainly before Bena's time but before at the time around that I started, women in those positions going to convention and what it was like there when the women came in from the western areas who were women that were coming to these LCUC conventions. You should do some interviews with those folks because it shouldn't be lost what they went through going to conventions as definitely unpopular members. Q: Who were those women? KK: Well Lynn Bue was one of them, she was one of the first and she experienced all of that, what it was like working on the work floor, definitely predominantly men, and the attitudes toward women. She's got some great stories about other brothers standing up for her and how things went down. But I know who you're thinking of and I can't think of her name. BP: Shirley Cameron. She was the first letter carrier in Edmonton in 1973. KK: We did a write-up about her in the Inside Out, our newsletter, at the time that she left, that she retired. She's here in Edmonton, she's still here I think. BP: And the percentage on the executive is I would say about 30 percent women. KK: At the moment, ya. BP: More women are starting to get attracted to come to the meetings. You see them on the floor. Michelle Rim I forgot, she's an executive as well. So there is seven. Kathleen Mpulubusi is also the route measurement officer. She's a verification officer. She does the planning and building of the letter carrier routes, so she's quite involved. She started off from the women's committee. She was introduced by me to the women's committee and then she just started coming and she loved it. We kept pushing her. We said, you know there's a position. Karen was actually telling her. Kathleen, let's put your name down for
getting the work. You hear stories from certainly before Bena's time but before at the time around that I started, women in those positions going to convention and what it was like there when the women came in from the western areas who were women that were coming to these LCUC conventions. You should do some interviews with those folks because it shouldn't be lost what they went through going to conventions as definitely unpopular members. Q: Who were those women? KK: Well Lynn Bue was one of them, she was one of the first and she experienced all of that, what it was like working on the work floor, definitely predominantly men, and the attitudes toward women. She's got some great stories about other brothers standing up for her and how things went down. But I know who you're thinking of and I can't think of her name. BP: Shirley Cameron. She was the first letter carrier in Edmonton in 1973. KK: We did a write-up about her in the Inside Out, our newsletter, at the time that she left, that she retired. She's here in Edmonton, she's still here I think. BP: And the percentage on the executive is I would say about 30 percent women. KK: At the moment, ya. BP: More women are starting to get attracted to come to the meetings. You see them on the floor. Michelle Rim I forgot, she's an executive as well. So there is seven. Kathleen Mpulubusi is also the route measurement officer. She's a verification officer. She does the planning and building of the letter carrier routes, so she's quite involved. She started off from the women's committee. She was introduced by me to the women's committee and then she just started coming and she loved it. We kept pushing her. We said, you know there's a position. Karen was actually telling her. Kathleen, let's put your name down for
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