The following recommendation was proposed by Jackie Stalker at the plenary session and approved by participants:

• BE IT RESOLVED that in view of the importance of Conference resolutions, C.C.L.O.W.'s Conference Planning Committee always allow a minimum of a half-day in order to debate, clarify, and strengthen resolutions and action plans arising from the Conference.

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TELEGRAMS SENT FROM THE CONFERENCE

October 19, 1980

Donald Johnston
President
Treasury Board
House of Commons
Ottawa

Halifax - The Education Connection (October 17-19), a conference in Halifax of 420 women from all parts of Canada, supports the demand of the Canadian Union of Professional and Technical Employees (translators unit) for a minimum of 17 weeks paid maternity leave at 60% of regular salary. The Canadian government must be accountable to its commitment, made at the 1980 Copenhagen Convention, to paid maternity leave.

(A copy of the above telegram was sent to the Canadian Union of Professional and technical Employees in addition to the following.)

Canadian Union of Professional and Technical Employees
Translators Unit
Suite 505, 77 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5L6

The Education Connection, a national conference of 420 women, meeting in Halifax, supports your crucial struggle for paid maternity leave, a struggle which unites Canadian women because it touches all of our lives.

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