| Christmas Cheer |
| Operation |
| Be Union - Buy Union - Support Union |
| Proudly Serving Union Families Since 2004 |
| Email: casandra@operationcheer.com - Phone: (613) 301-2988 - Fax: (613) 692-5265 |
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| About Operation Cheer |
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Welcome To:
Make sure every Brothers and Sister walking a
picket-line in Ontario during the holidays, receives
a traditional Christmas dinner for their family and
their child receives a toy from Santa. Our annual
food and toy collection campaign is active
picket-line in Ontario during the holidays, receives
a traditional Christmas dinner for their family and
their child receives a toy from Santa. Our annual
food and toy collection campaign is active
Operation Christmas Cheer is an organization which is driven by volunteers from
organized labour. OCC's only mandate is to deliver grass roots support to
picket-lines during the Holiday Season. Every year our mission is the same:
organized labour. OCC's only mandate is to deliver grass roots support to
picket-lines during the Holiday Season. Every year our mission is the same:
November and December. We start by collecting one can of food, one toy or one
dollar at a time donated in solidarity support by organized labour. Our volunteers
campaign on behalf of these union families in hardship right up until Christmas Eve.
With out your generous support, Operation Christmas Cheer would not be possible!
dollar at a time donated in solidarity support by organized labour. Our volunteers
campaign on behalf of these union families in hardship right up until Christmas Eve.
With out your generous support, Operation Christmas Cheer would not be possible!
| Timmins 2006 |
| Hawkesbury 2005 |
| Ottawa |
| Pembroke 2004 |
| Timmins 2006 |
| Hawkesbury2005 |
| Toronto 2006 |
| 2007- Weekly Up-Date |
| You Are Visitor Number |
| Copyright 2007 |
| MERRY CHRISTMAS and ALL THE BEST IN 2008! DECEMBER 26: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED !!!!!!!!!! Christmas Cheer was delivered to all picket-line across Ontario last week. Every Brother and Sister on strike or lock-out received bags of food, toys and or toy gift cards and $100. grocery gift cards. Media coverage was generated in each local community, hot lunch was delivered and spirited were up lifted. 34,172.25 in total has been raised as of today! Operation Christmas Cheers annual Picket-Line Press will be published and mailed the first week of January. If you do not receive your copy, please email your mailing address to casandra@operationcheer.com. DECEMBER 19: OCC ANGELS ON THEIR WAY TO GUELPH & GERALDTON $27,047 has been raised as of this morning. By the end of today, every single Ontario local on strike or lock out and each of their active members walking a picket-line, will receive bags of food, grocery gift cards and toys for their children donated in kind by organized labour. Over 95 union locals, committees and Labour Councils from Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, NWT and Montana USA have answered OCC's call and made donations to help union families in need. Check back soon...more good news to come! DECEMBER 15: CHRISTMAS CHEER IS READY TO DELIVER $21,381 in donations have arrived via mail. Over the next 5 days OCC will deliver food, grocery gift cards and toys to 230 striking union members in Guelph, Timmins, Thunder Bay, Longlac, Geraldton and Terrace Bay. DECEMBER 9: HALF WAY TO OUR GOAL OF $19,400 $10,587 in donations has arrived in the mail and another $1,200 has been pledged by locals from all across the province. DECEMBER 2: CHEER SPREADS TO EVERY CORNER OF THE PROVINCE As of this morning $3,035 in donations has arrived in the mail and another $6,000 has been pledged by locals from all across the province. We are almost half way to our goal. There are only 14 days left to fundraise for 284 union families before we deliver to the picket-lines. Volunteers from across the province are spreading the Cheer by informing their Brothers & Sisters, unions, councils, committees and politicians of our Christmas food and toy drive. There was much support from many locals at the OFL convention last week. The CEP Caucus passed the hat was able to raise over $2,000 with CEP Ontario matching it! The ONA is collecting toys, PSAC locals in London have rallied by collecting food, toys and making donations in full force! |
| To Operation Christmas Cheer |
