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The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE, French: Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique) is a Canadian trade union serving the public sector - although it has in recent years organized workplaces in the non-profit and para-public sector as well. With more than half a million members across Canada, CUPE represents workers in health care, education, municipalities, libraries, universities, social services, public utilities, transportation, emergency services and airlines. CUPE is the largest union in Canada. Over 60% of its members are women, and almost a third are part-time workers.
History
CUPE was formed in 1963 in a fashion resembling industrial unionism by merging the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and the National Union of Public Service Employees (NUPSE). The first national president was Stan Little, who had previously been the president of NUPSE. Having led public sector unionism through a period where almost no workers had the right to strike, Little has been credited with bringing public sector unions "from collective begging to collective bargaining." By the time of Little's retirement, CUPE had already grown to 210,000 members and had eclipsed Steel as the largest affiliate to the Canadian Labour Congress.
Little was followed in 1975 by Grace Hartman, a dynamic feminist activist who was the first woman to lead a major labour union in North America. Hartman led CUPE to involve itself in broader struggles for social justice and equality, and strongly emphasized the role of social unionism, as opposed to the more conservative business unionism practiced by many North American unions. Never afraid to be confrontational, she was arrested for leading Ontario hospital workers in defying a back-to-work order from the Ontario Supreme Court in 1981, and the 62-year-old grandmother was sentenced to 45 days in jail. She retired in 1983.
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CUPE 1165 - Representing education support workers for the Near North District School Board.
CUPE 118 - Representing municipal workers in the City of Port Alberni, British Columbia.
CUPE 1550 - Workers at the Health Sciences Centre, Health Action Centre, Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, and Urban Shared Services Corporation (USSC) Regional Distribution Facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
CUPE 1615 - Representing administrative, instructional, techinial and technical support employees at Memorial University in Newfoundland.
CUPE 1816 - Represents the 500 plus employees of Pacific Blue Cross in Vancouver, BC, the largest not for profit group benefits carrier in British Columbia.
Meta Description: [ website representing CUPE Local 1816 and its members ]
CUPE 1975 - Workers at the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon.
CUPE 1975 - Represents support staff at University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and University of Regina.
CUPE 2045 - Serves the support staff of School District Number 85, Vancouver Island North, the Municipal workers of Port Alice, and the Arena and Pool Workers of Port Hardy.
CUPE 2081 - Employees at Camosun College on Vancouver Island.
CUPE 2875 - Representing health care workers at Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario.
Meta Description: [ Cupe Local 2875, Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ]
CUPE 3197 - Representing emergency health service personnel in Edmonton.
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CUPE 3287 - University of Saskatchewan Sessional Lecturers' Union.
CUPE 3421: The Calgary Paramedics Union - Site includes a history of the organization, contact and membership information.
CUPE 3902 - Representing Teaching Assistants at the University of Toronto.
CUPE 3903 - York University Contract Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Assistants, and Research Assistants.
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CUPE 3909 - Represents teaching assistants, grader/markers, student lecturers and sessional instructors at the University of Manitoba.
CUPE 3912 - The union local representing part-time university instructors and teaching assistants at Dalhousie, Mount Saint Vincent, and Saint Mary's Universities in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
CUPE 3913 - Represents more than eight hundred members comprised of graduate teaching assistants, graduate service assistants, and sessional lecturers (non-tenure-track faculty) at the University of Guelph.
CUPE 402 - Representing City workers in the City of Surrey, British Columbia.
CUPE 416 - Representing outside municipal workers in Toronto.
CUPE 4163 - Educational Employees Union - Sessional instructors, teaching assistants, English Language Centre employees, lab instructors, computer consultants, and other educational workers at the University of Victoria.
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CUPE 439 - Representing support staff at the Comox Valley School Division, British Columbia.
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CUPE 4400 - Represents education support workers at the Toronto District School Board.
CUPE 4600 - Represents teaching and research assistants at Carelton University. Includes information on filing a grievance, mission statement and links.
CUPE 500 - Civic employees in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Meta Description: [ CUPE Local 500. We are the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 500. We represent employees working at the City of Winnipeg, Riverview Health Centre, St. Boniface Museum, Highlander Ice Sports, Kirkfield-Westwood Community Centre, Varsity View Community Centre, Winnipeg Convention Cen... ]
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CUPE 5678 - Represents education support workers at the Upper Canada District School Board in eastern Ontario.
CUPE 606 - Mid Vancouver Island school employees.
CUPE 79 - Representing civic employees in the City of Toronto.
CUPE 873 - Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia.
CUPE 951 - University of Victoria office and technical workers.
CUPE Alberta - Alberta section of the public sector union.
CUPE British Columbia - BC's largest public sector union.
CUPE Local One - Representing 1,500 clerical, technical, and trades workers at Toronto Hydro.
CUPE Manitoba - Representing 23,000 public sector workers in Manitoba.
CUPE New Brunswick- SCFP Nouveau-Brunswick - Public sector workers in New Brunswick.
CUPE Ontario - Ontario section of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, representing 180,000 public sector workers in Ontario.
Meta Description: [ The Canadian Union of Public Employees represents half a million working women and men ]
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CUPE Reform - A critical analysis of the 2005 CUPE Constitution.
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CUPE Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan's largest union, representing 22,000 public sector employees.
CUPE-Vancouver Island District Council - District Council of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. CUPE locals on Vancouver Island and Powell River.
Hospital Employees' Union - The oldest and largest union in health care in British Columbia, Canada. HEU is affiliated with CUPE.
Power Workers Union - Represents Ontario Hydro workers. PWU is a CUPE affiliate as CUPE Local 1000.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees - Representing over 474,000 full-time and part-time public sector workers across Canada.
Meta Description: [ Half a million working men and women across Canada ]
