Why Choose CUPE?
CUPE is Canada’s largest union with over 780,000 members across the country. CUPE represents workers across a broad range of sectors including airlines, child care and early learning, emergency services, health care, K-12, libraries, municipalities, post-secondary, social services, and transportation.
CUPE is a founding union of the Canadian Labour Congress, the umbrella organization for the Canadian labour movement. With dozens of affiliated Canadian and International unions, as well as provincial federations of labour and regional labour councils, the CLC represents the interests of more than three million workers in every imaginable occupation from coast to coast to coast.
In choosing CUPE, workers join a union where the members are in charge: each CUPE local decides its priorities for bargaining, when to settle a new contract, and how to manage funds. CUPE's strength comes from individual members working toward common goals.
More than 70 per cent of CUPE’s 3,946 collective agreements are with locals of 100 members or less. A union is like a team that works together to make sure everyone gets a fair deal at work and has a say in the conditions of their employment.
CUPE has more than 780,000 members across Canada, and approximately 2,363 locals and chartered organizations across the country, ranging in size from 20 to 20,000 members. More than 60% of CUPE's members are women.
Joining CUPE means being part of a collective voice that ensures your concerns are heard and addressed by your employer. Workers coming together to form local unions built CUPE. They did so to have a stronger voice – a collective voice – in their workplace and in society as a whole.
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Benefits of Unions
CUPE members work in a broad range of sectors including airlines, child care and early learning, emergency services, health care, K-12, libraries, municipalities, post-secondary, social services, and transportation.
Fairness
Unionizing your workplace can equal the playing field.
Better Support
Joining CUPE means being part of a collective voice that ensures your concerns are heard and addressed by your employer.
We're All In This Together
A union is like a team that works together to make sure everyone gets a fair deal at work and has a say in the conditions of their employment.