Fact sheets
Fact sheets and guidelines
Learn more about the issues affecting Indigenous communities with our fact sheets and guidelines.
Take action
Take action for Indigenous rights
CUPE’s Water is life campaign raises awareness about the ongoing struggles of Indigenous peoples, and shows how CUPE members can listen, learn and act.
Current resources
Guide
Truth and reconciliation bargaining guide
CUPE is committed to ensuring locals have access to resources that support the union’s work on truth and reconciliation. One of the ways CUPE locals can support reconciliation is by bargaining language supporting Indigenous workers into collective agreements. Our new guide, Truth and reconciliation: CUPE taking action through collective bargaining, is for everyone who wants to put reconciliation into action at the bargaining table.
CUPE's Anti-Racism Strategy
Rooted in the knowledge and experiences heard during cross-country consultations with Black, Indigenous and racialized members, CUPE’s Anti-Racism Strategy is our plan to break down barriers and create a stronger, more inclusive union for the struggles ahead.
Resources
Water is life: Listen, learn, act
CUPE has long recognized that water is a basic human right for all people and our union is committed to taking action towards truth and reconciliation. CUPE’s Water is life campaign provides educational tools to learn about Indigenous water issues and mobilize all locals and members in support of Indigenous peoples and allies to protect and fix the water.
Counterpoint
Opening doors to Indigenous representation in our unions
Ensuring that Indigenous members are included in union decision-making spaces is an important step on the path of reconciliation. One concrete way CUPE locals can do this is by creating an Indigenous workers’ representative position on their executive board.
Counterpoint
More than a holiday: Preparing for June 21 and September 30 with purpose
It can be easy to mix up June 21 and September 30, but they aren’t interchangeable. Both are important Indigenous observances that go beyond a day off, and each comes with its own purpose and meaning. Here is a simple guide to what each day is for – and how CUPE members can show up in a good way and carry that commitment into the rest of the year.
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
Indigenous territory guide and interactive map
Indigenous territory guide and interactive map
National Association of Friendship Centres
Indigenous resources
Discussions about colonialism, residential schools, systemic racism, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people (MMIWG2S+), and other forms of violence can be difficult and may bring up painful memories or emotions. If you need support, the following resources provide crisis intervention, counselling, cultural support and information for Indigenous people, families and communities.
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Guide
Truth and reconciliation: CUPE taking action through collective bargaining
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Report
The Colour of Privatization: A CUPE report on the impacts of privatized and for-profit services on Indigenous, Black and racialized workers and communities
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Fact sheets
Water is life fact sheet: Indigenous communities confront environmental racism
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Posters
Water is life poster
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Fact sheets
Water is Life fact sheet: The fight for clean drinking water continues
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Report
CUPE's Anti-Racism Strategy
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