National Strike Fund

CUPE’s National Strike Fund ensures that every CUPE member and local – whether on strike or locked out, or facing a strike or lock out – has the union’s full backing. The Fund provides strike pay as well as funding for campaigns to pressure employers to avert or end a strike or lock out.

The National Strike Fund is funded by allocating six cents from every dollar raised through the CUPE National per capita tax.

In recent years, faced with more strikes, longer strikes and larger strikes, two additional levies have been put in place, the special levy and the solidarity levy. These levies are helping to build up the National Strike Fund, ensuring that every CUPE member can count on strike pay when they are forced to walk the line to get the wages, working conditions and respect they deserve.