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CUPE’s Building Strong Locals conference, held in Halifax in April 2017, gave CUPE members from all corners of the country a unique opportunity to come together to share knowledge, common experiences, and common goals. We would like to continue to share these stories to inspire and inform CUPE locals. Each story comes from a CUPE local that has had success in reaching out to members it hadn’t reached before.
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Building local strength by empowering the most vulnerable members
Kate Procopio didn’t plan on becoming a union activist. She had more or less resigned herself to the vagaries of auxiliary work, until things at work changed.
Union education is a key to member engagement
Emilie White knows that union education is a key to member engagement. That’s why she was keen to find out what members thought of the training and workshops available to them.
Building strength one local at a time in Halifax
Over 630 activists participated in CUPE’s Building Strong Locals conference in Halifax this week, giving CUPE members from all corners of the country a unique opportunity to come together to share knowledge, common experiences, and common goals. And they seized it.
Building Strong Locals conference materials
Building Strong Locals National Leadership Survey Project
CUPE is pleased to release the final report of the 2016-17 Building Strong Locals National Leadership Survey Project. The project consisted of a national online survey of elected CUPE local leaders, focus groups with CUPE’s National Equality Committees and the National Young Workers’ Committee, and focus groups with CUPE members who are precariously employed.
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Building Strong Locals Conference
CUPE local leadership from across the country will gather at our Building Strong Locals Conference in Halifax from April 3 to 6, 2017. The Building Strong Locals Conference will provide local leadership with opportunities to develop skills and share best practices to make our union even stronger. A powerful local union is one that is inclusive and accessible, and that’s what the Building Strong Locals Conference is all about.
Halifax, Nova Scotia