Organizing

Joining a union is the best way to improve your job and the jobs of your co-workers. We want to provide the benefits of union membership to as many workers as possible.

Workers have the right to join a union and choose a union to represent them when dealing with their employer. Bringing new members into CUPE is an important part of our work and CUPE staff are available to help workers organize in every province.

Join CUPE

Unions make the lives of workers better, both in the workplace and beyond.

Unions offer workers a collective voice. Membership in a union leads to better wages, pensions, working conditions and protection on the job.

When people join CUPE, they join Canada’s largest union with 800,000 members working toward common goals. Talk to your colleagues and start organizing today.

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The certification process

Workers have the right to join a union and choose the union to represent them dealing with their employer.

In Canada, the certification process is mostly of provincial jurisdiction, and differs from one province to another. Click below to learn more about the certification process in each province.

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