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Check out the collective agreement language social services locals have bargained on access to information.

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Use this fact sheet for quick links to research resources and to learn how research can help your local.

National Secretary-Treasurer’s Reports outline the current financial situation of CUPE, including updated balances for the National Defence Fund and National Strike Fund. Updates current CUPE strikes and lockouts, and provides information on recent settlements. Provides current status of CUPE assets, such as IT and office properties. Updates newly hired staff and retirements.

The Provincial Government and Crown Corporations Sector council includes CUPE locals whose members bargain with provincial governments and crown corporations. Members work in correctional facilities, casinos, liquor commissions, provincial highways departments, and workers’ compensation systems. This profile is intended to provide CUPE members with basic information about the sector they work in from a national perspective.

Canada’s cities and towns are the bedrock of our country. They are responsible for the infrastructure and services that keep us safe and healthy. But our cities and towns are being held back. Underfunding, downloading and privatization threaten our social and economic fabric.

The word disabled means many different things to different people. People frequently picture wheelchairs, guide dogs, and other more obvious examples of disabilities. However disabilities often cannot be seen just by looking at a worker. Not all workers with mobility issues require a wheelchair, and not all visually impaired workers are com­pletely blind.

CUPE members in certain jobs are often required to assist patients, clients, residents or students to move, or get up. Often these workers are not given adequate training or sufficient time to employ proper lifting techniques or to use lift aids. Over 60,000 workers in health care suffer time loss injuries every year as the result of a back injury.

The duty to accommodate is a broad equality concept that applies to all grounds of discrimination covered under human rights legislation and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.