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Every Canadian deserves to retire in dignity with a decent retirement income. Defined benefit pension plans are the best and most efficient way to provide a secure and predictable income for CUPE members and all Canadian workers. They’re an essential part of Canada’s pension system. CUPE is dedicated to protecting and strengthening our member’s pension plans, and helping ensure all Canadians have a secure retirement income.

To run our online services, such as web-based email, web hosting, and online campaigns, we need to be able to check to see that our users are who they say they are.

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.

Current online actions CUPE Education Workers Deserve Respect Tell North Shore Winter Club managers and board that it’s time to end the lockout Please take action to help defeat Bill C-377

Employers are required by law to accommodate workers with disabilities. But how far do they have to go? Pretty damn far. CUPE’s latest fact sheet spells out many of the ways workers can be accommodated, from modifying the work environment, to retraining and more.

Your local union has a key role to play in supporting disability rights, including the right to be accommodated at work. Your union can take a number of steps to ensure that all members understand their workplace rights and employers’ obligations relating to a disability.

Union dues are the way workers who have decided to form a union pool their resources to enable the work of the union. Union dues fund the cost of bargaining, the cost of enforcing the collective agreement, and the cost of campaigns union members instruct their union to conduct.

The following organizations offer valuable services and resources for persons with disabilities.

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. Other medical conditions can also be disabilities. For instance, people with occupational asthma may be completely free of symptoms as long as they work in an area with no irritants.

The Literacy Working Group (LWG) helps to guide CUPE’s literacy and clear language work.