National Secretary-Treasurer's Report - December 2020
Over the past nine months our union, our social movements and our communities have been profoundly shaken and had to confront unprecedented challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that swept the world. As is the case for unions elsewhere in Canada and across the world, CUPE faces new challenges: large scale lay-offs, seismic transformation of workplaces and work itself, the rise of remote and virtual work, increased surveillance, fundamental shifts in the operation of our organizations, and the most severe of all, COVID-19 related deaths and illnesses.