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The National Child Care Working Group provides advice on how CUPE can advocate for universal, affordable, not-for-profit, regulated, high quality, unionized child care; organize more child care workers; negotiate on behalf of child care workers and better represent them on a day to day basis. This includes building our capacity to take action and to integrate the work with other sectors in CUPE.

This document provides a checklist of ways to advance accommodation rights through the collective agreement.

This document provides a checklist and examples of collective agreement language on discrimination.

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

This fact sheet will take you through various tools available to research your employer.

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

CUPE has long been a leader in the fight for a national child care program. In spite of promises by many governments, Canada still does not have a national strategy. About 70 per cent of women with young children work outside the home. For many of these families, the lack of affordable, quality child care is a major source of stress that makes balancing work and family responsibilities difficult and sometimes impossible. Bargaining child care benefits working mothers, children, entire families, our union and our workplaces. It allows working mothers the freedom to contribute to the workforce, society, and the ability to provide for themselves and their families. Bargaining child care makes good sense. Make it a part of your local’s bargaining agenda.

Negotiating strong contracts for our members is what we do best. The solidarity of our members is the heart of our bargaining power, and makes gains possible. Together, we’ve built strong communities and achieved better wages, benefits, pensions and fair treatment, for workers.