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CUPE is committed to ensuring locals have access to resources that support the union’s work on truth and reconciliation. One of the ways CUPE locals can support reconciliation is by bargaining language supporting Indigenous workers into collective agreements. Our new guide, Truth and reconciliation: CUPE taking action through collective bargaining, is for everyone who wants to put reconciliation into action at the bargaining table.

CUPE locals have negotiated various letters of understanding with employers in response to the necessary public health measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stay-at-home measures required a significant proportion of workers to work remotely, if possible, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Work from home (also known as telework, telecommuting or remote work) is commonly understood as using technology to perform work outside of the employer’s worksite.

Want to build bargaining power in your local? Check out CUPE’s Online Bargaining Program. This series of resources and live online workshops will help your local build its power at the bargaining table to get the best deal for your members.

The Keep our pensions out of privatization toolkit gives CUPE activists and pension representatives information about the dangers of pension funds investing in public-private partnerships (P3s) and other types of privatization.

The National Advisory Committee on Pensions works to build the capacity of CUPE, the labour movement and our allies to promote, defend and improve pension plans. They provide advice on how to assist union trustees and pension activists in analyzing information to improve pension plans, including new developments and issues in pension funds and investments.

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.