CUPE BC represents more than 80,000 workers in more than 170 local unions and across many different sectors. Nearly every community in the province has one or more CUPE locals. CUPE members work in hundreds of occupations that help keep communities strong.  more...

Barry O'Neill CUPE BC, President

Half a century of keeping B.C. strong

Happy New Year, to all 85,000 CUPE BC members!  I hope you were able to enjoy the holidays with your friends and families and get some much-needed rest after an extremely busy 2011. As we plan our more...

Help save job service for Downtown Eastside residents

VANCOUVER—A valuable employment service that helps up to 3,000 underprivileged people a year find work needs your help to stay open.

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Petition Harper: Stop Forcing Communities to Privatize

CUPE BC has launched a petition to fight back against the lack of federal funding for public infrastructure projects across Canada.

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CLBC Stop the Cuts – Coming to your town!

A coalition of activists supporting persons with disabilities is planning a series of rallies as part of its campaign to stop the cuts and restore services to Community Living BC.

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Shift today, help keep your community strong!

Check out www.tenpercentshift.ca and take the Ten Percent Shift pledge! If enough of us shift just ten percent of our household spending to local goods and services from locally owned businesses, we can make a huge impact on the local economy. And please check out our Facebook page here, where you can post your local buying success stories—and challenges. 

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CUPE BC celebrates Black History Month
February 7, 2012
BURNABY—In an effort to promote an active and inclusive union and to promote equality in our society and our workplaces, CUPE BC and its members celebrate black history every year during the month
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Delegates call for a new ‘workers mandate’
February 6, 2012
RICHMOND—CUPE’s B.C. regional strategic bargaining conference wrapped up on February 3 with delegates determined to work more closely across CUPE sectors and in a united, common front across the public
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Sectors meet to shape bargaining priorities
February 3, 2012
RICHMOND—CUPE’s B.C. regional bargaining strategies conference continued on Thursday with delegates separating into provincial and locally-funded sectors—and then into individual sectors—to discuss
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BC Jobs Plan failing northern communities
February 2, 2012
Community college layoffs reflect lack of commitment to northern economy BURNABY—With an unemployment rate in northern B.C. sitting at 11.5 per cent and layoffs looming at northern colleges, the B.C.
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