‘Let’s stand united and together let’s grow our great union’– Hancock

VANCOUVER – CUPE National President Mark Hancock delivered a wide-ranging and passionate speech to CUPE BC’s 55th annual convention on Thursday, telling delegates that CUPE’s renewed bargaining policy will help fight back against the rise of precarious work and violence in the workplace. Hancock encouraged delegates to attend the union governance breakfast forum on Friday […]

Colombian activist thanks CUPE for help in “keeping us alive”

VANCOUVER—International guest speaker Berenice Celeyta moved delegates at CUPE BC’s 55th annual convention Thursday with a passionate address in which she thanked the union for its continued support of human rights in her native Colombia. Celeyta, director of the Colombian human rights organization NOMADESC since its founding in 1999, provided a sobering update on the […]