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Message from CUPE BC Pink Triangle Committee

By Kira Bradley March 13, 2023 Communications

Dear Friends, At our CUPE BC Convention 2022, delegates passed a resolution encouraging locals and district councils to transition from using the term “Brothers/Sisters” to more gender-inclusive terms including, but not limited to, “fellow-workers, siblings, kin, members, unionists, folk, friends or cousins.” The labour movement’s practice of calling one another “sister” or “brother” clashes with a growing consciousness about the…

CUPE’s university locals call for end to funding cuts

By admin September 22, 2014 Media, Political Action

From CUPE BC BURNABY – CUPE’s Universities Coordinated Bargaining Committee (UCBC) has launched a new campaign to draw attention to the BC Liberals’ abysmal record on funding post-secondary education. Earlier this year, the Christy Clark government announced a three-year budget plan that will see the total operating grant for post-secondary institutions drop by almost $50 million. By 2016, per-student operating…