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Celebrating 50 years as Canada’s community union
Welcome to CUPE’s 50th anniversary national convention. This week we will celebrate our proud past while we debate and discuss how to best prepare for the future.
Tomorrow, our Quebec President Lucie Levasseur will welcome CUPE members to Québec City, launching an exciting week. Our agenda will cover resolutions from across the country, reports on the vital work being done by our union, and important policy discussions on the issues facing CUPE members and the public services we provide to our communities.
We will also be looking back the past 50 years – the people and events that have shaped our union, celebrating the contributions CUPE members have made in making Canada a better and fairer place to live for all. This celebration will inspire our conversations on our future during convention debates, at the many convention events, and through social media.
In the coming days, you will join more than 2,500 delegates in shaping CUPE’s work on behalf of our 627,000 members from coast-to-coast-to-coast.
Strategic Directions:
Proud of our past, ready for the future
This convention’s policy paper will build on the past 10 years of strategic directions, reflecting on CUPE’s accomplishments and what we’ve learned from five decades of defending workers and building strong communities across Canada. It will lay out a strategy for connecting with CUPE members so we are united and ready to face the challenges ahead.
Cultural program
Our cultural program will feature some of the most engaging, talented and progressive artists Quebec has to offer. Music celebrating the labour movement from Break Syndical will launch our convention. Play your part in the CUPE culture scene by joining the convention choir or drumming group.
Voices united for fairness
There is an exciting line up of speakers for our 50th anniversary who will share their visions on how we can unite for fairness. They include Tom Mulcair, leader of the official opposition and the NDP; Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress; and Rosa Pavanelli, general-secretary of Public Service International.
Our convention will also feature a thought-provoking panel discussion. Award-winning journalist Anne Lagacé Dowson will moderate the panel, joined by Tomson Highway, a celebrated playwright, Trish Hennessy a champion for income equality from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Martine Desjardins, an activist and key figure in the 2012 Quebec student strike.
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