期刊名称：Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN：1705-1436
出版年度：2007
卷号：10
出版社：York University
摘要：CUPE was formed in 1963 by merging the National Union of Public Employees and the National Union of Public Service Employees.1In 2006, CUPE was Canada's largest union with almost 550,000 members, approximately 60% of whom are women.2CUPE represents workers in health care, education, municipalities, libraries, universities, social services, public utilities, transportation, emergency services and airlines. Over the past ten years, CUPE's percentage of part-time members has grown by 118 per cent, and today, CUPE represents 120,000 part-time workers. CUPE has a de-centralized structure. It is organized into about 2500 separate locals, each of which determines its own bargaining and workplace priorities. However, in each province, the hospital locals do some centralized or co-ordinated bargaining, and social service and education workers are increasingly adopting such practices. This article is part of a larger project to develop a labour militancy perspective on the quantitative data on work stoppages as an alternative to the employer perspective on time lost, the government concern to measure the economic impact of stoppages, and the scholarly emphasis on strike determinants
