Local 50 has a long history of communicating and connecting with our members with gate handouts, but this time it wasn't information ... it was Local 50 toques! To see…
CUPE 50 staffDecember 3, 2019
CUPE Local 50 News & Events
Labour Day—to know where we need to go, we must remember how we got here While we all look forward to the Labour Day weekend, and think of it as…
CUPE 50 staffAugust 26, 2019
The B.C. government has declared July 27 as Ginger Goodwin Day, celebrating a man considered a pioneer of B.C.'s labour movement. He played a key role in leading the two-year-long…
CUPE 50 staffJune 17, 2019
The History of CUPE Local 50
The story of Local 50 is more than the story of the 55 men who met one evening in 1918 and formed a local of the Civic Employees’ Protection Association. It is the story of those men and the ones who came after – the story of fathers and sons. It is also the story of a fight for women’s rights in the workplace – the story of brothers and sisters. It is a story of working with other organizations and within the community – a story of family.
Read the story