We are organizing union-wide support on this issue, and we want you to be involved!

This Campaign is the worker's opportunity to move beyond the archaic and limiting anti-worker “common sense” that says strikes are to be avoided at all costs. The reality of forcing an employer to engage with the workers, the people who get the job done, is that in spite of a 2015 Supreme Court decision affirming the constitutional right to strike, Canada actually has one of the most restrictive labour relations regimes in the developed world. Current labour laws severely curtail when, how, and for what reasons strikes are “allowed”. Many workers, including essential service workers represented by CUPE, have no right to strike at all! 
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Even when workers do manage to jump through all the arbitrarily imposed bureaucratic hoops on their way to the picket line, the government does not hesitate to break our strikes when it suits them with back-to-work legislation or anti-union weapons like Sec. 107 of the Canadian Labour Code.
We are organizing union-wide support on this issue, and we want you to be involved.

This resolution will hit the CUPE National Convention floor, sometime between October 6 - 10, 2025. 
This resolution aims to unite a coalition of union forces, who all agree that restrictions on the right to strike are restrictions on the ability of the working class to collectively pursue our economic and political interests.
We know that it won’t be easy, which is why we are bringing together locals and allied working class organizations to build our movement from the ground up. 
This Campaign will proceed on two key fronts: 
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(1) focused organizing to win the support and participation of local executives and delegates, and

(2) a mass membership petition drive to demonstrate that CUPE members support this initiative, not in the hundreds, but in the thousands. It is only through combining delegate-based organizing with mass mobilization and consciousness-raising that we can build the momentum necessary to bring this challenge to the convention floor. 

So if you, your co-workers, or your local want to be a part of this, connect with the Campaign, circulate the petition, and join our organizing network today so that when we all arrive in Toronto this October, we arrive united, powerful, and ready to fight.

a thoughtful proposal to bring a resolution to the floor of CUPE's 2025 National Convention caught the attention of a dedicated group of Union leaders, rank and file members and labour activists.

The language of the resolution was quickly developed, edited and provided to a Local who could discuss and submit the proposal. The proposal was formatted to follow the language requirements of CUPE and was duly submitted.
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The resolution submitted to CUPE National is as follows;​