Canadian Union of Public Employees - Local 2626

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) represents a wide range of people who work in the public sector. CUPE is the largest union in Canada, and currently has about 500,000 members.

CUPE Local 2626 represents over 3000 Teaching and Research Assistants, Markers, Proctors and SFRB students at the University of Ottawa.

Our democratically elected executive members are rank and file members like you: graduate and undergraduate students, Canadian and international students, workers in all faculties and departments at the University of Ottawa. These are people you know and people who know what it's like to be teaching, marking, proctoring and doing research on campus.

In 1997, student workers at the University of Ottawa got together to negociate consistent campus-wide terms of employment, and we have since then become leaders in collective bargaining in the University sector in Ontario. Thanks to the work of our past leaders, our collective agreement with the University of Ottawa protects our rights and our interests, such as:

• Fair wages
• Health and safety guarantees
• Reasonable work hours and conditions
• Freedom from discrimination
• Access to a grievance procedure for ensuring fair treatment by our employer
• Many kinds of financial aid and funding