Work Floor Captain Training
Friday, October 20th
Held at: CUPW Vancouver Local Office
#109 – 4238 Lozells Avenue, Burnaby 8am to 4pm
CUPW is only as strong as our work floors are organized, unified around a plan, and willing to mobilize. Union leadership will never have the power to defeat the boss and government on their own. Without mass buy-in from our members to strengthen CUPW from the work floor up, our jobs as postal workers will keep deteriorating.
The corporation is positioned to use Amazon and the pandemic as excuses to cut us down in bargaining in 2023. We must be ready, but our capacity to fight forward will only be proportional to how many of us are committed to building the solidarity of our union, in whatever way we can.
The Building Worker Power campaign is the first time since 1988 that CUPW has committed to a National plan to build up the internal capacity of our members to confront the employer directly on the work floor. For this campaign to succeed we will need hundreds of members to volunteer as work floor captains to be trained to help their co-workers collectively assert their rights.
Regional Organizers have been trained to assist Locals in running a one-day course designed specifically for this campaign to give members willing to take a stand all the tools they’ll need to effectively organize their own work floor, such as:
- How to identify widely and deeply felt issues to organize around
- Identifying and recruiting other activists and leaders
- Building a team of collaborators to hold effective work floor meetings
- Extensive roleplaying of confrontations with management
- Forming demands and escalating job actions based on realistic organizing capacity
This course is for Letter Carriers, LCAs, Depot PO4s and Retail. A course for PPC, PIF, MSCs and Tech Services will be announced soon.
To apply, you MUST use the Building Worker Power application form. This course has no meeting requirements. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, October 11th at noon.
Applications can be faxed to (604) 685-4931, dropped off in person or mailed to #109 – 4238 Lozells Ave, Burnaby BC V5A 0C4 NO EMAILED APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED
In Solidarity,
Anju Parmar, President