Canadian Union of Postal Workers

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Canadian Union of Postal Workers

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CUPW Headquarters in Ottawa, Canada
Abbreviation	CUPW
Predecessor	Canadian Postal Employees Association
Formation	1965; 59 years ago (1965)
Type	Trade union
Headquarters	377 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Location	Canada
Membership (2024)	55,000[1]
President	Jan Simpson
First National Vice-President	Rona Eckert
Second National Vice-President	Coleen Jones
Third National Vice President	Jody Hutton
Board of directors	National Executive Board (meets every two months, fifteen members) National Exectutive Committee (day-to-day, nine members)
Key people	Martin Jones, Fourth National Vice-President Bev Collins, National Secretary-Treasurer Carl Girouard, National Grievance Officer
Main organ	CUPW National Convention (meets every four years)
Affiliations	Canadian Labour Congress International Transport Workers' Federation
Website	cupw.ca

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW; French: Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses des postes [STTP]) is a public-sector trade union representing postal workers including letter carriers, rural and suburban mail carriers,^[1] postal clerks, mail handlers and dispatchers, technicians, mechanics and electricians employed at Canada Post as well as private sector workers outside Canada Post. Currently, comprising upwards of 50,000 members, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has historically been labeled as militant because of some of the actions undertaken since its inception in 1965 to help guarantee rights to all postal workers.^[2] According to former president Jean-Claude Parrot, "We succeeded to get the support of the membership because we earned our credibility with them...we got that reputation [of militancy] because we earned it."^[3]