Partners & Affiliates

CUPE NationalCUPE advocates for workers who deliver the public services people depend on. Our members work in hospitals, schools, municipalities, and many other public spaces.

We help our members provide the highest level of service by ensuring they are safe and healthy at work, and that they get fair pay and benefits for the services they provide.

We also advocate for better public services, like improvements to public health care and to the Canada Pension Plan, that would improve our communities and the lives all Canadians

CUPE ManitobaA strong and democratic union, CUPE is committed to improving the quality of life for workers in Canada. Women and men working together to form local unions built CUPE. They did so to have a stronger voice – a collective voice – in their workplace and in society as a whole.

Canadian Mental Health AssociationThe Canadian Mental Health Association, Manitoba and Winnipeg is part of a nation-wide, charitable organization that promotes the mental health of all and supports the resilience and recovery of people experiencing mental illness.

Canadian Human Rights CommissionParliament created the Canadian Human Rights Act in 1977 to provide equal opportunity to everyone in Canada and to help people confront discrimination in their daily lives. Parliamentarians shared a vision of a country where “all individuals should have an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have”, free from discrimination.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission was created to administer the Canadian Human Rights Act. It also ensures compliance with the Employment Equity Act. The Commission operates independently from government when administering these two acts of Parliament.

Employment StandardsEmployment Standards staff help employees and employers learn about their rights and responsibilities in the workplace.

Staff can:

answer questions

explain the legislation

investigate workplace disputes to ensure the legislation is being followed

give presentations and workshops

Common employment standards issues include:

minimum wage

overtime

general holidays

vacation

ending employment

Manitoba Federation of LabourThe Manitoba Federation of Labour is the province’s central labour body, chartered by the Canadian Labour Congress in 1956 to represent the interests of CLC affiliated unions in Manitoba.

Our affiliates have a combined membership of 100,000 working women and men in the private and public sectors, including the manufacturing sector, government offices, retail stores, hospitals, schools, the natural resources sector, tourism, agriculture, transportation and many others.

Canadian Labour Congress
Bringing together dozens of national and international unions, provincial and territorial federations of labour and community-based labour councils to represent 3.3 million workers for more than 50 years.