The Component 3 includes members working in the community social services. These caring professionals provide supports, services, and resources to vulnerable families and individuals across the province. They include supporting adults and children with developmental disabilities, women and children fleeing violence, youth-at-risk, child care, community justice services, Aboriginal services, and employment services, among others. With over 12,000 workers in the sector, BCGEU is the largest community social services union in B.C. They are working to provide social, health, educational, community health, administrative, environmental technical and operational services.
Latin American Partners: REDCAM (2016)
About a third of the BCGEU’s membership works in the direct government service. Their jobs include protecting children, providing financial assistance to the poor, protecting the environment and managing our natural resources, caring for the mentally ill in institutions, staffing provincial correctional facilities, fighting forest fires and providing the government's technical and clerical services.
Latin American partners: APSIES (2006), CODEMUH (1999), MEC (1997), NOMADESC (2007), REDCAM (2016)
A seed bank for farmers in Honduras, a youth leadership summer camp in Nova Scotia, a women's community leadership program in Nicaragua, microcredit programs throughout Latin America. These are some of the projects supported by the Campbell Webster Foundation. Priority is given to projects emphasizing sustainable development. They also make grants annually to registered Canadian charities in support of social justice and economic equity projects in Latin America and Atlantic Canada.
Latin American partners: APSIES (2016)
It represents more than 100,000 workers in more than 160 locals. Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) represents more than 1,400 community health workers across British Columbia. We provide diagnostic, clinical, inspection, advocacy, home support, counselling, preventative, and rehabilitation services in your community. Our members work within the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association (HSPBA), Community Health Bargaining Association (CBA) and QMUNITY.
Latin American partners: CODEMUH (2015), MEC (1994), NOMADESC (2003), SNTAP (1995)
CUPE Metro Vancouver District Council represents 40,000 CUPE workers and 30 locals in the Metro Vancouver region. The Union works for Art Galleries, Museums, Planetariums, Child Care, Colleges & Universities, Community Services, Health Support Services, Paramedics, Libraries, Municipalities, Private Agencies, Public Utilities, Rapid Transit & Rail, School Boards, and Social Services.
Latin American Partners : NOMADESC (2023)
CUPE National Global Justice Fund- Canada wide
Est. 1963
CoDev Partner since 1995
The Canadian Union of Public Employees is Canada’s largest union, with 700,000 members across the country. Some of the sectors covered by them are child care, communications, education, emergency and security services, energy, health care, library, municipal, post-secondary, social services, and transportation. They have 68 offices across the country, in every province.
Latin American partners: CODEMUH (2004), MEC (2001), NOMADESC (2003), SINTRA-CUAVALLE (2012), SNTAP (1995)
They help fight the proposed cuts to the public sector and vital public services, and selling publicly-owned assets – before it’s too late. The private sector is always looking for more ways to generate profit and taking over public services can be extremely profitable – by cutting corners on safety and quality, cutting good jobs, pushing down wages and benefits, and working people into the ground. His aim is to spread awareness and help in restoring the old practices and rights for the people. CUPE is the collective voice of workers in healthcare, education, NL housing, libraries, municipalities, university, shelters and more.
Latin American partners: SINTRA-CUAVALLE (2013)
CUPE Nova Scotia represents over 19,000 members in 131 locals across the province who provide quality public services in long term care, schools, hospitals, municipalities, child care, universities, highways, social services, home support, transition homes, emergency services, airlines and more. They work together for a better standard of living, wages, pensions and health benefits, as well as safe working conditions for all.
Latin American Partners: SINTRA-CUAVALLE (2012)
We provide our 20 member locals with a broad range of services all designed to strengthen the capacity of our member locals and to help bring about progressive solutions to the critical issues facing our members. For more on our member services and resources. The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators and its member locals have been serving the needs of BC's educators for over fifty years, providing resources and support and advocating for workers' rights and benefits.
Latin American partners: APSIES (2002), REDCAM (2002)
Hawthorne Foundation- British Columbia
Est. 2003
CoDev partner since 2016
The Hawthorne Foundation is a private family foundation that exists to support the creation and strengthening of communities and community organizations that foster mutual respect, spiritual and emotional health and creative expression, economic and environmental sustainability. Some of the areas of interest are social justice initiatives with a focus on those that address affordable housing for refugee and low income people, Spiritual Retreat Opportunities, Education Projects focusing on marginalized populations, Fine and performing arts initiatives, and International community healing and reconciliation projects.
Latin American partners: Artesana Collective (2016), Nuestra Voz (2018), Sector De Mujeres (2018)
The union now represents more than 20,000 health care and social services professionals in hospitals, child development centres, transition houses and other community agencies around the province. HSA now bargains in concert with others and sets as its goals nothing less than the preservation of public health care in Canada. They have been working for the health care professionals and nurses and helping them get the support from the government.
Latin American partners: APSIES (1991), CODEMUH (2002), REDCAM (2002)
The members started by improving working conditions for themselves and caring conditions for their patients and residents. As Hospital Employees' Union (HEU) organized more workplaces across BC, members united to bargain strong agreements and defend public health care. Shop stewards are trained to advocate for the people closest to them. And in the democratic tradition of industrial unions, every worker has the opportunity to contribute. Active member participation – in the workplace and the community – is the greatest source of HEU’s power when it comes to improving the lives of union members. Generations of health care workers have benefited from the power and pride that comes from standing together. It is a part of the biggest union in Canada.
Latin American partners: APSIES (2007), CODEMUH (1997), REDCAM (2003)
They work for the Ontario government, inside community colleges, for the LCBO, in the health care sector, and they are employed in a wide range of community agencies within the broader public sector. Some of the projects undertaken by them are, in 2000 OPSEU uses the Health and Safety Act to bring charges against the Ministry of Natural Resources over a shipment of plutonium from the U.S. to Chalk River. OPSEU also represents the majority of laboratory technologists in Ontario and all Hamilton lab techs. They have worked for innumerable people demanding rights, safety, support, etc. from the Government, becoming the voice for the people.
Latin American partners: APSIES (2017)
A Union for more than 30,000 Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses, and allied health workers. UNA represents nurses in bargaining, in their profession, and in disputes with employers and professional licensing bodies. It is affiliated with the Canadian labour movement through membership in the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, and through CFNU with the Canadian Labour Congress and the Alberta Federation of Labour. UNA also provides educational opportunities for its members.
Latin American partners: MEC (2003)
Unifor- Canada wide
Unifor brings a modern approach to unionism: adopting new tools, involving and engaging our members, and always looking for new ways to develop the role and approach of our union to meet the demands of the 21st century. It is the largest private sector union in Canada. Unifor strives to protect the economic rights of their members and every member of the workforce (employed or unemployed). They are committed to building the strongest and most effective union to bargain on behalf of our members, working with our members to improve their rights in the workplace, and extending the benefits of unions to non-unionized workers and other interested Canadians.
Latin American partners: NOMADESC (2013-2022), CODEMUH (2024)
