National Union of Public and General Employees

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is a Canadian trade union. Taken in total it is the second largest union in Canada. Most of its 425,000 members work in the provincial public service sector. There is also a large and growing number of members who work for private businesses.

National Union of Public and General Employees
AbbreviationNUPGE
Formation1976 (1976)[1]
HeadquartersNepean, Ontario, Canada
Location
  • Canada
Membership (2022)
425,000[2]
President
Bert Blundon
Secretary-treasurer
Jason MacLean
Affiliations
Websitenupge.ca

Its mission is to monitor provincial and federal labour laws and developments as well as analyse restructuring of social programs and public services. The national union reports on and contributes to legislation affecting the Canadian workplace. It gives its members a national presence through participation in the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and internationally through Public Services International (PSI).

The 13 component unions are:

The national union has a federated structure; its consists of the members of its component unions.

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees was a member of NUPGE until 2001 when it was suspended for trying to take members from another union. Then in 2006 the AUPE decided to disaffiliate from the NUPGE and by extension the Canadian Labour Congress and Alberta Federation of Labour.

Its current officers are Bert Blundon, National President, and Jason MacLean, National Secretary-Treasurer.

References
  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=scaf9M-vm4AC&pg=PA96
  2. Membership info from web site
  3. "Workplace Gazette: An Industrial Relations Quarterly". 2004.


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