CUPW is only as strong as our workfloors 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 workfloor 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 workfloor. For this campaign to succeed we will need hundreds of members to volunteer as workfloor captains to be trained to help their co-workers collectively assert their rights.

What does a Work Floor captain do?

There is no shortage of problems at work – the role of the workfloor captain is to help channel deeply and widely felt frustrations into demands for a better workplace that can be won using time-tested tactics. Regional Organizers and Local CUPW Executives will coordinate the efforts of the captains in their Local and throughout the rest of the Region.

This is a volunteer position and will only take as much of your time as you want to offer.