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Charles Fleury is a Canadian trade union activist who is currently the National Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Fleury was first elected to his current position of National Secretary-Treasurer on November 2, 2011 at the CUPE National Convention in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Career

Fleury started his activism as a trade unionist in 1982, when he started working for Hydro-Québec, working as a millwright and high-tension tower lineman under CUPE local 1500. By 1999, he was elected to the position of secretary general of local 1500 Fleury was first elected to the CUPE National Executive board as a regional vice-president for the Québec division On November 2, 2011, Fleury was elected to his first term as CUPE National Secretary-Treasurer. He was re-elected as National Secretary-Treasurer again in 2013 and 2015.

Fleury is an advocate for climate change having attended global summits including the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

Fleury is a supporter of the New Democratic Party of Canada and works with NDP officials and candidates.

References

1. ^ "Charles Fleury elected CUPE National Secretary-Treasurer". Market Wired.
2. ^ "Charles Fleury, National Secretary-Treasurer". Canadian Union of Public Employees. 9 March 2017.
3. "List of participants" (PDF). United Nations Framework on Climate Change.
4. "From Vancouver to Paris: Workers Uniting Against Climate Change". Rankandfile.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
5. "CUPE Stands With Mulcair". MSN Money. Archived from the original on 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2016-06-24.

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