About Us

CUPE 4207 is a labour union representing academic contract workers at Brock University.

  • Unit 1: Instructors, Course Coordinators, Teaching Assistants, Marker-Graders, Lab  Demonstrators (1998)
  • Unit 2: Full time Coordinators in ESL Services (2007)
  • Unit 3: ESL Instructors (2011)
  • Unit 4: Clinical Nursing Instructors (2023)

Since 1998, CUPE Local 4207 has been the certified bargaining unit for Brock University Teaching Assistants, Marker/Graders, Lab Demonstrators, Course Coordinators, and Part-Time Instructors who comprise Unit 1.

In late 2007, full-time Coordinators in Brock’s IELP/ESL department voted to join CUPE Local 4207, becoming the union’s second bargaining unit (Unit 2).

Then, to follow a good example, the ESL Instructors chose to join 4207 and successfully formed a third bargaining unit (Unit 3), in the summer of 2011. They had a rougher time to get the employer to sign their first contract though. It took a 10 day strike (the first in Brock’s history and only strike to date) in 2012 (March 26 – April 4) to shake up Brock administration to agree to a fair deal for Unit 3.

In 2022, Clinical Nursing Instructors voted to join CUPE 4207 as Unit 4. On June 5, they voted to ratify their first ever collective agreement.

Executive Committee, Stewards, and Trustees

Affiliates & Delegates

Committees & Sub-Committees

Indigenization

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