Welcome to CUPE 1285!

Proud to support children in Trail, Castlegar, Rossland and Fruitvale schools.

We are K-12 education support workers, and we care deeply about our communities and the children in our schools.  We are Bus Drivers who make sure children get to and from school safely; frontline Clerical Staff who take care of so many important details; Custodians who keep schools clean and safe; Trades and Technology who maintain buildings and IT services; and Inclusion Support Employees who support students with special needs, enhancing their learning experience and Indigenous Inclusion Support Employees who support cultural safety and enrichment for Indigenous students.

We encourage all our members to be active and join our monthly General Meetings! Please see our calendar on the right side menu for information about our next General Meeting. All of us in Local 1285 benefit from teamwork and communication!  

 

 

 

Image by CUPE 1285 Member Sarah Nelson

We respectfully acknowledge that the work of CUPE 1285 takes place on the traditional unceded territory of the First Nations groups who have cared for these lands since time immemorial.  We are grateful and offer our deepest respect and love for their continued stewardship of this beautiful place that we are honoured to live, work and play on. We recognize that this acknowledgement is a tiny piece in the larger context of the ongoing work that must be done to challenge the legacies of colonialism and create palpable disruptive change and true reconciliation. We are working to decolonize our practices and continue to learn and do better, every day.