Mark Hancock

Mark Hancock was elected the sixth national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) — Canada’s largest union with 750,000 members — in November 2015.

Before that, he served two terms as president and four terms as secretary-treasurer of CUPE in the province of British Columbia.

Hancock became a CUPE member in 1984, and served 15 years as president of Local 498, representing Port Coquitlam Municipal Employees. He believes CUPE’s greatest assets are the breadth and diversity of its members and the strength of CUPE local unions.

Hancock also believes CUPE and the labor movement have a pivotal role to play in defending workers’ rights and building a fairer and more inclusive economy for everyone in the post-pandemic world.