Charles Fleury is a Canadian trade union activist who is currently the National Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
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.
[2] By 1999, he was elected to the position of secretary general of local 1500 [2] Fleury was first elected to the CUPE National Executive board as a regional vice-president for the Québec division [2] On November 2, 2011, Fleury was elected to his first term as CUPE National Secretary-Treasurer.
[citation needed] Fleury is an advocate for climate change having attended global summits including the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen[3] and the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
[4] Fleury is a supporter of the New Democratic Party of Canada and works with NDP officials and candidates.