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Hancock got his start with CUPE in 1984[3] and served as president CUPE Local 498,
representing employees of the City of Port Coquitlam,[1] a suburb of Vancouver,
British Columbia for 15 years. Elected to lead his local at only 24, in 1993,
Hancock was also elected to the executive board of CUPE British Columbia Division,
where he served for a total of 12 years, initially as a General Vice-President,[4]
then as Secretary-Treasurer starting in 2005 and [4] finally as President of CUPE
BC beginning in 2013.