July 2022

By failing to enforce a deadline mandating long-term care operators to install air conditioning in all resident rooms, Ontario’s PC government has again left frail and vulnerable residents to suffer, this time in scorching heat. “The Premier’s lip-service to the importance of air conditioning in long-term care homes just isn’t good enough. His government needed to […]

Today, SEIU Healthcare and OCHU/CUPE, unions representing 70,000 hospitals workers across Ontario, issued open letters to hospital executives and the provincial government for full transparency and staff support to fix the worsening health human resource crisis leading to widespread hospital emergency room closures and service interruptions. Staffing levels in Ontario hospitals rank the lowest in the

  CUPE members, at the SQDC, have been on strike for two months and are determined to keep pressure on the employer to get a decent wage. “It’s not complicated, more than half of our salary goes to pay the rent. We barely manage to feed ourselves. When you work at SQDC, you must have a second

Saskatchewan’s Minister of Education announced a one-time $20 million funding increase to school divisions to help cover the rising cost of inflation. “We appreciate the government walking back their insistence that schools don’t experience inflation. This one-time funding increase will help cover some of the inflationary increases, but what is really needed is a permanent funding increase,” said Rob Westfield, chair of

Join CUPE members from across the country to share information about work in your sectors and to gain new insights from exciting guest speakers and panelists.   Don’t miss this great opportunity to build collective strength with CUPE leaders and activists – register now!  Click here to register for the 2022 CUPE National Sector Council Conference.  Please note

CUPE Manitoba joined other unions representing workers in the airline sector in Winnipeg for a meeting with Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra, and Member of Parliament for Winnipeg North Kevin Lamoureux, to discuss the current state of the airline sector and the challenging impacts on workers in Manitoba.  CUPE Manitoba President Gina McKay and Rena Kisfalvi,

CUPE is encouraged by the BC Court of Appeal’s decision to protect Canada’s universal public health care system in today’s ruling on the Cambie v. British Columbia case. The case was brought by Dr. Brian Day, CEO of Cambie Surgeries Corporation, who is seeking to overturn the ban on for-profit health care and bring a

FSSS–CSN and the FTQ have reached an agreement arising from the Conseil du trésor pay equity maintenance exercise in 2010 and 2015 for medical device reprocessing technicians (MDRT). This agreement reached by the FSSS–CSN, CUPE–FTQ, SQEES–FTQ and Conseil du trésor was adopted by the unions at meetings of their respective officials. “After months of mobilization and

Workers at Summerland Community Support are the latest members to join B.C.’s largest union following a four-week education campaign. The newest CUPE members will become a new unit of CUPE 523, a regional local representing education and community social service workers across the Okanagan. “We are excited to welcome these new members in Summerland, and we

A poll of more than 500 Hamilton area hospital staff reveals that pandemic tensions are subjecting them to some of the highest rates of race-based and sexual harassment and assault-related violence among hospital staff, province-wide. Polling conducted by Oracle Research on behalf of CUPE from May 17-24, shows a disturbing pandemic surge in physical and sexual