August 2022

Did you ever have to pay for your prescription drugs out of pocket due to inadequate drug coverage or no coverage at all? Or did a family member ever avoid taking a prescribed medicine due to its cost?  A recent study found almost 1 million Canadians had cut their household spending on food and heat to […]

From groceries to gas to housing, the cost of living is skyrocketing. This increase in prices is called inflation. When wages fail to keep up with inflation, workers fall behind. It doesn’t have to be this way. Unions can help. To protect workers against inflation, we need to bargain appropriate wage gains and cost-of-living increases. Here’s why: If you bargain

Citing higher fuel prices and cost of living, increasing traffic and commuting challenges, as well as concerns about climate change, two locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees representing transit workers in the Lower Mainland and Capital Region have launched a new campaign urging more members of the public to “Try Transit!” “Metro Vancouver and

Photo credit: Brock University. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. CUPE has reached a tentative agreement with Brock University on behalf of a group of workers who were due to begin job action on Monday. If workers ratify the deal, it will mean that students and their families can enjoy a

Over the weekend more than 250 education workers, representing their 55,000 coworkers across the province, met to reconfirm their commitment to fight for decent wages, increased services for students, and a reinvestment in public education after a decade of government cuts to education funding. During the conference, delegates unanimously endorsed the OSBCU bargaining team’s recommendation to

There are reports that Canadian Blood Services (CBS) may be negotiating a secret deal with a global plasma corporation to buy privatized paid plasma collected in Canada. This move would undermine public trust in CBS, threaten the voluntary blood and plasma donor network, and put patient safety at risk. For-profit plasma corporations treat human plasma as

Facing another weekend of severe hospital staff shortages, and the potential for more hospital emergency room and other care unit cuts and closures, Ontario’s provincial government must not sit on their hands, but take immediate action, said health care unions today. The Ontario Nurses’ Association, CUPE and SEIU Healthcare outlined urgent measures to ensure Ontarians can

The Ontario legislature is returning today, but the province can’t afford to return to a recycled budget, says CUPE Ontario. “The Ford Conservatives have continued to proudly say that they’ll be delivering virtually the same inadequate budget they presented before the election, despite inflation exploding and emergency room closures across the province,” said Fred Hahn, President

Black history is Canadian history. But the stories of Black Canadians have been undocumented and untold. Why? The answer is systemic racism. In Canada, Black people and Black communities have had to endure segregation based on their ethnicity and the colour of their skin. The stories of Black enslavement in Canada must be told and

How will inflation affect you? How did we get into this economic mess, and how will we get ourselves out? How will inflation affect our wages, which are already falling behind? How can we as union members fight back and win at the bargaining table? CUPE is excited to convene an online webinar on August 16