CUPE has written to the ministers of health and of community and social services calling for an audit of executive compensation at Canadian Hearing Services (CHS) after learning of sharp increases at a time when front-line workers are living under provincial wage restraint legislation. In the most recent reporting period, the CEO of Canadian Hearing Services, […]
A strike has been averted and 700 full time and part time front-line service workers have made important gains in a tentative agreement, says CUPE 3261. “I’m so proud of the members for the powerful example of workplace organizing,” said Allan James, President of CUPE 3261. “Thanks to their historic organizing, we sent a strong
About 2,800 teaching and research assistants at McMaster University are on strike following an impasse in negotiations, says CUPE 3906. “We would rather continue delivering the services students rely on, but we’ve also always been prepared to strike for good jobs if we needed to,” said Chris Fairweather, President of CUPE 3906. “And that time is now
After getting an imposed contract that would have further harmed Ontario schools off their backs with the repeal of Bill 28, Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers have given five days’ notice of a potential province-wide strike. CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) central bargaining committee, negotiating for 55,000 frontline education workers, was able to reach
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After seven long months, two CUPE members unjustly detained in the Dominican Republic have been told they will soon be on their way home to Canada, pending a court hearing to confirm their release scheduled for late November. CUPE will be watching intently to ensure there are no additional delays – our members have suffered
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CUPE and Canada’s labour movement are celebrating the defeat of Doug Ford’s draconian anti-worker legislation Bill 28. The bill would have imposed a regressive contract and stripped 55,000 CUPE education workers in Ontario of fundamental Charter rights. This morning, however, Ford committed to repeal the bill and head back to the bargaining table, after being faced
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Yesterday, CUPE and Dalhousie University (Dal) have reached a tentative agreement. CUPE 3912, representing approximately 1,500 members that work as teaching assistants, part-time academics, markers, demonstrators, and clinical markers reached the deal on November 8. Details of the contract will not be made available until it has been presented to CUPE 3912 members and a ratification vote
CUPE says the Ford government’s trampling of workers’ rights in Ontario should be a wake-up call and a call to arms for organized labour across Canada. Earlier today, CUPE National President Mark Hancock and National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick participated in an emergency meeting with all of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) local presidents
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CUPE says today’s federal economic update doesn’t go far enough to make life more affordable amid 40-year-high inflation. CUPE is calling on the federal government to take their responsibility to help workers and their families seriously, noting that doing too little risks pushing Canada into a more serious recession. “The Liberals need to take bold action to
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CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock has arrived in Toronto to lend his support to CUPE’s 55,000 education workers in Ontario who are poised to walk off the job on Friday in pursuit of a much-needed wage increase, after the Ford government tabled legislation that imposes a new contract and overrides the Charter-protected right to strike
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