March 2023

A dispute over pension funding at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) will lead to job action later this month unless the university addresses pension issues, say leaders of CUPE 233, representing maintenance, grounds, and custodial workers at the school in downtown Toronto. “After months of negotiations, the university still hasn’t recognized that it cannot make unilateral […]

In an important win for members of CUPE 104, the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board has declared that the Treasury Board of Canada engaged in unfair labour practices when it tried to penalize members of CUPE 104 for unionizing. The decision upholds the rights of 1,200 CUPE members who work in the

Canada’s largest union, CUPE, says today’s federal budget falls way short on addressing corporate greed and even shorter on delivering help for working people and their families. “This budget is another win for the rich, and another tough loss for workers trying to put a roof over their heads and food on the table for their

The Saskatchewan Party government has signed a $6 million agreement with a Calgary based for-profit corporation, Canadian Surgery Solutions, to provide an undisclosed number of surgeries to Saskatchewan residents. Canadian Surgery Solutions is part of a national network of for-profit private surgical clinics owned by Kensington Capital Partners Limited, an investment firm with $2.6 billion in

“We’re all in this fight together to sustain a blue planet and make sure water is available to everybody.” CUPE National Indigenous Council and CUPE 1870 member, Leo Cheverie, is Inuk from Labrador — his home community in geographic terms is East Point, P.E.I. P.E.I. is particularly vulnerable to water shortages, as its sole source of drinking

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver Budget 2023 on Tuesday, March 28. CUPE is calling on Freeland to invest in the public services that working people depend on, and tackle corporate greed that is fuelling inflation and forcing more and more people into the red every month. Corporate profiteering is one of the main drivers of

It is clear that the province is no longer in an economic crisis with the government’s release of its revised figures from 2022-23 of an additional $1.5 billion in revenue last fiscal year. However, the 2023-24 budget released today reinvests none of this revenue into public sector workers, leaving workers in health care, libraries, housing,

This year’s provincial budget has left CUPE Nova Scotia President Nan McFadgen wondering whether Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservative government can juggle more than one commitment at a time. “The recruitment and retention issues we’re facing in healthcare are real, and they need to be addressed, but we’re facing those same issues in every other sector as

CUPE Ontario delivered a stinging assessment of the Ford government’s provincial budget, as the union charged the government with deliberately underspending on vital services and failing to address the staffing crisis it has created in the hollowing out of the province’s public services. “Starving our public services has been an intentional choice of this government, and

The seven employees who work for Tri-Board Student Transportation Services, members of CUPE 1479, are poised to walk off the job in a legal strike on Monday, April 3 if their proposal for a fair wage increase is not accepted. Six of the workers are transportation planners who are substantially underpaid compared to the school transportation