March 2023

Working relations between the Town of Blainville and its firefighters continue to deteriorate. Last night, many of them demonstrated at the town council to denounce the employer’s close-mindedness to its employees’ legitimate demands. ​About 40 firefighters have been without a contract since December 31, 2019. Negotiations have been arduous, and the members massively turned down the tentative agreement the […]

After years of cuts and privatization, today’s provincial budget fails to provide the necessary investment needed to fix the crisis facing Saskatchewan’s public services and misses the chance to provide working people with much-needed affordability measures to ease the rising cost of living. “Saskatchewan’s public services have been starved for years by the Saskatchewan Party government,”

Several tens of racialized employees, who are members of CUPE 301, and their allies gathered in front of city hall to demand concrete and quick action by the city to eliminate systemic racism in their workplace. Coinciding with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and a series of articles that recently ran in

“The water talks to you. The water will tell you the stories.” CUPE National Indigenous Council and CUPE 4070 member White Eagle Woman, or Lindsay (Loyer) Poll, lives in Treaty 7 territory near Calgary. Her kookum (grandmother) told stories of pristine water, long before colonization, that was a lake of healing. Now, those waters are poisoned and

National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick sent participants at the CUPE Women’s Conference home with words of encouragement and support today. She pledged that CUPE will continue the fight for equity and gender justice and will work to turn discussions from the conference into concrete, funded, and resourced initiatives to make real and meaningful changes inside and outside

CUPE’s national women’s conference opened with a powerful speech by former national president Judy Darcy celebrating the strength and persistence of CUPE women. Darcy shared stories of deeply personal and highly political feminist struggles, painting a picture of how far we’ve come – and the work still ahead. A lifelong CUPE activist, Darcy was elected as CUPE’s

As almost 600 CUPE members gather in Vancouver this week for the CUPE Women’s Conference, National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick urged them to use their time to build connections with each other to strengthen solidarity in our union. “Today, we need strength and solidarity more than ever, because we are at risk of major setbacks,” Rennick said,

CUPE women’s conference delegates are primed to fight for wage equity in their workplaces and communities, after a practical session that shared strategies to identify and close wage gaps. CUPE’s Regional Vice-President for Ontario, Yolanda McClean, opened the plenary with a fiery speech, reminding the crowd that women are still paid significantly less than men, on

Don’t mobilize. Organize! “Reach out to people who are not already involved.” “Go deep and listen.” “Have conversations and build relationships.” This is the advice participants in the Organizing to Win panel shared with CUPE’s women conference delegates on Tuesday. The discussion featured Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) president Laura Walton, former NDP MP for Parkdale-High Park

Grocery chain executives like Loblaws CEO Galen Weston were summoned before the House of Commons agriculture committee on Wednesday to testify about the skyrocketing cost of food in Canada, which has been outpacing general inflation for 13 months straight. It isn’t hard to see where that excess profit is going. Loblaws posted $529,000,000 in profits, some