April 2023

Despite announcing a billion-dollar surplus in their budget last month, the Saskatchewan Party government is cutting university funding this year by more than 3%, continuing a decade-long trend of cuts and underfunding that has led to budget cuts and tuition hikes at Saskatchewan’s post-secondary institutions. While the government claims that they’ve increased funding for post-secondary education, budget […]

Budget 2023, should have taken a stand against corporate greed by taxing excess profits of corporate giants like Loblaws, who posted $529,000,000 in profits in the 4th quarter of 2022, while 5.8 million Canadians – including 1.4 million children – were experiencing food insecurity. Taxing excess corporate profits would curb corporate profiteering, saving working people money

Last night, CUPE workers reached a tentative agreement with the government. This round of provincial bargaining saw member representatives from each sector involved, including those in health care, school boards, public libraries, NL Housing, transition homes and group homes, and the Government House, who came together to negotiate for their counterparts across the province. Ratification votes will take place

Chris Judge’s weekend shifts as a developmental support worker at Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet are scheduled to run from 7 a.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday. Lately, the sight of his work bag has filled his eight and four-year-old children with anxiety. “They want to know if I’ll be back on Sunday in time for a

Despite promising to hire hundreds of continuing care assistants (CCAs) as part of their 2020 re-election campaign, numbers revealed by the Minister for Seniors show that the Saskatchewan Party government has made almost no progress on hiring in nearly three years. During the 2020 provincial election, the Saskatchewan Party committed to hiring 300 more CCAs, promising

CUPE is celebrating news that the Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear an appeal of the Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia case that sought to overturn a ban on for-profit health care and bring a US-style medical system into Canada. “Today’s ruling upholds a fundamental principle of what it means to live in

A day of action will be held on Wednesday, April 5th at 11:00 a.m. at multiple locations across Nova Scotia. The health care teams in long term care and counselors working in the Department of Community Services funded locations, represented by the Long Term Care and Community Services Coordinating Committee, will be gathering to spread

Canada’s largest union, CUPE, says a mandatory review of the Canada Infrastructure Bank must scrap the bank’s privatization mandate so it can meet community needs and tackle the climate crisis.  Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for the CIB, is legally required to review the bank every five years. CUPE has called out the secrecy surrounding the

CUPE has reached a tentative agreement for its members working at the University of British Columbia Aquatic Centre. CUPE 116, representing around 80 members at the Aquatic Centre, reached the deal with UBC last week. “Our bargaining committee is pleased with the tentative agreement and believe that we have achieved a fair and equitable deal for

Workers from across the Niagara region will swell the picket line of CUPE 2276 on Wednesday as part of a solidarity rally. Developmental service workers at Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet have been on strike since Friday, March 31, fighting for an end to their employer’s neglectful policy of leaving workers stuck on shift. Speakers at the