January 2024

With limited foster homes available, Highland Shores Children’s Aid ,HSCA, has been forced to place a youth in hotels and even Airbnb’s since November. The province-wide shortage of licensed spaces in foster homes and treatment facilities is leading more agencies to turn to hotels, motels, and Air bnbs. The children and youth who end up in these […]

They cause persistent or recurring pains most commonly in the neck, shoulders, forearms, hands, wrists, and elbows. RSIs are an all too common cause of CUPE members’ suffering.   Internationally, the last day of February is recognized as a day to raise awareness about repetitive strain injuries, and spread awareness about the importance of reporting symptoms and

Photo: Ville de St. Catharines sous license CC BY-SA 4.0 With the mayor of St. Catharines presenting a budget that included the privatization of forestry as an item, forestry workers, members of CUPE 150, are set to attend a council meeting to protect their jobs and services, and to ensure that forestry remains public.   “A sufficient

The union representing more than 180 Lower Mainland transit supervisors remains committed to reaching a deal with Coast Mountain Bus Company at the bargaining table. But CUPE 4500 says a deal must address critical workload issues and ensure that wages of all members working for Coast Mountain are in line with those of other TransLink workers.

CUPE Nova Scotia, representing approximately 11,000 health care workers across the province, is happy to see the provincial government making a tangible step toward improving our public health care system. These improvements, however, need to also be publicly operated. Underfunding, and recruitment and retention issues, have long put a strain on the system and the

CUPE is mourning the loss of Ed Broadbent, a progressive giant and a lifelong champion for workers’ rights and social democracy in Canada. As a political leader, Ed paved the way for progressive inroads in Canada’s Parliament, leading the NDP to one of its best-ever showings in a federal election in 1988. As a public policy intellectual,

CUPE 4500, representing more than 180 Lower Mainland transit workers employed by the Coast Mountain Bus Company, CMBC, has served 72-hour strike notice, effective at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, following a long day of mediation with no progress. Job action will begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, January 6 with an overtime ban, which will affect all

Air Transat’s 2100 flight attendants, represented by CUPE, have rejected the tentative agreement reached on December 14. At general membership meetings held from December 20-23 and attended by 87% of the membership, 98.1% voted to turn down the deal. Insufficient wage increases in relation to the cost of living and the stagnating compensation from previous

A new poll paints a grim picture about the future of Ontario’s health care system, as nearly 4 out of 5 hospital workers say they are not confident in this government’s plan to improve the sector and more than 2 in 5 are considering quitting their jobs.  The polling firm Nanos surveyed more than 750 hospital