September 2025

CUPE stands in solidarity with CUPW members as they return to the picket lines after the government’s announcement of a plan to allow Canada Post to end home delivery, slash delivery speed and shutter post offices across the country. “After months of stalled negotiations, this announcement is another example of this government interfering in the process […]

CUPE child care workers along with Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick were on Parliament Hill today calling for a national child care workforce strategy. Rennick and the National Child Care Working Group delivered thousands of petitions to Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families, and Anna Gainey, Secretary of State for Children and Youth before sitting down with

The federal government must keep its word to reinstitute an Employment Insurance (EI) Board of Appeals that includes worker representatives. Workers help fund our EI system and workers must play a central role in how the money is allocated and how claims are administered. In 2012, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government eliminated the EI Board of Appeals

CUPE held a press conference to condemn double-digit salary increases given to senior Saskatchewan Health Authority, SHA, executives while frontline health care workers represented by CUPE 5430 have gone nearly three and a half years without a wage increase.  “These executive raises are a slap in the face to the thousands of dedicated health care workers

On Monday, September 22 at 5 a.m., CUPE 4317 went on strike at the Port of Montreal after the 32 agents at the Montréal Gateway Terminals filed a strike notice on Thursday. On September 11, the workers voted 96% in favour of a strike. “Discussions are stalling over contracting out and wages,” said CUPE representative Loïc Blanchard. “What’s more, no

Hundreds of health care workers from CUPE 5430 gathered outside the office of the Member of the Legislature (MLA) David Chan, holding a rally and press conference to raise urgent concerns about the health care crisis in Saskatchewan. “We are here today to highlight the crisis in health care. Our members are working short, feel disrespected

 Flight attendants from across Canada represented by CUPE will descend on Parliament Hill on Tuesday September 16 to call on Ottawa to finally act to end unpaid work in Canada’s airline industry. The recent labour dispute at Air Canada centred around the airline’s abuse of unpaid work and put the issue into the spotlight. Industry-wide in Canada,

After years of difficult negotiations, the Syndicat des cols bleus de Laval (CUPE 4545) is announcing that it has finally reached a tentative agreement with the employer. “The negotiations were not easy, but we did it!” said President Louis-Pierre Plourde. “We hadn’t had a wage increase for four years. The talks lasted for years, forcing us to resort

The members of CUPE 1792 held a rally and information picket in Cornwall, Ontario on Friday to sound the alarm on the planned cuts to care time at the municipally-owned Glen Stor Dun Lodge. The union representing workers at the long-term care facility says their members have been experiencing significant staffing shortages for years, meaning

Hospital workers will be holding a demonstration in Ottawa on Tuesday morning, demanding City Council abandon plans for a ‘bubble zone’ by-law that would squash their right to protest outside hospitals. The protest is being organized by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, OCHU-CUPE, which represents