January 2026

CUPE 8125, representing over 4,700 cabin crew members at WestJet and Encore, acknowledges WestJet’s decision to reverse the universally unpopular new 28-inch-pitch seat configuration. This pause follows significant concern from both employees and guests regarding the operational impacts and overall experience resulting from the denser cabin layout. “Our members have been telling us very clearly that […]

The Air Canada Component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has begun its first day of arbitration with Air Canada and Arbitrator Paula Knopf to settle wages after flight attendants voted over 99% to reject Air Canada’s final wage offer in September 2025. “These hearings will provide our members an opportunity to hear the

CUPE has written to Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu with a clear message: Canada’s child care system is one of the most important public programs in a generation – and it’s at serious risk already. In a letter sent earlier this month, CUPE National President Mark Hancock and National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick expressed how

On January 29, 2017, the evening prayer had just ended at a Quebec City mosque when an Islamophobic white supremacist stormed in and shot six Muslim men dead and seriously injured another 19. This terrorist attack was a brutal reminder of the disastrous consequences of racism and the urgent need to counter hate. The federal government

Hybrid works. Since before the pandemic, workers at Ontario Health atHome have been working remotely to help deliver the essential home-care services Ontarians need. Now, on the whims of the Ford government, these workers are being forced back into office spaces that are not equipped to handle them all at once.  Available office spaces have shrunk since 2019,

CUPE is outraged by the United States’ unlawful and lethal attack on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We are shocked that the U.S. military bombed this sovereign nation, and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores to gain access to the country’s oil, land and energy resources. This is a clear violation of international