March 2026

Winnipeg’s largest union says that Winnipeg City Council needs to go back to the drawing board on the Request for Proposals, RFPs, for garbage and recycling services. “The garbage contract stinks,” said Gord Delbridge, president of CUPE 500. “From start to finish, the process, the bids, and the contractor selected all need to be trashed.” The RFP […]

With almost six times the royalty revenue of the last government, the UCP are raising taxes, running deficits and cutting services. CUPE Alberta President Raj Uppal says Alberta deserves a new approach. “For the last six years, the UCP slashed corporate taxes, underfunded education, underfunded health care, cut post-secondary funding, and cut municipal funding,” said Uppal. “In

CUPE members are celebrating the news that the four years of wage freezes forced on Nova Scotian workers through Bill 148 has been found unconstitutional. Today, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has upheld the constitutional guarantee in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms that workers have a right to negotiate the terms of their

The Ontario School Board Council of Unions, OSBCU, representing over 57,000 education workers in more than 60 locals across Ontario, are urging the Ford government and Education Minister Paul Calandra to begin collective bargaining with unions as soon as possible, as severe underfunding and chronic staffing shortages continue to harm students and education workers across Ontario.

Last week, workers at Grand Erie Public Health, which serves the County of Brant, the City of Brantford, Haldimand County, and Norfolk County in southwestern Ontario, cast their votes for CUPE. The workers sent a clear message that they want local control, member driven decision making, and a union that will never back down when fighting