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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 […]

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

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

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

 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,

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

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

Public sector workers from across the province are gathering this weekend to exchange ideas and develop strategies to defend against privatization of public services in Newfoundland & Labrador. CUPE is hosting a three-day conference at the Greenwood Inn & Suites in Corner Brook, where workers will hear from experts, activists, and each other on the increased use

Flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge have voted 99.1% against ratifying the company’s wage offer. Voter turnout was 94.6%. Even with the proposed increase, Air Canada flight attendants would still earn less than federal minimum wage, which is $17.75 per hour or $2,840 per month on a 40-hour workweek. By contrast, a full-time

For months, CUPE members have been doing the tireless, behind the scenes organizing work required to right a historic injustice that’s impacted workers and communities across Ontario. Today that work goes public as members of CUPE and OPSEU/SEFPO launch the Worth Fighting For campaign to get the remedy that workers in social services and Ontario