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 […]
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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
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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
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CUPE Manitoba, the province’s largest union, is excited to announce the launch of a new educational initiative designed to help kids better understand the important roles public sector workers play in their communities: We Work for Manitoba: A Kids’ Activity Book on Public Workers. The children’s book highlights the wide array of public services that sustain
CUPE has released its submission ahead of the 2025 federal budget, calling on the government to strengthen public services, and build a fairer, more sustainable economy that prioritizes people, not corporations. Canadian jobs and public services are under threat by Donald Trump’s economic sabotage. Now is not the time for Prime Minister Mark Carney to pile
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The union representing 20,000 flight attendants across Canada says Sunday’s emergency evacuation of an Air Canada flight in Denver is just the latest example of how flight attendants are not compensated for their most important safety duties. The flight was evacuated by the dedicated (and unpaid) crew after an electrical burning smell was identified onboard. “Airlines
In reaction to the government’s back-to-work order issued to Air Canada flight attendants over the weekend, CUPE National President Mark Hancock and CUPE National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick held a press conference in Toronto on Monday, August 18. The national officers said they would not obey the back-to-work order and that they won’t back down until
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CUPE 1328, which represents over 2,000 education workers across the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), is urgently calling for the board to hire hundreds more education workers following a damning Global News investigation revealing a 77 per cent rise in violent incidents in Ontario schools since the Ford government came to power. Sharron Flynn, president
The Liberal government under Mark Carney has done incalculable damage to the Charter and workers’ rights by siding with Air Canada to crush the rights of flight attendants at Air Canada. Today, Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu used Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to intervene on behalf of Air Canada to
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