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CUPE, the union representing 18,500 flight attendants nationwide, is applauding an NDP bill that would end the abuse of unpaid work in the airline sector. As it currently stands, most airlines in Canada only pay flight attendants when aircraft are in motion, leaving flight attendants performing an average of 35 hours of unpaid work every […]

CUPE 4819, the union representing Saint-André-d’Argenteuil employees, and their counterparts with the municipality signed a new negotiated five-year contract that runs from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2027. The previous contract expired on January 1, 2023. “Our members’ perseverance and our mobilization prompted the municipality to move on the issues we’re experiencing and close the gap

Last week, Hydro-Québec confirmed that another major wind farm will be established, this time in the Lower St. Lawrence, in the Kamouraska RCM, in partnership with the Alliance de l’énergie de l’Est, a limited partnership. Notwithstanding Hydro-Québec’s announcement, private interests will indeed be controlling the development and ultimately the pricing of this new form of

CUPE 3550’s strike will officially begin on Thursday, October 24, 2024, from 7am for all work sites at Edmonton Public schools. “This result shows incredible strength in the membership’s resolve to achieve a fair collective bargaining agreement,”  said CUPE 3550 president Mandy Lamoureux. The union held a strike vote on October 16, 2024 resulting in 92% of eligible voting

Health-care workers at SickKids Hospital in Toronto are outraged by their employer’s recent announcement that it will continue its “pension holiday” rather than improve retirement benefits for its staff. Last week, SickKids announced that it will not be paying into the staff pension plan for yet another year – it has only contributed to the plan

The people responsible for safeguarding the retirement savings of 22 million Canadian workers lost more than $500 million investing in scandal-plagued Orpea, the largest for-profit long-term care company in Europe, as revealed in a report released today. The scathing report by the Center for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research, CICTAR, exposes the Canada Public Pension

On behalf of Approximately 25,000 Manitoba health care support workers, CUPE and the Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union, MGEU, reached a tentative agreement at 4:25am, Tuesday morning with employers represented by the Provincial Health Labour Relations Secretariat, PHLRS. The tentative agreement postpones a planned strike, pending the outcome of member ratification votes. “We are pleased that our bargaining committees were able to negotiate a tentative

The Canadian Government has made a series of troubling announcements over the last few months that will have a significant impact on temporary foreign workers, international students and their families. According to the Migrant Rights Network, “we are witnessing one of the most significant rollbacks of migrant rights and access in Canadian history”. Despite recent promises

After decades of campaigning and struggle by activists, allies, and CUPE members, Canada finally has the framework for a national single payer pharmacare program. Pharmacare received royal assent and has become law. Thanks to the NDP leveraging their power over the Liberal government, millions of Canadians will now be able to access life-saving medications like diabetes medications and

Western University and caretaking, landscape service and trades workers represented by CUPE 2361 have reached a tentative agreement that will end the six-week strike on campus. “We were able to reach an agreement that makes progress on key priorities, and we’re happy to be getting back to work,” said Steve Pepper, an electric motor mechanic and