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CUPE 1559, representing public health workers at Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark District Health Unit, LGLDHU, return to the bargaining table this week with the assistance of a Ministry of Labour Conciliation Officer. Workers have been without a contract since April of this year. “It’s discouraging to see it come down to this,” says Merima Kostecki, CUPE […]

Education support workers in Alberta’s Sturgeon Public School Division represented by CUPE 4625 held a strike vote on Friday, October 25th. The membership of roughly 250 includes educational assistants, cafeteria clerks, office clerks, library clerks, therapy assistants, library technicians, cafeteria technicians, accounts clerks, vocational assistants, divisional administrative assistants, and licenced practical nurses. The result was

As poverty deepens and more people in Northumberland County need support to navigate the cost-of-living crisis, community social services are more in demand than ever. Now those same workers who help the most vulnerable are facing a crisis of their own as management has trampled on their work-life balance and imposed wages that push them

Edmonton Public School custodial staff in CUPE 474 held a strike vote in person over two days on October 17th and 20th. The membership of roughly 900 voted decisively in favour of taking strike action by 97%. After confirmation of the final results by the Alberta Labour Board, the Local is now in a position

Yesterday, community health care workers at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) rallied to demand that their employer address the severe underfunding and understaffing crisis at the centre. After more than eight months at the bargaining table, SRCHC management still refuses to offer members of CUPE 5399 a real wage increase. For years, community health care workers

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