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Who owns and operates our hospitals and how hospital services are provided matters. Public hospitals cost less, provide better care, and serve the public good Did you know? Privatized health care poses a direct threat to patient care and services. But our governments are allowing private, for-profit companies to design, build, finance, and operate our hospitals in what […]

Let’s get together to talk about how we keep building an anti-racist union. This online meeting takes place Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, from 1-4 pm EST. It will be hosted by Debra Merrier, CUPE National Diversity Vice-President representing Indigenous workers and Aubrey Gonsalves, CUPE National Diversity Vice-President representing Black and racialized workers. The CUPE National Anti-Racism

Nearly 50% of health care support workers have been, or plan to, look for a new job, according to a survey conducted from over 5,000 support workers in the WRHA, Shared Health, Southern Health-Santé Sud, and the Northern Regional Health Authority.  Recruitment and retention of health care support workers should be a priority for government

Over 5,000 workers in Nova Scotia’s public schools are demanding action from the provincial government on issues affecting school support staff, students, and their families. The start of the new school year is already demonstrating the urgency to address understaffing, high workloads, and other factors contributing to the crisis of violence in Nova Scotia’s public schools.

Yesterday, Montreal-West outside workers, who are members of the Montreal union of amalgamated outside workers (CUPE 301), unanimously voted in favour of pressure tactics up to and including strike action.  “To get the deadlocked talks moving again, union members gave their union this mandate to support their bargaining committee. They have really mobilized to improve their

CUPE is calling on the federal government to resist pressure from CEOs and their conservative allies, and not intervene in the labour dispute at the Port of Montreal. Over 1,200 dockworkers at the Port of Montreal represented by CUPE have voted almost 98 per cent in favour of strike action if a fair deal can’t

The union representing Trois-Rivières inside workers (CUPE 3423), which represents 517 inside workers and professionals, has been negotiating since January 1, 2023, to renew its collective agreement. Needless to say, the employer and the workers are still far apart. The parties have held 28 bargaining meetings, 2 mediation sessions, 6 meetings on the pension plan and

Emergency Communications Professionals of BC, the union that represents over seven hundred 9-1-1 operators, dispatchers, and support staff at E-Comm 9-1-1, welcomes the announcement of a governance and financial review by the provincial government. “We’ve consistently raised the alarm about the systemic issues that have been plaguing B.C.’s 9-1-1 emergency response system and we’re pleased that

Like many other travelers, I had been closely monitoring the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) Canada bargaining last week and was thrilled to hear that they were able to achieve a tentative agreement with their employer, Air Canada. This agreement is an excellent example of how the constitutional right to free collective bargaining is the

A strike or lockout is a tense situation at the best of times, and public safety is put at risk when employers and politicians are able to use police as a weapon against workers, says CUPE 2361. Caretaking, landscape service, arena and trades workers at Western University have been on strike since August 30 for liveable