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Manitoba’s largest union is applauding the NDP government’s first budget, which should help address chronic under-staffing in healthcare, childcare, municipal services, and education.  “Hiring 600 health care aides will help fill the staffing holes created by the previous government”, said Gina McKay, president of CUPE Manitoba. “We hear every day from health care support staff across […]

Front-line workers at the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie say they desperately need a real wage increase if the health centre doesn’t want to lose more staff. In January, the Group Health Centre announced that eight physicians would be leaving the centre at the end of May, leaving 10,000 patients in the area

There is a network of nurses and personal support workers doing hundreds of in-home healthcare visits to seniors across eastern Ontario every day. It appears seamless, except the infrastructure behind that network – the 70 health administrators who schedule visits, book appointments, manage sick calls and more – is cracking. Those health administrators, members of CUPE

Ontarians desperate for relief from the cost-of-living crisis and eager for more investment in their public services have been let down again by the Conservatives’ budget. “This budget sets up ordinary Ontarians for more years of misery,” said Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario, the union that represents 290,000 public sector workers in Ontario. “Despite spending millions

The increase in hospital funding announced yesterday by the Ontario government is not enough to ease the hospital crisis and will actually cause further deterioration, says CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, OCHU-CUPE. “It doesn’t keep up with hospital inflationary pressures (of 5.6%) let alone the pressures of an aging and growing population, even as we witness

CUPE Nova Scotia is deeply disappointed to learn that our elected representatives have chosen to exclude unions from discussions about violence in schools. CUPE Nova Scotia denounces the recent motion passed by members of the Provincial Standing Committee on Public Accounts that limits witnesses testifying at a future meeting to address an upcoming report from the

In the Conservative playbook, when outright attacks on public services don’t work, you switch to veiled threats backed up by the consultant class. That playbook is being deployed again in the Ministry of Education’s recent calls for value-for-money audits of municipally run child care centres. According to child care advocates, experts, and workers, the real purpose

CUPE salutes Auditor General Paul Martin’s investigation into the management of private agency nursing contracts in New Brunswick. This is why CUPE 1252 (representing over 9,000 healthcare workers in NB), along with the NB Council of Nursing Home Unions (over 4,400 long-term care workers) are demanding a broader inquiry into other facets of healthcare privatization. While

 Approximately 1200 inside workers with the City of Longueuil, who have been without a contract since January 1, 2021, will be going on strike on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Despite having around 75 bargaining sessions since May 9, 2022, talks have always stalled on the issue of equity with other Longueuil municipal workers.

Photo by: Hatnim Lee CUPE is joining more than 100 union women in a global delegation at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick, Regional Vice-President for Ontario Yolanda McClean, CUPE Human Rights Director Elizabeth Dandy, and Executive Assistant Andrea Addario are bringing our union’s voice to the meetings. Our message