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The conference will start with a meet and greet at 4 p.m. on Monday, October 7, followed by an opening plenary at 6 p.m. The conference will end at noon on Thursday, October 10. The National Sector Council Conference brings together members from across the country to share information about work in their sectors. The conference […]

Air Canada recently released its annual report and held a shareholders meeting where they boasted of their current financial success. The Air Canada Component of CUPE, which represents more than 10,000 flight attendants with Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge, noted that the report failed to mention the amount of unpaid labour that the company’s

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