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Education workers face many challenges on the job – violence and harassment should not be one of them. CUPE members across Canada have campaigned for employers to take active measures to reduce violence and harassment at schools. Now CUPE members in the education sector can participate in a landmark study to understand violence and harassment […]

CUPE 882 members representing the inside workers at the City of Prince Albert have voted 81% in favour of accepting the tentative agreement. Mira Lewis, CUPE National Representative said “Despite the city’s mind games, we were able to reach a deal with real improvements for our members. These gains clearly show what we said in the

At a general meeting last night, the inside and outside workers with the Town of Val-d’Or (CUPE 128) voted 98.4% in favour of pressure tactics up to an including an unlimited strike at a time deemed opportune. The collective agreement expired on November 30, 2022, and negotiations to renew it began on May 30, 2023. In

Outside workers in the Municipality of Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac in the Laurentians refused to work overtime today to express their exasperation with the pace of negotiations to renew their collective agreement. The pressure will soon edge up a notch because, starting on December 1, 2023, the inside workers will be able to exercise the same type of pressure

CUPE 389 members and the North Vancouver City Library have ratified a new three-year agreement that provides improved working conditions for CUPE members and enhanced library services for the community. “This round of negotiations, both the union and management engaged in open discussions. This respectful and collaborative approach allowed us to address concerns, find common ground, and work

CUPE has announced that its 2,100 flight attendant members at Air Transat have a strike mandate. It was approved during general meetings by a nearly unanimous vote of 99.8%, by far the highest tally in the history of the Air Transat Component of CUPE. The vote reflects the flight attendants’ exceptionally high level of dissatisfaction with

After consistent advocacy from the Ontario child care community, since the announcement of an $18 per hour wage floor in 2022, the provincial government has now been forced to increase the wage floor for RECEs in the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care, CWELCC, system to $23.86 per hour. “This change is a direct result of

After the recent reversal on the decision to close the Regina Lutheran Home, CUPE is calling on the provincial government to stop treating Saskatchewan seniors like an afterthought and create a long-term plan for long-term care. “The closure of Regina Lutheran Home should never have been on the table in the first place,” said Bashir Jalloh,

While City Council started budget deliberations by giving themselves a compensation increase, the unions representing inside and outside workers at the City of Prince Albert stand united to demand fair wages that reflect their dedication to the well-being and prosperity of our community. “Budgets are about choices. This council is choosing to give themselves wage increases

A “blue-ribbon panel” appointed by the Ford government confirmed in its report yesterday what university educators and staff have been saying for years: Ontario’s universities are the worst-funded in Canada. “We didn’t need the government to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a panel to tell us what we already know. Ontario universities receive far