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CUPE is mourning the loss of Ed Broadbent, a progressive giant and a lifelong champion for workers’ rights and social democracy in Canada. As a political leader, Ed paved the way for progressive inroads in Canada’s Parliament, leading the NDP to one of its best-ever showings in a federal election in 1988. As a public policy intellectual, […]

CUPE Nova Scotia, representing approximately 11,000 health care workers across the province, is happy to see the provincial government making a tangible step toward improving our public health care system. These improvements, however, need to also be publicly operated. Underfunding, and recruitment and retention issues, have long put a strain on the system and the

The union representing more than 180 Lower Mainland transit supervisors remains committed to reaching a deal with Coast Mountain Bus Company at the bargaining table. But CUPE 4500 says a deal must address critical workload issues and ensure that wages of all members working for Coast Mountain are in line with those of other TransLink workers.

Photo: Ville de St. Catharines sous license CC BY-SA 4.0 With the mayor of St. Catharines presenting a budget that included the privatization of forestry as an item, forestry workers, members of CUPE 150, are set to attend a council meeting to protect their jobs and services, and to ensure that forestry remains public.   “A sufficient

A new poll paints a grim picture about the future of Ontario’s health care system, as nearly 4 out of 5 hospital workers say they are not confident in this government’s plan to improve the sector and more than 2 in 5 are considering quitting their jobs.  The polling firm Nanos surveyed more than 750 hospital

Air Transat’s 2100 flight attendants, represented by CUPE, have rejected the tentative agreement reached on December 14. At general membership meetings held from December 20-23 and attended by 87% of the membership, 98.1% voted to turn down the deal. Insufficient wage increases in relation to the cost of living and the stagnating compensation from previous

CUPE 4500, representing more than 180 Lower Mainland transit workers employed by the Coast Mountain Bus Company, CMBC, has served 72-hour strike notice, effective at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, following a long day of mediation with no progress. Job action will begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, January 6 with an overtime ban, which will affect all

CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock has written to the leaders of the four caucuses in Canada’s Senate, voicing CUPE’s strong support for Bill S-244. The bill, sponsored by Senator Diane Bellemare, would create a permanent Employment Insurance Council and a stronger voice for workers in how EI is managed in Canada. The advisory council would

Following a three-day negotiation blitz, CUPE is proud to announce that representatives of the 2100 Air Transat flight attendants and the employer have reached a tentative agreement, which will be presented to the members in the coming days. The flight attendants had previously voted 99.8% in favour of a strike mandate. “We’re convinced that the agreement

Hundreds of workers took part in a rally on Wednesday on Alexandre-DeSève St. between de Maisonneuve Blvd. and Sainte-Catherine St. in Montreal, right in the heart of the district where a large number of Montreal media companies are located. Participants included employees of Radio-Canada, TVA, Astral Media, RDS and Videotron along with political representatives. They