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CUPE 1698 and the Fraser Valley Regional Library, FVRL, reached a tentative agreement earlier today, preventing a lockout that would have shut down library services across the region. “Our members know how important library services are to the communities we serve. We’re relieved we’ve been able reach a tentative agreement so that families, newcomers, seniors, students […]

CUPE has issued a warning about the intention of Christine Fréchette, Coalition avenir Québec, CAQ, leadership contestant, to revive the old and faulty “public-private partnerships”,PPP, for Quebec’s school buildings. Drawing on decades of expertise, CUPE asserts that this model is a total aberration. Fréchette is essentially proposing to entrust private investors with the construction, ownership and management

CUPE members are celebrating the news that the four years of wage freezes forced on Nova Scotian workers through Bill 148 has been found unconstitutional. Today, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has upheld the constitutional guarantee in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms that workers have a right to negotiate the terms of their

With almost six times the royalty revenue of the last government, the UCP are raising taxes, running deficits and cutting services. CUPE Alberta President Raj Uppal says Alberta deserves a new approach. “For the last six years, the UCP slashed corporate taxes, underfunded education, underfunded health care, cut post-secondary funding, and cut municipal funding,” said Uppal. “In

Winnipeg’s largest union says that Winnipeg City Council needs to go back to the drawing board on the Request for Proposals, RFPs, for garbage and recycling services. “The garbage contract stinks,” said Gord Delbridge, president of CUPE 500. “From start to finish, the process, the bids, and the contractor selected all need to be trashed.” The RFP

Last week, workers at Grand Erie Public Health, which serves the County of Brant, the City of Brantford, Haldimand County, and Norfolk County in southwestern Ontario, cast their votes for CUPE. The workers sent a clear message that they want local control, member driven decision making, and a union that will never back down when fighting

The Ontario School Board Council of Unions, OSBCU, representing over 57,000 education workers in more than 60 locals across Ontario, are urging the Ford government and Education Minister Paul Calandra to begin collective bargaining with unions as soon as possible, as severe underfunding and chronic staffing shortages continue to harm students and education workers across Ontario.

After five days of negotiations, including a marathon session lasting twenty-four consecutive hours, your bargaining committee is proud to announce the Community Bargaining Association, CBA, has reached a tentative agreement with the Health Employers’ Association of BC, HEABC.  The CBA represents over 17,000 community health workers in seven constituent unions across B.C., including four CUPE locals with

BC’s 25,000 specialized health professionals reached a tentative agreement in the early hours of Friday morning, February 20, after almost one year of negotiations between the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association, HSPBA, and Health Employers Association of BC, HEABC.  Five CUPE locals representing about 1,200 members are part of the HSPBA. HSPBA members mandated the bargaining committee

Yesterday’s provincial budget revealed the disconnect between the Houston PCs and average Nova Scotians, says CUPE Nova Scotia President Alan Linkletter. “CUPE members from continuing care assistants to school custodians provide critical services to Nova Scotians, but they are facing unsustainable working conditions,” Linkletter said Tuesday. “The Houston PC government should be investing in the front-line care