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CUPE members are experiencing wildfires that are increasing in number and severity. These fires and the smoke they create harm everyone’s physical and mental health, especially equity-seeking groups like Indigenous populations and people with disabilities. Even if workers are far away, the bad air quality from wildfires can still affect them, both indoors and outdoors. […]

Library workers returned to the bargaining table with the town of Bradford West Gwillimbury on Wednesday, after the employer signalled there was a new offer to discuss. However, despite two more days of negotiations, it was made clear the employer has not heard the concerns of library workers over the last 28 days. “We went back

CUPE 1251, representing over 600 members mainly working in provincial correctional facilities in New Brunswick, welcomes the recent announcement regarding the potential addition of correctional officers to the list of workers benefiting from presumptive post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) legislation.  WorkSafeNB has just launched a public consultation to seek input on whether the government should pursue

Despite ample evidence from across Canada that the privatization of garbage collection is not a cost-effective alternative to publicly managed services, the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) has recently begun accepting pre-qualification submissions from private companies without first notifying CUPE, who currently handles their garbage collection. “They didn’t notify us that the contract was being offered

The union representing 9,500 flight attendants at Air Canada says the company’s quarterly profit of $838 million shows it is more than capable of giving its flight attendants a raise to their poverty starting wages. It also shows the company is more than capable of ending its reliance on – and abuse of – unpaid

Following an incident where an operator of a piece of heavy equipment rammed into their picket line, hitting municipal workers on strike, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 71 has condemned what they call an attempt to shift blame onto them. “We have a legal right to set up picket lines, and we’ve done so safely

CUPE 2403 members at the Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library have ratified a new, four-year collective agreement. The new contract, which is retroactive to January 2023, is a major step forward in addressing affordability for some of the lowest paid public sector workers. “Workers in community libraries have lower wages and fewer benefits than people imagine,

CUPE 905 library workers on the picket line As of today, library workers in the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury have been on strike for 21 days – one of the longest library strikes in Ontario history. “The reality in Bradford West Gwillimbury is that the library workers – who are almost all women – have been denied

On January 12, 2010, Haiti was rocked by an earthquake that devastated many buildings and infrastructure. This was an event that the country, already the poorest in the Americas, could certainly have done without.  The headquarters of the Confederation of Public and Private Sector Workers (CTSP), which brings together twelve unions, was destroyed.  CUPE, with the support

CUPE 905 library workers on the picket line CUPE is disappointed that the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC) is excluding workers’ voices from its ad hoc Safety and Security Working Group. CUPE, which represents 10,600 public library workers across Canada, had sought to participate to ensure the perspective of workers was present in the working group’s