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Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), is calling on the Trudeau government to stand strong in the face of bullying by tech giants Meta and Google, who do not want to pay their fair share to support local journalism in Canada. “Tech giants like Google and Meta have been making billions off […]

The Bank of Canada is kicking working families in Canada when they’re already down, and making an affordability crisis even worse with its latest interest rate hike. “Every time the Bank of Canada cranks up their interest rate, the big banks make out like bandits, the rich get richer, and the basics for working people like

Nearly 500 front-line child protection workers and support staff, members of the CUPE 2316, have ratified a new contract with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST). While the deal averts a strike that was set to begin late last week, it does little to settle a sector struggling with burnt-out workers and unsafe conditions

The thirty or so blue- and white-collar employees with the Municipality of Oka located in the Deux-Montagnes RCM in the Laurentian region finally have their first collective agreement, which was signed today by representatives of the union and the municipality. This first contract, which runs for slightly more than five years, calls for wage hikes totalling

CUPE President Mark Hancock and Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick today brought messages of solidarity to Fraser Valley transit workers from the union’s 715,000 workers across Canada, visiting CUPE 561’s picket lines in Burnaby, Chilliwack and Abbotsford on Day 108 of their strike for fair wages and retirement security. Rennick, visiting the Lougheed Station picket line, also

CUPE joined the Canadian Labour Congress and the disability community on June 22, 2023 in celebrating royal assent for Bill C-22, which will establish the new Canada Disability Benefit. The benefit, the first of its kind at the federal level, will provide financial support to low-income working-age persons with disabilities. However, the framework for this new benefit

Photo credit: Alex Lisman/Team Ignite OFL 2023 CUPE Ontario’s executive board is pleased to announce its endorsement of Laura Walton, Ahmad Gaied, and Jackie Taylor, members of Team Ignite, for officers’ positions on the executive of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). “Team Ignite is made up of three incredible labour leaders and we at CUPE Ontario

On June 14, 2023, CUPE Local 5047 President Chris Melanson made the following statement: After more than a month of job action, CUPE Local 5047 and the Halifax Regional Centre for Education have reached a tentative agreement. This agreement was made possible by the fierce determination of school support staff in HRM, whose strike action forced

Toronto Education Workers/CUPE Local 4400 and the Toronto District School Board have reached a tentative agreement in collective bargaining for local terms and conditions. Ratification votes will be scheduled before the end of June for members to vote on new collective agreements covering employees in three bargaining units.  When ratified, members will be entitled to

CUPE Quebec is saluting everyone who is going all out to extinguish the blazes that are overwhelming citizens living in the regions of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Mauricie and the North Shore. Of course, CUPE Quebec tips its hat to the firefighters and emergency services on duty along with all municipal employees and blue- and white-collar employees who are