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After silence from Toronto Metropolitan University management over the weekend, custodial and maintenance workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) started their first-ever strike Monday morning. “It’s been a frustrating process. All we’re asking for is wages that keep up with the cost of living in Toronto, and for a say in how […]

A boisterous noon-hour rally in support of striking CUPE 561 members had a strong message for the Crown corporation that contracts out transit services in the Fraser Valley: BC Transit needs to live up to its responsibility to provide public transit for the region and is failing the public by remaining outside the dispute. At the

Bev Rumboldt hasn’t slept well since the strike at Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet began. With minimal communication from management about staffing issues, she’s anxious her daughter Brooklynne, who is 25, non-verbal, and has autism, isn’t getting the level attention she needs. “No parent wants to live with that worry or stress,” she says. Brooklynne has had

“Water is life is like the air you breathe. It cleanses you. It quenches your thirst. It cleans your soul. It feeds you.” CUPE National Indigenous Council and CUPE 1880 member Dawn Bellerose is from Robinson-Huron Anishinaabe territory in Sault Ste. Marie. As an Indigenous woman in an urban centre, when she experiences issues with water at

Despite announcing a billion-dollar surplus in their budget last month, the Saskatchewan Party government is cutting university funding this year by more than 3%, continuing a decade-long trend of cuts and underfunding that has led to budget cuts and tuition hikes at Saskatchewan’s post-secondary institutions. While the government claims that they’ve increased funding for post-secondary education, budget

Flight attendants represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have launched the “Unpaid Work Won’t Fly” campaign, a national effort to end the widespread abuse of unpaid work in the airline sector that sees the average flight attendant in Canada work 35 hours every month for free. “Much of the Canadian public has no

CUPE BC, the province’s largest union, is calling on Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim to reverse course on his process of decampments in the City’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). “The ongoing decampment in the DTES is the vision of Vancouver’s City Council and Mayor Ken Sim,” said CUPE BC President and Vancouver resident Karen Ranalletta. “The mayor’s tactics, forcibly

CUPE is celebrating news that the Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear an appeal of the Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia case that sought to overturn a ban on for-profit health care and bring a US-style medical system into Canada. “Today’s ruling upholds a fundamental principle of what it means to live in

Despite promising to hire hundreds of continuing care assistants (CCAs) as part of their 2020 re-election campaign, numbers revealed by the Minister for Seniors show that the Saskatchewan Party government has made almost no progress on hiring in nearly three years. During the 2020 provincial election, the Saskatchewan Party committed to hiring 300 more CCAs, promising

Chris Judge’s weekend shifts as a developmental support worker at Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet are scheduled to run from 7 a.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday. Lately, the sight of his work bag has filled his eight and four-year-old children with anxiety. “They want to know if I’ll be back on Sunday in time for a