Daniel Gawthrop | CUPE Staff According to the most recent RCMP report, 1,017 women and girls identified as Indigenous were murdered between 1980 and 2012 — a homicide rate roughly 4.5 times higher than that of all other women in Canada — and at least 105 Indigenous women and girls remained missing. These numbers, however, don’t take […]
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On May Day, custodial and maintenance workers at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) begin the third week of their historic strike. Their union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 233 is marking the day with an unprecedented call for workers across the province to begin a full “donor boycott” against their employer until a
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With a recent poll showing that Ontario is at-risk of losing more than 60% of its registered practical nurses (RPNs) workforce, RPNs made an emotional appeal to the Doug Ford government to step up investments in wages and improved working conditions to stop thousands more from leaving nursing. The poll, conducted by Nanos Research of behalf
Unpaid work won’t fly. That’s the message that hundreds of CUPE flight attendants and supporters brought to events at airports in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal on Tuesday as part of a National Day of Action against the widespread abuse of unpaid work in the airline industry. “Our members are tired of working a 10- or
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At a noon rally today at Toronto Metropolitan University, striking custodial and maintenance workers were clear in their message – they are strongly united in their campaign for fair wages and a say in their pension, despite insults and misinformation coming from administration. The week began with TMU President Mohamed Lachemi crossing the picket line and
On the eve of their fourth week on strike, developmental service workers have reached a tentative agreement with Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet. “I am proud of my coworkers and the strength of our Union,” said CUPE 2276 Vice President Cassie Bisson. “The work we do can be invisible to so many. But we weren’t willing to
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
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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
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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