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CUPE applauds NDP’s deal to deliver help to low-income Canadians

Once again, the NDP has found a way to leverage its position in the minority Parliament to bring important assistance to low-income Canadians struggling with the cost of dental care, housing, and the skyrocketing cost of living. Working people in Canada are lucky we have Jagmeet and the NDP fighting for us in Parliament. The NDP […]

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Statement from CUPE on Pierre Poilievre winning Conservative Party leadership

Statement from Mark Hancock, National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), on Pierre Poilievre winning the Conservative Party leadership:  “It’s too bad that, unlike Andrew Scheer, Pierre Poilievre does not hold American citizenship, because he would be right at home as Governor of a state like Alabama. Pierre is a career politician who has

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Pharma profits or health justice? Join CUPE’s webinar and act now for universal pharmacare

Did you ever have to pay for your prescription drugs out of pocket due to inadequate drug coverage or no coverage at all? Or did a family member ever avoid taking a prescribed medicine due to its cost?  A recent study found almost 1 million Canadians had cut their household spending on food and heat to

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Canadian Blood Services on the verge of privatizing plasma collection

There are reports that Canadian Blood Services (CBS) may be negotiating a secret deal with a global plasma corporation to buy privatized paid plasma collected in Canada. This move would undermine public trust in CBS, threaten the voluntary blood and plasma donor network, and put patient safety at risk. For-profit plasma corporations treat human plasma as

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Ontario education workers prepare to fight

Over the weekend more than 250 education workers, representing their 55,000 coworkers across the province, met to reconfirm their commitment to fight for decent wages, increased services for students, and a reinvestment in public education after a decade of government cuts to education funding. During the conference, delegates unanimously endorsed the OSBCU bargaining team’s recommendation to

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Tentative deal between CUPE 1295 and Brock should ensure smooth start to the academic year

Photo credit: Brock University. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. CUPE has reached a tentative agreement with Brock University on behalf of a group of workers who were due to begin job action on Monday. If workers ratify the deal, it will mean that students and their families can enjoy a

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