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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 […]

After nearly two years of unjust detention as a political prisoner in Turkey, CUPE 4600 member Cihan Erdal has safely returned to Canada. From the moment of Erdal’s arrest on Sept. 25, 2020, CUPE has used our voice as Canada’s largest union to call for his freedom as part of a global solidarity campaign led

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

Join CUPE members from across the country to share information about work in your sectors and to gain new insights from exciting guest speakers and panelists. The conference is a great opportunity to build collective strength with other CUPE leaders and activists. Registration closes end of day September 16, 2022. This is a firm cut-off date to allow

Are you interested in fostering bargaining and political power in your local? Do you want to learn what it takes to develop policies and legislation that strengthen the labour movement? Do you want to work for political campaigns or possibly run for a provincial or federal seat? Do you want to develop an NDP that

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

From groceries to gas to housing, the cost of living is skyrocketing. This increase in prices is called inflation. When wages fail to keep up with inflation, workers fall behind. It doesn’t have to be this way. Unions can help. To protect workers against inflation, we need to bargain appropriate wage gains and cost-of-living increases. Here’s why: If you bargain

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

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

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