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“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

Last night, CUPE workers reached a tentative agreement with the government. This round of provincial bargaining saw member representatives from each sector involved, including those in health care, school boards, public libraries, NL Housing, transition homes and group homes, and the Government House, who came together to negotiate for their counterparts across the province. Ratification votes will take place

Budget 2023, should have taken a stand against corporate greed by taxing excess profits of corporate giants like Loblaws, who posted $529,000,000 in profits in the 4th quarter of 2022, while 5.8 million Canadians – including 1.4 million children – were experiencing food insecurity. Taxing excess corporate profits would curb corporate profiteering, saving working people money

“Just because we have clean drinking water today, doesn’t mean we will still have it tomorrow.” CUPE National Indigenous Council and CUPE 1500 member Nathalie Claveau is from the small Innu community of Mashteuiatsh, on the shore of Lac Saint-Jean , Quebec. She’s dedicated to protecting water, along with the rights of those who don’t have access