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A participant in a 2018 rally in Toronto holds a sign reading “Freedom to move, Freedom to return, Freedom to stay. #RefugeesWelcome.” Photo credit: John MacDonald/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 CUPE joins refugee and migrant justice advocates who are condemning the closure of the Roxham Road border crossing, following U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit. Roxham Road is the unofficial […]

Union urges affected residents to contact BC Transit, demand action from First Transit. CUPE 561, the union representing striking Fraser Valley transit workers employed by the foreign-owned corporation First Transit, today shared some of the feedback they’ve received from members of the public expressing concerns about the job action’s negative impacts on their daily lives. The union

Developmental service workers in Ontario have decided they’d rather walk picket lines then be stuck on shift for days on end. After more than a year of bargaining between the roughly 100 members in CUPE 2276 and Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet (CLPCW), talks broke down on Wednesday. There was only one main issue outstanding, yet management

Frontline education workers, members of CUPE 4400, will attend a special meeting of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) on Thursday afternoon to urge trustees not to cut already low, unsafe staffing levels. The committee is expected to discuss planned cuts to: special education supports for students; swimming pools instructors; and food services for kids. These would be on top

The Saskatchewan Party government has signed a $6 million agreement with a Calgary based for-profit corporation, Canadian Surgery Solutions, to provide an undisclosed number of surgeries to Saskatchewan residents. Canadian Surgery Solutions is part of a national network of for-profit private surgical clinics owned by Kensington Capital Partners Limited, an investment firm with $2.6 billion in

Canada’s largest union, CUPE, says today’s federal budget falls way short on addressing corporate greed and even shorter on delivering help for working people and their families. “This budget is another win for the rich, and another tough loss for workers trying to put a roof over their heads and food on the table for their

In an important win for members of CUPE 104, the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board has declared that the Treasury Board of Canada engaged in unfair labour practices when it tried to penalize members of CUPE 104 for unionizing. The decision upholds the rights of 1,200 CUPE members who work in the

A dispute over pension funding at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) will lead to job action later this month unless the university addresses pension issues, say leaders of CUPE 233, representing maintenance, grounds, and custodial workers at the school in downtown Toronto. “After months of negotiations, the university still hasn’t recognized that it cannot make unilateral

“We’re all in this fight together to sustain a blue planet and make sure water is available to everybody.” CUPE National Indigenous Council and CUPE 1870 member, Leo Cheverie, is Inuk from Labrador — his home community in geographic terms is East Point, P.E.I. P.E.I. is particularly vulnerable to water shortages, as its sole source of drinking

CUPE Ontario delivered a stinging assessment of the Ford government’s provincial budget, as the union charged the government with deliberately underspending on vital services and failing to address the staffing crisis it has created in the hollowing out of the province’s public services. “Starving our public services has been an intentional choice of this government, and