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Citing higher fuel prices and cost of living, increasing traffic and commuting challenges, as well as concerns about climate change, two locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees representing transit workers in the Lower Mainland and Capital Region have launched a new campaign urging more members of the public to “Try Transit!” “Metro Vancouver and […]

Black history is Canadian history. But the stories of Black Canadians have been undocumented and untold. Why? The answer is systemic racism. In Canada, Black people and Black communities have had to endure segregation based on their ethnicity and the colour of their skin. The stories of Black enslavement in Canada must be told and

The Ontario legislature is returning today, but the province can’t afford to return to a recycled budget, says CUPE Ontario. “The Ford Conservatives have continued to proudly say that they’ll be delivering virtually the same inadequate budget they presented before the election, despite inflation exploding and emergency room closures across the province,” said Fred Hahn, President

Facing another weekend of severe hospital staff shortages, and the potential for more hospital emergency room and other care unit cuts and closures, Ontario’s provincial government must not sit on their hands, but take immediate action, said health care unions today. The Ontario Nurses’ Association, CUPE and SEIU Healthcare outlined urgent measures to ensure Ontarians can

How will inflation affect you? How did we get into this economic mess, and how will we get ourselves out? How will inflation affect our wages, which are already falling behind? How can we as union members fight back and win at the bargaining table? CUPE is excited to convene an online webinar on August 16

As municipalities face increasing pressure to agree to public transit P3 projects, the Ottawa LRT inquiry’s recent panel on P3s illustrated why P3s can’t be relied on to deliver safe, efficient, accessible, and reliable transit systems. On July 28, the Ottawa LRT Commission public inquiry heard from over 40 witnesses to investigate the circumstances that

For the first time in its 214-year history, Colombia has elected a progressive, left wing government. The 2022 election of Gustavo Petro as President and Francia Marquez as Vice-President is historic, and a hopeful moment for workers, activists, the marginalized and the poor. Marquez is the first African-Colombian woman to hold the vice-presidency, and their

Communities across Saskatchewan are facing health care service disruptions, emergency room shutdowns, bed closures and an exodus of health care staff.  “Information around closures and service disruptions should be available to the public and tracked.  The government is not providing this information and wants to charge us almost $10,000 to process a Freedom of Information request.  This

Guelph General Hospital and Huron Perth Health Alliance registered practical nurses, personal support workers, cleaners, porters and clerical staff polled recently report that pandemic tensions are subjecting them to increasing violence at work. 67% of them report that they have experienced physical violence and 49% have witnessed an increase in violent incidences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today, SEIU Healthcare and OCHU/CUPE, unions representing 70,000 hospitals workers across Ontario, issued open letters to hospital executives and the provincial government for full transparency and staff support to fix the worsening health human resource crisis leading to widespread hospital emergency room closures and service interruptions. Staffing levels in Ontario hospitals rank the lowest in the