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This year’s provincial budget has left CUPE Nova Scotia President Nan McFadgen wondering whether Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservative government can juggle more than one commitment at a time. “The recruitment and retention issues we’re facing in healthcare are real, and they need to be addressed, but we’re facing those same issues in every other sector as […]

It is clear that the province is no longer in an economic crisis with the government’s release of its revised figures from 2022-23 of an additional $1.5 billion in revenue last fiscal year. However, the 2023-24 budget released today reinvests none of this revenue into public sector workers, leaving workers in health care, libraries, housing,

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver Budget 2023 on Tuesday, March 28. CUPE is calling on Freeland to invest in the public services that working people depend on, and tackle corporate greed that is fuelling inflation and forcing more and more people into the red every month. Corporate profiteering is one of the main drivers of

After years of cuts and privatization, today’s provincial budget fails to provide the necessary investment needed to fix the crisis facing Saskatchewan’s public services and misses the chance to provide working people with much-needed affordability measures to ease the rising cost of living. “Saskatchewan’s public services have been starved for years by the Saskatchewan Party government,”

Working relations between the Town of Blainville and its firefighters continue to deteriorate. Last night, many of them demonstrated at the town council to denounce the employer’s close-mindedness to its employees’ legitimate demands. ​About 40 firefighters have been without a contract since December 31, 2019. Negotiations have been arduous, and the members massively turned down the tentative agreement the

The seven employees who work for Tri-Board Student Transportation Services, members of CUPE 1479, are poised to walk off the job in a legal strike on Monday, April 3 if their proposal for a fair wage increase is not accepted. Six of the workers are transportation planners who are substantially underpaid compared to the school transportation

Several tens of racialized employees, who are members of CUPE 301, and their allies gathered in front of city hall to demand concrete and quick action by the city to eliminate systemic racism in their workplace. Coinciding with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and a series of articles that recently ran in

“The water talks to you. The water will tell you the stories.” CUPE National Indigenous Council and CUPE 4070 member White Eagle Woman, or Lindsay (Loyer) Poll, lives in Treaty 7 territory near Calgary. Her kookum (grandmother) told stories of pristine water, long before colonization, that was a lake of healing. Now, those waters are poisoned and

National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick sent participants at the CUPE Women’s Conference home with words of encouragement and support today. She pledged that CUPE will continue the fight for equity and gender justice and will work to turn discussions from the conference into concrete, funded, and resourced initiatives to make real and meaningful changes inside and outside

Don’t mobilize. Organize! “Reach out to people who are not already involved.” “Go deep and listen.” “Have conversations and build relationships.” This is the advice participants in the Organizing to Win panel shared with CUPE’s women conference delegates on Tuesday. The discussion featured Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) president Laura Walton, former NDP MP for Parkdale-High Park