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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

By failing to enforce a deadline mandating long-term care operators to install air conditioning in all resident rooms, Ontario’s PC government has again left frail and vulnerable residents to suffer, this time in scorching heat. “The Premier’s lip-service to the importance of air conditioning in long-term care homes just isn’t good enough. His government needed to

Saskatchewan’s Minister of Education announced a one-time $20 million funding increase to school divisions to help cover the rising cost of inflation. “We appreciate the government walking back their insistence that schools don’t experience inflation. This one-time funding increase will help cover some of the inflationary increases, but what is really needed is a permanent funding increase,” said Rob Westfield, chair of

  CUPE members, at the SQDC, have been on strike for two months and are determined to keep pressure on the employer to get a decent wage. “It’s not complicated, more than half of our salary goes to pay the rent. We barely manage to feed ourselves. When you work at SQDC, you must have a second

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.   Don’t miss this great opportunity to build collective strength with CUPE leaders and activists – register now!  Click here to register for the 2022 CUPE National Sector Council Conference.  Please note

CUPE is encouraged by the BC Court of Appeal’s decision to protect Canada’s universal public health care system in today’s ruling on the Cambie v. British Columbia case. The case was brought by Dr. Brian Day, CEO of Cambie Surgeries Corporation, who is seeking to overturn the ban on for-profit health care and bring a

CUPE Manitoba joined other unions representing workers in the airline sector in Winnipeg for a meeting with Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra, and Member of Parliament for Winnipeg North Kevin Lamoureux, to discuss the current state of the airline sector and the challenging impacts on workers in Manitoba.  CUPE Manitoba President Gina McKay and Rena Kisfalvi,