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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

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