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In a closed-door consultation, Canadian Blood Services (CBS) is considering whether for-profit paid plasma corporations should play a greater role in Canada’s plasma supply. CUPE is firmly opposed to this idea. The consultation excluded key health care advocates, including CUPE and the Canadian Labour Congress, cutting out the voices of workers who understand the situation […]

Tension at the Lac Leamy Casino has been ratcheted down a notch, as CUPE 3993 membership ratified the tentative agreement with Loto-Québec at a virtual meeting on Tuesday evening. The new contract, which runs until April 30, 2025, calls for wage increases of 2 per cent for 2020, 3 per cent for 2021 and 2022, 2.5

Today, CUPE Saskatchewan joined with other public sector unions representing more than 113,000 Saskatchewan workers to collectively call on the Government of Saskatchewan and Premier Scott Moe to immediately mandate the recommendations of the province’s Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. “Everyday, frontline workers are putting themselves at risk for all of us and this

Earlier this week, New Brunswick Social Development Minister Bruce Fitch announced a 2-month (8 weeks) wage top-up for the community care workers who provide services to vulnerable residents and who earn less than $18 per hour. “The $3 dollar wage top-up will help folks like me pay for groceries and heating, but it should be made

Personal protective equipment is designed for men. This means it can be hard for women to get PPE that fits appropriately.   As part of CUPE’s ongoing work on this issue, the Health and Safety Branch is asking all members who use PPE at work to fill out a new survey from the Canadian Standards Association.

Graduates from NOMADESC’s 2021 Intercultural University of the Peoples in Colombia. This year, CUPE continued to work in solidarity with workers and communities in many countries and strengthen long-term partnerships through our Global Justice Fund. The fund is one way our union supports global movements for human rights, labour protection, peace, and justice. Through the fund and

By January 1, 2022, Canadians were supposed to have access to a list of essential medicines that would be covered under Canada’s new pharmacare legislation. Instead, Jean-Yves Duclos, the Minister of Health, postponed regulatory changes that would have better protected the public from excessive drug prices. It’s time to hold the Liberals to their commitment

As news of a cold snap would hit New Brunswick, residents learned the New Brunswick Government had just cut the New Brunswick Home Energy Assistance rebate program. “While far from enough, the rebate for low-income families was about the only help the provincial government provided to folks during winter,” said Steve Drost, President of CUPE New Brunswick.

“This is good news and we should all take a moment to celebrate the government’s public commitment to the universal child care system that early childhood educators and child care activists have lobbied government for more than 20 years,” said CUPE Nova Scotia President Nan McFadgen. “Today, the province announced the first reduction to parent

While the fifth wave of the COVID pandemic has caused most jurisdictions to require higher staffing levels at most long term care facilities, some Calgary operators are being forced to reduce hours to make up for the Alberta government’s funding gaps. CUPE Alberta says its members working at Intercare Corporate Group Inc. are having their hours