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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

Nova Scotia Public Health and the provincial government are failing workers and children in child care centres, says CUPE, representing over 200 early childhood educators (ECEs) at not-for-profit and profit child care centres across the province. “We sent a letter to Minister Becky Druhan yesterday asking for N95 respirators and rapid test kits (for staff and children), and

With the Ford Conservatives refusing to listen to the experts, driving us into yet another avoidable lockdown, CUPE Ontario has renewed its call for measures to keep Ontarians safe and supported. “This feels like the plot of that movie Don’t Look Up, where the political leaders ignore experts warning of the massive meteor headed directly for

Photo credit: Mark King, CC–BY–SA 4.0 The union representing flight attendants at Sunwing Airlines says the company is neglecting the safety of its employees and its passengers by refusing to offer rapid test kits or PCR testing to employees. “If Sunwing cares about the well-being of its customers and its staff, they’ll fix this today,” said Rena

Negotiations between the Syndicat des chargés de cours de l’UQTR and the employer resumed last Friday after a five week break. This marks the start of the conciliation process under the auspices of the Ministry of Labour and the first anniversary to the day that bargaining first got under way. For the union, this represents

Parliament is back in session after the September election, and on Monday CUPE was invited to speak on one of the first bills under consideration by the new Parliament: Bill C-3, the bill to implement ten days of paid sick leave for workers under federal jurisdiction. Speaking before the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, CUPE Senior

Unable to come to an agreement at the bargaining table, bus drivers with the Société de transport de Laval (STL) have announced they will be striking two more days; next Saturday, December 18 and Sunday, December 19, which means there will be no public transit in Laval on both days. “We are not happy about being