Communications Branch

UN convention on rights of persons with disabilities ratified

Mar 13, 2010 08:27 PM On the eve of the Paralympic Games, Canada has finally ratified the United Nations convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Everyone has the right to a decent pension: Moist

Mar 12, 2010 05:23 PM “We are experiencing a national pension crisis,” Paul Moist told a crowd over breakfast in Saskatoon this week. Moist will be meeting with members across the country as part of CUPE's national pensions campaign.

CUPE Metro brings service providers and women together at IWD lunch

CUPE’s Metro Council in Vancouver sponsored a lunch event in the Downtown Eastside on International Women’s Day

Mar 12, 2010 04:57 PM VANCOUVER – Service providers and women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside marked International Women’s Day on Monday this week at a lunch sponsored by CUPE Metro Vancouver District Council. The lunch was emcee’d by Sheryl Burns, vice-president of CUPE 1936, who welcomed the more than 150 women.

Tragic loss of a brother

Mar 12, 2010 12:56 PM We have just learned with great sadness that a brother from CUPE 416, Toronto Civic Employees Union, has died while on duty.

Band-aid funding an injustice to vulnerable children – Local Children’s Aid workers to raise issue with Niagara Falls MPP

Mar 12, 2010 11:38 AM Today, front line Children’s Aid workers will ask local MPP Kim Craitor to come to the aid of vulnerable children and families by pressing the government to fix a faulty funding formula that has kept Children Aid Societies in a funding crisis for years.

Statement from Mark Ferguson, President, TCEU Local 416

Mar 12, 2010 10:57 AM The members of Toronto Civic Employees Union Local 416, CUPE, are mourning the loss of a one co-worker and hoping for the speedy recovery of another.

The community comes out for public sewage in Victoria

Mar 11, 2010 03:25 PM VICTORIA-The house was full at the second public meeting for citizens in the Capital Regional District to share their views on sewage treatment procurement. On March 10, the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee heard from a cross section of residents sending a powerful message that they do not want sewage treatment handed to private corporations through a public private partnership (P3).