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In Ottawa the city and its employees announced that together they had found a cost effective way to deliver top notch residential waste collection for local citizens. Meanwhile in Toronto, the Mayor has chosen a different road.

There can be no mistake; the privatization of Toronto’s waste collection is an ideological decision, plain and simple.

CUPE BC is committed to global solidarity and supporting the plight of workers everywhere. We are asking CUPE members to join with our friends in the United Steel Workers at a rally next Thursday, February 17 to support and commemorate the 65 Mexican mine workers killed in a mining explosion in 2006.

National child care program: high cost, little choice for parents Nova Scotia Highway Workers’ Union welcomes asphalt initiative Morton, PC government out of step with Albertans on CPP – poll B.C. Community Social Services workers to Krueger: Give us a fair deal! CUPE reaches tentative agreement with Port Hawkesbury nursing home CUPE BC launches campaign to support Ten Percent Shift CUPE asks Minister Strahl to reconsider on-board aviation security changes Toronto Hydro brass caught in cover-up about surveillance of union official Increased tuition fees not the way to go - CUPE Nova Scotia Harper government CPP delay opposed by Canadians—poll Licensed Practical Nurses at Braemore Home in Sydney welcome review The ITUC welcomes Egypt’s new independent trade union federation CUPE celebrates Black History Month! CUPE and Medicine Hat School District to sign historic first contract Big CUPE contingent joins mass rally supporting locked out Hamilton steelworkers CUPE helps secure multi-million training fund for B.C. LPNs, care aides

CUPE 358 Duncan and North Cowichan civic workers have seen a few changes in the last week. Not only did they ratify a new collective agreement, they welcomed new president Ron Salvati and said goodbye to retiring president Thomas Turner.

A final vote in the House of Commons for Bill C-389—a bill that would grant proper human rights protections for transgender and transsexual Canadians—will take place today. Send an email to urge your MP to support C-389 and watch the vote live online!

An appeals court in Botswana has ruled that the Kalahari Bushmen have the right to access well water in their ancestral lands located in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The victory came after an eight year legal battle and is an important step in further establishing access to water as a universal human right protected by law.

Atlantic Canadians continue to strongly back moves to increase CPP benefits as the best way to help Canadians save more for retirement.

Municipalities considering contracting out garbage in a bid to lower costs may want to pay attention to a recent CBC report from the City of Ottawa.

The fourth tri-national energy meeting took place the last week of January in Los Angeles, California. More than 50 people from more than 20 unions and civil society groups from Mexico, the United States and Canada attended the two-day deliberations.