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Workers at the Toronto Zoo, represented by CUPE 1600, sent a strong message to their employer, voting 99% in favour of strike action if necessary to secure a fair collective agreement.

Long-term care workers from 22 homes across Nova Scotia submitted their 48-hour notice to strike, with more homes expected to follow suit in the following week. This first wave of the strike will see over 2,200 workers on picket lines across the province on April 13 at 7 AM.

Dax Law, CUPE 70 Library Director, spoke to reporters on how Bill 28 will impact library workers who will have to make sense of the confusing, vague, and problematic legislation.

Saskatchewan’s largest union is sounding the alarm on for-profit cash-for-blood schemes that present a clear and present danger to Saskatchewan residents.

Comox Valley Regional District workers, represented by CUPE 556, have voted in favour of ratifying a new collective agreement.

CUPE 1196 and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions, OSBCU, strongly condemn the York Region District School Board’s plan to cut approximately 6 percent of its caretakers and trades workers — 78 positions — by the end of this summer.

Members of CUPE’s central negotiation table are preparing for a summer of action after negotiations with Extendicare’s management team stalled this week. The parties met at CUPE’s Ontario Regional office to negotiate a new collective agreement for eight of CUPE’s Extendicare locals.

Approximately 360 WestJet Encore cabin crew members, represented by CUPE 8125, has officially served notice to bargain a new collective agreement.

April 1, 2026 marks four full years since CUPE 5430 members last received a wage increase – an unfortunate milestone that underscores the urgency to reach a fair deal for Saskatchewan’s frontline health care workers.

CUPE’s Airline Division, the union representing 20,000 flight attendants across Canada, is raising concerns about the impartiality and legitimacy of the federal government’s probe into unpaid work in the airline sector, as it enters its second phase.

CUPE 5047 members—school librarians working in the Halifax Regional Centre for Education—keep literacy alive in our schools. They support students who are struggling, they create spaces where curiosity and belonging grow, and they make sure young people see themselves reflected in what they read.

In a sign of Niagara’s deepening emergency services crisis, paramedics, dispatchers, and occupational therapists with CUPE 911 voted 99 per cent in favour of strike action last week, with 82 per cent of members voting.

CUPE is saddened to hear of the passing of Stephen Lewis, a leader, activist, and one of the greatest orators this country has known, who used his voice to make life better for working people.

Education workers and supporters gathered in Saskatoon today for a solidarity rally organized by CUPE 2268 and 3730, calling for fair wages and collective agreements that reflect the vital work they do in schools every day.

Workers at the Rockcliffe Flying Club filed to join CUPE in December 2025 after raising concerns about workplace culture and aircraft safety. Instead of respecting those concerns and letting workers exercise their right to join a union, the employer has responded with delay, pressure, and retaliation.

On the same day that hundreds of Algoma Steel employees worked their last shift, Sault Ste. Marie city council took an important stand for unionized workers and public services in the city, voting down a motion to privatize municipal garbage services.

CUPE congratulates Avi Lewis on his election as federal NDP leader at the party’s convention in Winnipeg. As Canada’s largest union, CUPE is ready to get to work with Avi and the NDP to strengthen public services, fight corporate greed, and build a fairer and more equitable Canada.

Staff at Centre de réadaptation jeunesse de Prévost, a facility in the Laurentians region run by the Batshaw Youth & Family Centres, are repeating—publicly this time—that successive job cuts have impeded the supervision of youth in their care. Ten youth worker positions were recently cut, yet each filled three shifts a week, making for 30 lost shifts.

On Thursday the Toronto Catholic District School Board, TCDSB, announced that they will completely eliminate its long-standing International Languages Program, resulting in 77 dedicated language instructors losing their jobs.

The real dollar hospital funding cut announced in the 2026 provincial budget will intensify the crisis in Ontario’s hospitals, which are already funded at the lowest rate in the country, says CUPE.