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The council representing CUPE health care workers in Quebec is sharing its concerns about health minister Christian Dubé’s plans to use artificial intelligence, AI, to guide patients.

But I ask you, which would you choose: Supporting workers now, to ensure a safer, healthier, and more effective learning environment for kids in the future or opposing job action to keep kids in schools, knowing the standard of public education declines every year because the Department of Education chooses to ignore the pleas of workers who want to ensure our education ecosystems are thriving and that our kids are safe.

Members of CUPE’s National Indigenous Council joined the Sisters in Spirit vigil to bear witness, mourn, and demand an end to the epidemic of violence and racism. The vigil has been held on the Hill every Oct. 4 for the past 18 years.

CUPE 2545 and 2559 issued official strike notices, indicating a full withdrawal of services on Wednesday, November 13, and Thursday, November 14, 2024. Beginning Monday, November 18, 2024, the strike and pickets will start rotating through various schools in Fort McMurray, with a different location identified daily.

The union held a strike vote on October 16, 2024 resulting in 92% of eligible voting members turning out to vote with 97% voting in favour of taking strike action.

The Canadian government has made a series of troubling announcements over the last few months that will have a significant impact on temporary foreign workers, international students and their families.

The Canada Disability Benefit is the result of the tireless work of the disability community who have long called for a benefit to lift people with disabilities out of poverty. Persons with disabilities disproportionately live in poverty compared to people without disabilities.

The union representing STM bus drivers, metro operators and employees in transit-related services (CUPE 1983) was dismayed to learn that the PGA, despite the fact the Presidents Cup was getting $9 million in public funding, $6.5 million of which came from the provincial government, opted to retain the services of a private carrier for its shuttle service to Île Bizard.

Western workers, students and community supporters packed the square outside city hall in London, Ontario, last Friday for a rally in support of CUPE 2361 members as they begin the third week of their strike.

On behalf of 10,859 Air Canada flight attendants across the country, the Air Canada Component of CUPE would like to thank Minister O’Regan for his work and congratulate the Honourable Steven MacKinnon on becoming the new Minister of Labour.

The member of CUPE 1190, representing more than to 2200 general labour and trades workers in New Brunswick, gave a strong strike mandate of 84% of voters in favour. This decisive result sends a clear message to the employer that workers want a fair deal, and will not accept the weak proposal made by the province to its lowest-paid employees.

On Friday, as roughly 70 child care workers ran inventive, world-expanding programs, the President of CUPE 2484 attempted to hand deliver a message from workers and parents to the head office of Ideal Child Services Group. Management, though, was nowhere to be found, so Jess Tomas slid the petition and reams of signatures under the door of their darkened office.

CUPE Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour have partnered with Fae Johnstone and Queer Momentum to hire a Saskatchewan organizer to build support for 2SLGBTQI+ rights and oppose anti-2SLGBTQI+ laws, policies, and political platforms.

The union representing support staff with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi signed its new collective agreement last June 11. CUPE 1574 is satisfied with the agreement, which lays solid groundwork for the next negotiations in 2027.

Federal anti-scab legislation passed 3rd reading today, clearing its final hurdle in the House of Commons, and significantly levelling the playing field for workers’ rights in federally-regulated sectors like communications and transportation.

A petition opposing York Region’s recently issued return-to-office notice has been signed by over 500 flex workers represented by CUPE 905 and affected by the policy. A group of workers delivered the petition to a representative of CAO Erin Mahoney on May 23rd.

On the tenth annual Children and Youth in Care Day, dozens of young people in the care of the province’s Children’s Aid Society agencies will be going to sleep in motels, hotels, and short-term rentals because there aren’t enough foster beds or treatment facilities. One of them, a young person with autism, has been living in an agency’s office for months.

Now this is a great way to celebrate May Day! Following more than two years of negotiations, CUPE 301, the union representing Montreal’s amalgamated outside workers, has announced that they have worked out a tentative agreement to renew the collective agreement with the Town of Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue. Details will be presented to the membership on May 14.

A message to stakeholders released by Darlene Rowden, Sask. Party candidate and Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division Board Chair, was inappropriate and created more questions than answers this week.

CUPE is excited to be inviting you once again to Gil’s Hootenanny, the 15th anniversary edition, happening on May Day!