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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!

Health care workers at Ten Ten Sinclair in Winnipeg, have voted 97% to accept a new deal after four years without a new contract. The new contract includes general wage increases, wage adjustments, an additional pay step, a long-service premium, double overtime rates, and significantly increased shift premiums. Workers will be receiving significant retro-pay and a signing bonus.

On February 15, the Township issued a trespass notice excluding the 14 striking members of CUPE 1490 from three municipal locations. Additionally, the notice excluded “members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees” and “employees from the Canadian Union of Public Employees”.

CUPE is joining more than 100 union women in a global delegation at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Our message is clear: ending women’s poverty starts with strong unions and quality public services.

With a state of emergency declared in Belleville due to the opioid crisis, the city’s paramedics are sounding the alarm and calling for much more to be done.

On behalf of our 200,000 members in the health sector, CUPE is heeding the call of Palestinian health care unions for urgent global solidarity. Our union reiterates our call for an immediate, permanent humanitarian ceasefire, an end to the blockade of Gaza, the restoration of humanitarian aid, and access to the necessities of life.

After nearly three years of contract talks and still no deal, the CUPE bargaining committee at Huron Perth Public Health (HPPH) is heading into a second conciliation meeting with the employer on February 15, 2024.

In the 14th week of a strike, the township of Black River-Matheson is effectively bargaining backwards with the 14 municipal workers who keep the roads safe, the arena operating, and the town running smoothly, says CUPE 1490.

Over 400 educational assistants, clerical staff, therapists and technicians employed by the Parkland School Division have voted overwhelmingly to join CUPE. In an Alberta Labour Relations Board vote counted today, employees voted 97.8% to leave their independent association and join Canada’s largest union. There was an 80% turnout.

The union representing more than 180 Lower Mainland transit supervisors remains committed to reaching a deal with Coast Mountain Bus Company at the bargaining table. But CUPE 4500 says a deal must address critical workload issues and ensure that wages of all members working for Coast Mountain are in line with those of other TransLink workers.

The Common Front reached a tentative agreement at the main table to renew the public sector collective agreements following an 11-day strike and many weeks of intensive work at the bargaining table.

No one should go into work not knowing when they’ll be able to go home, but that’s the reality for more than 250 frontline developmental service workers with Community Living Algoma.

Municipal workers in the Township of Black River-Matheson remain locked out of their workplaces after talks on Monday ended with no deal.

CUPE Ontario and CUPE 966 are calling the cancellation of Peel region’s dissolution a victory for Peel residents and workers and claiming that community organizing – and the threat of more of it – played a major role in today’s announcement from the Ford government.

CUPE members who work in environmental services in hospitals and other health care settings are on the front line of the fight against COVID-19. They put their own health at risk to ensure the safety of patients and hospital staff.

CUPE child care workers were busy this week, offering deputations at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday and holding a rally outside of Queen’s Park on Thursday to mark the fifth annual day of action for child care.

Last week, the provincial government delivered a message to the two education locals, signaling the provinces’ intent to breach the contract that concluded the 2021 public sector strike. They issued an ultimatum to the locals: abandon the hard-fought agreement on pensions established in November 2021 and March 2022, or face the imposition of a new pension plan through legislation this week.

After eight years without wage increases, the 230-support staff at Buffalo Trail School Division have ratified a contract with wage increases well above the provincial government ‘mandate’ of 2.75% over three years.

Tuesday’s federal fall economic statement included an important win for university workers that will avoid the kind of devastation seen at Laurentian University in Sudbury last year, says the main union representing university workers in Ontario.