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This time last year, York Region was celebrating being named one of Canada’s best employers by Forbes. This year, the region didn’t crack the top 300, validating what CUPE 4900 members have long known: York Regional Municipality is no longer an employer of choice.

Ontario’s paramedic system is under severe strain as services struggle to recruit and retain workers while frontline paramedics face mounting mental health pressures. Yet some influential voices are once again promoting the creation of a College of Paramedics, an expensive and unnecessary layer of regulation that would do nothing to improve patient care.

CUPE Saskatchewan is urging the provincial government to strongly advocate for the continued success and expansion of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program ahead of upcoming ministerial meetings. In a letter sent to Minister of Education Everett Hindley, CUPE Saskatchewan President Kent Peterson outlined concerns about the uncertainty facing Saskatchewan families, child care workers, and centres.

CUPE 5430 is calling on the provincial government to abandon plans to develop a new whistleblower hotline to report health care workers and instead focus on fixing Saskatchewan’s health care crisis.

Halifax-based long-term care workers from Melville Lodge, represented by CUPE 3840, voted 100% in a favour of a strike mandate last week, citing wages and retention issues as their main concerns.

CUPE 5430 is raising serious concerns about the Saskatchewan government’s decision to pursue a third-party, privatized model for the proposed new long-term care homes in Estevan and Watson, warning that this approach risks delays, higher long-term costs, and negative impacts on resident care.

At 6:30am this morning, Ville de Montréal outside workers gathered for a protest organized by the Syndicat des cols bleus regroupés de Montréal (CUPE 301). They denounced the toxic environment the employer has created at the bargaining table, which is stalling progress and eroding trust between the parties.

CUPE 2380 members are warning that Town Council’s plan to restructure Penetanguishene’s water and wastewater operations will lead to higher costs for residents and a loss of local control over the community’s most critical services.

The Alberta Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE Alberta) has launched an online campaign calling on Premier Danielle Smith to declare a health care state of emergency.

Negotiations between CUPE 2268 and 3730 – representing education support workers in the Greater Saskatoon Catholic School Division – have hit a stalemate over wages. The locals have filed for impasse as per The Saskatchewan Employment Act.

CUPE has written to Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu with a clear message: Canada’s child care system is one of the most important public programs in a generation – and it’s at serious risk already.

The Air Canada Component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has begun its first day of arbitration with Air Canada and Arbitrator Paula Knopf to settle wages after flight attendants voted over 99% to reject Air Canada’s final wage offer in September 2025.

CUPE 8125, representing over 4,700 cabin crew members at WestJet and Encore, acknowledges WestJet’s decision to reverse the universally unpopular new 28-inch-pitch seat configuration. This pause follows significant concern from both employees and guests regarding the operational impacts and overall experience resulting from the denser cabin layout.

CUPE Alberta which represents Alberta health care workers is slamming an announcement from the UCP government in response to the crisis in emergency rooms.

Workers from Northumberland Hall long-term care home, represented by CUPE 5018, voted 94% in favour of a strike mandate late last week, bringing the total number of CUPE long-term care homes voting to strike to 30.

The 5,500 members of the Syndicat des spécialistes et professionnels d’Hydro-Québec (SSPHQ-CUPE 4250) have a new collective agreement.

CUPE predicts 2026 to be an incredibly difficult year to defend public services in Newfoundland & Labrador, without public pressure on the provincial government. CUPE members in every public sector are reporting attacks to our services through funding cuts, reduction of services, public-private partnerships (P3s), and the increased use of artificial intelligence.

On Saturday, January 10, CUPE scored big as the proud sponsor of the Swift Current Broncos game in Saskatchewan.

Resident care and working conditions will suffer as the Royal Ottawa Place (ROP) long-term care home plans to eliminate 15 positions almost exclusively affecting nurses and personal support workers, according to CUPE 942. The union held a rally outside the home on Monday morning, supported by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE).

CUPE is outraged by the United States’ unlawful and lethal attack on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We are shocked that the U.S. military bombed this sovereign nation, and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores to gain access to the country’s oil, land and energy resources.