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Manitoba’s largest labour union says new polling shows that the Manitoba government lead by Wab Kinew is on the right track when it comes to health care.

A new coalition of unions representing tens of thousands of frontline workers in Winnipeg has formally united under the banner Workers for Downtown Public Safety.

CUPE 1698 members have voted in favour of ratifying their new collective agreement with the Fraser Valley Regional Library, FVRL. The FVRL’s board also ratified the agreement late last week.

The Fraser Valley Regional Library, FVRL, has issued 72-hour lockout notice to CUPE 1698 members who provide library services across the region. If the employer proceeds with a lockout, children, families, and community members who rely on their local libraries will lose access to critical services and supports.

This announcement was a missed opportunity that does little to address the real crisis facing our health care system – the critical staffing shortages and burnout among the frontline workers running our health system.

CUPE 2087 members have voted 100% in favour of strike action, in a vote held on Wednesday, March 4.

In his 30-year career as a nurse at Bruyere Health, Douglas Currier has never seen staff so thoroughly demoralized. Chronic understaffing and perpetual overwork have left workers burnt out.

Sienna Senior living is one of Canada’s most profitable long-term care providers. Despite the recently announced $4.9 billion investment from the Ontario government to help with staffing and retention for PSWs, Sienna has made the regrettable decision to cut 1,300 full time hours from their schedule at the Case Manor facility in Bobcaygeon, in violation of the workers collective agreement and despite this newly announced funding. 

CUPE Saskatchewan is calling on the provincial government to declare a workplace health and safety emergency as workers across the province face rising violence, harassment, and psychological injury on the job.

Delegates at the 2026 CUPE Saskatchewan Convention have re‑elected Kent Peterson as president of the province’s largest union.

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, NSCAD, workers represented by CUPE 3912 are on the picket line today after negotiations over the group’s first collective agreement failed late yesterday.

CUPE has issued a warning about the intention of Christine Fréchette, Coalition avenir Québec, CAQ, leadership contestant, to revive the old and faulty “public-private partnerships”,PPP, for Quebec’s school buildings. Drawing on decades of expertise, CUPE asserts that this model is a total aberration.

CUPE 1698 and the Fraser Valley Regional Library, FVRL, reached a tentative agreement earlier today, preventing a lockout that would have shut down library services across the region.

With Scott Moe set to deliver another big debt budget on March 18, CUPE Saskatchewan, which represents 31,000 frontline workers across the province, has put forward its plan to get Scott Moe’s budget deficit under control.

CUPE members from across the province gathered in Saskatoon for the annual general meeting, AGM, of the CUPE CBO Workers of Saskatchewan Committee. Members who work in community-based organizations (CBOs) met to elect committee representatives and update their bylaws for the year ahead.

The Fraser Valley Regional Library, FVRL, has issued 72-hour lockout notice to CUPE 1698 members who provide library services across the region.

Today, workers at Northeastern Public Health cast their votes for CUPE.

Today outside workers in Kirkland, QC, just outside of Montreal, launched a 48-hour strike, slated from Wednesday, March 4, at 12:01 a.m. to Thursday, March 5, at 11:59 p.m., to protest a year-long stalemate in bargaining.

That’s a question posed by CUPE Alberta as the Alberta government announces it will again use public-private partnerships, P3s, to build schools. The government has twice abandoned this model in the past.

CUPE National President Mark Hancock and CUPE National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick made the following statement on the situation in Iran and the Middle East.