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Workers at Sienna Living’s Case Manor in Bobcaygeon, located just north of the Greater Toronto Area, found out that their employer is cutting 1300 hours per month from their schedules in the spring.

CUPE welcomes approximately 80 new members into the union following a favourable decision from the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board (LRB).

CUPE 5569 education workers are condemning the Sudbury Catholic District School Board (SCDSB) after the Board walked away from the bargaining table on Monday and refused to continue negotiations.

More than 100 trades workers from across Ontario gathered this week for CUPE Ontario’s annual Trades Conference, where they sent a clear message to Labour Minister David Piccini: stop undermining public sector trades workers.

CUPE 4747 is raising serious concerns following the Living Sky School Division Board’s decision to move forward with a plan to sell off its rural school bus fleet and contract out transportation services to a private company, Southland Transportation.

Mediation efforts between CUPE 2268, CUPE 3730, and the Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools have ended without agreement this week.

CUPE is deeply concerned about the decision by Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) to address the university’s budget issues by closing campuses and facilities and cutting jobs, and the lack of transparency around the impacts of that decision.

CUPE stands in solidarity with the people of Iran, especially the workers and trade unions protesting in response to the country’s worsening economic crisis and social injustice.

Alderwood Rest Home workers, represented by CUPE 1635, voted 99% in favour of a strike mandate late last week, joining over 30 CUPE long-term care locals in calling for improved wages and retention.

The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) has cut $200 million from the budget of the PADTC, the provincial public transit development program, breaking yet another public transit promise.

Hundreds of the Ville de Montréal outside workers gathered outside city hall today during an adoption session of the 2026 municipal budget. Organized by the Syndicat des cols bleus regroupés de Montréal (CUPE 301), this mobilization denounced a budgetary framework that, if unchanged, will impoverish municipal workers.

As hospitals cut hundreds of jobs and eliminate vacant positions amidst budgetary constraints imposed by the Conservative government, the largest health care union in Ontario is warning about longer wait-times, rushed care, preventable mistakes, and overcrowded hallways.

CUPE 2316 – representing approximately 500 workers at the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto – has filed a ‘No Board’ report, triggering the countdown to be in a legal strike position as early as February 13 while frontline and support workers continue to warn that chronic understaffing and years of government underfunding are putting children and families at risk.

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.