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CUPE Ontario condemns the firing of two educators and the suspension of six others at Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School, which will affect more than 200 students.

In less than 36 hours, more than 1,500 people have emailed Minister France-Élaine Duranceau, asking her to stop Bill 7, which would do away with the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (lNSPQ).

The union representing the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) distribution centre employees, the Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs de la SAQ (STTSAQ-CUPE 3535), denounces the SAQ’s decision to entrust the American multinational Uber Eats with its home delivery service.

Manitoba’s largest labour Union says Manitoba Hydro needs to take advantage of the Manitoba NDP’s newest regulatory changes that allow for Manitoba Hydro to hire Institutional Safety Officers (ISOs).

CUPE National President Mark Hancock joined CLC President Bea Bruske, Unifor’s Lana Payne, United Steelworkers’ Marty Warren, PSAC’s Sharon DeSousa, and Dave Chartrand from IAMAW on Parliament Hill today to call for a workers-first approach to the economy and trade, as Donald Trump reignites threats against Canadian jobs.

After a CAQ bill sparked controversy over the role of unions in our society, CUPE Québec commissioned a major survey by polling firm CROP in December 2025. Some 2,000 Quebecers answered the call, and the survey findings are simply astounding.

Outside workers’ at Ville de Montréal are on their first strike day in over 15 years. They will be on a 24-hour work stoppage from February 4 at 6 a.m. to February 5 at 5:59 a.m. This major mobilization comes after months of unsuccessful bargaining and a city-proposed budgetary framework that would have impoverished workers.

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.

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.

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

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.