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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.

Today, delegates from municipal locals across Saskatchewan are gathering in Saskatoon at the annual CUPE Saskatchewan Municipal Employees Committee Conference.

The day before a 48-hour outside-worker strike begins in Kirkland, a foreman has assaulted a CUPE 301 representative near the public works building. The incident took place as a dozen outside workers were putting up stickers to explain the conflict in the talks to renew the collective agreement.

Paramedics with CUPE 4911 held a rally to mark the start of what they describe as the most critical round of bargaining in years, one that will determine whether Peterborough can stabilize and retain its paramedic service.

The Ontario School Board Council of Unions, OSBCU, representing over 57,000 education workers in more than 60 locals across Ontario, are urging the Ford government and Education Minister Paul Calandra to begin collective bargaining with unions as soon as possible, as severe underfunding and chronic staffing shortages continue to harm students and education workers across Ontario.

Last week, workers at Grand Erie Public Health, which serves the County of Brant, the City of Brantford, Haldimand County, and Norfolk County in southwestern Ontario, cast their votes for CUPE.

CUPE members are celebrating the news that the four years of wage freezes forced on Nova Scotian workers through Bill 148 has been found unconstitutional. Today, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has upheld the constitutional guarantee in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms that workers have a right to negotiate the terms of their work through free and fair collective bargaining.

With almost six times the royalty revenue of the last government, the UCP are raising taxes, running deficits and cutting services.

Winnipeg’s largest union says that Winnipeg City Council needs to go back to the drawing board on the Request for Proposals, RFPs, for garbage and recycling services.

Bargaining between CUPE 5435, representing frontline workers at CBI Health in Saskatoon, and the employer has reached an impasse. The union has formally filed for impasse under The Saskatchewan Employment Act.

CUPE 1299, the Syndicat des cols bleus de la Ville de Châteauguay, which representing 122 outside workers, denounces the remarks made by the mayor of Châteauguay at Monday night’s city council meeting that show contempt for the employees and distract from the real bargaining issues.