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Health care workers at Oak Valley Health, accompanied by OCHU-CUPE and other labour allies across the GTHA, made a strong statement today in defense of their jobs and hospital services on Thursday, March 19.

The Sask. Party’s 2026-2027 budget fails community-based organization, CBO, workers, providing only a 2% funding increase – 1% less than last year’s allocation and well below rising costs.

CUPE 2 is raising concerns about the Toronto Transit Commission, TTC’s, decision to file for conciliation in ongoing collective bargaining with the union representing approximately 700 electrical, signal, and communications workers.

Scott Moe’s budget fails to address the urgent investments needed in public services and frontline workers to strengthen Saskatchewan’s economy and get the province’s finances on track.

CUPE Quebec and the Syndicat des employé(e)s de TVA (CUPE 687) are relieved by the Quebec Finance Minister’s decision to expand support for radio and television stations that produce news programming.

A CUPE child care worker is speaking out about the unfolding crisis caused by drastic federal immigration cuts. CUPE 5575 President Mehak Kapoor says cuts to immigration levels are forcing her to leave her job, and are hurting workers, families and communities.

Glen Haven Manor long-term care workers, represented by CUPE 2330, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate, with 100% of ballots casted voting in favour. Like their fellow CUPE 2330 bargaining units—Maritime Odd Fellows and Valley View Villa—, they are calling for improved wages and recruitment and retention initiatives.

Over 1,200 workers for the Capital Regional District, CRD, in Victoria, B.C., have ratified a new collective agreement. Members of CUPE 1978 voted in favour of ratifying the agreement reached on February 24, after 12 months of bargaining.

Long-term care workers from Valley View Villa in Nova Scotia, represented by CUPE 2330, have held strike votes, with 100% of those who voted casting ballots in favour of a strike mandate. These workers join thousands of other CUPE long-term care workers who have voted overwhelmingly to strike in the past few months.

CUPE Quebec congratulates the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) on winning the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film on Sunday. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski were in Los Angeles to accept the Oscar for The Girl Who Cried Pearls.

Health Canada is reviewing the deaths of two paid plasma donors related to Grifols plasma collection centres in Winnipeg. These come after a third donor filed a lawsuit alleging he suffered permanent kidney damage after giving plasma at one of those collection centres. Grifols facilities in Calgary and Regina have recently also failed inspections by Health Canada, including by not accurately assessing donors’ suitability.

Workers from Harbourstone Enhanced Care, represented by CUPE 1183, have voted 87% in favour of a strike mandate, making them the 39th CUPE long-term care home to take this action.

Manitoba’s largest labour union has released new polling that shows the City of Winnipeg needs to rethink its approach to procurement.

CUPE is calling on the Nova Scotia Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, EECD, to take urgent action to ensure Early Childhood Educators, ECEs, receive the back pay they have been owed for months.

CUPE Saskatchewan’s Education Workers’ Steering Committee, EWSC, is calling on the provincial government to commit to meaningful, long-term investment in education infrastructure and maintenance in the 2026 provincial budget to keep schools in rural Saskatchewan open.

​CUPE 5910, representing Société de transport de l’Outaouais, STO, bus drivers, is sending a message on their behalf: bus drivers have never been more worried about the future of public transit in Gatineau. Members are referring to the announced cuts of $205 million over five years, which threaten the Rapibus airport extension, the tramway to Ottawa and the acquisition of 20 electric buses.

Mediation between CUPE 2268 and the Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools on March 3 ended without a resolution for the second time. CUPE 3730 did not participate in the March 3 session because the employer’s offer to CUPE 2268 was not acceptable to either local, making further mediation that day unproductive.

In response to Bernard Drainville’s call for greater private-sector involvement in public transit, we need to remember that the private sector is already omnipresent and, far from saving money, this model has actually reduced the quality of service in the Quebec network.

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.