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Long-term care workers from Shoreham Village Senior Citizens Home, represented by CUPE 3454, voted 98% in favour of a strike vote last week.

CUPE locals 7 and 21, representing nearly 2,000 inside and outside workers at the City of Regina, are calling on the city to protect public services and jobs as proposed budget cuts put the city’s future at risk.

The Liberal government’s new federal affordable housing agency is relying on an outdated and faulty playbook. Details for Build Canada Homes (BCH) show a plan to use public-private partnerships (P3s) that invites real estate developers and investors to profit from public housing spending.

Roads workers, paramedics, public health workers and others represented by CUPE 4900 have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action, sending a clear message to the Regional Municipality of York that urgent steps are needed to address a long-running retention crisis that is undermining vital public services.

As Prime Minister Carney continues to reverse or abandon many Trudeau-era policies, the government insists it remains committed to protecting national child care. However, recent agreements with Ontario and Saskatchewan signal that the government may be backsliding on one of the most important elements of the Canada Wide Early Learning and Child Care program: limiting the flow of public dollars to for-profit operators.

Carol Wall was a fearless Black feminist, trade unionist and anti-racist activist. Her leadership transformed the Canadian labour movement and had a profound impact on our union.

CUPE members’ perspectives helped shape a new report on home care, titled Caring about Care Workers: Centring Immigrant Women Personal Support Workers in Toronto’s Home Care Sector. Researchers found that personal support workers, PSWs, are subsidizing Ontario’s home care system with their unpaid labour.

CUPE is concerned that the federal budget leaves room for cuts to public transit funding that could put the stability of transit services across Canada at risk.

The federal government just announced a new tax credit for eligible personal support workers (PSWs). PSWs are healthcare professionals who provide essential care and support, assisting individuals with the activities of daily living.

CUPE 5430, the union representing more than 14,000 health care workers across Saskatchewan, is sounding the alarm over a new Saskatchewan Health Authority, SHA, policy. The change allows rural emergency rooms to be listed as “open” despite minimal staffing on site - and without adequate diagnostic, imaging, or support staff available.

The rise of artificial intelligence is driving a wave of new data centres that power digital technologies. This coming boom will strain energy and water resources. Governments must be ready with legislation and policy that protects the public interest, not corporate profits.

The federal budget shows the Liberal government is determined to push artificial intelligence (AI) into workplaces without protecting workers and the public.

CUPE has serious concerns that a hidden pension cut for federal public servants is buried deep in Mark Carney’s Budget 2025.

Shortcomings of two decades of privatization in England must be learnt by Ontario before it’s too late, warn advocates. Public hospitals in Scotland were more egalitarian and efficient at reducing surgical wait-times than private clinics and hospitals contracted out by England’s health system, according to new academic reports.

Almost 100 workers at long term care facility Villa St. Joseph-Du-Lac have voted in favour of job action. CUPE 3064 held a strike vote last week, with all members voting yes but one. CUPE 3064 is one of many locals across Nova Scotia bringing the fight for improvements in the long-term sector to their bargaining table.

Long term care workers at Bisset Court, represented by CUPE 4970, have voted in favour of a strike mandate this week, with 100% of votes in favour of job action. This echoes calls from other workers in the sector for fair wages and improved recruitment and retention to reduce understaffing issues.

As the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers face off in the 2025 World Series, two major union locals, CUPE 416 representing Toronto’s outside municipal workers, and Teamsters Local 396 representing logistics and sanitation workers in Los Angeles, have entered into a friendly wager to mark the occasion.

After reviewing Scott Moe’s throne speech, CUPE Saskatchewan is alarmed that the government has no plans to strengthen public services, fix schools, end the health care crisis, or give workers a raise.

Frontline mental health workers at the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)—Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike after years of underfunding and the wage suppression of Bill 124 pushed them into poverty.

400 employees of Simaril, a non-profit organization providing support services for individuals with physical, intellectual, and mental health disabilities have joined CUPE.