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On Monday evening, aquatic activities instructors with the City of Saint-Lambert held a demonstration outside municipal council on Hooper Street. A wave of uncertainty is currently washing over this group, as employer representatives have let it be known to the instructors, lifeguards and their union that their jobs are threatened by contracting out.

CUPE has submitted a comprehensive response to the federal government’s consultation on reforms to the Canada Labour Code and the federal labour relations framework.

When Canadians are injured on the job, they depend on the expertise and dedication of workers at the Workers’ Compensation Boards (WCBs) across the country. But as workloads intensify and staffing pressures mount, those same workers are warning that delays in care are becoming unavoidable.

CUPE 2977 members send out a unity letter to Bethesda’s Board of Directors following the launch of a campaign website

Health care support workers at Salem Home and Calvary Place, two long-term care facilities that joined CUPE in the past year, have each achieved a first collective agreement.

CUPE 786 members at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton held a rally this morning to protest job cuts. The hospital is eliminating more than 60 positions including personal support workers, clerical and administrative staff in response to provincial underfunding.

CUPE, Canada’s largest union, is warning the federal Liberals against moving on proposals to curb the Charter-protected right to strike and further tilt the balance of power toward major corporations and employers.

After six weeks on the picket line, long-term care workers continue to show their commitment to their demands. Workers at MacGillivray Guest House in Sydney are expected to join the strike this week, bringing the total number of striking locals across Nova Scotia to 35.

Montreal blue-collar workers will have a notable presence and visibility at the Grand Prix! In addition to displaying the Grand Prix colors, trucks from the borough of Ville-Marie will be carrying an important message for Montrealers: The Grand Prix for Montrealers is us!

The Centre de crise de Québec, a community organization offering emergency mental health services, is going through a governance crisis. For the past six months, management and staff have been facing off over staff representation on the board of directors.

Yesterday, four CUPE locals signed collective agreements with the Casino du Lac-Leamy, in Gatineau. The contracts cover salaried workers of the general unit (CUPE 3892), the security unit (CUPE 3959), the surveillance unit (CUPE 3959) and the croupiers (CUPE 3993).

Over 7,500 Nova Scotians have submitted their ‘stories of care’ online, in support of the ongoing province-wide strike in long-term care (LTC) via storiesofcare.ca.

CUPE Local 3552, representing municipal workers with the Town of Annapolis Royal, has reached an impasse in bargaining and has filed for conciliation.

CUPE 5678 and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) strongly condemn the Upper Canada District School Board’s decision to move ahead with significant staffing cuts despite a crisis in understaffing and growing student needs across the board.

According to CUPE 47, recent mediation with the City of Saskatoon failed to bring the parties closer to a fair collective agreement, raising serious concerns about the city’s approach to bargaining and the future stability of Saskatoon’s public water services.

CUPE Local 2 and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) have reached a tentative agreement, avoiding a labour disruption involving nearly 700 electrical, communications, and signals workers.

Personal support workers represented by CUPE are demanding the Ontario government fix a “fundamentally flawed” regulatory body that denies them rights and protections granted to other health care workers.

The Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) is deeply disappointed by the Ford government’s 2026–27 Core Education Funding announcement released today. At a time when Ontario’s publicly funded schools are facing an unprecedented staffing and funding crisis, this funding offers little more than austerity, uncertainty, and continued neglect for students and education workers.

The majority of Ontario’s 136 hospitals including the Peterborough Regional Health Centre have carried operational deficits since 2022, and this puts an already precarious public system at risk, says a new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

After five weeks of strike, two more long-term care homes are expected to join the strike this week, bringing the total number of striking homes to 34 with approximately 3,300 workers on picket lines province-wide.