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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.

CUPE joins the Association québécoise du personnel de direction des écoles, AQPDE, in denouncing the harmful effects that the abolition of the Programme de l’expérience Québécoise, PEQ, will have on Quebec’s education system.

After five days of negotiations, including a marathon session lasting twenty-four consecutive hours, your bargaining committee is proud to announce the Community Bargaining Association, CBA, has reached a tentative agreement with the Health Employers’ Association of BC, HEABC.

Yesterday’s provincial budget revealed the disconnect between the Houston PCs and average Nova Scotians, says CUPE Nova Scotia President Alan Linkletter.

BC’s 25,000 specialized health professionals reached a tentative agreement in the early hours of Friday morning, February 20, after almost one year of negotiations between the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association, HSPBA, and Health Employers Association of BC, HEABC.

CUPE members from across Canada descended on Parliament Hill on Tuesday to bring a clear message to parliamentarians: public services are what build Canada’s strength and sovereignty. Hundreds of CUPE members met with MPs, Senators, and parliamentary staff from all parties as part of CUPE’s first annual lobby day on Parliament Hill.

The Ville de Kirkland’s outside workers announced their first two-day strike just over a month after the general assembly voted in favour of pressure tactics up to and including an unlimited general strike.

President of CUPE Nova Scotia Alan Linkletter sent a letter to Premier Houston last week calling on this conservative government to stop ignoring the hardworking long-term care workers of this province and offer them a fair deal instead of lining the pockets of private companies.

The first federal budget delivered by the Carney government announced significant cuts to services provided by Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Starting in May of this year, resettled refugees and asylum claimants will have to pay part of the costs of services like emergency dental care, prescription drugs, and incontinence and diabetic supplies.

Health care workers represented by CUPE held a rally outside local Ontario PC MPP Dave Smith’s office in Peterborough in response to funding cuts by the provincial government.