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Canada’s facing a cost-of-living crisis, attacks on workers’ rights, and even threats to our national sovereignty.

You’re not alone. Every election, workers are pressured to choose between red and blue — even when it’s the orange team fighting for what we actually believe in.

Prescription drug coverage is a critical component – and often the most-used component – of workplace benefits plans. CUPE has just updated our fact sheet on drug plans in collective agreements to better equip members and locals to defend this critical health coverage. When employers demand cuts, our goal is to prevent the erosion of benefits to members and ensure all members have access to the medications they need.

A strong public health care system benefits Canadians and our economy. It is fundamentally intertwined with our country’s history and our future. Serious commitments are needed to stop health care privatization and invest in public health care to reduce wait times, increase staffing levels, and expand public health care services. Canadians overwhelmingly support public, universal health care and oppose a U.S.-style system of privatized health care.

The NDP, the labour movement and child care advocates have fought for decades for a universal, affordable, high-quality national early learning and child care system.

Our National Executive Board met in Ottawa March 25-27, 2025. These are the highlights of their deliberations and decisions.

Decades of Liberal and Conservative failure on housing policy have left workers with a housing crisis. Workers can’t find affordable housing near their work, and communities don’t have affordable housing for the workers they need.

Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office on January 20th, 2025, he has made a series of threats to introduce across the board tariffs on goods and services imported from Canada and Mexico, as well as tariffs on specific products such as steel and aluminum, and threatened additional tariffs for any trade retaliation from Canada and Mexico.

As we turn the calendar page to welcome the New Year, it’s an opportune time to set our sights on the work that paves the road ahead of us. I kicked off 2025 by addressing staff in their respective regions, alongside National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick, to express our heartfelt thanks for their invaluable contributions over the past year, and to share our vision of what’s to come.