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This bilingual (English and French) documentary showcases the unity and resilience of 22,000 public sector workers in New Brunswick as they strike against wage suppression. It explores strategic mobilization and collective bargaining efforts by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), culminating in a province-wide movement that successfully challenges austerity and sparks labour action across Canada.

Temporary foreign workers in our union: A solidarity and action guide is designed to help CUPE bargaining teams and local executives support members who are TFWs at the bargaining table and in the workplace.

Budget 2024 makes small tweaks to address big issues facing the country. Many of the changes announced are moving in the right direction, but some still reflect an over-reliance on market-led approaches that have failed in the past. There are also some promising proposals that will need more details before we can fully evaluate them.

Overwork is a health and safety hazard affecting more and more CUPE members. It occurs when workers have too many tasks, too little time to complete them and not enough rest. This factsheet provides an overview of overwork and its impacts on psychosocial health and safety at work. It then provides tips to mitigate and reduce the risks of overwork.

Mental health can be a difficult topic to engage with. This fact sheet provides a guide to engaging in a healthy dialogue with members about their mental health in a respectful and proactive way. It provides the groundwork for establishing a safe space to foster conversations about mental health at work.

Resilience is the ability to effectively manage situations, even the unexpected, as we go about our daily lives. This factsheet provides an overview of stress and stress-related illness in the workplace, as well as discussing proactive steps to develop and implement effective solutions at work.

This fact sheet will help you identify psychosocially toxic work and develop effective mitigation strategies. Seeing the symptoms and using the right language to address psychosocial hazards helps to make a healthier work for everyone.