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Downtown Community Safety Partnership (DCSP) employees working at Mobility Assist and Connect (MAC 24/7), who make up the DCSP foot patrol, joined CUPE 500 following a successful card sign campaign under the Manitoba Government’s card check legislation.

CUPE members in B.C. need to stay on the offensive in bargaining and political fights as government austerity threatens critical public services. That was the message from CUPE National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick to CUPE BC convention delegates.

For his fourth time since becoming Premier, David Eby joined CUPE BC delegates for their annual convention. His address opened with a somber tribute to CUPE members that responded to the tragedies in Tumbler Ridge and at the Lapu-Lapu festival.

CUPE BC’s finances continue to strengthen, with healthy surpluses across all funds. These surpluses have allowed investments in services, member support, and solidarity work to grow.

Sessional employees at Renison University College have successfully organized their workplace. A majority of sessional workers at Renison voted to join CUPE, joining more than 70,000 post-secondary instructors, administrators, and support staff as part of Canada’s largest union.

B.C.’s largest union is setting its course to defend crucial public services and the rights of workers that deliver them. CUPE BC, the provincial division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, kicked off its annual convention yesterday in Victoria with over 500 union members and guests from across the province.

New polling confirms that most Nova Scotians believe long-term care workers deserve to earn a living wage, and that the government’s refusal to return to the bargaining table is putting both residents and workers at risk.

The federal government’s Spring Economic Update announced that Canada Pension Plan base contribution rates will drop from 9.9% (split between workers and employers) to 9.5% starting in 2027. They estimate this will mean a savings of about $133 per year for a worker making $70,000.

CUPE’s Extendicare Central Bargaining Table is holding strategic planning meetings in Markham this week, one month after negotiations ended with Extendicare.

CUPE says the rosier-than-expected financial picture painted in Tuesday’s Spring Economic Update means the federal government can – and should – be investing in public services and the workers who deliver them.