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Creating healthier work, not tougher workers

Creating healthier work, not tougher workers

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.

Manitoba Hydro needs to hire Institutional Safety Officers now: CUPE 998

Manitoba’s largest labour Union says Manitoba Hydro needs to take advantage of the Manitoba NDP’s newest regulatory changes that allow for Manitoba Hydro to hire Institutional Safety Officers (ISOs).

New coalition calls for urgent meetings with Winnipeg Mayor and Manitoba’s Justice Minister

A new coalition of unions representing tens of thousands of frontline workers in Winnipeg has formally united under the banner Workers for Downtown Public Safety.

Chlorine gas leak at water treatment plant put thousands of Waterloo Region residents at risk

A chlorine gas leak at a water treatment plant currently being operated without oversight from experienced plant operators due to the CUPE 1656 strike could have led to serious harm for residents in the area and to the drinking water system relied on by over 700,000 residents in the Region.

Support staff at Salem Home and Calvary Place join CUPE and achieve first collective agreements

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.

Time to talk about menstruation, menopause, and the workplace

Menstruation and menopause are natural parts of life. But in many workplaces, the symptoms and health needs that come with them are still treated as taboo, or ignored entirely. That silence has real consequences.

Privacy and confidentiality

Stop Workplace Sexual Violence: Privacy and confidentiality

Maintain privacy and confidentiality

Guide for Post-Secondary Institutional Policies on Sexual Violence and Harassment

CUPE has produced a comprehensive guide to help locals build safer post-secondary institutions for staff and students. This guide, that includes an easy-to-follow checklist, was created to serve as a resource for local unions who are engaging in consultations on the creation or review of a university or college sexual violence and harassment policy.

Workers at Bethesda Community Services deliver a strong strike vote, launch website and outreach campaign

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

Plasma for profit

Plasma for Profit: Why is Health Canada allowing paid plasma collection?

Health Canada is allowing a private clinic to pay donors for their blood plasma. This opens the door to increased commercialization and privatization of Canada’s blood supply. It’s just wrong.