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Is $133 per year worth new risks to your retirement security?

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.

Does the Liberals’ 2025 budget hide a pension cut for federal government workers?

CUPE has serious concerns that a hidden pension cut for federal public servants is buried deep in Mark Carney’s Budget 2025.

Retirement security is key to solving housing crisis

The affordable housing crisis in Canada means that home ownership is out of reach for many workers. It is also becoming more difficult to find safe, clean, and comfortable rental housing. One surprising obstacle to housing affordability? Canada’s inadequate public pensions. Too many people must rely on the value of their home going up – worsening affordability for future generations – in order to retire.

Regina workers shouldn’t pay the price for city’s poor priorities

The city must reconsider any approach that would result in job losses and place further strain on the services residents rely on.

Budget 2026: Plenty for big investors, little for workers

With an unexpectedly good balance sheet and concrete economic challenges ahead, the federal government had an obvious option: invest in the people who make Canada strong. Instead, the budget paves the way to privatize assets Canadians built and paid for over generations. It talks a lot about affordability, but only offers band-aid solutions. And it underfunds vital public services that create jobs and set our economy up for success.

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Budget 2026 doubles down on corporate handouts and attacks on workers

CUPE, Canada’s largest union, says the 2026 federal budget is the next step in selling what Canadians have built over generations to billionaire investors. The result: cuts to jobs and vital public services that workers and their families depend on.

Temporary relief as Ontario child care deal extended, but advocates call agreement a “deeply ill-judged compromise”

Child care advocates, early childhood educators, and parents are expressing a mixture of relief and severe frustration following the announcement of a four-year extension to the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) agreement that sets no new targets to strengthen or expand the system.

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CUPE Manitoba supports Team Canada with five key actions Manitoba Government can do today

Manitoba’s largest union released five key actions the Manitoba Government can take to remove American companies from government contracts and support Winnipeg workers.

CUPE pushes to strengthen workers’ rights in submission to upcoming 2026 Federal budget

CUPE has submitted key priorities for Budget 2026 that include bold investments in public infrastructure and public services. This will help create good jobs, protect communities and lay the foundation for economic resilience in the face of Trump’s latest round of tariffs. This budget must prioritize people and public services over privatization and tax cuts.

Come join The Many vs The Money counter-summit and day of action in Toronto

While Canadians are worried about the economic impacts of Donald Trump’s trade war, Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting an Investment Summit with wealthy CEOs and foreign investors looking to sell off public infrastructure and Canada’s critical minerals. Canadians deserve more from their government, and on September 12-14, they will have a chance to come together and make their voice heard.