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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.

Surpluses and benefit improvements are trending in pensions, but challenges remain

Pension plans benefit retirees, their communities and the economy

On February 20, CUPE is marking Pension Awareness Day by calling attention to the benefits of workplace pension plans for Canadian workers, local communities and the economy as a whole.

Canada Pension Plan embroiled in long-term care fiasco

The people responsible for safeguarding the retirement savings of 22 million Canadian workers lost more than $500 million investing in scandal-plagued Orpea, the largest for-profit long-term care company in Europe, as revealed in a report released today.

Wrecking ball to your pension

Pierre Poilievre will take a wrecking ball to your pension

Throughout his time in office, Pierre Poilievre has never shied away from an opportunity to weaken pensions and retirement security for his fellow Canadians. Any time Conservatives come to power, they take a wrecking ball to our pensions, and it takes years to fix their mistakes.

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.

Fighting back against staffless libraries through collective bargaining

Library workers are the heart and soul of libraries. It’s hard to imagine libraries without them

Fighting for sustainable workplaces

I have been watching recent organizing drives at corporate giants like Starbucks, Amazon, and Indigo with interest. It is inspiring that this charge has been led in large part by young people standing up and fighting for their rights.

Toolkit: Keep our pensions out of privatization

The Keep our pensions out of privatization toolkit gives CUPE activists and pension representatives information about the dangers of pension funds investing in public-private partnerships (P3s) and other types of privatization.

Tackling precarious work in post-secondary education at the bargaining table

As universities and colleges deal with inadequate public funding and increasingly embrace corporate management models, more and more workers in the post-secondary sector are ending up in precarious jobs. This guide offers an overview of the issues related to precarious work along with sample collective agreement language for local bargaining committees, bargaining councils, and staff representatives.