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Education support workers are once again missing from the province’s priorities. The 2026–2027 budget makes no mention of the workers who provide critical daily support to students across Saskatchewan.

With their final day of conciliation scheduled for March 24, CUPE long-term care workers held 20 information pickets across Nova Scotia to spread awareness about their bargaining priorities and the chances of an upcoming province-wide strike in the sector.

The Sask. Party’s 2026-2027 budget fails community-based organization, CBO, workers, providing only a 2% funding increase – 1% less than last year’s allocation and well below rising costs.

Scott Moe’s budget fails to address the urgent investments needed in public services and frontline workers to strengthen Saskatchewan’s economy and get the province’s finances on track.

CUPE Quebec and the Syndicat des employé(e)s de TVA (CUPE 687) are relieved by the Quebec Finance Minister’s decision to expand support for radio and television stations that produce news programming.

Health Canada is reviewing the deaths of two paid plasma donors related to Grifols plasma collection centres in Winnipeg. These come after a third donor filed a lawsuit alleging he suffered permanent kidney damage after giving plasma at one of those collection centres. Grifols facilities in Calgary and Regina have recently also failed inspections by Health Canada, including by not accurately assessing donors’ suitability.

CUPE is calling on the Nova Scotia Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, EECD, to take urgent action to ensure Early Childhood Educators, ECEs, receive the back pay they have been owed for months.

CUPE Saskatchewan’s Education Workers’ Steering Committee, EWSC, is calling on the provincial government to commit to meaningful, long-term investment in education infrastructure and maintenance in the 2026 provincial budget to keep schools in rural Saskatchewan open.

In response to Bernard Drainville’s call for greater private-sector involvement in public transit, we need to remember that the private sector is already omnipresent and, far from saving money, this model has actually reduced the quality of service in the Quebec network.

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.