Search

ActiveFilters

Our Time Together: A national space for Indigenous, Black, and racialized CUPE members and allies

Deadline extended! There’s still time to be part of the conversation about CUPE’s anti-racism work. Register by April 27 for this important online meeting.

CUPE issues report on staffing crisis in Manitoba

Nearly 50% of health care support workers have been, or plan to, look for a new job, according to a survey conducted from over 5,000 support workers in the WRHA, Shared Health, Southern Health-Santé Sud, and the Northern Regional Health Authority.

CUPE calls for disability justice in the Canada Disability Benefit

The Canada Disability Benefit is the result of the tireless work of the disability community who have long called for a benefit to lift people with disabilities out of poverty. Persons with disabilities disproportionately live in poverty compared to people without disabilities.

Economy at work

United for good jobs: Bargaining policy moves CUPE members forward

Faced with ongoing employer pressure for concessions and two-tier contracts, CUPE’s National Executive Board is working to ensure our locals are equipped to stand firm and resist the rise of precarious employment, with an updated bargaining policy.

Community members rally for CUPE 2361

Western community rallies at London city hall

Western workers, students and community supporters packed the square outside city hall in London, Ontario, last Friday for a rally in support of CUPE 2361 members as they begin the third week of their strike.

Person fixing schoolbus

84% of CUPE 1190 Members Vote in Favour of Strike

The member of CUPE 1190, representing more than to 2200 general labour and trades workers in New Brunswick, gave a strong strike mandate of 84% of voters in favour. This decisive result sends a clear message to the employer that workers want a fair deal, and will not accept the weak proposal made by the province to its lowest-paid employees.

With possible strike looming, day care workers deliver solidarity petition but management nowhere to be found

On Friday, as roughly 70 child care workers ran inventive, world-expanding programs, the President of CUPE 2484 attempted to hand deliver a message from workers and parents to the head office of Ideal Child Services Group. Management, though, was nowhere to be found, so Jess Tomas slid the petition and reams of signatures under the door of their darkened office.

UQAC support staff sign a new collective agreement

The union representing support staff with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi signed its new collective agreement last June 11. CUPE 1574 is satisfied with the agreement, which lays solid groundwork for the next negotiations in 2027.

Library worker helping patrons

New collective agreement language to improve library worker health and safety

Workers should never be expected or required to accept violence and harassment as a normal part of their job. All workers have the right to a safe workplace, free from all forms of violence and harassment.

People posing for a photo in a boardroom

Federal anti-scab legislation passes in the House of Commons - thanks to workers and the NDP

Federal anti-scab legislation passed 3rd reading today, clearing its final hurdle in the House of Commons, and significantly levelling the playing field for workers’ rights in federally-regulated sectors like communications and transportation.