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Strike deadline set for Westmount

Services will be interrupted in the City of Westmount starting on June 22 due to an unlimited general strike by Westmount blue-collar workers. Workers will only be providing essential services, instead of all the services that citizens expect.

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Government negotiators don’t have enough leeway during Quebec public sector negotiations

Three FTQ affiliates representing school support workers are denouncing the slow public sector negotiations in the various sectorial tables. In their view, bargaining is moving at a snail’s pace because the employers don’t have the mandates they need from the government to resolve the cases before them.

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Blue- and white-collar workers in Saint-Félix-de-Valois demanding CPI protection

Blue-and white-collar workers in the Municipality of Saint-Félix-de-Valois in the Lanaudière region recently organized a mobilization picnic in the parking lot of the town hall to demand a premium matching the rate of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Quebec’s school crossing guards improve their working conditions

Last night, close to 150 school crossing guards employed by the city attended a general meeting and voted 99% in favour of a joint union-management proposal to substantially improve their working conditions, even though the renewal of the collective agreement is not scheduled until the end of next year.

Hydro Quebec offices from 1967

Hydro-Québec: A rotating strike paved the way to a major victory

In the spring of 1967, the 9000 CUPE members employed by Hydro-Québec began a six-week rotating strike, which, at the time, was a major innovation and the first of its kind in North America. The tactic paid off, as it prevented the employer, who was expecting a general strike, from resorting to back-to-work legislation, and enabled technicians, office employees and tradespersons to make major gains.

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Bargaining 2SLGBTQI+ rights: A checklist for collective agreement language

This document provides a checklist of ways to advance the rights of Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex (2SLGBTQI+) workers through your collective agreement.

Climate justice: A public, fair future for all

Climate justice is public. It is increasingly evident that governments who continue to follow the lead of the corporate sector and the rules of the current economic system will be unable to address the climate crisis. The younger generations are particularly clear about the urgent need to save the planet, and that an energy transition to low-carbon alternatives and reduced consumption must not rely on corporations or their market-based “solutions”.

New bargaining guide paves the way for trans-inclusive workplaces

Bargaining beyond the binary: A negotiating guide for trans inclusion and gender diversity features examples of trans inclusive language from CUPE collective agreements that negotiating teams can use to develop their own proposals.

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.

Governments need to get off the bench in the fight against inflation

Too many working families in Canada are struggling with their grocery bills and housing costs. As the number of people living paycheque to paycheque climbs, more and more Canadians are wondering when the gouge is going to stop. People are rightly wondering why, after two and a half years of a pandemic, it feels like our governments are leaving us out to dry during an inflation crisis unlike anything we have seen in decades.