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Long-term care workers represented by CUPE at 24 homes across the province are now on strike, with more expected to follow in the coming days.

Workers at the Toronto Zoo, represented by CUPE 1600, sent a strong message to their employer, voting 99% in favour of strike action if necessary to secure a fair collective agreement.

Long-term care workers from 22 homes across Nova Scotia submitted their 48-hour notice to strike, with more homes expected to follow suit in the following week. This first wave of the strike will see over 2,200 workers on picket lines across the province on April 13 at 7 AM.

Comox Valley Regional District workers, represented by CUPE 556, have voted in favour of ratifying a new collective agreement.

CUPE 1196 and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions, OSBCU, strongly condemn the York Region District School Board’s plan to cut approximately 6 percent of its caretakers and trades workers — 78 positions — by the end of this summer.

Approximately 360 WestJet Encore cabin crew members, represented by CUPE 8125, has officially served notice to bargain a new collective agreement.

In a sign of Niagara’s deepening emergency services crisis, paramedics, dispatchers, and occupational therapists with CUPE 911 voted 99 per cent in favour of strike action last week, with 82 per cent of members voting.

Education workers and supporters gathered in Saskatoon today for a solidarity rally organized by CUPE 2268 and 3730, calling for fair wages and collective agreements that reflect the vital work they do in schools every day.

Workers at the Rockcliffe Flying Club filed to join CUPE in December 2025 after raising concerns about workplace culture and aircraft safety. Instead of respecting those concerns and letting workers exercise their right to join a union, the employer has responded with delay, pressure, and retaliation.

The real dollar hospital funding cut announced in the 2026 provincial budget will intensify the crisis in Ontario’s hospitals, which are already funded at the lowest rate in the country, says CUPE.