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Results 31 - 40 of 47 Filter Active Filters Search results Guide Bring our work in house: How to stop contracting out Privatization is on the rise. But we can fight back and bring our jobs and services in house, where they belong. Bring our work in house: How to stop contracting out gives CUPE members the tools they need to end privatization. It covers the benefits of in-house services, gives tips on engaging members and developing a plan, and shares practical ways to make a winning case. Video: Working for tomorrow In Working for tomorrow, a video produced by CUPE in 1987, former CUPE National President Jeff Rose and others discuss contracting out and privatization. Report CUPE releases blueprint to fix Canada Infrastructure Bank CUPE has released an expert report that’s a blueprint to fundamentally transform the Canada Infrastructure Bank. More than five years after its founding, the CIB hasn’t met its own goal of attracting profit-seeking private investors. At the same time, the bank’s focus on privatization has failed to meet community needs or tackle the climate crisis. It’s time to create a public bank that works for us all. Sector profile: Transportation CUPE represents approximately 37,900 members in the transportation sector, including workers in airlines, airports, ferries, port authorities, rail, roads and highways, and public and private transit systems. Guide Protecting our work from privatization: How to fight contracting out at the bargaining table The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is at the forefront of the fight against the privatization of public services and has been since our union was founded in 1963. The collective power of CUPE members is our best defence against privatization, and CUPE collective agreements are a powerful tool in that fight. When CUPE members organize to achieve, and strictly enforce, contract language that prevents or restricts our employers from contracting out work, we can protect public sector union jobs and public services. CUPE collective agreements are far more likely than other union contracts to have some type of protection against contracting out. CUPE locals regularly use their collective agreement language to stop privatization in its tracks. News May 09, 2022 Report from CUPE shows universities and colleges impoverishing vulnerable workers Contracting out of services in the post-secondary sector in Canada is hurting disadvantaged workers with poverty-level wages and low benefits, a new report from the Canadian Union of Public Employees revealed today. Resources Long-term care standards missing key protections CUPE is concerned the Health Standard Organization’s draft long-term care (LTC) standard is missing key elements, including set hours of care, full-time jobs, and paid sick leave needed to strengthen working and caring conditions. In its submission, CUPE called for these issues to be addressed, as well as the poor quality of care in for-profit long-term care in terms of governance and transparency. News Mar 30, 2021 P3s: False claims, hidden costs Corporations, consultants, and some governments, are pushing for-profit infrastructure and services. This fact sheet exposes the truth about public-private “partnerships” and the dangers of this form of privatization. Guide 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. Guide Asking the right questions: A guide for municipalities considering P3s This newly-updated second edition of Asking the right questions is co-authored by the late John Loxley and his son, researcher Salim Loxley. The guide reviews the latest evidence and experiences from across Canada and around the world, taking a critical look at the case for and against using public-private partnerships (P3s) for municipal infrastructure. This online text is adapted from the print version of the guide. Pagination Pagination Previous First page 1 Page 4 of 5 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 Next Share this page
Guide Bring our work in house: How to stop contracting out Privatization is on the rise. But we can fight back and bring our jobs and services in house, where they belong. Bring our work in house: How to stop contracting out gives CUPE members the tools they need to end privatization. It covers the benefits of in-house services, gives tips on engaging members and developing a plan, and shares practical ways to make a winning case.
Video: Working for tomorrow In Working for tomorrow, a video produced by CUPE in 1987, former CUPE National President Jeff Rose and others discuss contracting out and privatization.
Report CUPE releases blueprint to fix Canada Infrastructure Bank CUPE has released an expert report that’s a blueprint to fundamentally transform the Canada Infrastructure Bank. More than five years after its founding, the CIB hasn’t met its own goal of attracting profit-seeking private investors. At the same time, the bank’s focus on privatization has failed to meet community needs or tackle the climate crisis. It’s time to create a public bank that works for us all.
Sector profile: Transportation CUPE represents approximately 37,900 members in the transportation sector, including workers in airlines, airports, ferries, port authorities, rail, roads and highways, and public and private transit systems.
Guide Protecting our work from privatization: How to fight contracting out at the bargaining table The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is at the forefront of the fight against the privatization of public services and has been since our union was founded in 1963. The collective power of CUPE members is our best defence against privatization, and CUPE collective agreements are a powerful tool in that fight. When CUPE members organize to achieve, and strictly enforce, contract language that prevents or restricts our employers from contracting out work, we can protect public sector union jobs and public services. CUPE collective agreements are far more likely than other union contracts to have some type of protection against contracting out. CUPE locals regularly use their collective agreement language to stop privatization in its tracks.
News May 09, 2022 Report from CUPE shows universities and colleges impoverishing vulnerable workers Contracting out of services in the post-secondary sector in Canada is hurting disadvantaged workers with poverty-level wages and low benefits, a new report from the Canadian Union of Public Employees revealed today.
Resources Long-term care standards missing key protections CUPE is concerned the Health Standard Organization’s draft long-term care (LTC) standard is missing key elements, including set hours of care, full-time jobs, and paid sick leave needed to strengthen working and caring conditions. In its submission, CUPE called for these issues to be addressed, as well as the poor quality of care in for-profit long-term care in terms of governance and transparency.
News Mar 30, 2021 P3s: False claims, hidden costs Corporations, consultants, and some governments, are pushing for-profit infrastructure and services. This fact sheet exposes the truth about public-private “partnerships” and the dangers of this form of privatization.
Guide 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.
Guide Asking the right questions: A guide for municipalities considering P3s This newly-updated second edition of Asking the right questions is co-authored by the late John Loxley and his son, researcher Salim Loxley. The guide reviews the latest evidence and experiences from across Canada and around the world, taking a critical look at the case for and against using public-private partnerships (P3s) for municipal infrastructure. This online text is adapted from the print version of the guide.
