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Ontario’s paramedic system is under severe strain as services struggle to recruit and retain workers while frontline paramedics face mounting mental health pressures. Yet some influential voices are once again promoting the creation of a College of Paramedics, an expensive and unnecessary layer of regulation that would do nothing to improve patient care.

CUPE Saskatchewan is urging the provincial government to strongly advocate for the continued success and expansion of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program ahead of upcoming ministerial meetings. In a letter sent to Minister of Education Everett Hindley, CUPE Saskatchewan President Kent Peterson outlined concerns about the uncertainty facing Saskatchewan families, child care workers, and centres.

CUPE 5430 is calling on the provincial government to abandon plans to develop a new whistleblower hotline to report health care workers and instead focus on fixing Saskatchewan’s health care crisis.

The Alberta Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE Alberta) has launched an online campaign calling on Premier Danielle Smith to declare a health care state of emergency.

CUPE has written to Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu with a clear message: Canada’s child care system is one of the most important public programs in a generation – and it’s at serious risk already.

The Air Canada Component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has begun its first day of arbitration with Air Canada and Arbitrator Paula Knopf to settle wages after flight attendants voted over 99% to reject Air Canada’s final wage offer in September 2025.

CUPE Alberta which represents Alberta health care workers is slamming an announcement from the UCP government in response to the crisis in emergency rooms.

Workers from Northumberland Hall long-term care home, represented by CUPE 5018, voted 94% in favour of a strike mandate late last week, bringing the total number of CUPE long-term care homes voting to strike to 30.

CUPE predicts 2026 to be an incredibly difficult year to defend public services in Newfoundland & Labrador, without public pressure on the provincial government. CUPE members in every public sector are reporting attacks to our services through funding cuts, reduction of services, public-private partnerships (P3s), and the increased use of artificial intelligence.