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New polling confirms that most Nova Scotians believe long-term care workers deserve to earn a living wage, and that the government’s refusal to return to the bargaining table is putting both residents and workers at risk.

CUPE’s Extendicare Central Bargaining Table is holding strategic planning meetings in Markham this week, one month after negotiations ended with Extendicare.

On the National Day of Mourning, CUPE hospital and long-term care workers called for action from the provincial and federal governments to protect them from violence, which has worsened since the pandemic.

In response to Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s cuts to child care, CUPE SK president Kent Peterson released the following statement: Scott Moe’s child care cuts break the promise of $10-a-day child care and will cost families and workers more.

Nova Scotia’s early childhood educators are calling on the Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, Brendan Maguire, to immediately confirm that the provincial government will provide the full funding needed for retroactive wage increases—so that educators receive the full pay they are owed.

Demoralized, exhausted and frustrated, health care workers protested outside Lakeridge hospital in Oshawa today in response to chaotic working conditions amid provincial funding restraint.

The virtual registration pilot at St. Joseph’s urgent care centre is a mistake as it will discriminatorily impact vulnerable groups of people without fixing the core issue, lengthening wait-times, according to CUPE.

Members of the CUPE Saskatchewan Municipal Employees’ Committee (SMEC) sponsored registration and hosted an engaging booth at this year’s SUMA Convention and Tradeshow held April 12 to 15 in Regina.

Long-term care workers at Valley View Villa, in Halifax, Nova Scotia represented by CUPE 2330, joined the picket line this morning, along with 24 other long-term care homes province wide.