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CUPE tells feds to protect the promise of affordable public child care

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.

CUPE enters arbitration on flight attendant wages with Air Canada

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.

Latest response from UCP on health care crisis is a lot of nothing

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

Long-term care home workers vote to strike in Amherst, Nova Scotia

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 raising alarm: “Our home is under attack from within.”

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.

Artificial intelligence, energy and climate change

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly spreading in Canadian workplaces, with few laws or regulations, and little testing. This backgrounder looks at AI’s energy use, its environmental impacts, the private sector’s role in accelerating these impacts, and what we can do to address them.

Statement on the U.S. attack on Venezuela

CUPE is outraged by the United States’ unlawful and lethal attack on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We are shocked that the U.S. military bombed this sovereign nation, and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores to gain access to the country’s oil, land and energy resources.

Hybrid works! CUPE members at Ontario Health atHome stage a province wide day of action

Hybrid works. Since before the pandemic, workers at Ontario Health atHome have been working remotely to help deliver the essential home-care services Ontarians need. Now, on the whims of the Ford government, these workers are being forced back into office spaces that are not equipped to handle them all at once.

CUPE workers take limited strike action at Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal

Approximately 40 members of the Syndicat des cols bleus regroupés de Montréal (CUPE 301) who work for the Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal (SHDM) will no longer work overtime hours. This limited strike will begin on December 23, 2025, at 0:01 a.m., and end on January 4, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Essential services will not be maintained.

CUPE criticizes federal AI consultation process

CUPE is concerned federal consultations to update Canada’s strategy on artificial intelligence were rushed and favoured corporate interests at the expense of other voices.