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Workers at the Electrical Services Commission of Montréal (CSEM) are launching a mass public awareness campaign today entitled “Rebranchons Montréal” (Reconnect Montréal), to urge Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada to unblock two collective agreements that were duly negotiated and approved by their unions and the employer.

Bargaining between CUPE 650 and Regina Public Schools has stalled, with the two sides remaining apart on monetary issues. CUPE 650 represents nearly 200 caretaking and maintenance staff in Regina Public Schools.

Tuesday morning, faced with a longstanding lack of will on the part of the employer, the union for sessional lecturers at UQTR (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) broke off negotiations to renew its collective agreement and requested the assistance of a mediator-conciliator from the Québec Ministry of Labour.

CUPE National President Mark Hancock urged MPs to reject the federal government’s proposed restrictions on the right to strike at the House of Commons Special Committee on Bill C-39 on Tuesday.

Workers from the Corner Brook Civic Centre, represented by CUPE 4386, are now locked out without notice after a deal was not reached in their final conciliation meeting with city representatives this morning.

Blue-collar workers employed by the city of Saint-Georges-de-Beauce signed a new collective agreement yesterday. CUPE 5197 represents approximately 30 workers at the municipality.

More than 5,500 school support workers across Nova Scotia could be on strike in just 10 days, as negotiations between eight CUPE locals and the province’s Regional Centres for Education and Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincial (CSAP) near an impasse.

As more than a dozen assisted living workers face the threat of layoffs at Devon House, CUPE 2348 is calling for greater protections, not a reduction, for crucial community support workers.

Over 70 workers at the Thunder Bay Public Library (TBPL) began a legal strike at 12:01 a.m. this morning, following the employer’s decision to walk away from the bargaining table late last night.

In response to the planned elimination of 413 health care workers by a deficit-plagued Hamilton Health Sciences, CUPE 7800 vows to fight back until the provincial government provides the required funding to restore quality care at the hospital network.