Search

Over a decade into B.C.’s toxic drug public health emergency, workers are being put in more and more at risk by the misdirected response of governments. In their address to the CUPE BC Convention, DJ Larkin, executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, stressed that the toxic drug epidemic is a worker’s issue.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is warning against reckless calls from the Progressive Conservatives to force front-line health care workers back into unsafe environments, following the decision by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) to suspend in-home services at a North End housing building due to serious safety concerns.

Ashley Humphrys, Manager of Social Enterprise with the Ending Violence Association of BC, delivered a keynote address to CUPE BC Convention 2026 delegates on how small, everyday actions can make workplaces safer.

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 April 28, the National Day of Mourning, members of OCEU/CUPE 1750 are joining workers across Ontario to remember those who have been killed, injured, or have become ill on the job and to call for urgent improvements to the systems meant to protect them.

Front-line health care workers gathered at the Saskatchewan Legislature today to highlight new research showing that Continuing Care Assistants (CCAs) in Saskatchewan are among the lowest paid in the country, intensifying concerns about staffing shortages and the stability of the province’s health system.

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.

The Ford government must fund hospitals at their real costs to protect patient care from deteriorating. Most hospitals have significant deficits and this is causing them to eliminate thousands of positions, threatening access and quality, while lengthening wait-times.

CUPE Ontario’s Health Care Workers Coordinating Committee, HCWCC, held a round table discussion with MPPs at Queen’s Park today. The discussions focused on the challenges facing long-term care and retirement home workers in Ontario.