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Niagara residents are sending a clear message: invest in paramedics before the system collapses. Niagara Region Council is refusing to listen.

The workers at Bruyere Health have found strong community support in their campaign to stop the degradation of care at their hospital, where 55 frontline jobs are being axed. Over the past few weeks, 1,400 people have signed a petition imploring hospital management to “Stop the Cuts.”

After months of scrutiny over its practices, the private company that Canadian Blood Services contracted to collect plasma has paused its Canadian operations. CUPE is calling on the federal government to finally put public safety ahead of corporate profits, make the pause permanent and end for-profit plasma collection in Canada.

The union representing workers at Extendicare Crossing Bridge in Ottawa is calling attention to the continued delays at the bargaining table. CUPE 1307 is one of eight CUPE locals participating in the Extendicare Central Table bargaining.

Frontline social service and healthcare workers represented by CUPE 1813.14 have launched the “Worth Fighting For” campaign aimed at reaching a fair collective agreement, without disrupting the vital services they provide across Simcoe-Muskoka.

Just a week after Scarborough Health Network (SHN) workers held a rally surrounding chronic understaffing and increasing violence against hospital workers, Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced Tuesday that the Ontario government would begin construction of a new emergency department at Centenary Hospital.

Ontario’s hospital crisis has hit a boiling point, says new report released today by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE).

Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham’s support for building social workers directly into the 911 emergency system is a crucial step in addressing the growing mental health crisis, says CUPE 500, representing Winnipeg’s municipal workers.

CUPE 5430 has released new research showing that most health care workers in Saskatchewan are the lowest paid in all of Canada. After four years without a wage increase, CUPE 5430 is calling for desperately needed wage increases to retain health care workers in Saskatchewan’s critically short-staffed health system.

Canadians overwhelmingly support WestJet flight attendants in their fight for fair wages and an end to unpaid work, according to a new Abacus Data survey commissioned as flight attendants represented by CUPE 8125 prepare for potential strike action.