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Statement from Wesley Lesosky, President of the Airline Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents 18,500 flight atte

On Tuesday, Arbitrator Kaplan’s Bill 124 reopener award recognized the extent to which Doug Ford’s Bill 124 unconstitutionally suppressed union member

The most recent budget by the Ford Conservatives will spend $1,178 less per person on public services by 2026. That’s the equivalent of $19-billion in

More than 1400 seniors died from COVID-19 than would have if Ontario had a fully public long-term care system, according to a new report released toda

Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), says the Ford government’s trampling of workers’ rights in Ontario should be a

Despite the best efforts of academic workers to reach a fair deal over the weekend, picket lines will go up at Carleton University on Monday morning.

Twenty-four hours before Doug Ford is scheduled to attend the swearing-in of his new cabinet, frontline education workers will deliver tens of thousan

/CNW/ - Doug Ford is No superhero, and Ontario families who have been struggling for years to get appropriate treatment for their children living with autism...

On February 14, children and young people will convene on Parliament Hill and in communities across the country to celebrate Have a Heart Day, a campaign fighting for fairness and justice for First...

/CNW/ - Following a fruitless day of negotiations, the union representing 2,900 teaching assistants, research assistants, demonstrators, tutors and markers at...

CUPE National President Mark Hancock has arrived in Toronto to lend his support to CUPE’s 55,000 education workers in Ontario who are poised to walk o

Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers have given five days’ notice of a potential province-wide strike as they remain united in their fight for stud

It’s a milestone in the fight to repeal Bill 124, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario during a press conference about the start

After multiple issues before the labour board, ballots were finally counted today, and 171 Alpha House employees voted 89% in favour of joining the Ca

CUPE Saskatchewan is deeply disappointed by the government’s announced cancellation of COVID-19 safety measures. “Our hospitals are still struggling to care for hundreds of COVID-19 patients. The...

With inequality getting much worse over the course of the pandemic, and the wealth of billionaires growing by billions while incomes for everyday Onta

CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) will hold a media briefing following education workers’ Leadership Conference. WHO: Laura Walton

For the first time in its 50-year history, Quebec’s Common Front has endorsed job action outside of the province. CUPE Quebec Union Leaders will be at

A recent announcement by the Ford government of targeted after-school recreation programs is a further distraction from the province’s failure to sign

Mark Hancock and Candace Rennick were re-elected in their respective roles of National President and National Secretary-Treasurer on Wednesday, and st

"On behalf of all 665,000 CUPE members across Canada, it's an honour to welcome WestJet flight attendants into our CUPE family," said CUPE National President Mark Hancock. "CUPE is Canada's flight...

Please replace the release dated May 26, 2022 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The updated release reads: ONTARIO EDUCA

At a special membership meeting today, contract academic workers at Carleton University voted overwhelmingly against the university’s latest offer and

CUPE Ontario has pledged its full support to the coalition of five major health unions, including CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE

After getting an imposed contract that would have further harmed Ontario schools off their backs with the repeal of Bill 28, Ontario’s lowest-paid edu

Employees at Resi-Care Cape Breton vote 100% in favour of job action

CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock joined NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice and other labour leaders on Parliament Hill today to support the introduction of Bill C-302 Boulerice's newly-tabled anti-scab...

“Good riddance” was CUPE Ontario’s departing comment on the repeal of Bill 28, the anti-worker legislation introduced less than two weeks ago by the F

/CNW/ - Canada's largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, is shocked and outraged at reports that the Liberal Party will revive its attack on...

In a clear response to unionization efforts, the University of Waterloo (UW) has provided notice that it will raise wages for graduate student workers

In the middle of a fourth wave, the Ford Conservatives are still senselessly sitting on billions of dollars that could go towards saving lives and ens

Squamish municipal workers, represented by CUPE 2269, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a vote held last night. “This vote demon

With colleges and Universities having reopened with no safety measures beyond mandatory vaccinations for students and workers, CUPE Ontario’s Universi

National unions, First Nations, environmental, social justice and youth groups will join together at Jack Poole Plaza in Vancouver at noon on Nov. 5 to demand action on climate change that creates...

Cabin crew at Porter are excited about the opportunity to grow their voice and improve their working conditions by joining Canada’s flight attendant u

Diverting and triaging patients who call 911 for emergency medical care away from hospitals and allowing paramedics on firetrucks, instead of putting more ambulances and paramedics on the road, is...

October 17th is the 23rd Annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. This year the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care

The Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board today certified the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) as the union for Paladin Security workers who wor

CUPE 3902, the Union representing nearly 11,500 academic workers at the University of Toronto, called on all members of the campus community today to

CUPE, Canada’s largest union, is appalled at the Canadian Blood Services (CBS) decision to sign a secret plasma privatization deal that puts our entir

Flight attendants represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will be holding a day of action at Montreal-Trudeau airport on Tuesday,

Custodial and maintenance workers at Toronto Metropolitan University represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are starting their f

Teaching assistants and contract instructors at Carleton University in Ottawa have voted in favour of new collective agreements negotiated after a str

The Ford Conservatives’ Fall Economic Statement fails families by continuing to ignore the importance of child care to our social and economic recover

The recent Auditor General’s preliminary report into the financial insolvency of Laurentian University confirms CUPE Ontario’s claim that the universi

Ontario hospital staff who have worked hard and been put at higher risk of infection throughout the COVID-19 pandemic are holding escalating political

“We are here to remind this government that they promised anti-scab legislation and we are still waiting. We all heard Minister O’Regan: he committed to bringing this piece of legislation in before...

Workers and students from across the University of Toronto campuses will come together for a Holiday Solidarity Rally in front of Simcoe Hall at 3:00

The Bank of Canada is kicking working families in Canada when they're already down, and making an affordability crisis even worse with its latest inte

The president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the president of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) will hold a

CUPE Local 1978 members who work for the Capital Regional District (CRD) have voted 98 percent in favour of strike action as a new contract has yet to

By failing to enforce a deadline mandating long-term care operators to install air conditioning in all resident rooms, Ontario’s PC government has aga

CUPE Nova Scotia applauds improved wage scale for Early Childhood Educators

Library workers in Whitby became the newest members of CUPE, following a strong vote Thursday. “Library workers are all very passionate about what the

On behalf of our 700,000 members nationwide, we want to recognize the hard work and dedication of CUPE members across the National Capital Region in the face of intimidation and disruption at the...

On March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, CUPE joins with other unions and organizations to continue the fight against all forms of racial intolerance.

By not announcing paid sick days for all hospital, long-term care and other essential workers, Ontario’s Premier missed a key opportunity this week to

/CNW/ - The National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees will visit the Wood Buffalo picket line on Friday. Mark Hancock, President of the...

CUPE 403 is welcoming 147 new members following a successful Labour Board vote today. The recreation and cultural workers voted overwhelmingly to join

Unless Ottawa hospitals hire more than 3000 staff, yearly spiking emergency room wait times at hospitals like The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, unprec

CUPE is calling on Prime Minister Trudeau to stop delaying, and act now to provide urgently-needed support to Canada’s municipalities, which are facing critical funding shortages that have already...

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has written to the ministers of health and of community and social services calling for an audit of exec

Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers are united for student success and good jobs. Their proposals are reasonable, necessary, and affordable.

Toronto Education Workers/CUPE Local 4400 and the Toronto District School Board have reached a tentative agreement in collective bargaining for local