The Canadian Union of Public Employees is offering solidarity and support to the people of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia. CUPE is relieved that the police standoff has been averted for the time being, and hopeful that the federal government...
With reports that Ontario’s PC government is moving to chop the province’s health planning networks (Local Health Integration Networks or LHINs), the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) today urged the Premier and health minister to stop and focus instead on...
CUPE 375 is using the federal Cabinet ministers’ retreat in Sherbrooke, QC, as an opportunity to denounce Nicola Di Iorio, the outgoing MP for Saint-Léonard. The local, which represents workers at the Port of Montreal, are calling attention to the...
Doug Ford’s PC government has announced an unprecedented round of deep cuts to Ontario Universities, the conversion of student grants to loans, and an attack on student democracy on campuses. “These cuts were made without consultation with the University sector, and...
Kingston’s largest health care union, today, called on the Ontario government to shelve its proposed revenue cuts and fund Ontario hospitals at their real costs. The call comes just days before committee hearings on the province’s 2019 budget are slated to...
A report in the Guardian has revealed that a charity T-shirt promoting women’s equality is made by Bangladeshi women earning well below a living wage. Sold for £19.40 for Comic Relief’s “gender justice” campaign, the women make just 35p per...
The Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Workers’ Syndicate reported yesterday that at 11:55 PM, Sunday, January 20th, 2019 a caravan of fifteen patrol cars full of armed security and intelligence forces raided Esmaeil Bakhshi’s house and have taken him away to an undisclosed location....
Over 500 production, maintenance and sanitation workers at the General Mills facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa will now be represented by the IUF-affiliated RWDSU/UFCW following elections on January 9 in which a majority voted for union representation. With support from...
21.01.2019 As the German car manufacturer consistently refuses to accord the same rights to its workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, US, as it does in the rest of the world, IndustriALL Global Union is today suspending its long-standing global agreement with...
Education union representatives discussed development cooperation priorities and ways to better cater to the needs of receiving and donor partners alike. Education International (EI) presented and discussed with teacher union representatives the results of a survey of affiliates on priorities...