The Standard for Responsible Mining’s best practice requirements include elements such as health and safety for workers, human rights, community engagement, pollution control, mining in conflict-affected areas, rights of indigenous peoples, transparency in revenue payments from companies to governments, and land reclamation...
CUPE and our 650,000 members across Canada join the global call for love and freedom as we celebrate Pride 2018! CUPE and our National Pink Triangle Committee will continue to advocate for LGBTTQI workers both inside and outside the workplace. Thirty...
The more than 1,300 CUPE members who work in B.C.’s community health sector play an important role in health care service delivery, adding value to their communities while facing workload and other significant challenges on a daily basis, a new...
CUPE, representing clerical workers at the New Waterford Consolidated and Northside General hospitals, says the announcement to close both facilities came out of the blue with no prior consultation with employees or the communities served by the hospitals. “This is a...
The Supreme Court of the United States just delivered a painful blow to working people and to the unions which stand up for their rights. In a narrow 5 to 4 vote, the justices decided in the Janus v. AFSCME...
The Canadian Union of Public Employees is disappointed in today’s ruling in Janus v. AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), arguing it weakens the power of workers everywhere. The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled to...
The Supreme Court of the United States just delivered a painful blow to working people and to the unions which stand up for their rights. In a narrow 5 to 4 vote, the justices decided in the Janus v. AFSCME case that public...
A CUPE delegation joined over 200 trade unionists at the Toronto and York Region Labour Council’s recent Indigenous and Workers of Colour Conference. The CUPE delegation included Dawn Bellerose, member of the National Aboriginal Council; Larry Giffin, Co-chair of the National...
Despite mass opposition, Brail's notoriously corrupt Congress has paved the way for a vote on easing authorization for still more pesticide use in the country which is already the world's largest consumer of toxic agrochemicals. A new bill promoted by...
In Iraq’s May national elections, of the 329 parliamentary deputies chosen, Sairoon (meaning ‘Forward’ or ‘the Alliance for Reforms’) scored the biggest win – 55 deputies and 1.3 million votes. Sairoon includes the followers of the powerful Shiite leader Muqtada...