Within the last few months, IndustriALL Global Union’s affiliates in Ukraine, the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine and the Trade Union of Coal Industry Workers of Ukraine, mobilized their members many times to hold protest actions against wage arrears across Ukraine in...
The District of Coldstream and CUPE 626, which represents municipal workers, will begin mediation on Monday after bargaining talks broke down in August, says the union. The BC Labour Relations Board appointed mediator Grant McArthur to mediate contract talks between the two sides. “Affordability is a real issue for...
Hong Kong: Educators stand with democracy defenders In the face of the on-going violence against protesters and democracy defenders in Hong Kong, Education International (EI) and its members are mobilising to show support for those who defend the values of...
On November 13 in Medellín, Banacol, Colombia's largest banana producer, the IUF-affiliated agricultural workers union SINTRAINAGRO and IUF Latin America signed a Letter of Commitment pledging to employ an additional 400 women workers on Banacol's plantations by 2020, boosting women's...
There is a transformation of industrial work underway as we experience the effects of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). Digitalization, connectivity, artificial intelligence, and advanced technologies such as 3-D printing, nanotechnology and biotechnology mean that more and more workers...
Eight child care workers who have been locked out of their workplace are surprised after their employer, Something Special Children’s Centre, announced that it will close without reason or a timeline for reopening. “It came as a bit of a surprise...
Municipal workers with the Town of Blainville, QC, showed up at a Blainville town council meeting last night. The union members, who have been without a collective agreement for close to three years, have been demanding wage increases comparable to what the...
Members of CUPE 47 have voted for the second time to reject a tentative agreement with the City of Saskatoon. CUPE 47, which represents 130 workers at Saskatoon’s meter shop, water, and wastewater treatment plants as well as environmental protection officers,...
About 200 workers of the Gardabani thermal power plant of Tbilisi hydroelectric power plant ended a six-day strike on 11 November after the union came to an agreement with the employer to increase wages by 25 per cent from 1 January 2020...
CUPE joins the international community in raising our concern about the developing situation in Bolivia, which has led to a coup. CUPE calls on the Government of Canada to recognize and respect the sovereignty of the Bolivian people to determine their...