The bargaining team negotiating on behalf of 55,000 education workers says the Ministry of Education and Ontario’s school board trustees have maintained the wrong priorities throughout negotiations and that their thinking has led them to abandon their responsibilities toward students. Their...
The Minister visited Tkibuli on 26 September and organized an urgent meeting with different parties involved in the conflict including representatives of the employer, local authorities and trade union representatives and miners.The strike started in the morning on 24 September...
The European Trade Union Committee for Education, the European region of Education International, wraps up successful project on social dialogue and gender equality in teaching by launching research findings and a good practice database at Bucharest Conference. On 16-17 September,...
Education International’s leaders joined advocates from across the globe convening at the United Nations General Assembly this week, amid crises including climate change and threats of armed conflict, as well as a growing concern about progress on the 2030 deadline...
Child labourers come and go at Perfetti van Melle's (PvM) factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh. They disappear during inspections, only to reappear once the inspections have ended. PvM continues to contract with the company supplying these children - Rahat Corporation. After...
The military has extended its control on virtually every area of society in Algeria after the ailing 82-year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was forced to stand down in April following mass protests.The arrests are an attempt to crush independent unions and...
CUPE 523, K-12 support workers at School District 67 in Okanagan-Skaha reached a tentative agreement on Sept. 23, following five bargaining sessions that began June 20. CUPE Local 523 Acting President Tammie Koroluk said that this round of bargaining was a new experience...
Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 966 (CUPE Local 966), representing municipal workers with the Region of Peel, are highlighting their work and their commitment to the community in a new advertising campaign. The transit shelter, bus, billboard...
CUPE members are encouraged to honour the survivors of the residential school system by wearing orange shirts on September 30. Since 2013, September 30 has been commemorated as “Orange Shirt Day”, inspired by the story of residential school survivor Phyllis Jack Webstad....
Union concerned their members can no longer afford to live in the communities they serve This week the City of Vancouver and Local 1004 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing outside workers at the City and employees of...