Our National Executive Board met September 17 - 19, 2019 in Ottawa. These are the highlights of their deliberations and decisions. In Memory The National Executive Board (NEB) observed a minute of silence to reflect onthe members of our CUPE family lost...
Members of CUPE 1876, workers employed by the Northside Guest Home in North Sydney, voted 93 per cent in favour of a strike at a meeting held September 25, 2019. “It’s been very disappointing that the employer has not taken our...
CUPE is calling on the provincial Conservatives to launch an independent review of the decision to close forensic pathology services in the Hamilton/Niagara region. “There are too many troubling allegations surrounding the motivations behind the closure to forge ahead,” says Dave...
Today CUPE made an important submission on pensions to the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI); the federal regulator who oversees pension plans. The submission highlights CUPE’s concerns that OSFI is quietly considering a major policy change that could...
Today, more than 55,000 members of CUPE Ontario have begun legal job action to secure the education services students need at school. They are education workers, represented by CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU), working in our schools and...
B.C.’s 4,500 ambulance paramedics and emergency medical dispatchers have voted to ratify a new three-year collective agreement, signing off on a tentative agreement reached on July 19 between the Health Employers Association of BC and the Ambulance Paramedics & Ambulance...
While they welcomed the news that state sector primary education was to become completely free at the point of use when the government announced its decision to do away with school fees, teachers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
CUPE’s 29th biennial convention will be held October 7 to 11 in Montreal. We have prepared several tools to help you prepare for convention and to stay informed over the course of the week. Download our app You’ll find everything you need for the...
Eight children died after a classroom collapsed at a private for-profit primary school in the Kenyan capital Nairobi last week. Precious Talent Top School, as the private primary establishment is called, collapsed minutes after the start of the school day...
Meeting at a workshop in New Delhi on 25-26 September 2019, IndustriALL Global Union affiliates assessed the impact of India’s free trade regime across the manufacturing sector, including automobile, steel, coal, electrical and electronics, readymade garment and textiles, and chemicals.Participants...
The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) was formed in 1999 in Toronto-Canada and formally announced its formation in January 2000. In nearly two decades of continuous activism, we have played an impactful role in securing international support for Iranian workers’ struggles against the Islamic Republic of Iran, employers, and the inhumane conditions the capitalist order has imposed on working-class lives in Iran. During these years, our politics and the foundational basis guiding our activism have been predicated on working-class traditions with an uncompromising emphasis on working-class independence and autonomy.