From apache@grace.cupe.ca Wed Jul 23 11:42:24 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h6NFgOKa031455 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:42:24 -0400 Received: (from apache@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h6NFgOoZ031453; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:42:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:42:24 -0400 Message-Id: <200307231542.h6NFgOoZ031453@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [Cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:42:24 -0000

CUPE challenges BC Rail bidders to spell out benefits to communities

Autumn House Board of Directors refusing to pass on government pay increases to employees

Victory for community workers, striking for better wages, benefits and more provincial funding

A bitter four-week strike at Toronto’s Central Neighbourhood House, a multi-service community agency may soon end if 150 community workers, members of CUPE 4308, ratify a tentative agreement reached early this morning.

HEU charges Children's and Women's Health Centre, Cancer Agency with unfair labour practices

Blood services workers have given all they can

Collection and distribution of blood in the Calgary area has come to a stop, as Canadian Blood Services workers went on strike this morning to back their demands for increased pay and respect.

Prince George campaign highlights poor service

On the way to work on Monday, residents may notice some new street signs that reveal service inadequacies plaguing B.C.’s largest northern community. The signs are part of a new campaign from CUPE 399 outside workers.

Sally Ann opts to eliminate skilled, experienced health care workers; turns down offer that would meet budget targets

Niagara to bring ambulance services in house

CUPE paramedics in Niagara have scored a major victory against contracting out. The ambulance paramedics, members of CUPE 7100, have convinced regional council to assume direct control of ambulance services next year.

Community workers ratify deal, eager to return to! work

Toronto – Community workers at one of Toronto’s oldest social service agencies have ratified a new collective agreement, ending a difficult 34-day strike. The 150 Central Neighbourhood House workers, who are members of Local 4308 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), say they are eager to return to work helping the homeless and vulnerable in the inner-city.

Public Auto Insurance Symposium: public debate needed in New Brunswick

CUPE launches e-mail campaign; cites federal report on risks of private RAV

BURNABY – Given information in a leaked report citing great risks, CUPE is launching a national e-mail campaign today to urge members of Parliament to halt federal funding to the rapid-transit line linking Richmond and the airport to downtown Vancouver.

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Shelter strikers protest at Nova Scotia legislature

The Autumn House women’s shelter workers from Amherst, Nova Scotia – on strike since August 11 – took their fight all the way to the provincial legislature today.

"Racing to War" curriculum

Created by Justice is the Unifying Message Project (JUMP), of the Applied Research Centre in California, this link brings you to a downloadable three-part discussion series designed to help organizations examine the racial impact of the “war on terrorism” in the United States and more generally Racing to War

ANNCOL - New Colombia News Agency

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Explaining the CPI

The CPI is used as a measure of how the purchasing power of money changes in Canada. In other words, it measures the changes in prices, as they affect Canadian consumers buying consumer goods and services.

TUC opposes the war in Iraq

The TUC, which is Britain's equivalent of the Canadian Labour Congress passed a motion on middle east peace that calls for the withdrawal of British and US military troops from Iraq.

CUPE, OPSEU and Ontario Health Coalition to launch court action today to stop hospital privatization

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), will hold a news conference at 2:00 pm today, at the Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, in the Baker Room, 2nd Floor, in Toronto, to announce a joint court action they are filing against the Ontario government. From root@grace.cupe.ca Mon Sep 22 12:14:54 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8MGEsxJ000396 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:14:54 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8MGEsdb000394; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:14:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:14:54 -0400 Message-Id: <200309221614.h8MGEsdb000394@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:14:54 -0000

TUC opposes the war in Iraq

The TUC, which is Britain's equivalent of the Canadian Labour Congress passed a motion on middle east peace that calls for the withdrawal of British and US military troops from Iraq.

CUPE, OPSEU and Ontario Health Coalition to launch court action today to stop hospital privatization

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), will hold a news conference at 2:00 pm today, at the Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, in the Baker Room, 2nd Floor, in Toronto, to announce a joint court action they are filing against the Ontario government. From root@grace.cupe.ca Tue Sep 23 13:10:01 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8NHA0xJ011639 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:10:00 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8NHA0MF011634; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:10:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:10:00 -0400 Message-Id: <200309231710.h8NHA0MF011634@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:10:01 -0000

Ontario Electricity Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition to warn against privatization with giant trojan Horse tour in port Hope

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Ontario Electricity Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition to warn against privatization with giant trojan Horse tour in port Hope

A 15-foot high Trojan Horse is on tour across Ontario during the provincial election campaign, accompanied by activists and supporters of the Ontario Electricity Coalition (OEC) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), to warn Ontarians about the dangers of privatization. From root@grace.cupe.ca Tue Sep 23 14:25:02 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8NIP2xJ025415 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:25:02 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8NIP1fe025410; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:25:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:25:01 -0400 Message-Id: <200309231825.h8NIP1fe025410@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:25:02 -0000

Ontario Electricity Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition to warn against privatization with giant trojan Horse tour in port Hope

A 15-foot high Trojan Horse is on tour across Ontario during the provincial election campaign, accompanied by activists and supporters of the Ontario Electricity Coalition (OEC) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), to warn Ontarians about the dangers of privatization. From root@grace.cupe.ca Tue Sep 23 18:00:01 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8NM01xJ032333 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8NM0167032330; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Message-Id: <200309232200.h8NM0167032330@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:00:01 -0000

Ontario Electricity Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition to warn against privatization with giant trojan Horse tour in port Hope

A 15-foot high Trojan Horse is on tour across Ontario during the provincial election campaign, accompanied by activists and supporters of the Ontario Electricity Coalition (OEC) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), to warn Ontarians about the dangers of privatization. From root@grace.cupe.ca Tue Sep 23 18:07:10 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8NM7AxJ001550 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:07:10 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8NM7ASR001548; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:07:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:07:10 -0400 Message-Id: <200309232207.h8NM7ASR001548@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:07:10 -0000

Ontario Electricity Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition to warn against privatization with giant trojan Horse tour in port Hope

A 15-foot high Trojan Horse is on tour across Ontario during the provincial election campaign, accompanied by activists and supporters of the Ontario Electricity Coalition (OEC) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), to warn Ontarians about the dangers of privatization. From root@grace.cupe.ca Mon Sep 22 18:13:17 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8MMDHxJ002435 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:13:17 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8MMDHap002433; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:13:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:13:17 -0400 Message-Id: <200309222213.h8MMDHap002433@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:13:17 -0000

CUPE, OPSEU and Ontario Health Coalition launch court action to stop hospital privatization

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), filed a court action today to halt the privatization of hospitals in Ottawa, Brampton and Toronto.

Notice of Application for Judicial Review to stop Hospital privatization

On September 22, 2003 the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and the Ontario Health Coalition applied to the Divisional Court of Ontario for orders quashing or prohibiting any purported approvals under the Public Hospitals Act,
relating to or arising from plans by the William Osler Health Centre and the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group to contract with private for-profit corporations to establish, own and operate hospitals at their sites.

TUC opposes the war in Iraq

The TUC, which is Britain's equivalent of the Canadian Labour Congress passed a motion on middle east peace that calls for the withdrawal of British and US military troops from Iraq.

CUPE, OPSEU and Ontario Health Coalition to launch court action today to stop hospital privatization

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), will hold a news conference at 2:00 pm today, at the Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, in the Baker Room, 2nd Floor, in Toronto, to announce a joint court action they are filing against the Ontario government.

Ontario Electricity Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition to warn against privatization with giant Trojan Horse in Cobourg

A 15-foot high Trojan Horse is on tour across Ontario during the provincial election campaign, accompanied by activists and supporters of the Ontario Electricity Coalition (OEC) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), to warn Ontarians about the dangers of privatization.

Ontario Electricity Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition to warn against privatization with giant trojan Horse tour in port Hope

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CUPE, OPSEU and Ontario Health Coalition launch court action to stop hospital privatization

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), filed a court action today to halt the privatization of hospitals in Ottawa, Brampton and Toronto.

Notice of Application for Judicial Review to stop Hospital privatization

On September 22, 2003 the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and the Ontario Health Coalition applied to the Divisional Court of Ontario for orders quashing or prohibiting any purported approvals under the Public Hospitals Act,
relating to or arising from plans by the William Osler Health Centre and the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group to contract with private for-profit corporations to establish, own and operate hospitals at their sites.

TUC opposes the war in Iraq

The TUC, which is Britain's equivalent of the Canadian Labour Congress passed a motion on middle east peace that calls for the withdrawal of British and US military troops from Iraq.

CUPE, OPSEU and Ontario Health Coalition to launch court action today to stop hospital privatization

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), will hold a news conference at 2:00 pm today, at the Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, in the Baker Room, 2nd Floor, in Toronto, to announce a joint court action they are filing against the Ontario government.

Ontario Electricity Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition to warn against privatization with giant Trojan Horse in Cobourg

A 15-foot high Trojan Horse is on tour across Ontario during the provincial election campaign, accompanied by activists and supporters of the Ontario Electricity Coalition (OEC) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), to warn Ontarians about the dangers of privatization. From root@grace.cupe.ca Tue Sep 23 18:00:01 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8NM01xJ024935 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8NM01oY024932; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Message-Id: <200309232200.h8NM01oY024932@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:00:01 -0000

Application Process

Ontario Electricity Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition to warn against privatization with giant trojan Horse tour in port Hope

A 15-foot high Trojan Horse is on tour across Ontario during the provincial election campaign, accompanied by activists and supporters of the Ontario Electricity Coalition (OEC) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), to warn Ontarians about the dangers of privatization.

Canadian Union of Public Employees Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Pre-Budget Consultation, September 2003

The Canadian Union of Public Employees is Canada’s largest union representing over 550,000 working Canadians in 2,300 locals. CUPE members work in urban and rural communities across the country. Our members are employed by municipalities, hospitals, and long-term care facilities, libraries and universities, social service agencies, public utility commissions, airlines, and other public institutions that deliver services to Canadians. CUPE has a long history of supporting and defending our communities and we have played a key role in making sure governments meet the needs and interests of their citizens. From root@grace.cupe.ca Wed Sep 24 18:00:01 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8OM01xJ017034 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8OM01jc017032; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Message-Id: <200309242200.h8OM01jc017032@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:00:01 -0000

Notice of Application for Judicial Review to stop Hospital privatization

On September 22, 2003 the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and the Ontario Health Coalition applied to the Divisional Court of Ontario for orders quashing or prohibiting any purported approvals under the Public Hospitals Act, relating to or arising from plans by the William Osler Health Centre and the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group to contract with private for-profit corporations to establish, own and operate hospitals at their sites.

Deregulation, Privatization and The Ontario Power Failure

On August 14, 2003,there was a huge blackout across the American northeast and almost every inch of Ontario -the largest blackout in North American history affecting about 50 million people in total.

Evaluation

Edmonton Public School Custodians Celebrated at the Edmonton Art Gallery

Ontario Hydro: privatization, deregulation and the fight to keep it public

A speech given by CUPE Local 1 (Toronto Hydro) President Bruno Silano to the convention of the UGT, one of France's trade union centrals. Brother Solano gives a good synapsis of the history of electrical utilities in Ontario, the political context in which the efforts to sell off Hydro One took place, what was at stake for the public, and how people fought back.

Presentation to the City of Winnipeg-99 - Local 500 Presentation to the Standing Policy Committee On Public Works

Alternative project delivery strategies for Winnipeg Water Treatment Plants

National Defence Fund Regulations

The 1967 National Convention gave the National Executive Boar! d responsibility for approving Regulations governing the use of the National Defence Fund.

Application Process

CUPE Local 1251 vote in favor of a strike

There is another strike brewing in New Brunswick over pay equity.

Application

Evaluation

CUPE President visits Cornwall General Hospital

The National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Judy Darcy, is going to meet with workers at Cornwall General Hospital in Ontario tomorrow.

Support to Members on Strike

CUPE members are eligible for strike pay from the National Strike Fund and may receive supplemental strike pay from their local or provincial division.

Members who are on strike or locked out are eligible to receive $200 per week from the 10th day of a strike from the National Strike Fund. As well, the National union covers their benefits for the duration of the strike

What am I supposed to do during a strike?

What happens to my regular pay?

When do I get paid?

How much do I get paid?

How do I get paid?

Am I eligible to get paid?

What about my medical and life insurance payments?

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National Strike Fund Forms

In order to be eligible for support from the National Strike Fund, locals must complete the forms set out in the Regulations. Copies of these forms can be downloaded from this site.

Signed, sealed - but will it be delivered?

The Ontario Tories' blue ink is almost dry, but there's just enough left to sign one last contract for their corporate friends.

Edmonton Public School Custodians Celebrated at the Edmonton Art Gallery

Form B - Notification of Strike Commencement

Form C - Strike Pay Estimate–First Week

Form D - Strike Fund Report

Form E - Strike Pay Application

Form F - Daily Report

Form G - Strike Duty Report and Cheque Distribution

Form H - Strike Terminated (or Averted)

Form J - Final Report of Strike

CUPE LOCAL 500 PRESENTATION TO WINNIPEG CITY COUNCIL EPC PUBLIC HEARINGS

On February 1, 1999 we appeared before EPC on this subject matter (copy of presentation appended). Our concern at that time was with the scope of the review panel, particularly the inclusion of “alternative deliver (ASD) methods/concepts” in the scope of review.

Vancouver Courier article shows Campbell government's brutality

The Vancouver Courier, a community daily newspaper has an article illustrating the brutal effects of the provincial government's contract-gutting legislation on health care workers.

Form A - Notice of Strike Mandate

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"Made in the North," agreement protects health care, community-supporting jobs

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Advocacy garners increased education dollars for nurses

Royal Ottawa Hospital privatization deal invalid: it's time for McGuinty to clearly state he will cancel P3 deals

A deal signed yesterday by the board of the Royal Ottawa Hospital to let a private consortium own and operate a public hospital is not legally binding, so Dalton McGuinty should have no qualms about ripping it up, says CUPE.

Licensed Practical Nurses campaign for full utilization of their skills

Local 79 celebrates victory as contracting-out defeated at Toronto City Council

Unions will seek injunction to stop P3 hospitals if government doesn't come clean

The Eves government is being given until the end of the day today to come clean on its plans to hand over ownership of public hospitals to their big business backers or appear in court Monday morning to defend their actions.

Trojan horse visits liberal HQ

During the Ontario leaders’ debate, Dalton McGuinty jokingly promised a pony for every boy and girl in the province. Well, the Liberal leader is about to get a horse – a really big horse, parked right in front of his Ottawa campaign headquarters.

Andy Warhol, Joan of Arc and a Canadian Mountie join forces to push for Museum Funding

From root@grace.cupe.ca Mon Sep 29 18:00:04 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8TM04xJ012463 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:00:04 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8TM03gZ012460; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:00:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:00:03 -0400 Message-Id: <200309292200.h8TM03gZ012460@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:00:04 -0000

Unions to seek injunction to stop P3 hospitals

CUPE will join with other public health care advocates and unions representing health care workers in asking the courts for an injunction to stop P3 hospital deals that would see the ownership and operation of two major Ontario hospitals handed over to multinational corporations.

Hurricane closes Nova Scotia CUPE offices

Hurricane Juan has forced two CUPE offices to close. The Atlantic Regional Office is closed today and will likely be closed for the next two days due to flooding.

Licensed Practical Nurses campaign for full utilization of their skills

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Enough workplace stress: organizing for change

The guideline is designed for CUPE members to help address and solve workplace stress problems as health and safety hazards. Equipped with this guideline, members can identify and eliminate workplace stress hazards.

UBC layoff plan puts campus at risk



CUPE Alberta President Points out Gaps in Prescription Drug Coverage

Comparing Defined Benefit and Money Purchase Pension Plans



FHA rejects negotiations

SARS, other outbreaks possible unless next provincial government stops health care privatization, CUPE tells Campbell Inquiry

TORONTO – Ontario’s next provincial government must stop the trend toward privatizing hospital support services or risk future outbreaks of infectious diseases like SARS, the Canadian Union of Public Employees says. From root@grace.cupe.ca Wed Oct 1 18:00:03 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h91M03xJ017871 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:00:03 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h91M03Hq017859; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:00:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:00:03 -0400 Message-Id: <200310012200.h91M03Hq017859@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 22:00:04 -0000

Tories tried cutting secret pension deal with police, firefighters to shore up election support, CUPE charges


TORONTO – The Ernie Eves Conservatives were so desperate going into the election campaign that they set up secret talks that would have given police and firefighters special treatment within the OMERS pension plan, says CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurer Brian O’Keefe.

CUPE, OPSEU, SEIU and Ontario Health Coalition to launch further court action today

The fight to stop Ontario's P3 deals isn't over - the contracts aren't signed, and we're appealing the judge's refusal to grant an injunction.

CUPE, OPSEU, SEIU and Ontario Health Coalition to appeal court decision on injunction plea

The fight to stop Ontario's P3 deals isn't over - the contracts aren't signed, and we're appealing the judge's refusal to grant an injunction.

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CUPE 1251 on legal strike at midnight

Members of CUPE 1251, which represents correctional officers, custodians, human services counselors, lab assistants and food service workers in New Brunswick will withdraw their services as of midnight, Thursday October 2, 2003.

PSI Calls for Moratorium on Privatization of Energy Systems

In the wake of recent electricity blackouts in several countries, the global labour federation Public Services International (PSI) is calling for a moratorium on energy privatization and deregulation and the creation of a global commission to explore energy issues. From root@grace.cupe.ca Fri Oct 3 18:00:01 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h93M01Bo000322 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h93M01Ob000318; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Message-Id: <200310032200.h93M01Ob000318@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 22:00:01 -0000

Carman Manitoba school bus drivers settle

Bus drivers for the Prairie Rose school division in Carman Manitoba have voted to accept a tentative agreement, ending an 18 day strike.

CUPE 1251 on strike

Members of CUPE 1251, which represents correctional officers, custodians, human services counselors, lab assistants and food service workers in New Brunswick, are on strike.

New Brunswick Government's hidden agenda

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is appalled by the Government’s hidden agenda to privatize public services.

People's Summit starts Saturday, October 4th - Torontonians flex civic muscle in lead-up to November 10th elections

Tomorrow’s 2nd Annual Toronto People’s Summit will be a lighting rod for galvanizing civic action towards the upcoming municipal election, organizers say.

School Bus Drivers Back on the Road

Health Care Support Workers Week

October 6 to 10, 2003, has been declared Health Care Support Workers Week in Manitoba.

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Renfrew County School Board Workers Vote to Strike

Office, clerical and technical workers with the Renfrew County District School Board have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike.

New Ontario premier supports public hospitals

Eight long years of Tory cuts and privatization are finally over in Ontario, and the new Liberal government is promising renewed respect for public services – and public hospitals. From root@grace.cupe.ca Tue Oct 7 18:00:01 2003 Received: from grace.cupe.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h97M01Bo013857 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h97M01vt013850; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:00:01 -0400 Message-Id: <200310072200.h97M01vt013850@grace.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] CUPE Today X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:00:01 -0000

Local web site hosting how-to guide

This 29 page Adobe Acrobat document explains how to use CUPE's content management system to publish your local's web site. Included are explanations of how to create sections, blocks and articles as well as how to format documents and create links using HTML, Wiki text and plain text formatting.

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Trent University food service workers set to strike for fair contract

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CUPE's web-based email for members service no longer requires you to have another email address to get a members.cupe.ca account.

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News: Ten reasons not to vote for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives

Cutting public services. Interfering with a woman’s right to choose. Supporting for-profit health care while boosting military spending. What other reasons can Conservatives give us not to vote for them?

We’ve come up with Ten good reasons not to vote Conservative – but there are plenty more. Send us your reasons not to vote Conservative – and spread the word!

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News: Ten reasons not to vote for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives

Cutting public services. Interfering with a woman’s right to choose. Supporting for-profit health care while boosting military spending. What other reasons can Conservatives give us not to vote for them?

We’ve come up with Ten good reasons not to vote Conservative – but there are plenty more. Send us your reasons not to vote Conservative – and spread the word!

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News: Ten reasons not to vote for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives

Cutting public services. Interfering with a woman’s right to choose. Supporting for-profit health care while boosting military spending. What other reasons can Conservatives give us not to vote for them?

We’ve come up with Ten good reasons not to vote Conservative – but there are plenty more. Send us your reasons not to vote Conservative – and spread the word!

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News: Union resistance stops energy privatization in South Korea

A South Korean commission composed of government, academics and labour activists has rejected a plan for national energy privatization in its recent final report. The president of South Korea is expected to accept the report’s conclusions, putting an end to deregulation of the country’s energy sector.

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News: Group home work! ers in Ituna Saskatchewan strike for seniority

CUPE 4552 – 27 employees of a social service agency in Ituna Saskatchewan – are on strike for a first contract that includes seniority rights.

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Bargaining: Tabletalk Spring 2004

“Honouring other picket lines” is the cover story of the spring 2004 edition of Tabletalk, CUPE’s bargaining newsletter. Bargaining strength comes from solidarity and Tabletalk features CUPE experiences in New Brunswick, Québec and BC as well as international stories. Negotiating the first agreement with Calgary’s Sodexho hospital workers, CUPE 40 school board member gains and pay equity for Saskatchewan health care workers are highlighted. Also included is current information on inflation, wage settlement trends and new stud! ies or tools for bargaining.

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Media enquiries: CUPE calls on community to assist fire victim - Union and health region set up fund to accept contributions

The union of the woman who saw her home explode this weekend has set up a fund for community members to assist the hospital worker in rebuilding her life.

Media enquiries: CUPE President goes homeless for a night

A union leader and City of Edmonton employee will soon get a mild taste of what it’s like to sleep in the city without the benefit of four walls an! d a roof.

Media enquiries: All Canadians have a right to health care – not just the rich, says CUPE
Evidence shows that for-profit care does not reduce waiting times

Health care must be maintained as a constitutional right for all Canadians, and not just for those with the ability to pay, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) said today.

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P3 Alert - June 2004: P3watch.ca

A new web site has been created to help share information and mobilize public opposition to public private partnerships in the health care sector.

P3 Alert - June 2004: P3s: a key election issue

The current federal election campaign will have a big impact on the future of public private partnerships in Canada.

P3 Alert - June 2004: Vancouver rejects transit P3

Conce! rns over cost overruns and resistance to P3s have killed the BC plan to build a privatized Richmond-Airport-Vancouver transit line.

P3 Alert - June 2004: Legal challenge delays Brampton’s P3 hospital

A legal action launched by the Ontario Health Coalition, CUPE and other public sector unions has put the construction of Brampton’s P3 hospital on hold.

P3 Alert - June 2004: US Filter sold to Siemens

Moncton finds that its P3 contract for water treatment with US Filter has been bounced to a new conglomerate. Veolia Environnement, which owned US Filter and was part of the French-based Vivendi empire, has been sold to Siemens, the German engineering group.

P3 Alert - June 2004: Public outperforms private education

Calga! ry’s public schools not only outperform private schools in aca! demic pr ograms, but their non-academic vocational training, extra-curricular activities and diverse student population complement the total education experience.

P3 Alert - June 2004: “Friendly” settlement on toll hike dispute

The corporation that owns Ontario’s toll Highway 407 is confident it will defeat a court challenge launched by the province. SNC-Lavalin’s president said a “friendly” resolution to the dispute might be reached within six months.

P3 Alert - June 2004: BC health care workers hit hard

The Vancouver Island Health Authority is moving ahead with its privatization plans, contracting out more than 1,000 jobs in housekeeping and food services to Crothall Services Canada, a subsidiary of UK multinational Compass Group.

P3 Al! ert - June 2004: P3 jeopardizes Canadian privacy

Farming out administrative work to US multinationals is raising alarm bells in British Columbia concerning privacy.

P3 Alert - June 2004: P3 parking project approved in Calgary

The Calgary Health Region has approved a $23 million P3 parking project for the Foothills Hospital. The infrastructure will be designed, built and operated by the consortium Foothills Parkade Ltd.

P3 Alert - June 2004: Contracting out surgery hikes costs

British health minister John Hutton has admitted the National Health Service (NHS) pays much more for surgeries it contracts out – 40 per cent more – than it would to provide the surgery directly.

P3 Alert - June 2004: What does the giant Trojan! Horse tell us?

CUPE hospital workers in Cornwal! l brough t a giant Trojan Horse to their rally on May 14, demonstrating the threat posed by the provincial Liberals’ plans to open up health care to privateers.

Media enquiries: CUPE NB decries health care loss

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is asking the Lord Government to let the citizens decide about the value of The Provincial Health Care Plan announced this week, and to call an election.

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Media enquiries: Mayor allows lockout of city workers

NELSON – In an unprecedented move, Mayor Dave Elliot has allowed the city of Nelson to lockout its city workers despite $4.2 million in labour cost savings offered by the union. CUPE 339 has not had a labour dispute in its 55-year history.

Media enquiries: New study shows Conservative platform would mean growing deficits and service cuts

A detailed independent review of the Liberal, Conservative and New Democrat platforms s! hows that Harper's plan would leave us with growing deficits -- and the threat of even more cuts to programs and services. Meanwhile, Martin is still hiding surpluses, with a view to reducing debt instead of meeting vital social needs. The New Democrat plan will have a bigger surplus than predicted, even after increasing funding for health care, child care, housing, energy retrofits, student loans and other priorities.

News: Court fines HEU $150,000 for Bill 37 protest

A B.C. Supreme Court justice has fined the Hospital Employees’ Union $150,000 for civil contempt of court for its protests against the Campbell Liberals’ Bill 37.

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Media enquiries: Mayor allows lockout of city workers

NELSON – In an unprecedented move, Mayor Dave Elliot has allowed the city of Nelson to lockout its city workers despite $4.2 million in labour cost savings offered by the union. CUPE 339 has not had a labour dispute in its 55-year history.

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Media enquiries: Harper's cuts would lead to social, labour unrest

Stephen Harper’s cuts would lead to national social unrest, including labour unrest. “We know from experience what Harper’s agenda represents,” says CUPE National President Paul Moist. “Cuts to services and attacks on public sector jobs and wages, more privatization and an attack on free collective bargaining.”

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Updates: 9th National Health and Safety Conference

Health and Safety activism will be kicked up a notch at the upcoming 9th National Health and Safety Conference this autumn in Montreal from October 21-24. The theme of the conference is Step Up! Take Action! Participants will be doing exactly this in workshops on Ergonomics, Indoor Air Quality, Workplace Toxins, and Joint Health and Safety Committee Activism.

Media enquiries: Striking Niagara Institute workers to protest Conference Board of Canada luncheon

Striking workers from a Niagara-based branch of the Conference Board of Canada, will hold a rally to protest a “Long Service Recognition Luncheon”, at the Conference Board of Canada’s head office, at 12:00 noon, Wednesday, June 16th, at 255 Smythe Road, in Ottawa.

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Settlements: Collective Bargaining Update - June 2004

An overview of Economic Conditions, Bargaining Climate and Wage Settlements Across Canada

Media enquiries: Western Municipal Employees Conference in Edmonton
CUPE President Paul Moist to speak Friday morning

Municipal employees from across western Canada will gather in Edmonton this weekend to discuss the state of municipal government in Canada and to discuss issues of common concern.

Pride: A Pride Celebration Message From CUPE National President Paul Moist and National Secretary-Treasurer Claude Genereux

Media enquiries: Working for Whistler, the playground bully

Employees with the Resort Municipality of Whistler say their employer is a “playground bully”, citing unfair labour practices and imposed conditions of employment.

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News: Ten top reasons not to vote for Harper’s Conservatives

If you liked the fact sheet, you’ll love the comic
Tony Biddle, one of Canada’s leading political cartoonists, has produced a new, sassier version of CUPE’s “Ten Top Reasons not to vote Conservative.” The biting graphics and popular style of the eight-page illustrated booklet make it a great organizing and mobilizing tool. Download copies and distribute them widely. The election is only a few days away.

Media enquiries: Front-line health care workers oppose contract rollbacks

NEWMARKET - Front-line health care workers, employees of York Region’s Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), say they will not agree to their employer’s proposals to roll back negotiated benefits.

Media enquiries: City workers locked out for first time in BC

For as long as labour leaders and observers can remember, there has never been a lockout of municipal workers in British Columbia. This all changed last Friday when the City of Nelson locked out its city workers, denying core services such as transit and garbage pickup to their taxpaying residents.

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Media enquiries: City workers locked out for first time in BC

For as long as labour leaders and observers can remember, there has never been a lockout of municipal workers in British Columbia. This all changed last Friday when the City of Nelson locked out its city workers, denying core services such as transit and garbage pickup to their taxpaying residents.

International Solidarity: CUPE wins CoDevelopment Canada solidarity award

On June 5 CoDevelopment Canada (CoDev) p! resented its annual solidarity award for international development work jointly to CUPE National and CUPE BC. The award recognizes CUPE’s groundbreaking work promoting international solidarity with workers in Colombia.

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News: Out for equality - Sudbury hydro workers fight back concessions

CUPE 4705 walked off the job June 19 after Greater Sudbury Hydro Plus management refused to back away from concessions. The members are fighting a proposal to deny retiree benefits to new workers as well as concessions in the areas of technological change and contracting out.

Media enquiries: Western municipal delegates applaud locked-out Nelson city workers

Western Canadian municipal workers gave a standing ovation to CU! PE 339 president Bev Lapointe after hearing about the struggle of Nelson’s locked-out city workers.

Media enquiries: Moist tells western municipal workers 'CUPE will back you up'

CUPE National President Paul Moist has warned municipal workers from across western Canada they may be facing harder times ahead. Moist was addressing over 125 leaders from municipal locals who had gathered in Edmonton this past weekend to discuss bargaining, the 'Cities Agenda' and privatization in the municipal sector.

Media enquiries: Northlands employees’ reject employer’s last offer

Calling their employer unfair and stingy, 120 employees of Northlands -- members of CUPE 30 in Edmonton -- have overwhelmingly rejected their employer's last offer in a dispute that has dragged on for six months.

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News: CUPE urges activists to act against hate crimes

Union members and union leaders should be speaking out against hate-inspired acts of violence or vandalism, in the wake of several highly visible incidents.

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Health Care: Why Public Services and Unionized Workplaces Matter for Personal Support Workers

Evidence shows that Home Support Workers are better off working for unionized public agencies, and only one party supports public delivery of home care. Vote for public services.

Privatization: Profits from P3s Come at the Expenses of Workers' Pay and Conditions

A new study from the UK based think tank Catalyst reports that private finance initiatives (PFIs) make money by redu! cing staff pay and conditions. Proponents of PFIs have long claimed that profits would come from ‘managerial innovation’ and not at the expense of workers. They are wrong.

News: Danger ahead: Harper's Canada does not include child care

An open letter to Canadians - June 2004

We believe that every child in Canada deserves high quality child care. In this election, three of the major political parties agree.

News: Vancouver school workers set bargaining pattern

CUPE 15 and 407 have set a good pattern with their recent agreement with the Vancouver School Board.

News: Rapid response wins reprieve for BC college child care centre

With quick action and help from parents and child care activsts, CUPE 2081 has won a reprieve for Camosun College’s child care centre.

Media enquiries: Look who’s greener than the Greens!

The New Democrats have the best platform on the environment, according to Canada’s major environment groups.

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News: BC auditor criticizes health employers' approach to health and safety

BC Hospital employers' neglect of health and safety stresses patients and costs money, according to a provincial auditor's report (PDF download).

Media enquiries: School support staff reject offer

WAINWRIGHT – Employees at the Buffalo Trail Public Schools have overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer from the school board that they say! weakens seniority and raises wages by less than the cost of living.

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P3 Alert - Summer 2004: Campbell’s push for transit P3 fails

Despite premier Gordon Campbell’s offer to assume cost overruns and ridership risks, the deal to build the Richmond-Airport-Vancouver P3 transit line was voted down for the second time last week.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: Brampton hospital’s costs balloon

The budget for the new P3 hospital in Brampton has gone from $165 million to $325 million to $550 million. And the consortium slated to build and o! perate the hospital is asking for an extra $22 million before closing the deal.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: Saskatoon studies P3 toll bridge

If increased federal funding to cities doesn’t materialize, cash-strapped Saskatoon is planning to build a new bridge as a P3.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: Alberta to finance P3 courthouse

The Alberta government has backed away from a proposal to privately finance a new super courthouse in Calgary.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: BC’s privacy commissioner looks into US Patriot Act

The BC privacy commissioner is asking the FBI and the US Attorney General to clarify the implications of the US Patriot Act on Canadian information handled by American companies.

P3 A lert - Summer 2004: Klein promises to fund new Calgary hospital

As the anticipated fall provincial election draws near, Alberta premier Ralph Klein has said the province will fund a much-needed hospital in the south of fast-growing Calgary.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: Ontario passes Bill 8

After months of protests, the Ontario government passed Bill 8 on June 7.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: P3 CEO: I work for shareholders

“I’m here for our patients, but I work for our shareholders,” says Jay Grinney, CEO of HealthSouth Corp.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: Dawson considers P3 bridge

The city of Dawson is moving ahead with plans to build the Whitehorse Bridge, possibly as a P3.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: Fiasco in UK’s privatized transportation

The National Audit Office in Britain questions whether the partial privatization of the London Underground is good value for money.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: Huge payouts to end privatization contracts in UK

Higher borrowing costs, built-in profit margins, and now a big bill to end contracts have taught Britons privatization is nothing but a bad deal.

P3 Alert - Summer 2004: World Bank: Privatization hits the wall

A recent report by the World Bank confirms that privatization has failed to address the needs of the poor worldwide.

News: CUPE Ontario leader is speaker at Georgetown hospital ral! ly

Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontari! o Divisi on Secretary-Treasurer Brian O’Keefe will speak at a Queen’s Park rally this morning protesting the closure of the obstetrics and pediatrics' unit at Georgetown’s hospital.

News: Enter the CUPE election pool

Be the person who comes closest to guessing the seat totals for each of the political parties and win a prize!

News: Massive support for locked out Nelson BC city workers gets city back to the table

The quiet town of Nelson, BC was shaken by a community celebration of public services on Monday that saw over 600 Nelson residents, including hundreds of children, come out to support locked out city workers. Today, the City of Nelson announced that they were finally willing to head back to the table with the assistance of prominent mediator Vince Ready on Monday, June 28, 2004.

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News: Reducing Airplane Security? Parties should make their positions clear

Montréal, Friday, June 25, 2004 – While party leaders debate bilingualism in Canadian skies, Transport Canada is quietly preparing to cut the number of flight attendants on each flight. Current regulations require one flight attendant for every 40 passengers, but the department is considering reducing this ratio to 1 in 50, despite concluding in March 2001 that reducing cabin crew would have a negative impact on airplane security and do nothing to improve passenger safety.

News: Every vote counts, perhaps more than ever before

CUPE’s National Officers are encouraging CUPE members to go to the polls on Monday and vote for candidates that will make a difference in a minority Parliament by working hard to defend workers’ rights and strengthen public services.

News: Layton says feds should keep RAV funding on table

BURNABY – About $450 million in federal funding for the RAV rapid transit project should stay on the table as new plans are developed, says a letter from New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton.

News: Bring out the vote for public services

CUPE members will be working until the polls close this Monday to bring out the vote for public services. Members, staff and leadership have worked phone banks, organized or participated in all-candidates’ meetings, hustled votes and hassled Harper and Martin. With this and countless other efforts, CUPE is making a difference this election. On June 28, let’s vote for public services!

News: CUPE determined to resist concessions and defend free collective bargaining

Across Canada, CUPE members are experiencing growing pressure from employers to give up hard-earned collective agreement rights. CUPE’s National Executive Board has adopted a special plan to fight concessions and defend free collective ba! rgaining in response to this critical situation. Effective immediately, special measures will be taken to ensure that any group of CUPE members faced with contract concessions, or under attack by government legislation, has the full, mobilized support of CUPE.

News: North of Superior Programs social service and mental health workers to strike at midnight tonight for fair contract

THUNDER BAY – Employees of North of Superior Programs, members of Local 3252 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are set to walk off the job just after midnight tonight (12:01 a.m., June 26th), after management failed to improve a four-year contract offer providing no wage increases for the social service and mental health workers.

News: CHA legal challenge in court Monday, June 28th

As Canadians go to the polls Monday, a Federal Court jud! ge will hear a legal challenge from CUPE and supporters of pub! lic heal th care whether the Liberal government is meeting its obligations under the Canada Health Act to ensure an accountable health care system that respects the principles of the Act.

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News: Social service workers on the line for fair wages

The 36 members of CUPE 3253 have not had a wage increase in years and were faced with a final contract offer with no wage increase beyond a signing bonus the workers called “a slap in the face.”

News: Fighting wage rollbacks and benefit concessions in Thessalon

Municipal workers in the Town of Thessalon, in Northern Ontario, walked off the job on Friday, June 25th, after their employer refused to back away from wage rollbacks and benefi! t concessions.

News: Striking workers seek answers from government Ituna group home workers to hold information picket in Regina

Regina:Striking group home workers in Ituna, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, will hold a noon hour information picket outside the department of community resources and employment in Regina on Wednesday, June 30.

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Media enquiries: Vince Ready walks away from city that won’t move – workers remain locked out

NELSON – Well-known negotiator Vince Ready walked away from the table here today after the city, which two weeks ago locked out its workforce, was unprepared to negotiate.

Media enquiries: Smoking policy discriminates against Cape Breton hospital employees

A workplace smoking policy set to begin on July 1 in nine health care facilities across Cape Breton will discriminate against employees who smoke.

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News: Town hall meeting to hear legal opinion on controversial purchase of new city hall

QUESNEL – Prominent lawyer Leo McGrady will present a legal opinion at a town hall meeting next week on the city’s plan to buy the most expensive city hall in British Columbia’s central and northern interior.

News: Local athlete sent to hospital by Nelson lockout

NELSON – While the City of Nelson refused to negotiate on Monday, despite the presence of BC’s well-know negotiator Vince Ready, Nelso! n resident and local athlete Alan Faraguna was rushed to hospital after being injured by a “bad bounce” on Nelson’s Waterfront Ball Diamond. City workers have been barred from maintaining the ball-park by the lockout, which is now in its third week.

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News: Strong Communities lawn sign campaign launched on Canada Day

NELSON – Locked-out city workers took a break from picket lines to celebrate Canada Day at Lakeside Park, handing out hundreds of balloons, stickers and a short story called “Neslon - The Little Town that Could”. They also launched their Strong Communities Stay Public! lawn sign campaign, adorning the park and entrance way with the colourful signs. Residents took signs home to display their support for Nelson’s public services.

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News: Workers demand apology and retraction after mayor's public attack on County by-law officers

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News: Legal challenge to enforce Canada Health Act has its day in court

The judge hearing the legal challenge to make the federal government enforce its own law protecting public health care has indicated that he will announce his decision in early September.

The challenge was heard in Federal Court on Monday, June 28th, as Canadians were voting in last week’s general election.

News: Nelson’s contaminated water a serious public health risk

NELSON – Nelson city workers were abruptly pulled away from Canada Day festivities when two locked out sewage treatment plant operators, working reduced hours due to the lockout, discovered contaminated water entering the Kootenay River. Digesters that normally press waste had become overloaded and were allowing “black” effluent with high coliform counts to enter the Kootenay water system.

NEWSLETTERS: Literacy News - Vol. 3 No.1 - March 2004

CUPE’s new National President knows workplace education from the inside

News: Keyano College agreement nets gains for CUPE members

Union wins increases of 8%, vacation, sick leave and contracting out gains

NEWSLETTERS: Newsletter - October 2003

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Media enquiries: One hundred and thirteen public schools closed in BC – Forest Grove is the latest!

“One hundred and thirteen schools have been closed in BC since the Liberals have been running this province,” says Barry O’Neill, CUPE BC President. “Unfortunately, Forest Grove is the latest in that long line.”

Media enquiries: Peterborough municipal workers vow to fight contracting out

Contracting out essential municipal services will lead to a loss of accountability and open the door to mo! re privatization, warns the union representing over 100 City of Peterborough outside workers.

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Media enquiries: Merritt’s Laird reneges on deal with city workers

Anyone signing a deal with Mayor David Laird of Merritt may want to think twice about it. That’s what that city’s workers found out recently when, after signing a memorandum of agreement with the Mayor they were shocked to read, in subsequent media reports, that the Mayor and Council had unanimously rejected the deal reached through mediation with Labour Relation’s Board mediator Debbie Cameron.

Media enquiries: Conference Board of Can! ada casts doubt on own economic forecast

Conference Board of Canada casts doubt on own economic forecast by tying it to miserly wage increase for own striking workers – Sid Ryan joins picket in Toronto Friday to deliver warning.

Media enquiries: CUPE ratifies new agreement with Air Canada

CUPE members have voted to ratify the new collective agreement negotiated between Air Canada and the union representing its 6,500 flight attendants, said CUPE Air Canada Component President Pamela Sachs.

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News: Private contractor contaminates Edmonton School

EDMONTON -- The union representing custodial workers in Edmonton Public Schools, today filed a complaint with Alberta Environment against a private carpet cleaning company for dumping toxic waste at Ottewell School.

News: City stalling contract talks with outside workers

WOODSTOCK – Contract negotiations between outside municipal workers and the City of Woodstock are at a standstill because agreement on a City initi! ated job evaluation study, which shows that a number of civic employees are underpaid, has yet to be completed, says the union representing outside city workers.

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News: Vote on Vince Ready recommendations pressures city of Nelson to end lockout

NELSON – Nelson moved closer to an end to the lockout of it’s city workers, which has brought everything from bylaw enforcement to transit to a halt for the past month. In a meeting last night, the locked out workers voted to accept 9 of 10 recommendations made by negotiator Vince Ready. Ready’s recommendations covered ten central issues including seniority, sick leave payout, benefits and health care costs, wages, and job classifications.

News: Solidarity levy ends with June 2004 dues

Despite CUPE members' continued willingness to walk the picket line to defend their jobs and the services they provide, the National Strike Fund is back to $15 million. This means the special Solidarity Levy is lifted as of June 30.

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Media enquiries: Local sponsors Olympian daughter of CUPE member

CUPE 113 has put their spirit and financial support behind a members’ daughter, Lyndsay Belisle, a 26-year old competitor in the summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Media enquiries: Sid Ryan to lead solidarity rally at city hall for Greater Sudbury Hydro strikers

Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario Division, will lead a solidarity rally for Greater Sudbury Hydro strikers at 5:30 p.m. on! Tuesday, July 13 in Tom Davies Square, prior to the city council meeting.

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News: Arbitrator upholds Highway 407 toll hike

An arbitrator has ruled that the private operator of Ontario’s Highway 407 has the right to hike tolls whenever it wants, without government approval.

News: Thank you Raj

CUPE Alberta President thanks Pannu, welcomes Mason

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Media enquiries: West Nipissing municipal, hydro, water and waste workers fight privatization

The union representing 67 workers who run municipal services in West Nipissing, including hydro, water, garbage and all inside and outside municipal services, will be in a legal strike position at 12:01 a.m., on July 29th, if a settlement cannot be reached before the deadline.

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Media enquiries: Palliser health authority attacks employees

MEDICINE HAT – The union representing support staff at the Palliser Health Region is crying foul over the bargaining position of the regional health authority.

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Media enquiries: Social service workers to hold information picket - protest Sojourn House management

Sojourn House social service workers will be holding an information picket to protest failed contract talks, at 12:00 noon, Tuesday, July 20th, at Sojourn House, at the Metropolitan United Church on 51 Bond Street. Sojourn House provides housing and outreach services to recent immigrants and refugees in Toronto.

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News: Keep it public, CUPE urges new Ministers for health, communities and child care

(Ottawa) Paul Moist, National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), greeted the federal government’s new cabinet today with a warm welcome and a call to keep public services in public hands.

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News: CUPE reaches out to Chinese communities

As part of our Rebuilding Strong Communities work, and to hold the federal Liberals accountable for their election promises, CUPE continues to strengthen our connections with Chinese communities across the country.

Media enquiries: Strike imminent for York Region health care workers, despite new government funding

York Region health care workers could be on strike as early as Thursday at 12:01 a.m. if the region’s Community Care Access Centre (CC! AC) continues to push for contract concessions, including reducing workers’ benefits.

News: CUPE encourages Niagara region members to mobilize next week to pressure Premiers to keep health care public

CUPE members and leadership will join hundreds of health care activists next week in Niagara-on-the-Lake to build the movement to defend public health care. Canada's Premiers are meeting there to strategize on how to get more money out of the federal government to hand over to their corporate profiteering pals. But unions and coalition partners will be there to say, "no dice". CUPE and others will carry a clear message to the Premiers: no privatization, no P3s and no corporate take-over of health care.

Activities planned for next week.

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Media enquiries: Long term care workers to protest proposed contract rollbacks at MPP Monique Smith's office

Health care and support workers, represented by Local 146 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will hold an information picket in front of MPP Monique Smith’s office, on Thursday, July 22nd, at 3:45 p.m., to protest attempts by their employer, Cassellholme long term care facility, to reduce their benefits and gut their collective agreement by sending concession demands to arbitration.

M! edia enquiries: CUPE Alberta leader walks the line

MEDICINE HAT – The 500 health care workers in Medicine Hat who are in a dispute with the government and the health region are not alone. That was the message Bruce McLeod, President of CUPE Alberta brought to an information picket line in front of Medicine Hat Regional Hospital today.

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Media enquiries: Workers at Sojourn House on Strike -- Rally on Monday

TORONTO - Workers at Sojourn House, a Toronto shelter that provides a place to sleep, food, and counselling for refugees, went on strike at 12:01 am, yesterday (Thursday). The workers are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 3798-04.

Media enquiries: Civil society groups plan health care teach-in & greeting for Premiers at Niagara-on-the-Lake

A coalition of civil society groups is hosting a! daylong conference on stopping the privatization of health care to parallel next week’s meeting of Canada’s Premiers in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The groups will also welcome the Premiers with an active reminder to keep health care public.

Media enquiries: Locked out city workers reject imposed contract, want “made in Nelson” solution

City workers that have been locked out for six and a half weeks have voted 99 per cent to reject the city of Nelson’s proposal to go to binding arbitration on the outstanding issue of contracting out of city services.

News: Toronto Hydro workers and the Ontario Electricity Coalition will visit Sudbury Hydro picket lines at noon today

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News: “Innovation” Exposed - An ongoing inventory of major privatization initiatives in Canada’s health care system, 2003-2004

Privatization within Canada’s health care system has grown relentlessly since January of 2003, when former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Provincial Premiers and Territorial Leaders signed the 2003 First Ministers’ Accord on Health Care Renewal. Our political leaders, through this Accord, sought to assure Canadians that they were working “in partnership” to preserve, enhance and sustain our public health care system. But nowhere in ! their “commitment to Canadians” did our leaders commit to public delivery of health care.

Media enquiries: Report exposes “innovation” in health care privatization

A new report released today by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) documents over 90 major privatization initiatives that have occurred since the signing of the 2003 First Ministers’ Accord on Health Care Renewal.

Media enquiries: Grande Prairie bus drivers settle contract - see 14% wage increases

GRANDE PRAIRIE -- A settlement between the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and Cardinal Coach lines will put a little more green into the pockets of city bus drivers.

Media enquiries: Govt web site says it all: No health consultations

CALGARY – More than one month after the Klein government promised ‘a plan for a dialogue with Albertans’ on health ! care, no evidence of any consultation exists. In fact, the government’s own website insists that there are ‘currently no consultations’ going on in the ministry of Health and Wellness.

Media enquiries: CUPE leadership supports health care actions at Niagara-on-the-Lake

Leadership from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Canada’s largest union, is participating in civil society events that parallel the meeting of provincial and territorial leaders in Niagara-on-the-Lake, July 28th to 30th.

Media enquiries: Hundreds expected to mobilize to protect public health care in Niagara-on-the-Lake as Premiers plot privatization masked as “innovation” and “flexibility”

Hundreds of public health care activists are expected to converge in Niagara-on-the-Lake tomorrow to challenge Canada’s Premiers and Territorial leaders! who are gathering to scheme new ways to rob the public system! on beha lf of private, for-profit commercial operators.

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News: Privatization – the elephant in the waiting room gets bigger day by day

Paul Martin and Ujjal Dosanjh must confront Liberal Premiers who privatize health care with the same gusto they bring to battling Conservative Ralph Klein, say CUPE National President Paul Moist and CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan

Media enquiries: Save health care by stopping privatization and expanding public system, groups tell Premiers and Territorial Leaders at Niagara-on-the-Lake

A wide coalition of groups had! a common message for Canada’s Premiers and Territorial leaders gathered to discuss health care: protect the system by stopping privatization and expanding the role of public delivery in new programs like home care and pharmacare.

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Media enquiries: Contracting out threatens quality of care at Fairmount Home, warns union fighting temp agency use

The hiring of temporary workers to serve senior citizens will threaten the quality of services, reduce accountability and open the door to wholesale contracting out, warns the union representing over 150 nursing, dietary, clerical and maintenance workers at Fairmount Home, a long term care facility in Kingston.

News: CUPE leadership boost Niagara Institute picket lines

Workers ! at the Niagara Institute, members of CUPE 1287, got some picket line reinforcements yesterday – National President Paul Moist and Ontario President Sid Ryan joined over 75 supporters to rally and show support for the women now in the 8th week of a bitter strike

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Media enquiries: City workers accept ‘made in Nelson’ solution to end lockout, make settlement offer to City

Locked out city workers made a settlement offer to the city of Nelson today that was first proposed by two members of the community and published in the Nelson Daily News. The offer calls for an immediate end to the lockout.

Media enquiries: Hundreds mobilize to protect public health care in Niagara-on-the-Lake

The premiers weren’t the only ones meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake – hundr! eds of activists converged to share knowledge and strategies before taking to the streets, with CUPE National President Paul Moist, Ontario President Sid Ryan and National Executive Board member Candace Rennick among their ranks.

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Media enquiries: Agreements ratified for West Nipissing municipal, landfill, hydro, water & waste workers - strike averted

Members of Local 535 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) voted last night to accept tentative agreements reached earlier in the week, averting a strike in municipal and utility services in West Nipissing.

Media enquiries: Thessalon workers reject employer's final offer in Ministry forced vote - union accuses employer of prolonging strike

Striking Town of Th! essalon workers overwhelmingly rejected the Town’s last contract offer today, voting 80 per cent against it in a vote ordered by the Ministry of Labour, at the request of the employer.

Media enquiries: Rally today for Sojourn House strike

A rally in support of striking workers at Sojourn House, a Toronto shelter that provides shelter, food, and counselling for refugees, will take place today.

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Bargaining: Tabletalk - Summer 2004

  • Wage, equality gains at CUPE 3912 Dalhousie U
  • Negotiating for equality
  • Long strike a win for CUPE 4326 women's shelter workers

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News: Niagara Institute Strike - Rally August 9th

On Monday August 9th, join with members of the labour community in Ottawa to support the 13 striking women who work for the Niagara Institute branch of the Conference Board of Canada and to tell the employer that they do not stand alone, but have the weight of Canada's largest union behind them.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Pembroke Waterfront Festival

A replica of the Trojan horse will be “attending” the Waterfront Fest! ival in Pembroke on Sunday, August 8th.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Campbellford Seymour Agricultural Fair

A replica of the Trojan horse will be “attending” the Campbellford Seymour Agricultural Fair on Saturday, August 7th.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Oakville jazz festival

A replica of the Trojan horse will be “attending” Oakville’s downtown jazz festival on Friday, August 6th.

Media enquiries: Ontario underestimates C. difficile threat as death toll rises in Quebec

The Ontario government continues to underestimate the threat posed by Clostridium difficile, even though Quebec hospitals are reporting an alarming escalation in the number of deaths from the infectious bacteria, says the! leader of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), part! of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Union cries foul as Executive Director delays mediation talks - strike prolonged at least another week

The union representing social service and support workers at North of Superior Programs is calling on members of the Board of Directors to step in and take an active role in ending the strike, after learning mediation talks initially scheduled for Friday the 6th of August have been put off another week, because the Executive Director is “suddenly unavailable” tomorrow.

Media enquiries: Strike ends at Toronto shelter for refugees

Workers at Sojourn House, a Toronto shelter that provides a place to sleep, food and counselling for refugees, are back on the job following a two-week strike.

Media enqu! iries: Over $100 million wasted in secretive P3 hospital deal

This morning at Queen’s Park, the Ontario Health Coalition and the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions released a cost analysis of the Brampton private (P3) hospital contract.

News: Health care workers on strike in York Region

York Region health care workers, employees of the region’s Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), waked off the job at noon today (Friday, August 6) in a fight against contract concessions demanded by the employer.

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Media enquiries: Cassellholme workers take protest over contract rollbacks to city hall today

Health care and support workers, represented by Local 146 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will hold an information picket in front of North Bay City Hall, today, Monday, August 9th, at 5:30 p.m.

News: CUPE shares with community in Alberta

Summer is the best time for gathering with members and friends.

News: Strike en! ds at Toronto shelter for refugees

CUPE Local 3798-04 members in Toronto are back on the job following a two-week strike.

News: Health care Trojan Horse visits summer festivals

A giant wooden Trojan horse, created by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and the Ontario Health Coalition, is on a province-wide tour, “attending” summer festivities to highlight the dangers of P3 hospitals.

Media enquiries: Jobs: July was colder than expected

Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey for July 2004 left many with the mid-summer chills as the economy generated fewer jobs than expected. While the unemployment rate edged down to 7.2%, it was achieved through the replacement of full-time work with part-time jobs and a drop in the number of people actively seeking work.

News: West Nipissing municipal strike averted

West Nipissing, Ont., municipal workers (CUPE Local 535) voted Aug. 2 to accept tentative agreements, averting a strike in municipal and utility services.

News: City workers offer solution to end lockout

Nelson, B.C.’s locked-out city workers (CUPE Local 339) have made a settlement offer to the city to end a two-month lockout.

News: Brampton’s P3 hospital will be financial disaster

Financing for the new P3 hospital in Brampton, Ont., may soon be in place, but a CUPE study says the cost to taxpayers will make it a “financial disaster” for the province.

News: Executive director delays mediation talks

CUPE is calling on the execu! tive director at North of Superior Programs in Thunder Bay, Ont., to resume talks to end a strike that has dragged on since June 25.

News: Ontario underestimates C. difficile threat

CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions warns that the Ontario government continues to underestimate the threat posed by Clostridium difficile even as the death toll rises in Quebec.

News: Member victimized at the Centre Miriam

The Quebec Labour Relations Board has ruled that CUPE Local 2115 president Johanne Montagano was the victim of acts of employer retaliation due to her union activities.

Media enquiries: CUPE occupies Conference Board of Canada

CUPE Local 1287 workers and their supporters briefly occupied the Conference Board of Canada in Ottawa! , boosting pressure to settle a 10-week old strike at the Niag! ara Inst itute in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.

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News: Union vows to continue fight for retiree health benefits - blames hydro board

The union representing 85 Greater Sudbury hydro workers, on strike since June 19th, says the blame for the prolonged strike lies squarely with the Board of Directors of Greater Sudbury Hydro Plus Inc., after the Board rejected a union proposed solution on Monday.

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News: Publicly funded and operated sports facility is best deal for Oshawa taxpayers, CUPE Ontario president tells city council

Residents of Oshawa will get the best value for their tax dollars if any new sports facility is developed with public funding and remains publicly operated, says CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan.

Privatization: Recreation P3s Gone Wrong: Lessons for the City of Oshawa

This brief was submitted to Oshawa city council as evidence to support CUPE Ontario's positi! on to pursuing a Public Private Partnership for a new downtown Sports and Recreation facility.

News: Ontario Trojan Horse Anti-Privatization Tour Summer and Fall 2004

A replica of the Trojan horse will be on an Ontario province-wide tour, this summer and fall. The tour, organized by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/Canadian Union of Public Employees and Ontario Health Coalition, will be visiting various festivals at 85 different communities. The two groups created the giant wooden horse to bring the dangers of public-private hospitals to the public’s attention.

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News: Social Service Workers ratify five-year collective agreement with Manitoulin-Sudbury DSSA

The union representing 35 social workers and clerical staff at the Manitoulin-Sudbury District Social Services Administration Board, has successfully negotiated a five-year collective agreement. Members voted 96% in favour of the deal in ratification votes held earlier this week.

Media enquiries: No end in sight for North of Superior Programs strike - workers call for board accountability

There’s no end in sight for the North of Superior Programs (NOSP) strike, after management maintained their position of 0% increases for the first two-years of a contract that still called for unpaid days and made workers lose ground to inflation, warns the union representing social service and support workers on strike since June 26th, after talks broke down again yesterday.

Media enquiries: Striking front-line health care workers call for Minister of Health to end York region CCAC strike

York Region health care workers are calling on area residents to help pressure Ontario Minister of Health George Smitherman to get involved and end their strike for fair wages at the region’s Community Care Access Centre (CCAC! ).

Media enquiries: James Keelaghan in Concert in Ottawa

Ottawa Folk Festival and Canadian Union of Public Employees present

James Keelaghan in Concert in Ottawa

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2004
LIBRARY & ARCHIVES CANADA AUDITORIUM
(395 WELLINGTON ST.)
8:00 p.m. (Doors open at 7:30 p.m.)

News: Striking Ituna workers hold picket in Moose Jaw to protest government inaction

Group home workers in Ituna, Saskatchewan brought their picket line to the Community Living Division of the Department of Community Resources and Employment in Moose Jaw, asking the Division to encourage their employer, Deer Park Villa, to return to the bargaining table and negotiate a resolution to the two-month-old strike.

Media enquiries: Striking group home workers in Saskatchewan hit the road

Striking group home workers from Deer Park Villa in Ituna, Saskatchewan held an information picket outside the social services office in Moose Jaw on August 10, as part of their summer fairness tour. It’s the fourth time in two months the Ituna strikers have hit the road to publicize their bitter contract dispute with their employer.

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Media enquiries: Local paramedics to hold news conference tomorrow to announce joint action to defend their jobs in Renfrew County

Paramedics serving Renfrew County will hold a news conference tomorrow, Tuesday, August 17th, at 10:00 am, at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 170 Ellis Street, in Pembroke, to announce collective action aimed at saving their jobs.

Media enquiries: Paramedics in fight to save their jobs in Renfrew County

Paramedics in Renfrew County launched a public awareness and ! political lobbying campaign today to defend their jobs, after the County forced them to reapply for their own positions, competing with outside candidates.

Media enquiries: Talks fail to reach settlement in York CCAC strike - Employer walks away without making an offer

Mediated talks aimed at ending the strike by 92 front-line health care workers at the York Region CCAC broke off today with the employer refusing to even make a final offer, says the union representing the workers on strike since August 6th.

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Media enquiries: Nelson lockout ends with victory for public services

NELSON – The lockout in Nelson has officially ended as city workers voted this morning to accept a contract that keeps city services public.

Media enquiries: Carleton University faces back to class disruption - union hopes to prevent strike in conciliation talks Friday

The union representing over 650 administrative, technical and support staff at Carleton University will enter the final stages of contract negotiations wi! th the help of a Ministry of Labour conciliator, on Friday, August 20th. The union hopes to avoid a strike that could disrupt the return to classes in September.

Media enquiries: Tentative agreement reached in York Region CCAC strike - workers to vote on deal Friday

A tentative agreement reached this morning on behalf of 92 front line health care workers at the York Region CCAC, will be presented to the members of Local 905 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), in a ratification vote Friday, August 20th, at 11:00 am, at the Local 905 union hall, 20 Charles St., in Newmarket.

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Media enquiries: Sara Riel CUPE members reject “insulting” offer prepare for strike

WINNIPEG — Angered by poor treatment and an “insulting” offer from their employer, CUPE 2348 members, who work at the Sara Riel Crisis Stabilization Unit, have voted to reject a last-minute deal and have set a new strike date of September 3.

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Media enquiries: Talks breakdown between Carleton University and support staff - back to school disruptions expected

Talks aimed at preventing a strike by Local 2424 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing over 650 administrative, technical and support staff at Carleton University, broke down Friday, August 20th, after the University administration failed to make any moves towards a settlement.

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News: Westario power workers on strike to fight against concessions

Members of CUPE 255, went on strike on August 20th, to fight against concession demands by their employer, Westario Power Inc., in Ontario.

News: Victory for York Region CCAC workers in fight against concessions

Frontline healthcare workers in Ontario have won an important victory after 16 days on the picket line. Members of Local 905, on strike since August 6th to fight concession demands by the Board of Directors of the Yor! k Region Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), voted 70% in favour of a tentantive agreement on Friday, August 20th.

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Media enquiries: Union concerned about safety as Hydro Management uses untested equipment – calls on Ministry of Labour to investigate

The union representing 85 Greater Sudbury Hydro workers, on strike since June 19th, warns of health and safety risks as hydro management uses untested equipment to work on live wires.

News: Union representation votes in Québec’s health sector

CUPE members in Québec’s health care and social affairs sectors are facing representation votes this fall as a result ! of the Charest government’s legislative assault on unions.

News: Newly privatized laundry bought by US firm days after winning contract

Three days after it won the contract to do hospital laundry in BC’s Fraser Valley, Keefer Laundry was sold to a US multinational.

News: No end in sight for North of Superior Programs strike - workers call for board accountability

Talks to end an eight week-old strike at a northwest Ontario social service agency went nowhere this week after the employer, North of Superior Programs, refused to back away from their demand for a two year wage freeze.

News: Striking Saskatchewan group home workers hit the road

Sporting “Ituna Fairness Tour” t-shirts, 27 striking group home workers from Deer Park Villa in Ituna, Saskatc! hewan came to Moose Jaw Aug. 10 to picket the provincial socia! l servic es office.

News: Renfrew County Paramedics forced to apply for their own jobs

Paramedics in Renfrew County launched a public awareness campaign this week to defend their jobs, after management forced them to reapply for their jobs.

News: Rebuilding infrastructure without P3s

Ontario's decision to begin rebuilding its crumbling physical infrastructure is welcomed by the province's union members. However, P3s are not a necessary or desirable solution. Paul Moist’s commentary piece in today’s National Post tells us why.

Media enquiries: Niagara Institute strike ends - workers win deal with improved wage increase

Workers from the Niagara Institute, a subsidiary of the Conference Board of Canada, voted to accept a new offer, ending a strike that began! June 7th. The deal includes a 6.8 per cent wage increase over 3½ years, a signing bonus, and other key items.

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News: Effective restructuring of electricity system means reinvesting in public power, CUPE tells McGuinty government

Toronto — If the Ontario government wants to have an adequate, reliable, safe and affordable electricity supply, it must rebuild public power, representatives of CUPE told the legislative committee looking at Bill 100, the Electricity Restructuring Act.

Media enquiries: New Brunswick hospital workers pleased with conciliation report

Fredericton – The New Brunswick Council of ! Hospital Unions, CUPE Local 1252, is pleased a third party has rejected the government's last contract offer.

News: Moist urges CUPE members to support Parks Canada strikers

CUPE National President Paul Moist pledged the support of half a million CUPE members to Parks Canada workers, members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, on strike against the federal government.

News: Thessalon strike enters mediation as city uses scabs, summer students to keep arena open

THESSALON – A government-appointed mediator has called CUPE 3 and its employer, the town of Thessalon Ontario back to the table as the council voted to hire scabs and extend summer student contracts to keep the town’s arena open.

News: September 8 is International Literacy Day

Paul Moist and Claude Généreux are urging CUPE members to act for literacy to mark International Literacy Day, Sept. 8. Some suggested actions:

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News: CUPE 3 fights concessions and wins

Municipal workers in Thessalon, members of CUPE Local 3, have won their 64-day strike with a contract settlement that includes a modest wage increase, and no concessions.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit CKCU Folk Festival in Ottawa

A replica of the Trojan horse will be “attending” the CKCU Folk Festival in Ottawa on Friday, August 27th, as part of a province-wide anti-privatization tour.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit North Bay

A replica of the Trojan horse will be visiting North Bay on Saturday, August 28th, as part of a province-wide anti-privatization tour.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Summerfest 2004 in Sudbury

A replica of the Trojan horse will be “attending” the Summerfest 2004 in Sudbury on Sunday, August 29th, as part of a province-wide anti-privatization tour.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit New Liskeard

A replica of the Trojan horse will be visiting New Liskeard on Monday, August 30th, as part of a province-wide anti-privatization tour.

Media enquiries: CUPE calls on Doug Craig to apologize over "outlandish comments"

The un! ion representing 85 Greater Sudbury Hydro workers, on strike s! ince Jun e 19th, is calling on Councillor Doug Craig to apologize to the people of Sudbury, after public comments he made about a recent resolution put forward at City Council, suggesting the Board of Directors of Greater Sudbury Hydro resign.

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News: Striking group home workers hold “Parade of Hands” through Ituna

Ituna: Striking group home workers in Ituna swapped picket signs for giant-sized hands to parade through the town to urge local residents to lend them “a hand” to get the employer back to the bargaining table.

News: CUPE calls on mayor to solve hydro crisis - stop attack on seniors

“The Mayor has been shirking his responsibilities, ignoring this crisis and allowing Council and the Board of Directors to continue their attack on the seniors of tomorrow,” says Dennis Burke, National Representative of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

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Media enquiries: First Nations must have full seat at health care table, CUPE says

First Nations leaders must be invited to participate fully in the upcoming health care meetings in Ottawa, says Paul Moist, National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

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Media enquiries: Hamilton Water Watch cheers City plan to bring water operations back in-house

Hamilton – Hamilton Water Watch is urging City Council to follow a staff recommendation to resume public operation of the city’s water and wastewater systems, following media reports of the plan to bring the systems back in house.

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Media enquiries: CUPE, OPSEU reveal home care “drive to the bottom” as premiers meet in Toronto

The leaders of Ontario’s largest public sector unions, together with frontline home care workers, will discuss the “drive to the bottom” in the province’s home care sector as the country’s premiers meet to hammer out their health care agenda.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Thunder Bay

A replica of the Trojan horse will be visiting Thunder Bay on Saturday, September 4th, as par! t of a province-wide anti-privatization tour.

Media enquiries: Legal strike/lockout looms at Enwave District Energy Ltd. - downtown Toronto cooling/heating systems at risk

The union representing a group of workers at Enwave District Energy Ltd. in Toronto, says the high profile utility is jeopardizing heating and climate control for several downtown Toronto buildings by failing to treat workers fairly in contract talks.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Sioux Lookout

A replica of the Trojan horse will be visiting Sioux Lookout on Sunday, September 5th, as part of a province-wide anti-privatization tour.

Media enquiries: Hire more paramedics now, serve rural Ottawa communities better, says CUPE

(Ottawa) The City of ! Ottawa should immediately hire at least 14 more paramedics and! ensure that rural ambulance stations are staffed at all times, said Brian Madden, Vice-President of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 503, representing Ottawa’s ambulance dispatchers and paramedics.

News: CUPE 79 to parade diversity and city services on labour day

Local 79 members are busy putting the finishing touches on colourful puppets and floats representing all their services, for the upcoming Labour Day Parade.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Kenora

A replica of the Trojan horse will be visiting Kenora on Monday, September 6th, as part of a province-wide anti-privatization tour.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Emo and Fort Frances

A replica of the Trojan horse will be visiting Emo and Fort Frances on Tuesday, September 7th, as part of a province-wide anti-privatization tour.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Kenora

A replica of the Trojan horse will be visiting Kenora on Monday, September 6th, as part of a province-wide anti-privatization tour.

Media enquiries: CUPE, OPSEU call for moratorium on competitive bidding for home care “Stop the drive to the bottom”

Ontario’s two largest public sector unions have joined a swelling chorus of voices calling for a moratorium on the process of awarding home care contracts until the province can completely review the system.

News: Labour Day Message

From CUPE National President Paul Moist and National Secretary Treasurer Claude Généreux

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Media enquiries: CUPE leadership watching first ministers’ health care meeting

OTTAWA – National leadership from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Canada’s largest union, will be commenting on the first ministers’ Sept. 13-15 meeting on health care.

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Media enquiries: CUPE leadership watching first ministers’ health care meeting

OTTAWA – National leadership from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Canada’s largest union, will be commenting on the first ministers’ Sept. 13-15 meeting on health care.

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Media enquiries: Strike averted at Carleton University - tentative settlement reached in mediation

OTTAWA – The union representing over 650 administrative, technical and support staff at Carleton University achieved a tentative settlement with the University in contract negotiations yesterday, with the help of a mediator from the Ontario Ministry of Labour. A strike that was set to begin September 13th, has now been averted.

Media enquiries: Innovative health care reform now – not privatizat! ion - Strong communities depend on it!

OTTAWA – Strong communities depend on innovative health care reform, not privatization and profiteering, says Canada’s largest union as the first ministers’ meeting on health care begins.

Media enquiries: Thorhild Lodge residents weigh in on strike

THORHILD – The effort to unionize Thorhild Lodge heats up this week as the union representing Lodge staff release an aggressive ad campaign designed to build support for its cause. Starting Wednesday, CUPE will run ads in the Redwater Review and on CFOK radio.

Media enquiries: Ontario Council of Hospital Unions slams Fraser report aimed at dividing hospital staff and increasing privatization

Toronto – The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU)/CUPE, representing 28,000 hospital workers, warns a Fraser Institute report attacking frontline workers is intended to divide health care workers and encourage more hospital privatization in Ontario.

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News: CUPE member at world summit for disabled

Richard Sherring doesn’t let his cerebral palsy hold him down. In fact, the Local 998 (Manitoba Hydro) activist has been propelled to help others because of his experience with the disability.

Media enquiries: St. Albert school union seeks strike mandate - Gap in wages between school boards needs to be closed: CUPE

ST. ALBERT – A 16% wage gap between the support workers at two St. Albert school districts is threatening to lead to a strike at the St. Albert Protestant School Division.

Media enquiries: Hamilton Water Watch urges Councillors to approve City staff plan to bring water operations back in-house

Hamilton – Hamilton Water Watch applauds the City of Hamilton’s Public Works Infrastructure and Environmental Committee’s decision to accept a recommendation made by City staff, to bring back the operation and maintenance of the City’s water and waste treatment systems.

News: Social strife ahead if first ministers don't defend public health care

Social strife is assured if Canada’s first ministers don’t stem the tide of privatization undermining public health care, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Media enquiries: Negotiations falter at Peterborough County Health Unit - workers prepare for strike action

Peterborough – The union, representing 45 public health inspectors, clerical staff and Registered Practical Nurses (RPN’s) at the Peterborough County Public Health Unit, has begun strike preparations after repeated attempts to negotiate a fair collective agreement on behalf of its members.

Media enquiries: Provincial labour leaders and supporters to join solidarity rally for striking Sudbury Hydro workers tomorrow (Wednesday)

GREATER SUDBURY – Provincial labour leaders, along with local labour and community supporters, will join striking Greater Sudbury Hydro Plus Inc. workers for a solidarity rally tomorrow (Wednesday, September 15th), at 6:00 pm, at Tom Davies Square, in Greater Sudbury. The 85 members of CUPE 4705 have been on strike since June 19th. The main issue in the strike is the protection of health care benefits for retired workers.

Media enquiries: Aboriginal health care funding and training a start - CUPE

OTTAWA – The Canadian Union of Public Employees welcomed the $700 million in new federal funding for aboriginal health care announced yesterday at the first ministers’ conference on health care.

News: Urgent: push the PM on public health care

They've been talking about money, and math, and who said what to who and who. But the first ministers have yet to get down to the real issues of privatization and accountability. Call Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh and Prime Minister Paul Martin and tell them you want action.

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News: Health care ‘fix’ or corporate tricks? – CUPE

The federal government can fix it for a generation or damage it forever

OTTAWA – The federal government can either fix health care for a generation or invite more corporate tricks, said CUPE National President Paul Moist at the end of Day 2 of the first ministers’ conference on health care.

News: Toronto school board workers begin work-to-rule

Members of CUPE 4400 will not be working unpaid time an! d will stick to the letter of their contract after being without a contract for a year.

Media enquiries: Buffalo Trail School staff postpone strike vote

WAINWRIGHT – Unionized support staff of Buffalo Trail School Division have postponed their strike vote originally scheduled for tonight.

Media enquiries: Palliser gambles with health care - Poor employee conditions mean poor health care: CUPE ad campaign

MEDICINE HAT – Ralph Klein’s recent visit to a casino in Hull isn’t the only example of his government gambling with health care.

News: CUPE pledges increased support for PSAC strikers, plans lobby campaign

OTTAWA – CUPE will lobby federal politicians, join picket lines and financially support striking Public Service Alliance of Canada workers, CUPE national leaders pledged today.

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Media enquiries: Ottawa Hospital employees win new contract

More than three thousand employees of the Ottawa Hospital have a new collective agreement. On Monday September 13, 2004, an arbitration board issued a decision providing a three-year contract retroactive to September 2001.

News: Hamilton water back in public hands

A decade-long fight against water privatization has ended in a major victory for the citizens of Hamilton. City council has voted to take back operation and ma! intenance of the city’s water and wastewater plants, ending an era of secrecy, spilled sewage, malfunctioning equipment and a revolving door of corporate owners.

Media enquiries: Privatization elephant is on the loose - CUPE

Some small positive steps at first ministers meet but public health system at greater risk

OTTAWA - There was an elephant in the room during this week's first ministers' conference on health care, and now privatization is on the loose again, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Other Research: Debunking the Myths about Aboriginal Peoples: A Guide for CUPE Members

There are many myths surrounding Aboriginal peoples that contribute to misunderstandings. This document, prepared for CUPE members in Saskatchewan to support education around the representative workforce strategy, debunks the myths about Aboriginal people.

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Water Watch: Water Watch Campaign

Reliable drinking water and sewage treatment should be a right for all Canadians. But the systems that treat and deliver our water are in critical condition right now. That’s why CUPE has founded Water Watch.

Water Watch: Waterproofing Canada

Media enquiries: CUPE leader calls for New Deal for youth

Adults are “fumbling the ball” when it comes to creating a better deal for young people, CUPE Na! tional President Paul Moist told the Canadian Club of Winnipeg today.

Media enquiries: Board dithering goes nowhere - North of Superior Programs strike continues

Three months into the North of Superior Programs strike, the Board of Directors made no moves at a meeting last night to end the strike, allowing a crisis in mental health and support services to continue indefinitely in Northwestern Ontario, warns the union representing 30 NOSP workers on strike since June 26th.

Media enquiries: Country music capital sings city worker tune

It wasn’t always easy this year to be a Merritt city worker and MusicFest reveller. At one point, city workers were poised to strike just as the one-week festival was beginning and the over 100,000 country music lovers were pouring in from all around North America. Today, the countr! y music capital sings to a different tune – that tune is one o! f suppor t for the working person.

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Medicare: A 10-year plan to strengthen health care? A critical look at the First Ministers' deal

Federal, provincial and territorial first ministers met in Ottawa from September 13 – 16, 2004 in an attempt to reach yet another agreement to resolve health care funding and delivery woes. Paul Martin and the federal Liberals election promised that it would be a deal to “fix health care for a generation.” Here is what happened.

Media enquiries: Buffalo Trail school staff vote to strike - CUPE serves strike notice for Friday, 11 am

WAINWRIGHT – CUPE members employed by Buffalo Trail School Division have voted 85% in favour of a strike. At 11 a.m. this morning, union President Margaret Templeton has given the school district the legally required 72 hours strike notice, saying she expects picket lines to go up on Friday at 11 a.m.

Media enquiries: York University researchers, CUPE to release survey on long-term care

TORONTO – Dr. Pat Armstrong and Dr. Tamara Daly from York University’s Institute for Health Research, and Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario Division, will release a new report on long-term care tomorrow.

Media enquiries: Board refuses to hear workers’ concerns Health region shuts the door on “dirty laundry” discussion

Weyburn: The Sun Country Health Board won’t allow the union representing health workers to make a presentation at its September 22 board meeting about its controversial decision to centralize laundry services.

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Updates: National Health and Safety Conference ... It's not too late to Register!

It's not too late to Step Up and register for the rapidly approaching 9th National Health and Safety Conference in Montreal from October 21 to 24. Registrations have been fast and furious in September but some spots are still available in the Workplace Toxins, Indoor Air Quality, Ergonomics and Joint Committees workshops.

Media enquiries: Lucas re-elected – CUPE National reports strike fund strong at $19 million

(St. John’s) – Delegates to CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador’s 30th convention have unanimously re-elected Wayne Lucas to another two-year term as their provincial president, his 8th consecutive term.

Success Stories: Local 500 essential skills program receives certificate of achievement

Kathy Todd, CUPE Local 500 Essential Skills Coordinator, accepts Canada Post award.

Media enquiries: Greater Sudbury Hydro Board misleading ratepayers and prolonging the strike: CUPE

SUDBURY – The union representing 85 striking Greater Sudbury Hydro workers warns residents that a full-page ad taken out by hydro management in! local papers today is full of falsehoods and designed to prolong the strike. The workers, members of Local 4705 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have been on strike since June 19th.

Success Stories: HEU and Victoria School Board help laid off healthcare workers get Grade 12 diploma

HEU peer counsellors and School District 61 SJ Willis in Victoria supported 25 laid off HEU members working on their high school diploma.

News: Community action at work in Southern Gulf Islands

The laid-back lifestyle of BC’s Southern Gulf Islands has taken a hit this year, thanks to the Islands’ school board’s introduction of the four-day school week. However, the spirit of the communities that make up the Southern Gulf Islands is well represented in a local group organized by parents and supported by CUPE local 788 and CUPE BC.

Success Stories: Graduation Address by HEU member Thomas Anderson

Last spring, Thom! as Anderson, a Hospital Employees' Union housekeeper laid off from Victoria's Royal Jubilee Hospital gave the following speech to his graduating class, which included 24 other HEU grads. Thomas Anderson: Student Address to the Graduating Class Ceremony

Media enquiries: CUPE members to deliver $10,000 cavalcade of food and cash flood relief donations

PETERBOROUGH – Showing an outpouring of warmth and a commitment to rebuilding a strong Peterborough community, this Thursday (September 23) local public sector workers who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will deliver $10,000 in food and cash donations to local agencies to aid in their continuing flood relief efforts.

Media enquiries: Enforceable standards needed for long-term care, new survey of CUPE workers shows

TORONTO – A survey conducted by York University researchers shows that conditions in Ontario’s nursing homes will only improve with the introduction of enforceable standards for care, say! s Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

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Media enquiries: Lucas re-elected; national strike fund strong

ST JOHN’S – Delegates to CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador’s 30th convention have re-elected Wayne Lucas to another two-year term as provincial president, as well as welcoming news that the national defence fund is strong.

Media enquiries: SARS heroes last year. This year: privatization, wage cuts and layoffs? Hospital unions promise fierce resistance

Toronto - Hospital support and clerical workers, among the! lowest paid workers in the health care system, will not be used as pawns in a political game between the Liberal provincial government and the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), say the unions that represent over 50,000 frontline hospital workers.

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Media enquiries: Home care and support workers to rally for fair wages at S.P.R.I.N.T.

TORONTO – Home care and support workers, represented by Local 3896 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will hold a rally to highlight their demands for fair wages, in contract talks with their employer, Seniors Peoples’ Resources in North Toronto (S.P.R.I.N.T). The rally will be held at 12:00 noon Saturday, September 25th, at the south west corner of Yonge & Montgomery, in Toronto.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Windsor

Windsor– A replica of the Trojan horse will be visiting Windsor on Saturday, September 25, as part of a province-wide tour highlighting the pitfalls of health care privatization.

Media enquiries: Health care Trojan Horse to visit Chatham

Chatham – A replica of the Trojan horse will be visiting Chatham on Saturday, September 25, as part of a province-wide tour highlighting the pitfalls of health care privatization.

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Media enquiries: Lord Government forced strike in Moncton Hospitals

MONCTON – It is regrettable that strike activities have commenced at the George Dumont and Moncton Hospitals this morning.

Media enquiries: Prepare to fight for your jobs, Ryan will tell health care workers meeting in Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls — Health care workers could be facing the fight of their lives if Premier Dalton McGuinty follows a recent consultant’s report to its logical concl! usion — contracting-out hospital jobs, Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, will tell delegates at a conference opening here tonight.

Media enquiries: Ontario’s labour movement set to initiate boycott of Sudbury in support of GSU workers

Toronto — The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is set to call a province-wide boycott of the City of Greater Sudbury if a meeting on Thursday between labour leaders and Mayor David Courtemanche does not make progress toward settling the Sudbury hydro strike, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

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News: Highway Workers’ Union to Russell - ‘Prove that privatization is cheaper’

(Sydney) – The union representing Nova Scotia’s provincial highway workers says Ron Russell owes it to the people of the province to show them proof that privatization of department (DOT) work is actually cheaper.

News: CUPE health workers begin contract negotiations

Regina: The CUPE Health Care Council, which bargains on behalf of 12,000 health workers in five regions, begins con! tract negotiations today with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO).

Media enquiries: St. Catharines city workers vow to fight privatization of facility maintenance for new sportsplex

ST. CATHARINES – Contracting out facility maintenance of the City’s new Sportsplex will lead to a loss of accountability and open the door to more privatization, warns the union representing over 260 City of St. Catharines outside workers.

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Media enquiries: Fight concessions in bargaining, CUPE national leader to tell Ontario health care workers

Strong collective agreements & alliances with other unions also top the agenda

Ottawa – Get ready to fight concessions in Ontario health care bargaining, Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will tell people at tomorrow’s major meeting of Ontario health care workers.

News: UBCM delegates flock to CUPE BC reception

KELOWNA – This year’s annual conference of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) September 20-24 had a new item on its “official” agenda – CUPE BC’s reception. The event drew over 400 mayors and councillors, including two MLA’s and representatives from the prime minister’s office.

Media enquiries: CUPE hosts solidarity rally for striking Sudbury Hydro workers

GREATER SUDBURY – CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan, along with local labour and community supporters, will join striking Greater Sudbury Hydro Plus Inc. workers for a solidarity rally tomorrow (Thursday, September 30th), at 6:00 p.m., at Tom Davies Square, in Greater Sudbury. The 85 members of CUPE 4705 have been on strike since June 19th. The main issue in the ! strike is the protection of health care benefits for retired workers.

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News: NB hospital strike: Bernard Lord ‘stands tall’ against single moms on $12 per hour

The strike by CUPE hospital workers in New Brunswick is almost a week old and New Brunswick premier Bernard Lord taking a hard line.

News: The battle for our communities

The battle for our communities, writes Paul Moist, is heating up. Prime Minister Paul Martin is promoting his "New Deal" for cities, but is it the real deal?

News: Macdonald Report

From Fat Cat to Tabby Cat: An independent investigation of municipal service levels in Ottawa

Media enquiries: Layoff of 21 Royal Botanical Gardens staff ploy in political posturing between province and gardens

Hamilton – Despite a previous assurance that there would be no seasonal staff layoffs and an infusion of $1.87 million in short-term provincial funding, 21 Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) groundskeepers have abruptly been given layoff notices with no date of return by the new RBG “restructuring officer”, says the union representing RBG employees.

Media enquiries: Mayor plays games, ties strings to meeting with CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan - Sudbury boycott over Hydro strike imminent

GREAT SUDBURY – CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan says he is willing to meet with Greater Sudbury Mayor David Courtemanche today, but only if no strings or pre-conditions are attached. A planned boycott of Greater Sudbury by the Ontario Federation of Labour and affiliated unions is likely to proceed, warns CUPE.

Media enquiries: School strike battle hits airwaves CUPE launches ad campaign in support of strikers

WAINWRIGHT - There is a new element to the six-day-old strike at Buffalo Trail School Division. CUPE has launched a radio and newspaper advertising campaign aimed squarely at school trustees.

Media enquiries: Board advertises for management position, closes offices - makes no move to settle North of Superior programs strike

THUNDER BAY – Over three months into a strike that has prolonged a crisis in social service and mental health services in north-western Ontario communities, North of Superior Programs (NOSP) is advertising to fill a management job and closing offices, without making any moves to settle the strike, says the union representing 36 social service and mental health workers who went on strike June 26th.

Media enquiries: Record number of CUPE members running in October 16 municipal/school board elections

(Halifax) – Sixteen current or retired members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees will be running in the October 16, 2004 municipal and school board elections in Nova Scotia, a record number for the public sector union.

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Media enquiries: New Brunswick unions pledge serious support for hospital workers

The New Brunswick Coalition of Unions pledged support yesterday for CUPE hospital workers who defy strike-ending legislation. The council, which represents 18 of the province's unions, said that support would go as far as a province wide strike.

Privatization: Privatization of Public Services: What does it Mean for Women?

Women, in Canada and around the globe, have a lot to lose with the pri! vatization of public services. Good jobs for women in the public sector are being replaced with insecure employment at about half the pay, a heavier workload, and fewer union rights.

Trade Issues Bibliography: General Trade Liberalization

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Media enquiries: Buffalo Trail comes through - Cost of living increase for staff means strike may be over soon

WAINWRIGHT - A settlement giving CUPE employees the wage increase they were looking for means a strike at the Buffalo Trail School Division will likely end soon.

Media enquiries: Workers demonstrate againts loss of Toronto housing! jobs

TORONTO – On Monday, City of Toront! o worker s will demonstrate against a Toronto Community Housing Corporation proposal that the workers say will lead to the loss of over 30 jobs and erode social housing in the city.

Impact of Funding Cuts: Health Care Funding in Ontario

This Fact Sheet outlines provincial funding for health care in Ontario for the 2004-05 fiscal year.

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News: Martin must ensure that other governments make child care public

THRONE SPEECH

OTTAWA – The federal government is promising a national child care program but it must also ensure that the provinces and territories deliver public care, CUPE National President Paul Moist said on the eve of the Throne Speech.

: Martin must ensure that other governments make child care public

THRONE SPEECH

OTTAWA – The federal government is promising a national child care program but it must also ensure that the provinces and territories deliver public care, CUPE National President Paul Moist said on the eve of the Throne Speech.

: Martin must ensure that other governments make child care public

THRONE SPEECH

OTTAWA – The federal government is promising a national child care program but it must also ensure that the provinces and territories deliver public care, CUPE National President Paul Moist said on the eve of the Throne Speech.

Pride: CUPE Releases Background Paper On Sex Work

CUPE is recognized as an international leader in the struggle for equality and social rights. We’ve come a long way in the fight to end discrimination. But much more needs to be done. Confronting and addressing the exploitation of workers in the sex trade is an extension of our fight to win protection for all workers. Sex workers do not have a union of their own to defend their rights. It is up to unions like CUPE to speak out.

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P3 Alert October 2004: Hamilton water back in public hands

A decade-long fight against water privatization has ended in a major victory for the citizens of Hamilton. City council has voted to take back operation and maintenance of the city’s water and wastewater treatment plants, ending an era of secrecy, spilled sewage, malfunctioning equipment and a revolving door of corporate contractors.

News: National communities day: time to take back our communities

Otta! wa — Facing a Throne Speech that won’t meet the growing service and infrastructure needs of Canadian cities and towns, Canada’s largest union is launching a campaign to rebuild strong communities.

P3 Alert October 2004: Health deal leaves door open for private care

The health care deal struck by Canada’s first ministers leaves the door wide open to private, for-profit care. In fact, the threat of privatization was never publicly addressed during the three-day meeting – a fact that is striking, given three Québec doctors’ very public announcement that they were leaving the public system to provide for-profit services. The doctors appear to have the provincial government’s support.

P3 Alert October 2004: MP Brison has short memory about P3s

Further undermining the federal health care deal, the buzz is now about where the government will find the promised health funds. In one ill-advised scheme, Public Works Minister Scott Brison is considering selling off hundreds of federal office buildings and then leasing them back from the private sector.

P3 Alert October 2004: Right-wing takes aim at health care workers

The Fraser Institute has renewed its attack on health support workers, this time zeroing in on Ontario. The right-wing think tank has released a report that pushes the privatization of health support work, arguing that workers such as cleaners, cooks, nurses and medical support staff are overpaid compared to the private sector. The report goes on to blame hea! lth care workers for eating up hospital budgets.

P3 Alert October 2004: Gearing up to fight P3s in Québec

CUPE Québec is organizing a special province-wide meeting of all its locals to plan its fight against P3s. The Charest Liberals have been promoting P3s since they came to power, but the pace has picked up with the proposed creation of an agency designed to push P3s. The province’s pro-P3 lobby group, l’Institut pour le partenariat public-privé, says it hopes to have P3 projects underway by mid-2005.

P3 Alert October 2004: P3 hospitals stumble ahead in B.C. and Ontario

P3 hospital projects are slowly moving ahead in British Columbia and Ontario, but they’re not always living up to their promises of lower costs and on-time delivery.

P3 Alert October 2004: P3 hospitals canned in N.B. and Alberta

While some P3 hospitals are moving ahead, others aren’t getting off the ground. The New! Brunswick government has decided against a P3 to build a $90 million hospital, after announcing last month it was looking at a P3 to build the 70-bed facility. Instead, the province will use the traditional public process.

P3 Alert October 2004: MFP gets a new handle

The company behind Toronto’s computer leasing scandal has changed its name. MFP Financial Services Ltd. is now known as Clearlink Capital Corp. The company has more than a little mud on its name after a series of lawsuits exposed major problems with its lease financing schemes.

P3 Alert October 2004: Crime doesn’t pay…and neither do P3s

A city official’s P3-tainted past has come back to haunt him, costing him a new job as Waterloo, Ont.’s chief administrative officer

: Crime doesn’t pay…and neither do P3s

A c! ity offi cial’s P3-tainted past has come back to haunt him, costing him a new job as Waterloo, Ont.’s chief administrative officer

P3 Alert October 2004: Go on P3 Alert

P3 Alert is CUPE’s monthly roundup of privatization news. From threats and wins to rumours and early warnings, this electronic bulletin is an important tool in fighting privatization.

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News: Hospital workers' advice to McGuinty on costs: hire fewer consultants

Ontario hospital worker leaders Michael Hurley and Sharleen Stewart have an opinion piece in today's Toronto Star that suggests a way for provincial health minister George Smitherman to cut costs: hire fewer consultants.See Where to find hospital savings.

News: Union requests Premier to return to negotiations

MONCTON – In a letter to the Premier today, the Union (New Brunswick Council of Hospital Unions) requested the government to return to the bargaining table.

Media enquiries: City dumps trash - public services privatized


NELSON – Despite repeated public promises to keep city services public, Nelson city council has voted to contract out commercial garbage pickup and reduce residential garbage pickup by 50 percent. The residential cuts will hit the community within days while commercial services are slated to be privatized by mid-November.

Media enquiries: Busloads of autoworkers to join Westario picket line

Kincardine – Westario Power workers, who have been on strike for 48 days, will see their numbers on the picket line swell, as busloads of autoworkers join them on the line tomorrow.

News: Bernard Lord has a listening problem

New Brunswick Council of Hospital Unions president David Rouse has a comment piece in today's National Post responding to a piece Premier Bernard Lord had published Sept. 30. Rouse reminds Post readers that it was the province that rejected the conciliation board report, not the union.

Media enquiries: Town workers in Kamsack walk off the job

Kamsack: CUPE members who work for the Town of Kamsack walked off the job this afternoon to demonstrate their anger over the employer’s final offer.

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Economic Issues: CUPE’s analysis of the federal speech from the throne

The October 5, 2004, Speech from the Throne contains some good news in that it focuses some key CUPE issues such as childcare, health care, a new deal for cities and more.

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Health Care: There are not enough hands - conditions in Ontario's long-term care facilities

Long-term care facilities have been an essential component in Ontario health care since the nineteenth century. Health care reforms over the last decade have made these facilities even more critical to care. In Ontario, Liberal, Conservative and New Democratic governments have acknowledged their importance through both regulations and funding. The majority of the money for care in these facilities comes from the public purse, although their share of fundin! g is small relative to other sectors in health care.

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National Executive Board: National Executive Board highlights

The National Executive Board met in Ottawa September 14-16

Solidarity Pacts

CUPE’s Plan to Fight Concessions and Defend Free Collective Bargaining includes a commitment to forge solidarity pacts both within CUPE and with other unions. At the Board meeting, members unanimously endorsed a resolution on Solidarity Pacts which calls for:

  • CUPE’s full support to the PSAC during their current bargaining with the federal government, including direct lobbying with federal MPs, picket line support, financial support and that we publicize this plan widely within our union; and

  • CUPE to continue to forge solid relations with all major public sector unions, including solidarity pacts, joint op ed pieces; joint advertising campaigns, and a plan to convene a meeting of senior leadership of major public sector unions in the very near future.

News: CUPE 1252 going back to the negotiating table

MONCTON – The New Brunswick Council of Hospital Unions (NBCHU), CUPE Local 1252, is very pleased that Premier Bernard Lord is finally responding to our October 9th letter requesting to go back to the negotiating table.

Media enquiries: Health care workers 'button up' Palliser employees display anger on their lapels

CUPE members at the Palliser Health Authority have begun wearing buttons as a protest over the slow pace of negotiations for a new contract.

Media enquiries: Ontario Electricity Coalition says electricity legislation will create an energy crisis

People are worried about an oil crisis on the horizon, but wait until they see what happens with electricity. N! AFTA forces us to compete for our oil and gas; now we will be in the same boat when it comes to electricity.

Media enquiries: Ontario universities in a sorry state, CUPE tells Rae review

TORONTO — When it comes to working, studying and living on Ontario university campuses, every institution is in a sorry state, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario has said in a report presented to the Ontario Postsecondary Review, headed up by former premier Bob Rae.

Media enquiries: Rescind hasty, secret decision to contract out our jobs, work with us to improve municipal services

St. Catharines – City council made a hasty, behind-closed-door decision to outsource jobs at the new four-pad arena, and they should scrap the bidding process and begin consulting with front-line employees ab! out how best to improve service, say city workers determined t! o fight contracting out of municipal services.

Economic Issues: Annual Financial Report of the Government of Canada - Fiscal Year 2003-04: Highlights from CUPE’s perspective

For the seventh year in a row, the Federal government has announced a budget surplus. This year the surplus is $9.1 billion, which is $2.1 billion larger than last year’s surplus. Year after year, Paul Martin has cried poor, while consistently under-representing the amount of money available for public spending. Once again, the whole surplus was applied to the federal debt.

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Updates: Agenda for the 2004 National Health and Safety Conference

Hundreds of CUPE members from across Canada are poised to assemble in Montreal for CUPE’s 9th National Health and Safety Conference.

News: CUPE calls on NL. government to boost minimum wage to $8.00 an hour

(St. John’s) – The Canadian Union of Public Employees is calling on the Williams government to boost the province’s minimum wage to $8.00 an hour – to match that of British Columbia.

Media enquiries: NOSP Board fails to get a meeting quorum while crisis continues

A meeting of the Board of Directors of the North of Superior Programs (NOSP) foundered last night when only five board members showed up and the meeting did not achieve quorum. The NOSP board was supposed to be discussing ways to end a three-month strike of social service and mental health workers.

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Media enquiries: Tentative agreement with CUPE 1252 hospital workers

FREDERICTON – A tentative collective agreement was reached early this morning between the provincial government and the New Brunswick Council of Hospital Unions (CUPE 1252), representing more than 6,500 support workers in the hospital system.

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Media enquiries: Ending 61-day long strike goal, as Westario workers return to bargaining table

KINCARDINE, Ont. – Buoyed by mounting community and political support, the union representing striking Westario Power workers say they are optimistic a settlement can be reached to end a 61-day long strike at the utility. At the request of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), negotiators from both sides will return to the bargaining this Thursday, at the Best Western Governor’s Inn in Kincardine.

Media enquiries: Record number of women to attend CUPE National Health and Safety Conference

Rising rates of workplace injuries and health and safety problems are drawing a record number of union members – half of them women – to the CUPE National Health and Safety Conference set to start Thursday night in Montreal.

News: CUPE launches privatization database

cupe.ca has launched an online database that tracks more than 500 incidents, past and present, of privatization, contracting out, and public-private partnership.

Media enquiries: Too much pain for too little gain citizens petition health board to stop laundry closures

WEYBURN, SK - Residents across the Sun Country Health Region are petitioning the board to rethink its plan to close or reduce laundry facilities in nine communiti! es and abolish 28 jobs.

Media enquiries: 189 – now online

MEDICINE HAT, ALTA – Employees of the Palliser Health Region have a new tool to fight their employer’s push for concessions.

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Health Care: Fact Sheet - Health Care Funding in Ontario

Total health care operational spending by the provincial government will increase to $30.26 billion this year (2004-05) according to the provincial government spending Estimates. This is an increase of $2.033 billion from 2003-4, or a 7.2% increase.

Health Care: Fact Sheet - Local Health Integration Networks

In July, the Ontario government announced that it would develop “Local Health Integration Networks” or LHINs. The government plans to establish 12 or more such organizations to cover the province.

Health Care: Fact Sheet - Home Care: Compulsory Competitive Bidding Under Review

Facing continuing problems in community home health care, the Liberal government has reversed its position and agreed to an “independent” review of compulsory competitive bidding. Compulsory competitive bidding is the system introduced by the previous, Conservative government that requires public home care agencies (Community Care Access Centres) to contract out home care services.

Media enquiries: Seven CUPE members elected in Alberta

EDMONTON - Seven CUPE members were elected to municipal and school board positions in Monday’s province-wide municipal election.

News: "Partnership" to cost $175 million more than a public hospital for Brampton

A new study by economist Hugh Mackenzie suggests Brampton's new hospital would cost Ontario $175 million less if it were built with public financing. See: the Ontario Health Coalition web site.

Media enquiries: Human rights defender opens CUPE equity conference in Toronto

TORONTO — World-renowned human rights defender Indai Lourdes Sajor will be the keynote speaker at a conference of more than 125 activists from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, which opens in Toronto tomorrow night.

Smitherman bully tactics target lowest-paid hospital workers: Smitherman bully tactics target lowest-paid hospital workers

Toronto – “Controlling infectious disease in our hospitals is not the same as cleaning a hotel room. And by suggesting that the jobs of hospital support workers should be contracted out, Ontario health minister George Smitherman is trivializing and demeaning the valuable work done by hospital support workers in controlling contagion in our hospitals,” says Michael Hurley the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) CUPE.

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Media enquiries: CUPE and city of Quesnel agreement a new beginning

QUESNEL, B.C. – After two days of negotiations, city of Quesnel senior administrators and Quesnel city worker representatives have emerged with an agreement, subject to ratification by both parties, which resolves all outstanding issues and holds the promise of improved labour relations.

Media enquiries: CUPE asks for conciliator in talks with Braemore Home

Sydney, N.S.– CUPE Local 1478 has asked the provincial Department of Labour to appoint a conciliator to its contract talks with Braemore Home in Sydney River.

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News: Record number of women delegates at health and safety conference

Hundreds of activists from across the country are gathered in Montreal for the 9th National Health and Safety conference. And for the first time in CUPE’s history half of the delegates are women.

: "Innovation" Exposed - An Ongoing Inventory of Major Privatization Initiatives in Canada's Health Care System

Privatization: "Innovation" Exposed - An Ongoing Inventory of Major Privatization Initiatives in Canada's Health Care System

Updated October 18, 2004

: "Innovation" Exposed - An Ongoing Inventory of Major Privatization Initiatives in Canada's Health Care System

Updated October 18, 2004

Media enquiries: Martin: prove your commitment to CHA with a full report to Parliament

Prime Minister Paul Martin can prove his commitment to the Canada Health Act (CHA) by making sure its next report to Parliament is full of accurate information, not full of holes, said Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Health and Safety: Dr. Linda Murray told delegates “we are fighting for our lives.”

Murray, a doctor and former CUPE member who worked at the Manitoba Federation of Labour’s Occupational Health Centre in the 1980s, got a standing ovation from the crowd after telling members that health and safety activism is all about taking power back from the employer.

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: Equality for women and health and safety

“A good way to understand the work that people perform is to go to the workplace and observe what they do,” UQAM professor Karen Messing, an expert in women’s workplace health and safety issues, told Health and Safety Conference participants Saturday morning.

Health and Safety: “Our health is still not for sale.”

It’s time to bring health and safety back to where it began, Robert Storey, an associate professor from McMaster University, told health and safety conference delegates at a panel discussion Friday night.

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health and safety: New Quebec law recognizes psychological harassment

Katherine Lippel, a well-known Québec expert on legal issues related to the compensation program for victims of occupational accidents and diseases, spoke to participants at the CUPE National Health and Safety Conference on Friday evening.

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Media enquiries: Striking town workers rally to urge council to accept conciliation

KAMSACK, SK - Striking workers in Kamsack will hold a rally outside the town office at 4 p.m. today to urge the mayor and council to accept the appointment of a conciliator to help break the impasse in the protracted contract dispute.

Media enquiries: Superbugs and contagion are why cleaning a hospital is not the same as cleaning a bank, hospital cleaners tell health minister

TORONTO – C. difficile, SARS, and MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus), are just a few of the killer superbugs and contagion that Ontario’s hospital cleaners wipe out on a daily basis. But Ontario’s health minister says hospital cleaners — who are a key part of clinical infection control teams — are overpaid, and their wages should be slashed and their work contracted out to the lowest bidder.

Media enquiries: CUPE school board workers to push for “co-ordinated bargaining” across Nova Scotia

(Halifax) – The union representing school board workers in all seven of the province’s district school boards wants the Hamm government to seriously consider “co-ordinated bargaining” in the sector.

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: Equality for women and health and safety

“A good way to understand the work that people perform is to go to the workplace and observe what they do,” UQAM professor Karen Messing, an expert in women’s workplace health and safety issues, told Health and Safety Conference participants Saturday morning.

Media enquiries: Child care workers will put quality into new national program, coalition says on 4th annual appreciation day

TORONTO — The federal government should involve child care workers and the unions that represent them if it wants to design a national child care program where quality is second to none, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

Health Care: "Innovation" Exposed

Updated October 27, 2004.

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News: Restore health care and education services with provincial budget surplus

Two out of three British Columbians believe the billion dollar budget surplus forecast by the Campbell Liberal government should be used to restore services such as health care and education, according to a Mustel Group poll conducted for the Hospital Employees’ Union.

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News: Newfoundland pay equity ruling bolsters B.C. unions' Bill 29 case

A pay equity ruling handed down today by the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador makes it clear that targeting the rights of women hospital workers is a breach of equality rights contained in Section 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

News: Canada’s national child care program needs to be directly funded, non profit, advocates say

Child care advocates were calling on social development minister Ken Dryden to move ahead with the promised national child care program, this week, but urged him to involve child care workers and the unions that represent them.

Child Care: Wages for Child Care Workers: The Link with Quality

Despite the studies in the last decade regarding the extreme importance of the early years and of child care, Canadian society continues to pay lip service only to the value of the work - working conditions and pay levels remain at very low levels.

Media enquiries: Supreme Court ruling - Will governments evade pay equity in future?

OTTAWA – Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision lets the government of Newfoundland and Labrador defer pay equity, leaving female health care workers without just pay and opening pay equity to abuse by governments in future, warns the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

News: Joanne Wilson in today's Toronto Star on hospital workers

CUPE 1999 president Joanne Wilson has an opinon piece in today's Toronto Star about the role of hospital cleaning in the battle against contagion and diseases like SARS.

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: WAGES FOR CHILD CARE WORKERS: THE LINK WITH QUALITY

Despite the studies in the last decade confirming the extreme importance of the early years and of child care, Canadian society continues to pay lip service only to the value of childhood educators. The working conditions and pay levels of child care workers remain at very low levels.

Child Care: Wages for child care workers: the link with quality

Despite the studies in the last decade confirming the extreme importance of the early years and of child care, Canadian society continues to pay lip service only to the value of childhood educators. The working conditions and pay levels of child care workers remain at very low levels.

Research on issues: Privatization in workers' compensation

WCB locals are facing privatization threats from many directions. Workers’ compensation already has more contact with private corporations than most public services.

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News: From patchwork to excellence in child care

CUPE leader joins child care workers, parents and kids to greet Dryden & provincial ministers

OTTAWA – Canada will go from patchwork to excellence if all levels of government work together to create the public, not-for-profit child care system that Canadians deserve and need, said Paul Moist, CUPE national president.

Media enquiries: CUPE asking Mayor Morgan to honour his commitment on issue of part-time employees

The union representing Cross Walk Guards with Cape Breton Regional Municipality says now that he’s been re-elected, CBRM Mayor John Morgan should honour the commitment he made to CUPE during the election campaign.

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Social Services: Privatization in Workers' Compensation

WCB locals are facing privatization threats from many directions. Workers’ compensation already has more contact with private corporations than most public services.

: PRIVATIZATION IN WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

WCB locals are facing privatization threats from many directions. Workers’ compensation already has more contact with private corporations than most public services.

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Privatization: "Innovation" Exposed - An ongoing inventory of major privatization initiatives in Canada's health care system, 2003-2004

Privatization within Canada’s health care system has grown relentlessly since January of 2003, when former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Provincial Premiers and Territorial Leaders signed the 2003 First Ministers’ Accord on Health Care Renewal. Our political leaders, through this Accord, sought to assure Canadians that they were working “in partnership” to preserve, enhance and sustain our public health care system. But nowhere in their “commitment to Canadians” did our leaders commit to public delivery of health care.

News: URGENT: Tell Ken Dryden to make child care history

We are on the brink of getting the first national program in decades. In the coming days and weeks, federal and provincial leaders will be developing a plan for a national child care program. This could be a major breakthrough for working women -- if the government lays the right foundation.

News: Federal budget 2005 - Make this the “communities budget,” CUPE leader urges

OTTAWA – The 2005 federal budget must build communities, not back corporations, said CUPE National President Paul Moist as Canada’s largest union presented its pre-budget submission to the federal finance committee.

Economic Issues: Pre-budget Consultations, November 2004

For the seventh year in a row, the Federal government has announced a budget surplus. This year the surplus is $9.1 billion, which is $2.1 billion larger than last year. Year after year, Paul Martin has consistently under-represented the amount of money available for public spending. Once again, the whole surplus was automatically applied to the federal debt even though the public health care system is in trouble, there is no pan-Canadian childcare program and urban infrastructure is in a severe state of decay. This money should have gone towards rebuilding strong communities.

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Employment insurance: SUBMISSION TO THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND THE STATUS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ON BILL C-2, AN ACT TO AMEND THE EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT AND THE EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (FISHING) REGULATION

Unemployment insurance reforms implemented in 1997 were disastrous to both working people and those unemployed in Canada. In 2001, Bill C-2 amended the EI act, to soften some of the negative impact: the Intensity Rule was abolished, the Benefit Repayment or Clawback Provision was modified, and the re-entrant rules for parents returning to the workforce were changed. However, although these changes were welcomed, they did not come close to what was needed in order to fix the unemployement insurance system.

Media enquiries: Fed up Perth and Smiths Falls hospital workers hit the street, demand apology from Ontario Liberal government

Perth and Smiths Falls District hospital workers have waited patiently for weeks for Ontario’s Liberal government to offer them an apology for demeaning their work and for suggesting they are overpaid and unskilled.

Media enquiries: Mediation last chance to avoid strike at Town of Ajax - 90 per cent vote for strike

Municipal workers with the Town of Ajax are set to go on strike November 19th, 2004, at 12:01 a.m., if mediation talks between the Town and Local 54 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), fail to produce a new contract. The workers voted 90 per cent in favour of strike action if a deal cannot be reached.

Media enquiries: Town workers optimistic about contract talks

Three days of contract talks between the Town of Smithers and its workers have been scheduled for November 15-17, 2004. Despite difficult negotiations to date, town workers are optimistic that a settlement can be reached in this round.

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Media enquiries: Fed up Ontario hospital workers hit the street, demand apology from Ontario Liberal government

Ontario hospital workers have waited patiently for weeks for Ontario’s Liberal government to offer them an apology for demeaning their work and for suggesting they are overpaid and unskilled.

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News: Parking lot attendants paid more than some child care workers

Good pay and benefits will keep child care workers from fleeing

OTTAWA – Good pay and working conditions will keep trained child care workers from taking their skills elsewhere, said CUPE National President Paul Moist in response to the child care labour market study released today.

Media enquiries: City workers urge council to reject privatization and bring back full public operation of garbage and recycling services

HAMILTON – City Council must show leadership and reject two wrong-headed recommendations coming from the Public Works, Infrastructure and Environment Committee, says the union representing inside and outside workers at the City of Hamilton. The union is warning residents about two recommendations to be presented to Council on Wednesday, November 10th, involving the extension of a private contract for garbage and recycling collection, and a costly retrofit of the privately-owned Materials Recycling Facility (MRF).

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News: Child care: public program or big box boondoggle?

Legal opinion on trade deals points to threats by commercial chains Giant US commercial child care merger in the works

OTTAWA – Social Development Minister Ken Dryden must make Canada’s new child care system public and not-for-profit or he will run the eventual risk of trade challenges, warns a legal opinion commissioned by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

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Privatization: A CUPE Backgrounder on Urban Infrastructure

Research into the state of urban infrastructure confirms the importance of public services. Canada's publicly owned infrastructure has a positive impact on the Canadian business sector. With decreased federal spending, investment in important infrastructure like bridges, roads, and urban developments like affordable housing, have suffered. There are major problems with P3 financing, operations and accountability. Governments are secure and efficient borrowers for major infrastructure investment. Pension funds provide a decent rate of return for members and capital for government spending at a reasonable rate of interest. There are alternatives for funding infrastructure. The above confirms the necessity to support the Federal Liberals' proposed "New Deal for Cities."

: Transgender Day of Remembrance - November 20th

Environmental Audit This environment audit is about my house. We are six people living in our a little home. So there is a lot of energy, water consumption. I would like to start with the energy that is being used so frequently and being wasted at times. Then water use is also another point which is being wasted while bathing, laundry, kitchen and outdoor. Waste removal and recycling is another point and that is done. We also use different products, which also has to be recycled in an appropriate way. In my house energy is used in a wide scale like the computer, printer, heating system (winter only), lights, air-conditioning (summer only), microwave, water, toaster, refrigerator, television, mp3 system, telephone, hydro etc. so these thing are really required and important in the house but to what extent I see it is being used in a lavish way, which is not right. It use of energy has to be reduced because it is a total waste. The people living in the house have to know how to maintain the use of energy. It is expensive too when it is time to pay the bills of so many things in the house that is being used at an extensive manner. Therefore, the use of energy has to be limited and well as save energy. Water is a critical resource, which depends on sustainable techniques so it can remain unharmful. Water is a big element, which we cannot live without in our daily lives. Water is used in different household work, like laundry, kitchen, bathing, gardening, washing cars and more out door work. When we go to take a shower we keep the shower running for no reason and the water is being wasted .sometimes we if it is not required to water the garden it is being done too, so in these ways water is being wasted. As human being, we consume a lot of water and waste it too but that is not fare. Therefore, we have to learn how to reduce the waste of water. If we look will see many countries in the world are in poverty for water and they are having a very hard time in want of water. Where else we are lucky to have so much water and so we should learn to how to reduce the waste of water. In our house, we do recycle and remove the waste. Recycling and waste removals take place one a week because we do not have a recycler. Sometimes we reuse some thing in the house and don’t give it for recycling and that is also not good because the things that have to get recycled it should be done. As for composted we do not have one so it is not used by us. So when it is time to recycle things we should sort it out and put it in different packages. Recycling things is very good and it keeps the environment clean. We too can reuse it again after it is recycled. Therefore, we should always recycle paper, hard board, cans, bottles, paper boxes, metals recycling, electronic scrap recycling. Products that are used have to go for recycling and it is re-used again. Moreover, it is more save in recycling products and then to use it. For example, paper is recycled and it is used again. It also saves energy to make paper from recycled paper the recycling mills purchase most of their energy from local power companies or use on-site cogeneration facilities. These products that are being recycled are getting cleaned naturally. Therefore, in the house, the different products that are recycled, it can be re-used again in other purposes. It is important to get stuff recycled with keeping garbage out of the house. Air pollution is another element that takes place in houses too. People think that air pollution is caused by smog, acid rain, greenhouse effect, and "holes" in the ozone layer. However, it too happens in homes from cooking, smoking, heating appliances, and vapors from building materials, paints, furniture, etc. cause pollution inside buildings. It also affects the health very seriously with bad diseases like lung cancer, heart disease, and even damage to the brain, nerves, liver, or kidneys. So some steps can be taken to stop people getting sick from air pollution inside there houses . People should stop smoking inside their houses, stop using bad paints that has a bad vapors and so on. In conclusion, this environmental audit it really says the fact that is taking place not only my house but in other houses to too. We have to take the initiative to make the environment more safe and sound around us by reducing energy use, water use, waste removal and recycling, product use and air pollution etc. That should help all too live a happy life.

Pride: Transgender Day of Remembrance - November 20th

Every year on November 20th people come together in communities across Canada to remember those who have lost their lives because of anti-transgender hatred and violence. In keeping with CUPE’s Campaign to Build Strong Communities, on this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance we encourage you to attend vigils in your community. If there isn’t a ceremony scheduled in your area you might want to consider planning one.

News: Labour board dismisses corporate bid to block contract workers' vote count

Contract workers in Lower Mainland health facilities are one step closer to learning whether they've voted to join the Hospital Employees' Union as a result of a http://www.heu.org/2004/lrb11-10-04.pdf labour board ruling dismissing corporate objections to the union's political and legal advocacy work.

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Media enquiries: Union agrees to mediation talks - calls on management to settle 21-week strike at NOSP as demand peaks

Thunder Bay, Ont. – The union representing 30 social service and mental health workers at North of Superior Programs (NOSP) has agreed to resume mediation talks, hoping to resolve the 21-week old strike that has deprived north-western Ontario communities of essential social and mental health services. Both sides in the dispute are to resume negotiations, with the help of a provincial mediator, on Wednesday, November 17th.

Media enquiries: Cassellholme workers to protest contract rollbacks as board meets

Health care and support workers, represented by Local 146 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will hold an information picket in front of the Cassellholme long term care facility tomorrow, Wednesday, November 17th, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

News: CUPE 1881 settles with town of Kamsack

KAMSACK, SK - CUPE town workers in Kamsack, members of Local 1881, reached a tentative settlement on November 9, after spending more than a month on the picket line.

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Media enquiries: Town of Ajax workers reach tentative agreement - members to vote on deal Friday

Ajax, Ont. – Municipal workers with the Town of Ajax reached a tentative agreement on Monday, November 15th. Details of the agreement will not be available until after ratification by the union and the employer. The union will hold ratification votes on Friday, November 19th. If the deal is ratified it will avoid a potential strike.

Media enquiries: NOSP management breaks off talks - Union renews call for government takeover with no end in sight for 5-month strike

Thunder Bay, Ont. – Union negotiators for 30 social service and mental health workers at North of Superior Programs (NOSP) are in disbelief after North of Superior Programs (NOSP) management walked away from mediation talks, rejecting union proposals to solve the crisis.

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Women: Interested in an Up with Women's Wages workshop?

Come see for yourself in the larger picture. Learn how to focus on real change and how to organize around your own wage issues.

Media enquiries: Children with autism face disruption and chaos after change in service provider

Whitby, Ont. – Families and children with autism receiving Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) services from Kinark Child and Family Services, deserve to know what will happen to their children’s services after Kinark decided not to renew a contract with the Region of Durham, employing qualified instructive therapists to help the children, says the union representing the therapists.

Media enquiries: Vote to keep ambulance service under city control Calgary EMS an “exemplary service” that other cities emulate

CALGARY – City Council should vote on Monday, Nov. 22, to keep its emergency medical services (EMS) under municipal control and not move it to the regional health authority, Calgary Paramedics urged today.

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News: Liberals’ intentional disrespect for Kingston hospital workers will be met with fierce resistance

Kingston hospital workers say they are prepared to put up a fight if the Ontario Liberals pursue cutting hospital costs by slashing their wages and contracting out their work.

News: No OMERS contribution increase without changes to plan governance

Premier Dalton McGuinty must not allow any increase in pension contributions for the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) without significant changes in the way the plan is governed, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario

: Quebec P3 plans face major resistance

The Quebec government is pushing ahead with plans to “P3” every service and structure it can. More than 700 people met in Montreal this month at a CUPE organizing conference against P3s. They discussed the dangers of P3s – and developed an action plan to take them on.

P3 alert - November 2004: Quebec P3 plans face major resistance

The Quebec government is pushing ahead with plans to “P3” every service and structure it can. More than 700 people met in Montreal this month at a CUPE organizing conference against P3s. They discussed the dangers of P3s – and developed an action plan to take them on.

P3 alert - November 2004: P3 bankroller dogged by money laundering allegations

The New York branch of Dutch-based ABN Amro bank has stopped dealing with nearly 100 banks in Eastern Europe and the Carribean after the U.S. Federal Reserve alleged that ABN Amro was a conduit for “funds of questionable origin.”

P3 alert - November 2004: British P3s mean higher taxes, service cuts

A major report commissioned by Britain’s chartered accountants warns that their country’s equivalent of P3s, known as private finance initiatives (PFI), will mean higher taxes or service cuts.

P3 alert - November 2004: Canadian consortium pushes privatization – in Britain

Despite the breakdown of a major deal, a consortium that includes the Calgary Health Region is still in the running to provide privatized surgeries in Britain.

P3 alert - November 2004: Manitoba business groups push health P3s

Manitoba business groups are pushing their government, a strong defender of public health care, to privatize.

P3 alert - November 2004: Quotable quote

“This is going knock the wind out of the Canadian market.”

P3 alert - November 2004: CUPE launches privatization database

CUPE has launched an online database that tracks more than 500 reports of privatization, contracting out and P3s.

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Media enquiries: Pro-P3 poll doesn't tell whole story

A new poll by a pro-privatization group doesn’t accurately reflect Canadian views about privatizing public infrastructure and services through public private partnerships, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

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Media enquiries: Liberals’ intentional disrespect for Sudbury hospital workers will be met with fierce resistance

Sudbury – Sudbury hospital workers say they are prepared to put up a fight if the Ontario Liberals pursue cutting hospital costs by slashing their wages and contracting out their work.

Media enquiries: Prairie Rose school support workers in representation vote next month

CARMAN, Man. - The Manitoba Labour Board is conducting a representation vote in December to determine whether or not the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will represent all support workers in the Prairie Rose School Division.

News: Cleaning hospitals is skilled work

This article, by Ontario Council of Hospital Unions president Michael Hurley appeared in today's National Post. In it, Hurley argues there's a good reason why hospital cleaners are paid more than the people who clean banks and shopping malls: contagion.

Media enquiries: Exposure of secret privatization plan demands answers from BC government

VANCOUVER - Teachers, school support workers, and labour leaders across BC are demanding answers from the provincial government in response to a secret blueprint for privatizing a great range of services in public education.

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News: Calvert government must do more: CUPE National President calls for action on pay equity

Saskatoon: The Calvert government must make wage equality a priority because pay discrimination continues to be the day-to-day reality for most working women,” says CUPE National President Paul Moist.

Media enquiries: Strike looms at City of Oshawa - outside workers reject deal

OSHAWA, Ont. – Municipal workers with the City of Oshawa rejected an offer from the City, setting the stage for a potential strike next week if a last minute deal is not worked out, said the union representing 170 outside workers.

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News: No to Bush! Rallies, marches and vigils Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 in Ottawa and across the country

By now, you probably have heard that U.S. President George W. Bush is coming to Ottawa for an official visit from Nov. 30th to Dec. 1st.

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Media enquiries: CUPE warns of service cuts, wasted tax dollars and lack of accountability if Rainycrest lets extendicare take over

FORT FRANCES, Ont. – Letting a large multinational private corporation take over the management of Rainycrest Home for the Aged will lead to service and staff cuts, tax dollars wasted on profits and a lack of local accountability, warned the union representing 185 workers at the home.

News: Public sector unions plan hemispheric fightback

Public sector unions across the Americas have adopted an ambitious action plan to stop free trade, fight privatization, promote quality public services and focus on equality rights. The plan was adopted at a regional conference of Public Services International in Brazil in November.

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Equality: World AIDS Day - December 1, 2004

Every year on December 1st, millions of people around the globe observe World AIDS Day. The theme of World AIDS Day 2004 is Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS. The aim of World AIDS Day 2004 is to educate people about the various issues that impact women and girls with respect to HIV/AIDS

Media enquiries: CUPE leader in Niagara to talk fightback against concessions and privatization

THOROLD, ON. — Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan will be available to speak to media prior to the Niagara area CUPE leadership today at Holy Rosary Hall, 35 Queen Street, Thorold. The meeting begins at 3:30 p.m.

Media enquiries: Manoeuvring to cover RAV budget overrun deceitful, tragic and hypocritical

RAV scope changes transfer $70 million to regional taxpayers and transit users VANCOUVER—CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill is predicting Campbell’s Liberals will pony up the requested $65 million more for the controversial Richmond-Airport-Vancouver (RAV) rapid transit line before the decisive December 1st TransLink board meeting vote. CUPE BC has launched a public campaign urging taxpayers to tell TransLink directors to vote down the project over its exorbitant cost, intolerable secrecy and excessive public risk in covering cost overruns. Recent changes to reduce the cost of the project amount to a $70 million cost transfer to regional taxpayers and transit users.

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Media enquiries: Oshawa councillors out of line with pay raise, CUPE president Ryan says

OSHAWA — Oshawa city councillors should not give final approval to an exhorbitant pay raise for themselves without holding public hearings or they risk creating a negative labour relations environment for years to come, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

News: Bus drivers roll into CUPE

Prince Albert, Sask. - Bus drivers who transport children in the Prince Albert Separate School Division are the newest group of workers to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees

Media enquiries: Community rallies around Theresa McEvoy - Benefit Dance and Auction

Halifax – Organizers of a benefit dance and auction taking place this Friday for Theresa McEvoy, the Halifax School Board EPA who died tragically on October 14 when her car was hit by a stolen vehicle, say the response from the community has been fantastic.

Media enquiries: Ontario Electricity Coalition will speak against government’s new electricity law

ORILLIA, Ont. -- The Ontario Electricity Coalition will deliver the message in Orillia tomorrow that our electricity system is being privatized and we are losing control of our electricity to American corporations because of the province’s new Electricity Restructuring Act.

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Disability Rights: International Day for Disabled Persons - December 3, 2004

December 3rd is the International Day for Disabled Persons, which aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. CUPE is committed to actively working to end discrimination against persons with disabilities and has developed tools such as the Disability Rights in the Workplace booklet and also the Bargaining Equality kit, which contains a section on “The Duty to Accommodate”.

News: More than 7,000 protest Bush in Halifax

More than 7,000 protestors, many of them students, protested the visit of George Bush in Halifax today. The protest was organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition and co-sponsored by many organizations including CUPE.

Media enquiries: Union feels betrayed: Health board pursues job cuts and laundry closures, despite widespread opposition

Weyburn, Sask. - Union leaders say they are “appalled” and “disgusted” to learn the health board intends to pursue its plan to reduce laundry services in nine communities and abolish 28 jobs, despite widespread opposition.

Media enquiries: CUPE reaches two-year tentative agreement for 3,300 Nova Scotia hospital workers

Halifax – The Canadian Union of Public Employees has reached a tentative agreement with more than 30 hospital employers across Nova Scotia, on behalf of its 3,300 workers in the acute care sector.

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Women: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women - December 6th, 2004

Violence against women continues to be a huge problem in our society and is too widespread to be dismissed as the isolated actions of a few dysfunctional or anti-social men. Violence against women is a social and political problem and we need to address the underlying causes which perpetuate women’s inequality in our society

News: “No to Bush,” shout thousands

Up to 15,000 people in Ottawa and another 7,000 in Halifax took to the streets yesterday to protest the official visit of United States President George W. Bush.

Media enquiries: City of Oshawa workers win contract improvements - Strike averted

OSHAWA, Ont. – City of Oshawa outside workers, members of Local 250 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted last night to accept an agreement reached on Tuesday between union negotiators and management.

Media enquiries: Ituna group home strike hits sixth month: CUPE renews its request for assistance of conciliator

Ituna, Sask. - Group home workers in Ituna have spent the last six months on a picket line because their employer – Deer Park Villa – refuses to bargain meaningful seniority language or accept the assistance of a government conciliator to settle the dispute.

News: B.C. unions respond to Campbell Liberals’ multi-million dollar, feel-good ad campaign with a message of their own

Gordon Campbell is spending millions of dollars of public money on ads hoping British Columbians will forget all the promises he’s broken. But he isn’t fooling anybody.

Media enquiries: Partnerships BC supports ‘British-style’ model of privatized education services

VANCOUVER—Recent comments by the chief executive of Partnerships BC have once again raised the specter of mass privatization in the British Columbia school sector, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

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Media enquiries: CUPE Local 5050 asks for conciliator in talks with Cape Breton-Victoria School Board

Sydney, N.S. – CUPE Local 5050, the largest school board local in Nova Scotia, has applied for conciliation talks with the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board (CBVRSB).

Media enquiries: Tentative agreement reached at Group Health Centre - CUPE members to vote on deal December 4th

A tentative agreement has been reached between Local 894 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie.

Media enquiries: School board tries to intimidate members and silence campaign to save schools

In a move to intimidate workers and silence a peaceful protest against school closures, Lakehead District School Board officials have ordered staff to remove “Save Our Schools” buttons or face disciplinary action, said the union representing 180 school board workers.

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Media enquiries: CUPE asks for conciliator in talks with Compass cafeteria workers at UCCB

Sydney, N.S. – CUPE Local 4428, representing 30 cafeteria employees at UCCB, have asked for a Conciliator to be appointed in talks with Compass.

Media enquiries: December 6, 2004: statement by Paul Moist

We gather to remember these young women and to offer our solidarity to their families and loved ones. This tragic event is still raw in our hearts, and it still weighs on our spirits. This hurt, and this heaviness, will remain until all women are free of violence and instead lead lives full of the love, respect and joy that all people deserve.

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News: Erratum:

Due to an editing error, an old story appeared in the Nov. 12 2004 FastFACTs about EI changes that were the subject of parliamentary debate in 2001. CUPE regrets any confusion caused by the error.

Media enquiries: Home for the aged workers and supporters to rally against privatization at Rainycrest

FORT FRANCES, Ont. – Workers from Rainycrest Home for the Aged and community supporters will hold a rally tomorrow, Wednesday, December 8th, at 9:00 a.m., to protest against a proposal to contract out management of their workplace to Extendicare, a large for-profit corporation. The workers are members of Local 65 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

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Health Care: Buenos Aires Meeting of Health Unions: Statement of Principles and Actions 2004

Representatives from CUPE met with leaders of health care unions from 12 countries across the hemisphere in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 2004. They discussed strategies for the implementation of accessible, universal public health care and resistance to free trade agreements that stand in the way of that goal. The unions adopted a common statement of principles and actions.

Equality Rights: Federal government must introduce equal marriage legislation says CUPE

OTTAWA – The federal government should immediately introduce equal marriage legislation now that the Supreme Court of Canada has released its opinion, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

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Media enquiries: Nova Scotia Highway Workers’ Union, DOT to return to bargaining table December 15

HALIFAX – The union representing the province’s highway workers and negotiators for the Department of Transportation (DOT) have agreed to return to the bargaining table. Talks will resume Wednesday, December 15.

News: CUPE 4000 activist wins health and safety award

CUPE 4000 member Mike Francis has won the Ottawa and District Labour council's 2004 Health and Safety activist of the year award.

International Solidarity: Stop the violence in Columbia

“Put an end to the situation of impunity in which violations of human rights are committed in your country,” CUPE said in a letter to Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the president of Colombia, sent on United Nations Human Rights Day Dec. 10, 2004.

Media enquiries: College employees launch coat drive - CUPE members moved by Christmas spirit, cold weather

RED DEER, AB - The weather outside is frightful. A proper coat is so delightful.

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Media enquiries: CUPE to release results of hospital ratification votes Friday, December 17

NEW GLASGOW, NS – The Canadian Union of Public Employees will release the results of a ratification vote by 3,300 hospital workers this Friday in New Glasgow.

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Media enquiries: Four new MRI's...and no one trained to run them

NEW GLASGOW, NS - Nova Scotia hospitals may be getting four, new, multi-million-dollar MRIs, but the union representing hundreds of Technologists across the province says there's nobody trained to run them.

Media enquiries: Employees at Good Shepherd Villas join CUPE

Prince Albert, SK - Another group of workers in Prince Albert has joined the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Media enquiries: CUPE members collect 1,700 socks for charity - 'Sock it to em' campaign a success

Lethbridge, AB - Warm feet make for a warm heart.

Media enquiries: Liberals offer lumps of coal with welfare reform, CUPE Ontario president says

TORONTO — The McGuinty government has offered social assistance recipients a few lumps of coal instead of spreading some Christmas joy by moving forward with real reform to help low-income Ontarians move out of poverty, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario division.

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Media enquiries: Osbourne House frontline workers support board change

The 40 frontline support workers at Osborne House in Winnipeg welcome the resignation of the Chair of the Board and some members today.

Schools: P3 Schools: Public Interest versus Private Profits CUPE Research Branch Report

P3, or public-private-partnership schools are a form of privatization. P3 schools cost more than public schools and create serious quality concerns. P3 schools mean fewer unionized jobs and adversely affect the local economy. Negative trade implications are also a result. The paper outlines the problems of P3 schools and forwards alternatives. Sections about fighting P3 schools and actions that can be taken to promote public schools, are also included.

Media enquiries: CUPE National President Paul Moist to join striking NOSP workers to say “we’re getting scrooged” for Christmas

THUNDER BAY, ON – Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, will join striking North of Superior Programs Workers for a picket rally and “We’re getting scrooged” demonstration outside the Thunder Bay offices of the Ontario ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Friday, December 17th.

Media enquiries: Thunder Bay municipal workers fight privatization as city hands out "Pink Slips" instead of Christmas cards

The union representing 650 inside and outside workers in Thunder Bay is vowing to fight attempts by municipal council to contract out and privatize public service jobs.

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Media enquiries: CUPE hospital workers in N.S. ratify new contract

NEW GLASGOW, NS - CUPE hospital workers from some 30 hospitals across Nova Scotia have accepted a new, two-year deal.

Media enquiries: Good Shepherd should lead by example - workers demand fairness as contract talks falter

Women’s shelter workers who provide counselling and support services to abused women and children, could be facing a strike in January, if a contract is not reached with the Good Shepherd Centres, warned the union representing the 40 workers.

Municipal: Investing in Infrastructure

The public investment which has built Canadian infrastructure throughout our history is being abandoned by policy makers. Instead, P3s are being promoted as an easy solution to the investment problem. Governments who promote P3 infrastructure argue that they are unable to afford the investment required, and that the private partners can deliver a package of technology, expertise, capital and commercial networks that governments cannot. In 2003, CUPE commissioned two research papers on this topic, one focused on infrastructure finance alternatives, and the other examined the role of workers' pension funds in infrastructure investment and renewal.

Peace: CUPE calls on federal government to reject ballistic missile defence

CUPE's national executive board called on the federal government to reject the US ballistic missile defence system and encouraged the government to allow a full debate on the issue in parliament.

: P3 Alert December 2004

P3 Alert - December 2004: P3 pushers focus on infrastructure gap

Participants in the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships’ annual conference zeroed in on the vast and growing infrastructure gap facing governments.

P3 Alert - December 2004: Alberta community shelves water P3

The municipal district of Rockyview has shelved plans for a water P3 with Terasen Utility Services.

P3 Alert - December 2004: Fighting B.C. education privatization

The CEO of British Columbia’s P3 agency favours public private partnerships for the province’s schools, despite major problems with a similar scheme in Britain.

P3 Alert - December 2004: B.C. transit P3 gets green light, despite major red flags

A controversial P3 rapid transit link is going ahead in Vancouver and it will cost taxpayers and transit users dearly, says CUPE BC.

P3 Alert - December 2004: High-priced P3 hospitals go ahead in B.C. and Ontario

The ground has been broken for a P3 hospital in Abbotsford, B.C. – and so has the hospital’s budget. Another overpriced P3 hospital is moving ahead in Ontario, with the signing of a deal for Brampton’s for-profit hospital.

P3 Alert - December 2004: Cosmetic changes to P3 bill don’t fool Quebecers

The Quebec government’s attempts at defusing major opposition to a new pro-P3 agency don’t fool anyone – least of all CUPE Quebec members.

P3 Alert - December 2004: Defending public water in Quebec

A strong coalition of Quebec water activists is defending public water from new attacks. Eau Secours ! is fighting plans for water P3s across the province, part of Jean Charest’s sweeping P3 plans.

P3 Alert - December 2004: Phoenix U. sinks talons into Calgary

A private American university is setting up shop in Calgary. The for-profit University of Phoenix plans to start selling degrees in March 2005, with a $26,000 master of business administration degree as one of its first offerings.

P3 Alert - December 2004: Enforcing the Canada Health Act … some of the time

Internal documents obtained by the media show the federal government has penalized British Columbia for allowing private health care but is letting other provinces get away with for-profit care.

P3 Alert - December 2004: Quotable quote

“I think that water will come to be more and more valued as a scarce commodity …”.

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News: Paul Moist brings support and good cheer to strikers in northwestern Ontario

National President Paul Moist joined supporters from other CUPE locals, staff and community groups Dec. 17th in Thunder Bay for a "We're getting scrooged" rally, in support of the North of Superior Programs strike (CUPE 3253).

Media enquiries: Support Workers Approve Wage Increase in Seven Oaks School Division

WINNIPEG – The custodial and maintenance staff, and bus drivers in the Seven Oaks School Division have a new contract that the union says is “giving everyone a healthy increase in important benefits”.

Media enquiries: NOSP management trying to circumvent union with forced vote on last offer - union blames government for inaction

THUNDER BAY, ON – The union representing 30 striking social service and mental health workers at North of Superior Programs (NOSP) called management’s request for a forced vote on their last contract offer another example of incompetence from NOSP management, and further evidence the provincial government must step in and take control of the dysfunctional board of directors.

Site news: Vote for cupe.ca as labour web site of the year

Please take a second to vote for cupe.ca as the "Labour Website of the Year." The annual contest is run by Labourstart, an international union news web site.

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Media enquiries: www.buildchildcare.ca pushes ministers to get the new system right

A new online action centre is upping the pressure on Social Development Minister Ken Dryden to lay the best groundwork for a new child care system.

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News: Ituna strikers mark first day of winter on the line

Ituna, SK.: Striking group home workers in Ituna marked the first day of winter and their 202nd day on the line with the official opening of their “bus shelter.”

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News: Celebrate strong communities, imagine a better world

As 2004 comes to a close, let's take a moment to imagine the better world we all fight for.

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News: CUPE pledges $100,000 to Asian relief effort

OTTAWA – The Canadian Union of Public Employees today pledged $100,000 to assist in the massive relief effort following the earthquake and tidal waves that have devastated several Asian countries leaving more than 120,000 dead.

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News: CUPE members prevent privatization in Northwestern Ontario

Members of CUPE Local 65 in Fort Frances, Ontario, have won a campaign to prevent Rainycrest Home for the Aged from being taken over by Extendicare, a large for-profit health care corporation.

National Executive Board: National Executive Board highlights - December 2004

December 2004

The National Executive Board met in Ottawa on December 14-16

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Bargaining: Economic Climate for Bargaining, December 2004

This report provides a broad overview of the general trends in wage settlements and other economic information as it pertains to collective bargaining in Canada.

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Economic Issues: Economic Climate for Bargaining. December 2004

This report provides a broad overview of the general trends in wage settlements and other economic information as it pertains to collective bargaining in Canada.

Media enquiries: CUPE Alberta gets a new President

D'Arcy Lanovaz, 38, a facilities administrator with the City of Calgary,
takes over from Bruce McLeod who stepped down late last year. CUPE Alberta
has 26,000 members in Alberta, primarily in the municipal, education and
health care fields.

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News: CUPE mobilizing in solidarity with victims of tsunami disaster

Spurred by the need for action and inspired by their national union’s $100,000 pledge, CUPE members are mobilizing to help raise money for last month’s brutal tsunami disaster in Asia.

Media enquiries: Fort McLeod EMS employees get first union contract

One-year agreement gives ambulance attendants a big increase

FORT MCLEOD, AB - Joining CUPE has meant a sharp increase in wages and benefits for Fort McLeod ambulance paramedics.

News: Management forces contract vote on North of Superior workers

Managers at a strike-bound social service agency have asked the Ontario labour ministry to order a vote on their last contract offer.

News: Victoria nursing home workers vote 100% for a strike

Hospital Employees’ Union members at a Victoria, B.C., nursing home have voted 100 per cent in favour of striking to reach a first collective agreement with Compass Group.

News: Concordia student union muzzles its staff union

The student council at Montréal’s Concordia University has suspended the president of its CUPE local for union activity.

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Media enquiries: St. Catharines city workers urge management to recommend in-house solution for maintenance of new Sportsplex

Keeping St. Catharines’ new Sportsplex facility maintenance in public hands will provide taxpayers with higher quality service, greater accountability, and better value for the community, said the union representing over 260 municipal outside workers.

Media enquiries: Greater Sudbury municipal workers begin contract talks - exchange bargaining proposals with city

SUDBURY, ON - The union representing 450 outside and 800 inside workers in the city of Greater Sudbury exchanged proposals last week with management, starting the process of negotiating a new collective agreement on behalf of local municipal workers. Their current collective agreement expires March 31st, 2005.

Media enquiries: Ituna strike ends: Group home workers refer dispute to labour relations board

Ituna, SK - CUPE group home workers in Ituna applied to the labour relations board for first contract assistance this morning and returned to work at Deer Park Villa, ending a strike that has lasted more than seven months.

Media enquiries: CUPE leader in Timmins to talk fightback against concessions and privatization

Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario secretary-treasurer Brian O’Keefe will talk to members about the union’s strategy to fight concessions at the bargaining table and privatization of public services.

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Media enquiries: NOSP social service and mental health workers reject offer in forced vote

THUNDER BAY, ON – Striking social service and mental health workers, represented by Local 3253 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), overwhelmingly rejected the last contract offer from North of Superior Programs, confirming the decision of their negotiating team in mediation talks last November. The count was 26 to 1 against the offer in a vote supervised by the ministry of Labour yesterday.

Media enquiries: Whistler workers prepared to strike for fair contract

WHISTLER, B.C. – Last night, employees with the Resort Municipality of Whistler gave their bargaining committee an unprecedented 100 per cent mandate to strike.

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Child Care: University of Toronto study says non-profit works best for child care

A study by two University of Toronto economists says non-profit child care centres offer better quality care than those run for profit.

News: Build the best…build non-profit child care

A new report underscores the importance of making sure our new cross-Canada child care system is not-for-profit. The national study, conducted by two University of Toronto economists, found that non-profit child care centres have the highest quality care. The evidence is clear. Now it’s up to us to push for a child care program that’s non-profit.

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Media enquiries: CUPE leader in North Bay to talk fightback against concessions and privatization

NORTH BAY, Ont. — Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan will be available to speak to media prior to the North Bay area CUPE leadership meeting tomorrow (Saturday) at the Voyager Inn, 123 Delaware Avenue. The meeting begins at 11:00 a.m.

Media enquiries: New national study confirms what N.S. Lab and X-Ray Techs have been saying for three years

NEW GLASGOW, NS – A newly-released, national study confirms what Lab and X-Ray Technologists here in Nova Scotia have been saying for at least three years.

News: Klein’s “third way” will boost privatized health care

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is borrowing the mushy language of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to sell health care privatization in his home province and around the country.

Media enquiries: CUPE’s “pioneering activism” wins union Sexual Diversity award

CUPE has received major recognition for its activism in Canada and around the world on the rights of sexual minorities.

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Site news: cupe.ca is labour web site of the year

CUPE has won Labourstart's annual competition for labour web site of the year. We're the first union to win the honour for two years in a row since the contest began in 1997.

News: Library technician chosen for national diversity seat

A library technician from Prince Edward Island has been chosen as the new diversity vice-president to represent aboriginal CUPE members on the National Executive Board.

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Media enquiries: Nova Scotia Highway Workers reach tentative deal with Department of Transportation and Public Works

HALIFAX – The union representing some 1,600 provincial highway workers in Nova Scotia has reached a tentative agreement with the provincial government.

Pride: Action Alert! Equal Marriage Legislation in Jeopardy!

There is no guarantee the equal marriage legislation will pass. Let’s settle this issue once and for all and claim victory for lesbian and gay human rights.

Media enquiries: Nelson city workers win democracy award

NELSON – Kootenay Co-op Radio (KCR 93.5 fm) awarded CUPE 339 President Bev LaPointe, with a certificate in recognition of the outstanding campaign she lead on behalf of her members, during the lockout last summer.

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What can we do for you?: Health and safety complaint form

Bilingual form to use when submitting a health and safety complaint to an employer. Download this form in PDF format or order hard copies for free from our online store.

Media enquiries: CUPE leader at pre-budget consultations tomorrow: McGuinty Liberals following Tory plan for tearing down public services

TORONTO — Instead of taking up the challenge to rebuild strong communities with strong public services, the Liberals have acted like Tories since their first budget, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan will tell the standing committee on finance and economic affairs tomorrow in Whitby.

Media enquiries: Most available hours regulations should apply to all workplaces

REGINA - The provincial government’s most available hours regulations should apply to all workplaces in the province, including public sector workplaces and third party agencies funded partially or entirely by government, the Saskatchewan division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees said today.

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Media enquiries: Savings are possible without job loss, CUPE leader Ryan tells budget committee

Whitby, Ont. — It’s time for the McGuinty government to take a fresh approach to meeting its budget challenges by looking at options that do not require cutting services, selling assets or privatizing, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan told the standing committee on finance and economic affairs today.

Media enquiries: Liberal underfunding and Kingston General staff cuts a betrayal of patients and hospital workers

Kingston area patients and hospital workers have been betrayed by a provincial government determined to underfund Ontario hospitals, says the union representing more than 1,100 service, administration and nursing workers at Kingston General Hospital.

: Ontario government underfunding and Kingston General staff cuts a betrayal of patients and hospital workers

Kingston area patients and hospital workers have been betrayed by a provincial government determined to underfund Ontario hospitals, says the union representing more than 1,100 service, administration and nursing workers at Kingston General Hospital.

From root@judy.cupe.ca Sat Jan 22 00:56:18 2005 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy [10.1.5.2])j0M5uHSd013240 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:56:18 -0500 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy.cupe.ca [127.0.0.1]) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0M6C0ri001103 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j0M6C0aL001102; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:12:00 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:12:00 -0500 Message-Id: <200501220612.j0M6C0aL001102@judy.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] for Saturday January 22, 2005 X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: a daily bulletin of stories posted to cupe.ca List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 05:56:18 -0000

News: Full of holes: Parliament's Canada Health Act Annual Report

For years, the annual reports to Parliament on the Canada Health Act have been full of holes. Many provinces fail to list the data on how much is spent on for-profit health services, and how many for-profit facilities they have up and running.

Media enquiries: Record surplus as cities crumble?

Canada's new record surplus cannot co-exist with crumbling cities, Canada's largest union said today, responding to Finance Minister Ralph Goodale's reiteration of yesterday that cities will only get a small portion of the federal gas tax in the upcoming budget.

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Media enquiries: Hospital workers give $5,000 to Tsunami aid CUPE local digs deep to help out

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Health care workers in southwest Alberta have decided to contribute to Tsunami relief.

Pride: The struggle for lesbian and gay human rights is at a crucial moment in Canadian history

You can help win this fight by contacting your MP. Tell your MP that a vote for same-sex marriage is a vote for human rights. For more information visit the CUPE National website's pride pages.

From root@judy.cupe.ca Fri Jan 28 00:54:55 2005 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy [10.1.5.2])j0S5stSd024205 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:54:55 -0500 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy.cupe.ca [127.0.0.1]) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0S6C1ri028278 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:12:06 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j0S6C1em028277; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200501280612.j0S6C1em028277@judy.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] for Friday January 28, 2005 X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: a daily bulletin of stories posted to cupe.ca List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:54:55 -0000

: Secretive, Risky, Unaccountable: How Public-Private Partnerships are Bad for Democracy

Public-private Partnerships are Bad for Democracy Healthy democracy depends on full information for citizens, full participation by citizens, independent advice from public servants, accountability to elected representatives and responsibility to electors. Public-private partnerships (P3s) undermine all of that. With many P3s, the imperatives of investor certainty, commercial confidentiality, private ownership of information and long term contracts are subverting the normal checks and balances of our democratic system. This presentation to the 2004 annual conference of the Parkland Institute in Edmonton by CUPE Research Representative Blair Redlin outlines some of the reasons why. The theme for the conference was "Uncommon Dreams: Visions of the Public Good".

Public Private Partnerships (P3): Secretive, Risky, Unaccountable: How Public-Private Partnerships are Bad for Democracy

Public-private Partnerships are Bad for Democracy Healthy democracy depends on full information for citizens, full participation by citizens, independent advice from public servants, accountability to elected representatives and responsibility to electors. Public-private partnerships (P3s) undermine all of that. With many P3s, the imperatives of investor certainty, commercial confidentiality, private ownership of information and long term contracts are subverting the normal checks and balances of our democratic system. This presentation to the 2004 annual conference of the Parkland Institute in Edmonton by CUPE Research Representative Blair Redlin outlines some of the reasons why. The theme for the conference was "Uncommon Dreams: Visions of the Public Good".

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P3 Alert - January 2005: No room for profit in child care

A new report underscores the importance of making sure our new cross-Canada child care system is not-for-profit.

P3 Alert - January 2005: P3 threatens grade-A wastewater treatment

The resort community of Whistler, B.C. has announced a P3 to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant – a move that could lose the community its ranking as one of Canada’s best sewage treatment providers.

P3 Alert - January 2005: P3 long term care costs $14 million more

Analysis of plans for a Quebec City long-term care facility show that it will cost $14.4 million more as a P3 than it would as a public project.

P3 Alert - January 2005: Highway 407 paved for profit

An Ontario court has ruled the owners of the privatized Highway 407 can hike tolls for the sixth time since buying the highway in 1999. With 93 years left on the Highway 407 lease, the deal is a license to print money for the multinational consortium that owns the road.

P3 Alert - January 2005: Deal makes private info very public

Accenture, well known for the high-priced havoc it caused with Ontario’s social assistance system, is running into trouble in British Columbia.

P3 Alert - January 2005: P3s not a good pension investment

Union trustees of pension plans should be wary of any investments in P3s.

P3 Alert - January 2005: Privatized cleaning a health hazard

Hospital workers in British Columbia are urging the provincial auditor general to scrutinize cleaning in four health authorities, as concern grows over cleaning standards that have taken a nosedive since privatization.

P3 Alert - January 2005: Quotable quote

“It was filthy, there was dirt on the curtains which the nurses weren’t allowed to clean for health and safety reasons, so it stayed there. Yet on this ward, they were looking after people who had had their legs amputated and had major wounds.”

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Media enquiries: School bus drivers in representation vote

BEAUSÉJOUR, MB – The Manitoba Labour Board is conducting a representation vote in February to determine which union will represent bus drivers in the Sunrise School Division.

From root@judy.cupe.ca Wed Feb 2 00:53:45 2005 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy [10.1.5.2])j125rjSd000630 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:53:45 -0500 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy.cupe.ca [127.0.0.1]) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j126C1ri017554 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j126C1MC017553; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200502020612.j126C1MC017553@judy.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] for Wednesday February 02, 2005 X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: a daily bulletin of stories posted to cupe.ca List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 05:53:46 -0000

Media enquiries: 700 privatized hospital cleaning workers join HEU

Nearly 700 employees of Aramark, a US-based corporation contracted to provide hospital cleaning services in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, have voted 84 per cent in favour of joining the Hospital Employees’ Union.

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Media enquiries: CUPE workers urge area politicians to save shared animal services

WHITBY, Ont. – Animal service providers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are urging area politicians to save a shared animal service program in Pickering, Ajax and Whitby, after learning politicians are considering dismantling the service.

Union Education: Training for Pension Trustees and Pension Advisory Committee Members

CUPE is launching a new training program for pension fund trustees and pension advisory committee members.

News: CUPE BC divisions launch provincial election web sites

May 17 may seem like a long way off, but CUPE members in BC have their eyes firmly fixed on the date. CUPE BC and the Hospital Employees Union have launched election web sites to help oust Gordon Campbell's liberals.

From root@judy.cupe.ca Fri Feb 4 00:53:17 2005 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy [10.1.5.2])j145rHSd011539 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:53:17 -0500 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy.cupe.ca [127.0.0.1]) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j146C1ri026070 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:12:06 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j146C1Kd026069; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200502040612.j146C1Kd026069@judy.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] for Friday February 04, 2005 X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: a daily bulletin of stories posted to cupe.ca List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 05:53:18 -0000

News: CUPE Saskatchewan pushes province to move and improve on part-time rules

Proposed labour code changes designed to benefit Saskatchewan part time workers should apply to all – not just to those in large workplaces, CUPE Saskatchewan told a government commission this week.

News: Moist to Dryden: Take us from patchwork to excellence

CUPE National President Paul Moist made a strong case for sustainable, not-for profit-child care in a meeting with federal social development minister Ken Dryden. Moist outlined CUPE’s vision of high-quality care to Dryden, who is working with provincial and territorial child care ministers to shape a new child care system for Canada.

From root@judy.cupe.ca Sat Feb 5 00:53:03 2005 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy [10.1.5.2])j155qwSd032497 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:53:03 -0500 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy.cupe.ca [127.0.0.1]) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j156C1ri029999 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j156C1wB029998; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200502050612.j156C1wB029998@judy.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] for Saturday February 05, 2005 X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: a daily bulletin of stories posted to cupe.ca List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 05:53:04 -0000

News: CUPE Ontario to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans this week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former subsidiary Borealis.

Media enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Health Act

Ottawa – Canada’s largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, February 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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News: CUPE Ontario = to launch legal action against OMERS

CUPE Ontario announced plans t= his week to sue the board and certain employees of the Ontario Municipal= Employees Retirement System (OMERS) over their dealings with its former= subsidiary Borealis.

M= edia enquiries: Media invited to Newsmaker Breakfast on the Canada Healt= h Act

Ottawa Canadas largest union is urging MPs to be on the look-out for= the next annual report on the Canada Health Act (CHA). The report, due= later this month, is the subject of Newsmaker Breakfast on Monday, Febr= uary 7, with CUPE national president, Paul Moist.

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Media enquiries: Oxford County workers vow to fight concessions – 100% strike vote

OXFORD COUNTY, ON – Oxford County Board of Health workers, represented by Local 1146 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted unanimously last night in favour of strike action to fight back concession demands from County management.

Media enquiries: Pincher Creek CUPE member electrocuted on the job

PINCHER CREEK, AB - A local municipal worker was electrocuted on the job yesterday.

Media enquiries: Nova Scotia Highway Workers’ Union vote to accept new, three-year contract

HALIFAX – The 1,600 members of the Nova Scotia Highway Workers’ Union have voted to accept a new, three-year deal with the provincial government.

Media enquiries: OMERS governance must change, CUPE leader will tell NDP pension hearings in Toronto

Toronto — Workers and employers in Ontario’s municipalities, school boards, police forces and fire departments must have the same control over their pension plan as members of other major plans in the province enjoy, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan will tell a pension hearing sponsored by the NDP tomorrow at Queen’s Park.

From root@judy.cupe.ca Fri Feb 11 01:10:35 2005 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy [10.1.5.2])j1B6AUSd011633 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:10:35 -0500 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy.cupe.ca [127.0.0.1]) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1B6C0ri030362 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:12:01 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j1B6C0lR030361; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:12:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:12:00 -0500 Message-Id: <200502110612.j1B6C0lR030361@judy.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca From: cupetoday-sender@lists.cupe.ca Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [cupetoday] for Friday February 11, 2005 X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: a daily bulletin of stories posted to cupe.ca List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:10:35 -0000

News: Rae review of Ontario colleges and universities: good diagnosis, lousy prescription

Bob Rae's year-long commission on post-secondary education in Ontario came to an end this week as the former premier released his report. CUPE has posted its initial analysis. In short: good diagnosis, lousy prescription.

Media enquiries: School bus drivers vote for CUPE representation

BEAUSÉJOUR, MB – Bus drivers for the Sunrise School Division have chosen the Canadian Union of Public Employees to represent them. The Manitoba Labour Board conducted a representation vote this week to determine which union would represent bus drivers. Amalgamation of the school divisions by the province in 2002 led to a situation where two unions represented support staff in the new division. CUPE has been representing drivers in the former Agassiz School Division, while the United Food and Commercial Workers Union represented bus drivers in the former Transcona-Springfield School Division. CUPE also represents the educational assistants and clerical staff in the Division.

Media enquiries: Training wage a bad idea - CUPE

Union worried government may water down minimum wage commitment

CALGARY -- An Alberta labour leader is worried that the Alberta government might water down their minimum wage commitment after business groups have called for a two-tiered minimum wage.

Media enquiries: Invitation to a "Children's Parade"

“On February 11th, Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for child care are meeting in Vancouver to sign an agreement about a long promised new National Child Care System.

Media enquiries: CUPE leader in Hamilton to talk fightback against concessions and privatization

Hamilton, Ont. — Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan will be available to speak to media prior to the Hamilton area CUPE leadership meeting this evening (Thursday) at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, 51 Stuart Street. The meeting begins at 7:00 p.m.

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Media enquiries: Good Shepherd workers ratify first contract

Women’s shelter workers with the Good Shepherd Centres, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted last night to ratify their first collective agreement.

News: Child care activists push for accountable, non-profit system

Child care workers, parents and children held a boisterous rally today outside the Vancouver hotel where federal, provincial and territorial ministers are meeting to reach a child care agreement. Activists are calling on federal social development minister Ken Dryden to protect Canada’s children by blocking slap shots from provinces who refuse to be accountable for public investments in child care.

P3 General: Secretive, Risky, Unaccountable: How Public-Private Partnerships are Bad for Democracy

Healthy democracy depends on full information for citizens, full participation by citizens, independent advice from public servants, accountability to elected representatives and responsibility to electors.

Public-private partnerships (P3s) undermine all of that. With many P3s, the imperatives of investor certainty, commercial confidentiality, private ownership of information and long term contracts are subverting the normal checks and balances of our democratic system. This presentation to the 2004 annual conference of the Parkland Institute in Edmonton by CUPE Research Representative Blair Redlin outlines some of the reasons why. The theme for the conference was "Uncommon Dreams: Visions of the Public Good".

Media enquiries: Child care: no deal means door still open to get it right

Vancouver – Today’s ministerial meeting didn’t deliver the child care program Canadians have been waiting for – but the door’s still open to build a high-quality system.

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News: Focus, educate, organize: the new national Political Action Committee (PAC)

Members and staff met over this past weekend in what was – for CUPE – an historic meeting: the founding of the union’s first-ever national political action committee, or PAC.

Media enquiries: South Frontenac Township municipal workers ready to strike

SYDENHAM, Ont. – Municipal workers in the Township of South Frontenac are set to go on strike as early as March 2nd if mediation talks between the Township and Local 4336 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) fail to reach an agreement. The workers voted 100% in favour of a strike over wage parity.

Media enquiries: Maintenance staff, Edmonton Public, settle contract

EDMONTON - Maintenance staff at Edmonton Public schools joined other non-teaching staff in finalizing a new contract.

Racism: International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination - March 21, 2005

March 21st is a day to remember the struggles and challenges that Aboriginal peoples and people of colour have endured. It is also a time to recognize and applaud the fact that members of these two communities have made anti-racism struggles a significant part of labour’s agenda. Their active participation has indeed strengthened our movement by bringing new ideas, perspectives and energy into the struggles of working people

Media enquiries: Support a "Whistler living allowance" for CUPE 2010

Whistler municipal workers represented by CUPE 2010 launched a campaign last week to win public support for their need for a "Whistler living allowance". Their campaign includes a new website, radio ads, print ads and a leaflet to all Whisler households and businesses being delivered this week.

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: Where’s Peterborough’s share of $2.2 billion in new health care dollars?

Peterborough – With the elimination of 38 registered practical nurses at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre, area residents must be asking why the Ontario Liberal government is betraying them and where Peterborough’s share of $2.2 billion in new health care dollars is going, says the union representing more than 500 nursing, maintenance and service workers at Peterborough General Hospital.

: Where’s Peterborough’s share of $2.2 billion in new health care dollars? Patient care will suffer as hospital cuts 38 registered practical nurses

Peterborough – With the elimination of 38 registered practical nurses at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre, area residents must be asking why the Ontario Liberal government is betraying them and where Peterborough’s share of $2.2 billion in new health care dollars is going, says the union representing more than 500 nursing, maintenance and service workers at Peterborough General Hospital.

Media enquiries: CUPE Local 108 donates almost $15,000 to Theresa McEvoy Trust Fund

HALIFAX – Organizers of a benefit dance and auction for Theresa McEvoy, the Halifax School Board EPA who died tragically on October 14 when her car was hit by a stolen vehicle, were on hand at a special ceremony at Westmount School today.

Media enquiries: Lowering RPNs staffing levels, misguided approach to hospital cost-cutting

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – Although studies show registered practical nurses (RPNs) offer skills in a wide scope of practice and are the most cost-effective way to provide nursing care for patients, the Peterborough Regional Health Centre has opted to cut 38 front line RPNs in an effort to balance its budget.

Media enquiries: York Region paramedics say “offloading” crisis is putting residents at risk

NEWMARKET, Ont. -- York Region’s “offloading” crisis is putting patients at risk and creating such high stress levels for paramedics that many of them are suffering from burnout, says the union that represents them.

Media enquiries: Support a "Whistler living allowance" for CUPE 2010

WHISTLER, B.C. - Municipal workers represented by CUPE 2010 launched a campaign last week to win public support for their need for a "Whistler living allowance". Their campaign includes a new website, radio ads, print ads and a leaflet to all Whistler households and businesses being delivered this week.

Media enquiries: Sid Ryan joins Chatham-Kent conciliation talks; brings support of whole union to CUPE Local 12

TORONTO — Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario Division will join conciliation talks tomorrow between CUPE Local 12 and the municipality of Chatham-Kent to underscore the union’s determination not to accept concessions like cuts to benefits.

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Media enquiries: Cape Breton-Victoria School Board employees vote 92% in favour of strike

Sydney, N.S. – School board workers at the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board (CBVRSB) have sent a strong message to their employer – and to the Hamm government: fix the wage parity issue or face labour unrest in the sector

Media enquiries: Increasing RPN staffing levels and utilizing their full scope of practice best way to help balance budget and maintain patient care

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – Increasing registered practical nurse (RPN) staffing levels and utilizing their full scope of practice is the best way for hospital administrations to find cost-efficiencies and maintain quality patient care, said the union representing RPNs and other front line workers at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre at a media conference in Peterborough today.

Media enquiries: Ambulance transfer date should be postponed - CUPE

CALGARY --The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is calling for a postponement of the transfer of ambulance service to health regions after estimates of the cost of that transfer doubled.

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Media enquiries: County of Newell employees get a 10% raise

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Employees of the County of Newell who belong to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are looking forward to a 10% raise in their wages.

Media enquiries: Rae report, privatization are key issues as union activists from Ontario universities meet in London

LONDON, ON – Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario Division, and a keynote panel will tackle the Rae report and creeping privatization in postsecondary education at Strategy, Struggle & Solidarity, a conference of more than 100 union activists opening here tomorrow evening.

Media enquiries: Oxford County municipal workers vote 100% to strike

OXFORD COUNTY, Ont. – Oxford County Public Works employees voted unanimously last night in favour of strike action to fight concession demands from County management. The 36 workers, represented by Local 1589 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), provide road maintenance and landfill operations in the county.

News: It’s time: progressive alternative budget could address poverty and fix federal-provincial woes

Finance Minister Ralph Goodale, has $45 billion in surpluses over the next three years, according the Alternative Federal Budget released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Public services, poverty reduction and stable federal funding for provincial social programs stand to gain - if Goodale does the right thing.

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Media enquiries: Child care advocates await Camosun Board decision

VICTORIA, B.C. — On Monday, February 21 at 6:30 p.m. Child Care advocates in the Victoria region will gather outside the cafeteria (Helmut Huber Annex) of Camosun College’s Interurban Campus, in anticipation of an important decision by the College’s Board of Governors.

Media enquiries: Youth services workers win contract improvements without a strike – CUPE calls on NOSP to follow example

THUNDER BAY, Ont. – William W. Chreighton Youth Services workers, represented by Local 3367 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have ratified a new collective agreement that includes improvements in benefits, pensions and wages.

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News: It’s time to rebuild strong communities with public investment

CUPE’s federal budget equation: public investment + clear conditions = accountability

OTTAWA – It’s time to rebuild strong communities with public investment and clear conditions on how the money is spent, said CUPE National President Paul Moist as the Liberal government prepares its 2005 federal budget.

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Media enquiries: County of Lethbridge workers get 13.5% wage increase

CUPE members win respect at the bargaining table

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Employees of the county of Lethbridge have ratified a new contract with their employer that gives them 4.5% wage increases in each year of a three-year deal.

Media enquiries: CUPE watching 2005 federal budget

Federal budget 2005: public investment, clear conditions, accountable?

OTTAWA – Canada's largest union will be responding to the 2005 federal budget tomorrow.

Media enquiries: For-profit care ripping holes in Canada Health Act

Feds not stopping growth of for-profit health care
OTTAWA – The federal government is still failing to enforce the law governing public health care, said CUPE National President Paul Moist on the eve of a new federal budget.

Health and Safety: Fight repetitive strain injuries: Annual International RSI Awareness Day

Monday, February 28, 2005, is International RSI Awareness Day. RSI Awareness Day evolved from an idea by a Canadian injured worker. The first RSI Awareness Day was February 29, 2000, because it was the only non-repetitive day of the year. In non-leap years, like this year, it is observed on February 28.

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Frequently Asked Questions: Do I have to pay income tax on strike pay?

No, you don't.

Media enquiries: Strike mandate for Near North school board workers

Office, clerical and technical (OCT) employees of the Near North District School Board have voted 99 per cent to give a strike mandate to the negotiating committee of Local 1165 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 100 affected workers.

Media enquiries: Oshawa Residents about to be taken to the cleaners

A report released Monday, February 21 concerning the downtown Sports and Entertainment Complex confirms the “worst fears” for those opposed to the complex.

Media enquiries: Unionized city workers told to leave job fair

Victoria city workers, represented by CUPE Local 50, that attended the second day of the R.G. Properties’ Save on Foods Memorial Centre “Job Fair” at the University of Victoria were told by security that they must leave the building.

Social Services: Privatization in Workers' Compensation

WCB locals are facing privatization threats from many directions. Workers’ compensation already has more contact with private corporations than most public services. Treatments for workers under compensation claims aren’t covered under the Canada Health Act. This creates a revenue opportunity for private health providers. As a result, many of the health services provided by workers’ compensation are done through private-for-profit delivery.

Media enquiries: CUPE deeply disappointed with CBRM council vote on incineration, trucking of garbage

A 9-to-8 vote by CBRM council today in favour of closing the regional government’s incineration plant and trucking garbage all the way to Guysborough may come back to haunt the local government.

Media enquiries: UCCB cafeteria workers to hold strike vote February 27

Cafeteria employees at UCCB will hold a strike vote February 27, after conciliation talks with their employer failed this week.

Media enquiries: Liberals’ Stephen Harper budget is missed opportunity

Chequebook federalism: Good for corporate Canada, bad for working Canadians
OTTAWA – It’s a federal budget for the well-off Canadians, CUPE National President Paul Moist said today, and a missed opportunity for the Martin government.

Economic Issues: Federal budget 2005: what we needed and what we got

CUPE's analysis of the 2005 federal budget in the areas of child care, cities, the environment, health care, tax policy, employment insurance and training, post-secondary education. In brief: Canadians were looking for a progressive budget. Instead what we got was a budget only a conservative could love.

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Media enquiries: McMaster TAs win contract improvements – strike averted

HAMILTON, Ont. – McMaster University teaching assistants (TAs), represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), reached a tentative agreement with the university late last night. Details of the settlement will not be available until after a ratification vote scheduled for early next week.

Media enquiries: Warning: Signal to McGuinty

Harris-style attack on collective agreements will lead to political work stoppages across Ontario

Toronto — The leadership of nearly 700 local unions from across Ontario are meeting in Toronto tomorrow, to approve an action plan aimed at protecting public services and jobs, as the McGuinty Liberals move at breakneck speed to “transform” and re-invent government.

Media enquiries: CUPE to tell PUB hearings public auto insurance will save drivers 30-50 per cent on their premiums

CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador president Wayne Lucas will tell the province’s review of automobile insurance hearings this morning that the drivers of this province need and deserve to have a public, non-profit insurance plan – just like B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Media enquiries: Forsyth letting parents down

Turning away daycare funds "a crime" against working parents

Turning away from $500 million in daycare funding for Alberta would leave Alberta parents in a lurch. That was the opinion of D'Arcy Lanovaz, Alberta president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

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News: CUPE offers new anti-racism courses for March 21

As March 21st, the United Nations’ International day for the elimination of racial discrimination approaches, CUPE is offering new education courses on fighting racism as well as materials to help in the struggle.

News: Decision expected on Québec long-term care P3

The board of directors of a Québec City area health and social services centre was expected to make an announcement this week on whether its new long-term care home will be a P3.

News: CUPE Alberta calls for a halt to ambulance service restructuring

CUPE Alberta president D’Arcy Lanovaz told the provincial government that it should delay plans to take over municipal ambulance services.

News: Abbotsford P3 hospital legal costs: $24.5 million

A provincial P3 agency report revealed this week that just writing up the contracts for Abbotsford’s P3 hospital will cost $24.5 million in lawyers and consultants.

News: Gordon Campbell delivers pre-election budget as hospitals, schools shill for funds

This week the British Columbia government delivered its last budget before the May election amid a background of hospitals offering to name rooms after donors, and school boards selling advertising space on their vehicles.

News: CUPE PEI gears up for fight over anticipated budget cuts

CUPE PEI may need every one of its members if the provincial budget brings bad news, CUPE division president Donalda MacDonald said this week.

Media enquiries: Tentative deal reached at North of Superior Programs to end eight-month strike

Following a lengthy negotiation session, a tentative agreement was reached early this morning, to end the 8-month strike by Local 3253 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at North of Superior Programs (NOSP).

Media enquiries: Paramedics win early retirement after long fight

Federal budget adds paramedics to list of “public safety occupations”

Paramedics will now have the option to retire earlier without reduced pension benefits, according to the 2005 federal budget.

Media enquiries: McMaster TAs win contract improvements – strike averted

McMaster University teaching assistants (TAs), represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), reached a tentative agreement with the university late last night.

News: What's so secret about air passenger safety?

Please take a minute to vist www.airpassengersafety.ca to press federal transport minister Jean Lapierre to release documents on air passenger safety and crew to passenger ratios. Senior managers in Transport Canada want these documents kept secret.

Media enquiries: CUPE BC leader to promote “City Watch” in Quesnel

CUPE BC president Barry O’Neill, continuing a provincial tour in the North, will attend a Quesnel municipal council meeting on Monday (February 28) to promote the City Watch program for the Northern community.

News: Family and Children’s Services of Hants County choose CUPE

CUPE’s presence in the CAS (Children’s Aid Society) sector continues to grow in Nova Scotia. Local 4669, employees of Family and Children’s Services of Hants County, recently chose CUPE to represent them after looking at a couple of the major public sector unions.

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Post-secondary: Backgrounder for Political Action: CUPE Takes on the Rae Report

Former Premier, Hon. Bob Rae, reviewed the post-secondary education system in Ontario. The report on his review of the design and funding of post-secondary education was issued in mid-February 2005. The Rae Report is going to influence upcoming Ontario budget decision-making; CUPE members will be mobilizing to lobby our M.P.Ps on April 1st.

Media enquiries: Municipal workers encouraged with council’s decision to support public services

St. Catharines municipal workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are encouraged with a decision by St. Catharines City Council last night to reject management’s recommendation to contract out maintenance services of the new Sportsplex.

Media enquiries: Workers to Review Committee: RBG needs to focus on original mandate

Concentrating on the original scientific, educational and horticultural mandate of the Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) is the best way to ensure the long term viability of the gardens, according to a report by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), submitted today to the Review Committee on the Role and Mandate of the Royal Botanical Gardens.

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News: CBC to show film of Argentinian workers takeover March 24

CBC will show The Take, Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis's documentary about a group of Argentinan workers who take over the auto plant where they work after its owners shut it down, on March 24th at 8pm.

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Media enquiries: Convention Communications Awards

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Media enquiries: Ottawa taxi dispatchers join locked out taxi drivers

Ottawa taxi dispatchers, represented by Local 4266.08 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will join locked out taxi drivers on the picket line at Ziptrack, Coventry Connections, 455 Coventry Road in Ottawa, beginning at 2:30 p.m., March 11 (today). The 58 dispatchers will honour the picket line of CAW members, locked out by Blue Line Taxi and Capital Taxi.

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Statements and reports: CUPE Celebrates: a report on the actions, events and trends that shaped Canada’s largest union in 2004

This 36 page Adobe Acrobat document details a year in the life of CUPE. How many new bargaining units we organized, how many contracts we signed, how many courses we offered and many other superlative facts about the organization. CUPE Celebrates describes what the union's 660 staff do and what happens to members' dues.

Media enquiries: London municipal workers ready to strike

LONDON, Ont. – Municipal workers with the City of London are set to go on strike as early as March 24th if mediation talks between the city and local 101 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) fail to reach an agreement.

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Media enquiries: Quebec’s environment minister needs a math lesson

Quebec environment minister Thomas Mulcair raised eyebrows – if not wages – this week when he blamed the province’s public transit woes on bus drivers, who, he claimed, earn $100,000 per year.

Media enquiries: Municipal strike looms in Plummer Additional

Plummer Additional, Ont. – Local 3 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing three municipal workers in Plummer Additional, has started the countdown toward a legal strike deadline, after talks with management broke off yesterday (Monday, March 14) without reaching a contract settlement.

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Media enquiries: Strong contract protections necessary for Almonte hospital workers under health service restructuring

ALMONTE, Ont. – The Ontario Liberal government plans to make profound changes to the delivery of health care services, and hospital workers who belong to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will be covered by superior job security protections negotiated in their new contract during this period of restructuring, says Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE).

Media enquiries: Work with us to advocate for better services for developmentally delayed — don’t fight us — Sarnia community living workers tell agency

Sarnia, Ont. – By stalling contract negotiations and fighting front line workers, who are advocating for improved provincial funding for supports for people with developmental disabilities, the administrators at Community Living Sarnia–Lambton are hindering the interests of clients and their families.

Media enquiries: Peace River support staff to affiliate with CUPE

School workers vote for service agreement with Canada's largest union

PEACE RIVER, Alta. – Members of the staff association at the Peace River Public School District have voted to enter into a service agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Union rescinds strike notice: City given more time to negotiate settlement

Regina, Sask. - Outside city workers, members of CUPE Local 21, rescinded their strike notice today pending the resolution of a case before the labour relations board.

Convention 2005: Advance notice: 2005 CUPE National convention

The Official Call for the 22nd regular CUPE National Convention (along with credential forms) will be mailed to you by July 4th. This Advance Notice of the Convention is being sent simply to allow your organization to plan accordingly.

Convention 2005: Convention assistance fund

Did you know that CUPE has a Convention Assistance Fund that may help send a delegate from your Local to our National Convention?

Convention 2005: Display your chartered organization’s banner at Convention

Does your chartered organization have a banner from its last convention or annual meeting?

Media enquiries: They’re singing the same old song

Recycled funding announcements still leave many public schools searching for money to meet basic needs.

BURNABY, B.C. – “They’ve now made the same announcement regarding public school funding BC at least three times,” says CUPE BC president, Barry O’Neill, “and the money still doesn’t add up to what the BC Liberals have taken out of the public school system in the last three years.”

Media enquiries: New contract for Hotel Dieu workers will provide stability as local hospitals head into restructuring

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – Hotel Dieu workers, members of Local 1097 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are set to vote on a new contract that will help ease the instability and turmoil caused by the broad changes coming in health service delivery. The two-year, breakthrough collective agreement was reached earlier this month between the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), and CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU).

Convention 2005: CUPE’s National Health and Safety Award

Do you know someone who has made a significant health and safety contribution? CUPE’s National Health and Safety Committee would like to hear from you for their National Health and Safety Award.

Convention 2005: Nominations for Grace Hartman Award

Know a CUPE sister who’s done outstanding work on women’s issues in CUPE?

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Media enquiries: Federal Transport Minister Lapierre fumbled JetsGo collapse

TORONTO – Federal Transport Minister Jean Lapierre fumbled his way through the JetsGo collapse, said Pamela Sachs, president of Air Canada’s flight attendant union.

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Media enquiries: School division support staff reject employer's offer

BIRTLE, Man. – The support staff in the Park West School Division have firmly rejected a wage and benefit offer that they say treats them differently than other division employees

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Media enquiries: Strong strike mandate in Kawartha Lakes: CUPE seeks fair contract

Kawartha Lakes, Ont. – City of Kawartha Lakes outside and inside municipal workers voted 99 per cent and 97 per cent respectively, in favour of a strike if their union, Local 855 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), is unable to reach a contract settlement with City management.

News: B.C. education minister’s numbers don’t add up… again

Looks like he’s going to keep trying until he gets it right.

News: N.B. home care workers press for wage increase

Home care workers with the Red Cross in Bathurst, N.B. (CUPE 4598) rallied this week to press for a wage increase.

News: Planned P3 ring road will be highway robbery for Calgary

CUPE Alberta president D'Arcy Lanovaz said Ontario’s Highway 407 is a cautionary tale for Albertans wondering about Calgary’s planned ring road.

News: Montreal blue collar workers can appeal contract arbitration

A Quebec court has said Montreal city workers can appeal an arbitrator’s decision that imposed major rollbacks and ended their four-day week.

News: Ontario hospital workers vote on new contract

Thousands of Ontario hospital workers began voting on their new contract this week, as union leaders warned of disruption and change ahead.

News: CUPE and Quebec unions support student strike

CUPE and the Quebec Federation of Labour (QFL) gave their unqualified support to striking college and university students this week.

Magazine Advertisements: Rebuilding Strong Communities (generic)

  • Pressing needs
  • Building equality
  • A healthy environment
  • Good jobs in the local economy
  • Our children's future
All of them good reasons for rebuilding strong communities.

News: CUPE national convention only six months away

CUPE’s 22nd national convention will take place Oct. 3-7 in Winnipeg. Locals should expect a notice in the mail soon. Or you can view it online at:

Magazine Advertisements: Rebuilding Strong Communities (bus driver)

"My work keeps our community strong"

Magazine Advertisements: Rebuilding Strong Communities (librarian)

"My work keeps my community strong"

Magazine Advertisements: Rebuilding Strong Communities (infrastructure)

"Invest in public infrastructure and keep my city strong"

Magazine Advertisements: Rebuilding Strong Communities (health care)

Enforce It. Now!
Paul Martin's Liberals need to uphold the Canada Health Act and stop the spread of privatization.

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News: March 22 World Water Day

On World Water Day, March 22, CUPE joins unions and community groups around the globe in marking the struggle to defend public water as a basic human right. In Canada, CUPE continues to campaign for government investment that rebuilds strong communities. We take on this work in the face of ongoing privatization threats to local, community control of water services. The time for major public reinvestment is now.

Media enquiries: Grand Erie District School Board workers prepare for strike

Brantford, Ont. – Grand Erie District School Board workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), could be on strike as early as next month, if a contract cannot be reached between the school board and the union.

Media enquiries: Underfunding by province hurting people in Hamilton with developmental disabilities — community living workers pay price through overwork and low wages

Hamilton – Programs and supports for people with developmental disabilities and their families in Hamilton are woefully underfunded, and clients and front line workers are paying the price, say Hamilton area community living counsellors.

Media enquiries: Underfunding by province hurting people in Windsor-Essex with developmental disabilities — community living workers pay price through overwork and low wages

Windsor – Programs and supports for people with developmental disabilities and their families in Windsor are woefully underfunded, and clients and front line workers are paying the price, say Windsor area community living counsellors.

National Executive Board: CUPE supports union campaign against Wal-Mart

CUPE supports the Canadian Labour Congress and the United Food and Commercial Workers' campaign against US retail giant Wal-Mart. The campaign is aimed at exposing the company's scorched earth approach to dealing with unions. Wal-Mart recently closed its Jonquière store after workers there voted to join UFCW. For full text of the CUPE national executive board resolution, read on.

Policy: CUPE’s response to banning mandatory retirement

Mandatory retirement is the wrong issue. Most workers would prefer to retire earlier, not later. However if you don't have a pension, no matter what the law says, you will have to keep working when you hit 65. CUPE wants real retirement choices for older workers, to allow them to retire in dignity and security and to make room for younger workers. CUPE is also concerned that efforts to repeal mandatory retirement laws, as in Ontario, will make it harder for all workers to retire.

Policy: CUPE’s response to banning mandatory retirement

Mandatory retirement is the wrong issue. Most workers would prefer to retire earlier, not later. However if you don't have a pension, no matter what the law says, you will have to keep working when you hit 65. CUPE wants real retirement choices for older workers, to allow them to retire in dignity and security and to make room for younger workers. CUPE is also concerned that efforts to repeal mandatory retirement laws, as in Ontario, will make it harder for all workers to retire.

Media enquiries: Health care union comments on CBC infectious disease coverage

CBC radio and television news coverage of hospital induced illnesses is timely and appropriate, according to representatives of CUPE, the union representing over 10,000 of Manitoba’s health care support workers.

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Media enquiries: Staff cuts and office closures at CUSO cast doubt on future of international development agency, CUPE warns

OTTAWA – Staff cuts and office closures at CUSO, Canada’s first volunteer-sending global social justice organization, threaten CUSO’s long-term viability, warns Local 2440 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing staff at CUSO in offices across Canada and around the world.

Media enquiries: CUPE gives Saskatchewan budget mixed marks

REGINA - The Canadian Union of Public Employees welcomed the additional health funding and other social spending announced in the provincial budget unveiled today, but said more could have been done given the province’s improved finances.

Media enquiries: Camosun College child care program will stay open

VICTORIA—Parents and workers involved in Camosun College’s child care program were pleased to hear that the Board of Governors voted, at their March 21, 2005 meeting to keep the award-winning program open.

Media enquiries: Close funding gaps for Windsor-Essex services for people with developmental disabilities — community living workers tell Pupatello

WINDSOR, ON – Provincial underfunding for Windsor-Essex programs and supports for people with developmental disabilities and their families is hurting clients, and front line workers are paying the price through overwork and low wages, said area community living counsellors at a media conference in Windsor today.

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News: Manitoba child care workers mark March 21

Children at the Mount Carmel Clinic Child Care Centre marked International Day for the Elimination of Racism on March 21st. They painted pictures provided by CUPE. CUPE members working at the Clinic (Local 2343) also put up a display that included a banner from the Equal Rights and Opportunities Committee of CUPE Manitoba.

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Media enquiries: Medicine Hat hospital workers ratify contract

New agreement gives workers 12% wage increases, benefit improvements
MEDICINE HAT – After a year of sometimes contentious bargaining, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Palliser Health Region have reached a settlement.

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Media enquiries: Prince Rupert would be safer with city workers on the lookout, says O’Neill

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. – Communities in BC that adopt a program involving municipal workers with local police in the fight against crime are safer as a result of the joint effort, says CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill, who will deliver a presentation on the union’s “City Watch” program at Prince Rupert city council Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 7:00 p.m.

News: Quebec welfare cuts anger municipal social service workers

The Charest government’s announcement of $150 million in cuts to social assistance this week angered municipal welfare workers.

News: Oshawa council approves rec centre P3 despite opposition

Oshawa’s city council voted Mar. 10 to build a P3 sports and entertainment complex, but opponents say the fight isn’t over

News: CUPE gives Saskatchewan budget mixed reviews

Next year, Saskatchewan will reverse some of its cutbacks to health care and will spend more on social programs. But these steps, announced in this week’s provincial budget, may not be enough to head off a labour dispute with its 12,000 health care workers.

News: CUPE wins representation vote at Quebec medical centre

A Quebec local gained more than 2,000 new members this week as workers at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ) voted to join CUPE 1108.

News: Workers need better retirement options, CUPE says

CUPE released a policy statement on mandatory retirement this week, in response to Ontario government initiatives to let people work after 65.

News: National per capita drops as strike fund hits $25 million

Locals will have to pay less to CUPE national as of April 1, 2005.

Media enquiries: Government lends Maple Ridge BC $49 million to buy back failed P3

VANCOUVER – The Municipal Finance Authority (MFA) has loaned a staggering $49 million to Maple Ridge to buy-back a failed public-private partnership (P3) project in the downtown core.

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Media enquiries: Unless province acts, union to set up hospital superbug hotline

Toronto – Despite reports last week that the strain of C. difficile that killed 108 patients in Montreal is now infecting patients in Toronto, Ontario has not ordered mandatory reporting of such diseases by health facilities, says Michael Hurley, President, Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE.

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Media enquiries: Timmins child and family services management sets the stage for major disruption

TIMMINS, Ont. – Management negotiators at Child and Family Services of Timmins and District have asked the Ontario ministry of Labour for a no-board report, starting the countdown to a legal lockout/strike deadline. A work stoppage by 150 members of Local 2196 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) could begin as early as mid-April.

Media enquiries: Keep profit out of child care, other social services, Sid Ryan tells union activists

OTTAWA — Union members must rise to the challenge of convincing the provincial — and federal — government to keep child care programs in the not-for-profit sector, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan will tell more than 300 social services workers meeting here until April 3.

Media enquiries: Tackle superbugs now, or union will set up a hotline for public to report infectious outbreaks

Toronto – “The Ontario government can do more to protect patients from the threat of superbugs like C. difficile by requiring mandatory reporting of all infectious disease outbreaks at Ontario hospitals,” said Michael Hurley, the president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (CUPE/OCHU) at a Queen’s Park media conference today.

Media enquiries: Strong strike mandate at Algoma District School Board – talks fail

SAULT STE-MARIE, Ont. – Trades, custodial and maintenance staff with the Algoma District School Board, have voted 95 per cent in favour of strike action if a contract settlement cannot be reached between the school board and Local 16 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Conciliation talks on March 29th and 30th failed to produce a settlement.

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Media enquiries: CUPE Alberta convention starts today

The 55th annual CUPE Alberta annual convention begins today. About 200 delegates are expected to attend this year’s convention, an increase from last year. Highlights of the convention include the election of a new executive, with at least two candidates competing for the Presidency, and the restructuring resolutions.

Media enquiries: CUPE Quebec’s university sector gets behind striking students

Quebec post-secondary sector workers gave their support to the province’s striking students at their convention near Sherbrooke this week.

News: Erratum

CUPE 1108 represents 3,000 members at the Centre hospitalier de l’université du Québec. An incorrect figure appeared last week.

News: P.E.I. government criticized for unilateral decision

CUPE PEI launched an ad campaign urging the provincial government to come clean on its plans to cut back public sector workers.

News: Saskatchewan parliamentarians give themselves a raise

Saskatchewan’s provincial parliamentarians are raising their own wages more than twice as much as the increase they granted to public sector workers.

Media enquiries: Cape Breton-Victoria School Board employees to vote on employer’s “final offer”

(Sydney) – With a strike deadline still looming, school board workers at the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board (CBVRSB) will hold special meetings tomorrow, April 2, to vote on a final offer from their employer.

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Media enquiries: Cape Breton Victoria School Board employees on strike

SYDNEY, N.S. – Picket lines went up at 7 a.m. on April 3,at schools throughout the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board (CBVRSB).

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p3 alert - March 2005: Focus on water

March 22 is World Water Day. To mark local, national and international struggles, this issue of P3 Alert is devoted to stories about water privatization.

p3 alert - March 2005: B.C. water plant opens … publicly

There’s a new drinking water plant up and running in the city of Kamloops, B.C., and it’s publicly owned and operated.

p3 alert - March 2005: Vive l’eau publique !

United States consumer watchdog Public Citizen has a new publication monitoring the bottled water industry. One story, excerpted from the current issue, highlights how the city of Paris is promoting public tap water.

p3 alert - March 2005: Dodging another disaster: Sri Lanka’s water privatization wars

The Sri Lankan government is using tsunami reconstruction projects to open the door to water privatization, warns one of the country’s leading advocacy groups for rural people.

p3 alert - March 2005: Bolivia water fight boils over

Five years after Bolivians drove water privateer Bechtel out of the city of Cochabamba, another water war is underway against multinational Suez. A widespread public protest has been underway in the city of El Alto since late last year, and it’s reaching the boiling point.

p3 alert - March 2005: U.S. city blocked in water buy-back bid

It seems residents of Pekin, Illinois, are stuck with private water – for now. The city has lost another legal round in its five-year fight to buy back its water system from the Illinois American Water corporation.

p3 alert - March 2005: Dirty Aid, Dirty Water

A new book from World Development Movement details the continuing push by donor governments and international institutions to privatize water and sanitation in developing countries.

p3 alert - March 2005: Quotable quote

“Using one of the biggest disasters in history to create an even bigger disaster must be prevented.”

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Media enquiries: MLAs shouldn't water down smoking bill - CUPE

CALGARY - Alberta MLAs should resist pressure to water down an anti-smoking bill being debated today in the legislature. That was the message from D'Arcy Lanovaz, President of CUPE Alberta.

Media enquiries: Delegates accept funding for full-time President

RED DEER , AB -- With little debate, over two-thirds of the delegates to the CUPE Alberta annual convention voted for a per capita increase to fund a full time President.

Media enquiries: Moist slams Klein government address to convention tackles health, child care

RED DEER, AB -- National President Paul Moist used his address to delegates yesterday to take aim at the Alberta government, saying Premier Klein’s "third-way" for health care was little more than a smoke-screen for private health care.

Media enquiries: “Don’t fight us at the bargaining table,” say frustrated Windsor/Essex community living staff readying to strike

Windsor – Windsor and Essex County community living workers say they are disappointed and frustrated that the administrations of area agencies have chosen to fight them at the bargaining table instead of negotiating a settlement that would benefit services for people with developmental disabilities and their families.

Media enquiries: Carleton University sessional lecturers resume conciliation talks – hope to avoid strike

OTTAWA, Ont. – Sessional lecturers at Carleton University, represented by Local 4600 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will resume negotiations with the help of a provincial conciliation officer on April 7th, 2005, in a bid to prevent a strike at the university.

Media enquiries: Quesnel contract honours joint promise of labour peace

QUESNEL, B.C. – After only three days of bargaining last week, the City of Quesnel and its CUPE Local 1050 municipal workers have a new labour agreement that honours the joint promise of improved labour relations made in October 2004. Both parties ratified the agreement last night.

Media enquiries: Underfunded, overworked and understaffed Brantford community living workers frustrated by negotiations

Brantford, Ont. — Programs and supports for people with developmental disabilities and their families in Brantford are woefully underfunded, and both community living workers and supported individuals are paying the price, say front line counsellors.

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Media enquiries: Whistler municipal workers walk out, then address Resident Affordability Task Force

WHISTLER, B.C. – After a heated incident at work, Whistler municipal workers walked off the job yesterday. Rather than hitting the picketline, the workers addressed the municipally-appointed Resident Affordability TaskForce in Whistler Council chambers and presented them with CUPE 2010’s concerns around affordability in Whistler.

Media enquiries: Deadline set in Toronto Zoo talks, union fears lockout

TORONTO – Toronto Zoo employees could be walking picket lines as early as 12:01 a.m., April 25 after management negotiators asked a Ministry of Labour conciliator to file a “no board” report yesterday that triggers a strike/lockout deadline.

Media enquiries: Privatization threatens community services, Sid Ryan to tell municipal workers’ conference

LONDON — Whether it’s public private sports and entertainment facilities or contracting out waste management, municipal workers must campaign to stop privatization because it’s bad for workers and for local taxpayers, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

Media enquiries: 30,000 Ontario hospital workers vote 95 per cent in favour of new contract

Toronto – Nearly 30,000 Ontario hospital workers who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have voted 95 per cent in favour of ratifying a new contract with the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and other hospital employers.

News: CUPE 5167 members donate blood to mark day of mourning

Members of CUPE Local 5167 in Hamilton donated blood on April 5th at a local blood-donor clinic, organized to raise awareness of the April 28 Workers’ Day of Mourning.

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Media enquiries: University workers launch lobby campaign for increased funding, ongoing tuition freeze

TORONTO — Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) members from university campuses across Ontario will be visiting their MPPs on April 8 to present petitions calling for restoration of funding that has been cut from postsecondary education in the last 10 years.

Media enquiries: Mediation last chance to avoid a strike at Kawartha Lakes

KAWARTHA LAKES, Ont. – Municipal workers with the City of Kawartha Lakes are set to go on strike April 23rd, at 12:01 a.m., if mediation talks between the City and Local 855 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), fail to produce a new contract.

Media enquiries: CUPE’s Wayne Lucas touring the province to talk about government restructuring

Corner Brook, N.S. - Wayne Lucas, President of CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador, has kicked off a tour of the province with meetings on the west coast this week.

Bargaining: Economic Climate for Bargaining - March 2005

This report provides a broad overview of the general trends in wage settlements and other economic information as it pertains to public sector collective bargaining in Canada. Information for the fourth quarter and all of 2004 is generally the most recent information available now. Where possible, more recent information is included.

Media enquiries: Public private partnerships (P3s): an international disaster

“New Deal for Cities” poised to spread faulty financing mechanism as new report exposes 100 “flawed, failed, abandoned” P3s in Canada, Australia & the UK

OTTAWA – A new report exposes 100 examples of flawed, failed or abandoned infrastructure projects using the controversial “public private partnership” (P3) privatization model in Canada, Australia and the UK, undermining the overblown claims of P3 backers.

Media enquiries: New contract for Ottawa hospital workers will provide stability

OTTAWA, Ont. – Ottawa hospital workers, members of Local 4000 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are set to vote on a new contract that will help workers concentrate on patient care and provide stability in the hospital system. The two-year, breakthrough collective agreement is patterned on a deal reached last month between the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), and CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU).

Media enquiries: Grand Erie District School Board workers on strike

BRANTFORD, Ont. – Grand Erie District School Board’s office, clerical and technical workers, CUPE 5100, rejected their employer’s latest offer last night and will go on strike Friday, April 8th, 2005.

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Media enquiries: Wayne Lucas to tour Northern Peninsula week of April 11

CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador president Wayne Lucas will continue his provincial tour with a visit to the greater Northern Peninsula next week (April 11).

Media enquiries: Cape Breton-Victoria School Board trying to mislead parents and the public

The union representing striking members of CUPE Local 5050 says the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board (CBVRSB) is trying to mislead the public about the offer it has made to its employees.

Media enquiries: Child and Family Services workers to hold information picket and rally Monday

Child and Family Services of Timmins and District workers will hold an information picket and rally outside their workplace at noon, on Monday, April 11th, as negotiators for Local 2196 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) meet with management to try and avert a lockout or strike, with the help of a provincial mediator.

Media enquiries: Underfunded, overworked and understaffed, Espanola community living workers say people with developmental disabilities deserve better

Programs and support for people with developmental disabilities and their families in Espanola are woefully underfunded, and both community living workers and clients are paying the price, say front line counsellors.

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Media enquiries: Making students perform striking school board workers’ duties will not end strike

BRANTFORD, Ont. – Getting grade eight students to answer phones in schools will not end the Grand Erie District School Board strike, said the board’s striking office, clerical and technical workers. The over 300 workers, on strike over job security since Friday, April 8th, are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Strait Regional School Board employees reject final offer – set strike deadline of April 25

(Port Hawkesbury) – A second group of Nova Scotia school board workers has rejected a final contract offer from its employer and set a strike deadline.

Media enquiries: CUPE Local 5050 to hold strike support rally April 14 in Sydney

Media enquiries: Striking school board workers to hold solidarity rally today

BRANTFORD, Ont. – Striking Grand Erie District School Board workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will hold a solidarity rally outside the board’s headquarters, at 349 Erie Avenue, at 4:45 pm Monday, April 11, 2005, where board members will be holding their bi-monthly meeting.

Media enquiries: CUPE BC gears up for 42nd Convention: Election theme tops agenda

VICTORIA - With an anticipated 600 delegates and guests, the retirement of an outstanding trade unionist and a provincial election looming on the horizon, CUPE BC’s 42nd annual convention in Victoria (April 13-16) promises to be a memorable one.

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Media enquiries: Underfunded, overworked and understaffed, Espanola community living workers say people with developmental disabilities deserve better

Programs and support for people with developmental disabilities and their families in Espanola are woefully underfunded, and both community living workers and clients are paying the price, say front line counsellors.

Media enquiries: CUPE National President in Fredericton for provincial convention

Paul Moist, the national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will be in Fredericton tomorrow for the annual convention of CUPE’s New Brunswick Division.

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Media enquiries: Ottawa hospital workers vote 94 per cent in favour of new contract

Ottawa hospital workers, members of Local 4000 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted 94 per cent in favour of a two-year collective agreement last night (Wednesday, April 13th).

Media enquiries: Education funding a “one-shot deal”: Malcolmson report

CUPE predicts two-year freeze in education funding

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Media enquiries: Underfunded, overworked and understaffed, South Huron community living workers say people with developmental disabilities deserve better

Exeter, Ont. – Programs and supports for people with developmental disabilities and their families in South Huron are woefully underfunded, and both community living workers and clients are paying the price, say front line counsellors with Community Living South Huron.

Media enquiries: Schools will crumble, ambulance service still ignored

EDMONTON – At the same time that the provincial government has increased funding for private schools, the Conservative government continues to allow school buildings to crumble.

Media enquiries: CUPE welcomes government-teacher agreement, looks for quick action on workload

OTTAWA — CUPE Ontario school board workers are encouraged by the provincial government’s willingness to address the issues of elementary teachers, especially their 200 minutes of preparation time, says Frank Ventresca, chair of the union’s school board coordinating committee.

Media enquiries: Sid Ryan to lead solidarity rally

KAWARTHA LAKES, Ont. – Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan will lead a solidarity rally for municipal workers with the City of Kawartha Lakes at 10:00 a.m., on Saturday, April 16th at Victoria Park in Lindsay.

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Media enquiries: CUPE activists to lead solidarity rally for City of Kawartha Lakes workers

KAWARTHA LAKES, Ont. – Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario Division representatives and other union activists will lead a solidarity rally for municipal workers with the City of Kawartha Lakes at 10:00 a.m., on Saturday, April 16th at Victoria Park in Lindsay. (due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, Sid Ryan will not be able to attend, as announced earlier – please note the new speakers’ list below)

Media enquiries: CUPE school board workers plan bargaining strategy at annual conference

OTTAWA – More than 200 union activists representing 50,000 Ontario school board employees are meeting here to plan bargaining strategy in a school system that is still in a state of crisis.

Media enquiries: CUPE BC president re-elected, new executive sworn in

VICTORIA – On the final day of CUPE BC’s 42nd convention, delegates from across the province have re-elected Barry O’Neill as president and elected a new executive board to represent the union’s approximately 70,000 members.

Media enquiries: McGuinty does what Mike Harris could not as private electricity generation projects announced, CUPE charges

TORONTO — Dalton McGuinty is doing what Mike Harris could not — privatizing the generation of electricity in Ontario, said Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

News: More Nova Scotia school board employees set to strike

A second group of Nova Scotia school board workers has rejected a final contract offer and set a strike deadline. The 400 members of CUPE 955 who work for the Strait Regional School Board are looking for wage parity adjustments.

News: Université de Sherbrooke clerical workers on strike

Some 120 clerical employees of the Université de Sherbrooke, in southern Quebec – members of CUPE 7498 – will strike Mon., April 18th. The action will mostly affect the university’s administrative services and not the students. This is not a general strike; the university employs about 700 clerical workers.

News: CUPE gives Alberta budget thumbs down

CUPE Alberta president D’Arcy Lanovaz thinks this week's provincial budget short changed kids, public schools and ambulance services.

News: Kamloops water plant opens... publicly

There’s a new drinking water plant up and running in Kamloops, B.C., and it’s publicly owned and operated thanks to a fight waged by CUPE 900 four years ago.

News: Grand Erie district school board workers end strike

The 300 office, clerical and technical workers of CUPE 5100 were back at work today after ending a strike that began April 8.

Advertisements: Rebuilding Strong Communities (water worker)

"My work keeps my community strong"

Media enquiries: Fort McMurray civic employees win 12% wage increase

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – A new contract between the Municipality of Wood Buffalo and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) gives employees increased wages and benefits.

News: Boisterous solidarity rally for City of Kawartha Lakes workers

Over 200 CUPE 855 members, their families and supporters, including CUPE Ontario Division representative Fred Hahn, participated in a solidarity rally, on Saturday, April 16th, to raise awareness of the municipal workers’ outstanding bargaining issues.

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Media enquiries: CUPE school board workers tell Lucas ‘essential service’ designation must be removed

St. Anthony, NL – With school board workers in Cape Breton out on strike in one school board, and another soon to follow, CUPE school board workers here in Newfoundland and Labrador say it’s serving to highlight a major flaw in our province’s labour laws.

Media enquiries: Striking Cape Breton school board workers “strongly reject” latest offer

SYDNEY, NS – The strike at the Cape Breton-Victoria School Board continues.

News: St. Catharines CUPE members celebrate victory

After a long public campaign to stop the privatization of maintenance services at the St. Catharines new sports arena, members of CUPE Local 150 will now provide maintenance services at the Sportsplex, after City Council ratified an agreement reached between management and the union.

News: Timmins Child and Family Services workers strike over workloads

CUPE 2196's 150 social service workers are on strike today after their employer, Child and Family Services of Timmins and District, asked for a forced vote on their latest offer.

Media enquiries: Other community living agencies have money for fair wage increases, why doesn’t Sarnia agency? Ask Sarnia community living staff, among the lowest paid in Ontario

Sarnia – A province-wide comparison of wage scales in the developmental services sector shows that front line staff with Community Living Sarnia are among the lowest paid community living workers in Ontario.

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Media enquiries: CUPE Manitoba members exercise their democracy

BRANDON – Public sector support workers are meeting in Brandon this week, for the 42nd Annual Manitoba Convention of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: CUPE responds to school board request for binding arbitration

Sydney, NS – CUPE Local 5050 has responded to a request from the Cape Breton-Victoria School Board to use binding arbitration to end their dispute.

Federal Budget 2005: CUPE’s view on the post- Budget/pre-Election Debate 2005

Day after day, the papers report this minority government will soon face a vote of non-confidence and Canadians will be sent back to the polls a year after the last one.

Guides for Activists: Grievance factsheet

This Grievance Fact Sheet is designed to assist Grievance Officers to keep a written record of what the grievance is about and what happens to it as it is processed through the various steps of the grievance procedure.

Guides for Activists: Grievance factsheet

This Grievance Fact Sheet is designed to assist Grievance Officers to keep a written record of what the grievance is about and what happens to it as it is processed through the various steps of the grievance procedure.

Guides for Activists: Generic CUPE grievance form

This bilingual form allows local union activists to systematically file grievances with their employer, including space to fill in information about the violation, action or redress sought, as well as to provide information about the grievance's resolution. Adobe Acrobat format

Guides for Activists: Generic CUPE grievance form

This bilingual form allows local union activists to systematically file grievances with their employer, including space to fill in information about the violation, action or redress sought, as well as to provide information about the grievance's resolution. Adobe Acrobat format

Media enquiries: Child and Family Services workers strike over wages and workloads

TIMMINS, Ont. – Child and Family Services of Timmins and District workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will walk off the job on Tuesday, April 19th, after their employer applied to the ministry of Labour for a forced vote by CUPE members on management’s last offer.

Convention 2005: Delegate travel

W.E. has been designated as the official travel agency for the 2005 CUPE National Convention. Its employees are members of CUPE Local 3532. If you make your travel arrangements through an alternate travel agency, please quote the following event number to obtain the negotiated special convention rates: Air Canada CV053916

Media enquiries: BC Fed prez joins Whistler’s first labour rally

WHISTLER – The resort municipality of Whistler (RMOW) saw its first ever labour march and rally yesterday organized by CUPE 2010, Whistler municipal workers. The workers were joined by almost one hundred supporters, including BC Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair and CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill.

Media enquiries: Ontario should put JobsNow money into municipal employment services, not private company, CUPE says

TORONTO — The Ontario government should expand municipal and community-based employment services, not pay a private for-profit company to do the same work, says Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan.

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Media enquiries: CUPE National President in Brandon for provincial convention

CUPE National President Paul Moist will cheer on CUPE Manitoba members in their efforts to rebuild strong communities at their annual convention tomorrow, April 21, in Brandon, Manitoba.

News: April 28th Day of Mourning

Every year, CUPE members across the country organize April 28th events to recognize our sisters and brothers who were injured, made sick or killed at work. We encourage you to take a moment at 11:00 a.m. on April 28th to reflect on the ultimate price paid by workers earning a living.

Media enquiries: CUPE reaches tentative agreement with province in school board dispute

HALIFAX – The union representing striking school board workers in Cape Breton has signed a tentative agreement with the provincial government that, if accepted by the members of CUPE Local 5050, will end the strike at the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board.

Media enquiries: Long-term care workers fight cutbacks and anti-union sentiment at Centennial Manor

LITTLE CURRENT, ON – Long-term care workers at Centennial Manor on Manitoulin Island, represented by Local 2165 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are angry over statements made by chair of the home’s Board of Directors, Pentti Palonen, blaming financial difficulties at the facility on unionized workers and their wages and benefits. The union is also fighting cutbacks in hours that affect resident care.

Media enquiries: Supreme Court of Canada to hear charter challenge to Campbell Liberals’ contract-breaking law

The highest court in the land said today that it will hear arguments on whether the Gordon Campbell government’s contract-breaking law violates the equality and freedom of association rights of health care workers in B.C.

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Media enquiries: South Huron community living agency inciting workers to scab in event of strike

South Huron – Front line staff with South Huron Community Living are furious that their agency administration is attempting to incite workers to scab in the event of a strike or lockout at the agency.

Privatization: Flawed, failed, abandoned: 100 P3s, Canadian & International

"The report, Flawed, Failed, Abandoned: 100 P3s, Canadian & International Evidence, documents dubious P3 projects in the health, municipal and education sectors, providing examples in provinces across Canada, as well as in Australia, England, Scotland and Wales. It details a litany of cost overruns, legal disputes, bankruptcies, environmental disasters, and shoddy construction. Many P3s have been abandoned outright as the steep terms required by the for-profit companies become clear.

Privatization: Flawed, failed, abandoned: 100 P3s, Canadian & International

"The report, Flawed, Failed, Abandoned: 100 P3s, Canadian & International Evidence, documents dubious P3 projects in the health, municipal and education sectors, providing examples in provinces across Canada, as well as in Australia, England, Scotland and Wales. It details a litany of cost overruns, legal disputes, bankruptcies, environmental disasters, and shoddy construction. Many P3s have been abandoned outright as the steep terms required by the for-profit companies become clear.

Privatization: Flawed, failed, abandoned: 100 P3s, Canadian & International

"The report, Flawed, Failed, Abandoned: 100 P3s, Canadian & International Evidence, documents dubious P3 projects in the health, municipal and education sectors, providing examples in provinces across Canada, as well as in Australia, England, Scotland and Wales. It details a litany of cost overruns, legal disputes, bankruptcies, environmental disasters, and shoddy construction. Many P3s have been abandoned outright as the steep terms required by the for-profit companies become clear.

Media enquiries: CUPE Nova Scotia to hold 2005 convention in Sydney

CUPE Nova Scotia will hold its 41st annual convention in Sydney, Monday, April 25 through Wednesday, April 27 at the Delta Hotel.

Media enquiries: Manitoba CUPE members challenge Doer government

Public sector support workers meeting in Brandon this week at the annual CUPE Manitoba Convention blasted the provincial government on its treatment of public sector support workers, but agreed to continue their support for the NDP.

Media enquiries: Historic victory for Cape Breton school board workers

Cape Breton school board workers have voted overwhelmingly to accept an historic deal between the Nova Scotia government and their union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 5050, ending a 20-day strike.

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Media enquiries: Toronto Zoo negotiations continue; lockout possible

TORONTO – Toronto Zoo employees could be locked out Sunday at midnight if labour and management fail to reach an agreement on a new contract.

Media enquiries: Toronto Zoo and Union at an impasse; deadline extended

TORONTO – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1600 and the Toronto Zoo agreed to extend a lockout deadline by seven days following a long day of bargaining. Talks ended just before midnight last night.

News: CUPE welcomes Ontario government-teacher agreement

CUPE Ontario school board workers are encouraged by the provincial government’s willingness to address the issues of elementary teachers, says Frank Ventresca, chair of the union’s school board coordinating committee.

News: UN: BC grits have worst labour record in North America

The International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency, has again condemned British Columbia Liberals’ poor record on protecting workers’ human rights.

Media enquiries: City of Kawartha Lakes municipal workers ratify collective agreement – strike averted

KAWARTHA LAKES, Ont. – Inside and outside municipal workers with the City of Kawartha Lakes, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), ratified a collective agreement last night, Friday, April 22, averting a strike that was set to begin today.

Media enquiries: Sarnia community living workers committed to strengthening services, avert strike

Sarnia, Ont. – Front line staff with Sarnia Community Living, who reached a tentative settlement and averted a strike at the 11th hour this weekend, say they can now focus on securing increased provincial funding and strengthening developmental services.

Media enquiries: CUPE long-term care workers win improved wages and working conditions at Extendicare nursing homes

TORONTO, Ont. – Long-term care workers at Extendicare nursing homes in Toronto, Kapuskasing, Sudbury, Timmins, New Lisgard, Haileybury, Cobalt (Tri-Town), Oshawa and Ottawa, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have won wage increases ranging from 9 to 13 per cent over three years.

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Media enquiries: Talk union, talk election -- upcoming member meetings

HEU's new secretary-business manager Judy Darcy will continue a series of regional membership meetings this week in Castlegar on Wednesday night.

News: Anti-poverty activists and CUPE members protest Toronto shelter closure

Anti-poverty activists and CUPE members protested at Toronto's city hall this week against the closure of Central Neighbourhood House.

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Health Care: New research a wakeup call for provinces: Keep health services public and well-paid

There’s a clear message coming from BC to provinces considering privatizing or contracting out health support services – and it’s a warning to keep these jobs public and well-paid. A new study shows that instead of saving money, contracting out health support jobs and cutting workers’ wages have many hidden costs for patients, workers and communities.

Media enquiries: Workers say Ontario government policies are placing young offenders and communities in jeopardy

TORONTO – Ontario’s Ministry of Children and Youth Services is jeopardizing young offenders’ chances of rehabilitation and increasing the odds that they will re-offend by closing open detention and open custody facilities, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Essex County Library workers fight to protect services – May 10 strike/lockout deadline

ESSEX COUNTY, Ont. – Essex County Library workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will be in a legal strike or lockout position on May 10, 2005, if a contract settlement cannot be reached.

Media enquiries: CUPE Nova Scotia delegates elect new president

SYDNEY, NS– Delegates to the CUPE Nova Scotia convention in Sydney this week have elected a new provincial president.

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Media enquiries: Flags to fly at half mast for workers killed on the job

CUPE, school board initiative in New Westminster creates new tradition for April 28

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. – An annual day of mourning for workers killed, injured or disabled on the job will have added significance in New Westminster, thanks to a joint initiative by CUPE Local 409 (New Westminster Schools) and School District 40.

Media enquiries: Dubious “funding model” for new North Bay hospital construction seems just like another private hospital deal

Sudbury, Ont. – The “innovative funding model” the provincial Liberal government is proposing to finance construction of a new hospital in North Bay could be just another private hospital deal in disguise, warns the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) who are holding a media conference in Sudbury on Friday to highlight their concerns about the dubious deal.

Media enquiries: Manitoba health care support workers picket private nursing home

WINNIPEG – Collective bargaining between unionized workers and the owners of Charleswood Care Centre has ground down to a standstill.

Media enquiries: Day of Mourning message to Hamm government – “It’s time to move from ads to action”

Truro, N.S. – On this the International Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job, Canada’s largest union has a message for the provincial government here in Nova Scotia: It’s time to move from ads to action on healthier and safer workplaces.

p3 alert - April 2005: P3s: An international disaster

A new report undermines the overblown claims of P3 backers. The study exposes 100 flawed, failed or abandoned infrastructure projects using the P3 privatization model in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

p3 alert - April 2005: Driving transit P3s out of Quebec

A well-organized campaign that included demonstrations and a provincewide drop of 100,000 pamphlets has paid off for transportation workers in Quebec. The minister of transport recently announced he will not push P3s for public transit.

p3 alert - April 2005: $49 million price tag for B.C. P3 buyback

The district of Maple Ridge, B.C., has borrowed a staggering $49 million to buy back a failed P3 project in the downtown core. The province’s Municipal Finance Authority is loaning the money, helping Maple Ridge cut its losses after becoming entangled in a scandalous – and illegal – P3 downtown core development project.

p3 alert - April 2005: Surgeons cut up privatization

British surgeons say contracting out routine surgeries to private clinics is wreaking havoc on hospitals. The association representing the country’s general surgeons says the private sector is “cream skimming” the easy operations to rake in profits as fast as possible.

p3 alert - April 2005: Top court to hear Bill 29 challenge

The highest court in the land will rule on whether a British Columbia government contract-breaking law violates workers’ rights. The legislation, Bill 29, tore up B.C. health care workers’ collective agreements, paving the way for unprecedented privatization of health care services and triggering the mass firing of more than 8,500 health care workers – mostly women and many, people of colour.

p3 alert - April 2005: The pains of privatization

A new report details the devastation caused by the privatization of health support services in British Columbia. The report, co-authored for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives by CUPE researcher Jane Stinson and HEU researcher Marcy Cohen, follows workers as their jobs are privatized. The human face they put on the massive privatization is a grimace of pain.

p3 alert - April 2005: Tories to Klein: keep your mouth shut

Federal Tories gearing up to force an early election are busy trying to downplay the pro-privatization policies they know don’t appeal to voters. Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has reportedly been asked to “tone down or delay” any health care announcements, to avoid the mid-campaign flameout that burned the Tories last June.

p3 alert - April 2005: Quotable quote

“Surgeons, who are committed to a high standard of care, cannot sit idly by and not voice their deep concerns … By the time the irrationality of the present privatization policy has been appreciated by government and the general public, a great many people will have suffered directly and indirectly from its effects.”

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Global Justice: Newsletter Global Justice in a Global Community

A message from the CUPE National Officers: Congratulations on this first Global Justice Mondiale newsletter. CUPE has a reputation for defending the rights of workers and building strong communities across Canada. We are also building a reputation for our important international work. This newsletter will show how CUPE is on the front line locally and globally.

Media enquiries: Manitoba child care deal sets cross-Canada standard

No election until child care cash secured, says CUPE President

Media enquiries: CUPE Newfoundland & Labrador to hold 2005 convention in Grand Falls/Windsor

St John’s – CUPE Newfoundland & Labrador will hold its 31st annual convention in Grand Falls/Windsor, Monday, May 2 through Wednesday, May 4 at the Mount Peyton Hotel.

Media enquiries: CUPE children’s aid workers win improved wages and benefits

OSHAWA, Ont. – Children’s aid workers at the Durham Children’s Aid Society, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), ratified a new collective agreement yesterday evening, Thursday, April 28. The workers voted 87 per cent in favour of the three-year contract, which includes improved benefits and wage increases of three per cent each year.

Media enquiries: “Innovative funding model” for new North Bay hospital could be private hospital deal in disguise

SUDBURY, Ont. – Residents in northern Ontario communities like North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie should be wary about how their money may be used in the “innovative funding model” the province is proposing to finance new hospitals in those cities, said the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at a media conference in Sudbury today.

Media enquiries: CUPE child care workers welcome political promises

...but anxiously wait to see the money.

National Executive Board: Danny Cavanagh

Regional Vice-President, Nova Scotia

News: CUPE members mark the day of mourning for injured and killed workers

The tiny canary was once the only safeguard mine workers had against danger in the workplace. If the canary died, it was a signal to evacuate the mines... fast. This week CUPE members across Canada acted as frontline protection for their fellow citizens. They have become the canaries.

News: Quebec public sector heads for fall showdown with Charest government

The common front of Quebec public sector union's April 26 show of force was only a hint of things to come, CUPE leaders say.

News: Ontario’s move to eliminate 'open detention' centres for young offenders will create more criminals, CUPE says

An Ontario social services ministry decision to shut down "open detention" and "open custody" facilities will risk creating more hardened criminals, Cindy Lee says.

News: Ontario hospital workers protest contracting out at Sudbury hospital

More than 200 hospital workers were on hand this week to protest plans to contract out food services at hospitals in the near-northern Ontario, City of Sudbury.

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Media enquiries: Developmental services in Sudbury woefully underfunded; clients and front line staff paying the price

Sudbury, Ont. – Programs and supports for people with developmental disabilities and their families in Sudbury are woefully underfunded, and both community living workers and people with developmental disabilities are paying the price, say front line counsellors with Sudbury Developmental Services.

Media enquiries: Negotiations for outside workers with the City of Toronto on life support

TORONTO, Ont. – Contract talks between the City of Toronto and Toronto Civic Employees Union Local 416 (CUPE), representing 6,000 outside workers, are on life support and on the brink of collapse, according to Brian Cochrane, Local 416 president.

Media enquiries: Alberta missing the boat on child care – CUPE

Time to strike a deal while the feds are in bargaining mode

News: CUPE 87 launches anti-privatization campaign

CUPE 87, representing municipal workers in Thunder Bay, Ontario, launched an anti-privatization campaign this May Day weekend, with the theme "Proudly serving our communities".

News: CUPE 87 launches anti-privatization campaign

CUPE 87, representing municipal workers in Thunder Bay, Ontario, launched an anti-privatization campaign this May Day weekend, with the theme "Proudly serving our communities".

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Media enquiries: Union Villa is getting bigger but it is not getting better

UNIONVILLE, Ont. -- Front-line staff at Union Villa are overworked and underpaid, to the detriment of residents and home-care clients of the long-term care facility, the Canadian Union of Public Employees charges.

Media enquiries: CUPE NL delegates commit support for CEP and FFAW, affiliate division to NDP

Grand Falls/Windsor, NL – At its provincial convention in Grand Falls/Windsor today, CUPE Newfoundland & Labrador has committed its support to two sister unions currently embroiled in battles of their own.

News: Act now for child care, municipal infrastructure, the environment and

New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton and Prime Minister Paul Martin have agreed to improve the budget in exchange for NDP support getting the federal budget passed in the House of Commons – and getting it past the power-mad Conservatives.

Media enquiries: CUPE NL delegates told strike fund at all-time high

Grand Falls/Windsor – CUPE delegates gathered in Grand Falls/Windsor for their provincial convention have heard from their National Secretary-Treasurer, Claude Généreux, that the union’s strike fund is at an all-time high.

Media enquiries: Medicine Hat rec centre example of why P3s don't work School boards pay to build centre, pay more to use it

CALGARY - The Alberta President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is wading into the controversy over the use of a Medicine Hat area recreation centre.

Global Justice: Malaysian workers march against privatization

Malaysian workers marked May Day 2005 with a protest against globalization and privatization, which they feel are gradually eroding away their rights and making poor Malaysians poorer.

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News: Montréal public transit head rules out P3

Claude Dauphin has told a Montréal Public Transit board meeting that public-private partnerships are not in the cards.

Media enquiries: CUPE transit workers in Ajax and Pickering win significant wage increases

AJAX, Ont. – Transit workers at Ajax Pickering Transit Authority, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted 98 per cent in favour of a new collective agreement yesterday evening, Tuesday, May 3. The 135 transit operators, mechanics, cleaners and office workers won a 7.5 per cent wage increase over the term of the contract – from April 1, 2004 to December 15, 2005.

Newsletters: First-ever national CUPE literacy award

CUPE National will present its first literacy award at convention in October.

Media enquiries: CUPE energy workers converge in Ottawa

OTTAWA – Energy and utility workers from CUPE locals across Canada are gathering in Ottawa May 5 and 6 to examine national and international issues and challenges facing the energy sector.

Newsletters: First-ever national CUPE literacy award

CUPE National will present its first literacy award at convention in October.

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Media enquiries: Nothing accomplished at Union Villa negotiations; employer seeking rollbacks

UNIONVILLE, Ont. - Union Villa is attempting to roll back the benefits of its front-line staff and has rejected proposals to ease staff shortages and give wage parity to its employees, charges the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

News: Labour activists plan "day of greeting" against Wal Mart

As part of a North America-wide campaign against global retail giant Wal Mart, unionists across Canada are organizing a "day of Greeting" May 7th at their local Wal Mart.

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What's New: CUPE Literacy Advocate's Kit

The Literacy Advocate’s Kit is now available. This 200-page kit will help members and staff who are trying to get their locals and employers on side with a literacy or clear language project. The kit contains presentation slides and speaker’s notes, activities and handouts for a discussion on union literacy, frequently asked questions (and some answers!), tips on public speaking, and links to further information and resources. Request the Literacy Advocate's Kit from your Education Representative or from the CUPE Literacy Project.

Media enquiries: Blue-chip executives, corporate consultants to head new health networks — signals death knell for public health care in Ontario

TORONTO – The Ontario Liberal government has chosen blue-chip corporate executives, business consultants, accountants and other individuals from outside the health care sector to head up the province’s new Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has learned.

Media enquiries: Tax break for Halifax private rink smacks of “old-style, political favouritism”

HALIFAX – The Hamm government should get a ’10-minute major’ for its plan to give a privately-built, Bedford arena complex a whopping tax break.

Media enquiries: Child care: Ontario deal highlights importance of right start

Today’s Ontario child care agreement gives further weight to the push for quick passage of the federal budget – but Canada’s largest union is also concerned the province is moving in the wrong direction.

Media enquiries: Child care: Ontario deal highlights importance of right start

Today’s Ontario child care agreement gives further weight to the push for quick passage of the federal budget – but Canada’s largest union is also concerned the province is moving in the wrong direction.

Media enquiries: Tax break for private rink smacks of “old-style, political favouritism”

The Hamm government should get a “10-minute major” for its plan to give a privately-built, Bedford arena complex a whopping tax break.

Media enquiries: CUPE National President to “greet” Wal-Mart in Winnipeg tomorrow

CUPE National President Paul Moist will be in Winnipeg tomorrow to take part in a national day of action against Wal-Mart for its disregard for the rights of Canadian workers.

Media enquiries: Next step for Ontario child care: make it non-profit and universal, CUPE says

Now that it has signed a funding agreement with the federal government, the Ontario government must make a firm commitment to expand child care in the not-for-profit sector only and to make it a truly universal system, says the province’s largest union.

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Media enquiries: Nursing home resident bill of rights needed - CUPE

D'Arcy Lanovaz calls upon Alberta to adopt idea from Manitoba, Ontario

Media enquiries: Windsor municipal workers ready to strike – fighting for fairness and respect

WINDSOR, Ont. – Municipal workers with the City of Windsor are set to go on strike as early as May 16th if mediation talks between the city and local 543.1 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) fail to reach an agreement.

News: Addressing the nursing shortage - new study released

Canada’s nursing stakeholders, including the Canadian Union of Public Employees, today released a report that calls upon all levels of government to implement 10 recommendations to address the shortage of nurses in Canada.

News: Malaysian workers march against privatization

Malaysian workers marked May Day 2005 with a protest against globalization and privatization, which they feel are eroding their rights and making poor Malaysians poorer.

Media enquiries: Nanaimo rec workers applauded

NANAIMO, B.C.-CUPE 401 recreation workers were recognized and applauded this week by CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill for their part in Nanaimo’s Oceanside Place winning the Facility Excellence Award from BC’s Recreation and Parks Association.

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Global Justice: Argentina: Deadline passes for Zanon

If you've seen The Take you already know the history of the embattled workers at Zanon, whose response to the closing down of their factory caught the imagination of the world. Last week, the deadline passed for the company's previous owners or anyone else to buy the factory -- with no one making an offer. This has raised the stakes and made your support for the Zanon workers even more important.

To see the latest updates and add your name to the thousands who have already sent off messages please go here:

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=49

Health Care: Local Health Integration Networks

Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) are a new threat to public health care in Ontario. Designed by the Ontario Liberal government to "transform" public health care, LHINs raise serious concerns regarding local community health services, local community control, service reductions, layoffs, and privatization. This May 2005 backgrounder explains why.

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Media enquiries: School workers applaud injunction Court decision shows school utilization rates flawed - CUPE

EDMONTON - The union representing 3,000 Edmonton Public School Board employees is applauding a court decision halting the closure of three schools in Edmonton.

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Media enquiries: CUPE to Sorbara: Keep your hands off our pension plans

TORONTO — CUPE members will do everything possible to ensure that their pension monies are not used to finance infrastructure renewal through public private partnerships (P3s), says Sid Ryan, president of CUPE Ontario.

Media enquiries: CUPE national president at the Alberta Federation of Labour convention

OTTAWA – Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, will attend the Alberta Federation of Labour’s annual convention in Edmonton tomorrow, Friday, May 13. He will be available for media interviews.

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Water: Backgrounder: Suez corporate abuses and violations of the human right to water

Water: Memo to Suez: hands off the world’s water

May 13 marks an international day of action against water privateer Suez. The multinational, which also operates under the names Ondeo and United Water, controls the drinking water of 125 million people around the world, and treats the wastewater of another 70 million.

The corporation’s track record has prompted people from around the world to take action. Today in Paris, concerned shareholders will take action in solidarity with affected communities around the world. The shareholders will directly challenge the corporation’s top executives to end Suez’s irresponsible and dangerous actions.

Add your voice. Send a message to Suez director and Canadian corporate executive Paul Desmarais Jr. Tell him Canadians demand that he act to ensure Suez will cease and desist from such damaging activities in the future.

Media enquiries: Essex community living workers, agency celebrate helping people with intellectual disabilities live fully in community

Essex, Ont. – Each day, community living agencies and front line developmental service workers help people with intellectual disabilities gain the skills and confidence needed to live fully in our community.

Media enquiries: East St. Paul support workers sign first agreement

WINNIPEG – Support workers who maintain East St. Paul municipal services signed their first collective agreement yesterday. Members of CUPE Local 500 have been bargaining since August of last year.

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Media enquiries: Espanola community living workers on strike; faced 103 pages of concessions

Espanola – Developmental services residential and vocational support counsellors - who are members of CUPE 2462 (Community Living Espanola) - began strike action on 12:01 Saturday, May 14 after mediation talks with their hard-line employer failed.

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News: Nova Scotia Highway Workers’ Union re-affiliates to division

One of Nova Scotia’s largest local unions has re-affiliated to the provincial division of CUPE.

Media enquiries: Glengarry community living workers, agency celebrate helping people with intellectual disabilities live fully in community

Alexandria, Ont. - Each day, community living agencies and front line developmental service workers help people with intellectual disabilities gain the skills and confidence needed to live fully in our community.

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Media enquiries: Ontario Liberals betray people with developmental disabilities, say Ryan and Casselman

Toronto – Across Ontario, developmental service staff, who provide residential and vocational support to people with intellectual disabilities, are shouldering the burden of years of provincial underfunding through low wages and heavy workloads, said Sid Ryan, the Ontario president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at Queen’s Park media conference today.

Media enquiries: Timmins council attacks freedom of speech - refuses to hear child service workers

TIMMINS, Ont. – In a shocking attack on freedom of speech, Timmins municipal councillors voted 6 to 1 last night to refuse to hear a deputation from Local 2196 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing striking Timmins and district child and family services workers.

Media enquiries: CUPE and Toronto Zoo reach tentative agreement

TORONTO – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1600, which represents zoo employees, reached a tentative agreement with the Toronto Zoo at 3 a.m. today, averting a strike or lockout.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario sues OMERS, seeks $60 million in damages from three individual managers

TORONTO — The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario has filed a lawsuit against the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) and three individual managers, who it alleges were unjustly enriched at the expense of pension plan members.

Media enquiries: Lethbridge hospital workers reject AUPE - Raid fails as members choose CUPE

LETHBRIDGE, AB – An attempt by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) to raid hospital workers in the Lethbridge area was rejected in a Labour Board vote counted today.

Media enquiries: CUPE supports TWU battle with Telus

EDMONTON - Telus employees are in their fifth year without a contract. Telus has begun a partial lockout of its employees in an effort to make them accept concessions.

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Media enquiries: Winnipeg plans to contract out the rest of its trash collection

A city council committee has voted to consider contracting out the rest of Winnipeg's trash collection.

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Media enquiries: Province ignores current crisis in support services for adults with developmental disabilities as new funding announced

Toronto – Today’s provincial Liberal government announcement committing $41 million to enhance specialized services for adults with developmental disabilities will do little to address years of underfunding to the sector, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

Success Stories: CUPE Education Representative Gloria Charsley reflects on the Nova Scotia Peer Learning Guide Training

See related story, “Nova Scotia offers peer learning guide training”, in the March issue of Literacy News.

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Municipal: What is the Federal "New Deal for Cities and Communities"?

CUPE members who work and live in municipalities know all too well about the declining state of our infrastructure. Cities can't wait any longer. For years, governments have not invested adequately in public infrastructure, choosing instead to cut spending in areas like municipal water treatment, roads, bridges and highways, public transportation, and recreation facilities. Meanwhile, since the 1990s, higher levels of government have downloaded more and more responsibilities to municipalities putting increasing pressure on their tight budgets. Over this period of time, support for a new deal from the federal government to help communities rebuild public infrastructure has been building across the country. The Paul Martin Liberals have responded to this demand with a commitment to a New Deal for Cities and Communities in their 2004 budget, followed by a funding announcement in Federal Budget 2005. While we welcome a New Deal, CUPE believes that important changes are required for the deal to truly help rebuild strong communities. Otherwise the New Deal will be a deal for privatization.

News: Canadian Blood Services joint union meeting a success

Thirty delegates from four unions met in Calgary on May 13 and 14th to plan strategies to deal with their employer, Canadian Blood Services (CBS).

Media enquiries: BC election outcome creates opportunity for more balanced health care policies

B.C.’s largest health care union is calling for a more even-handed approach to health care issues and health care workers in the wake of the provincial election.

National Committees: National political action committee

The emphasis in all of the Committee’s objectives and activities will be to building CUPE’s political action capacity in every Region.

Media enquiries: Departure of QEII doctor a sign of things to come

TRURO, NS – The union representing some 3,000 hospital workers across Nova Scotia says confirmation today that a doctor will be leaving the QEII for a private clinic in Dartmouth is a sure sign of things to come.

Media enquiries: Tentative deal reached for Child and Family Services of Timmins and District workers

TIMMINS, ON – A tentative agreement was reached this afternoon between Local 2196 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and management of Child and Family Services of Timmins and District.

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Media enquiries: Child and Family Services of Timmins and District strike continues as workers reject latest offer

TIMMINS, Ont. – Members of Local 2196 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) voted yesterday to reject a tentative contract settlement presented for ratification following mediated contract talks late last week, between the union and management of Child and Family Services of Timmins and District.

Media enquiries: Whistler workers call for mediation to end labour dispute

In an effort to end a three-month labour dispute that has garnered national attention, Whistler’s municipal workers have sent an offer through the labour relations board to the resort municipality of Whistler to begin informal mediated negotiations.

Media enquiries: Toronto Zoo staff endorse new contract

Front-line staff at the Toronto Zoo, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1600 voted last night to accept a contract offer that was hammered out last weekend.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario kicks off convention with release of privatization poll results

CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan will release results of recent polling on Ontarians’ attitudes towards privatization of public services prior to the opening of the union’s 42nd annual convention here on Wednesday, May 25.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario kicks off convention with release of privatization poll results

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan will release results of recent polling on Ontarians’ attitudes towards privatization of public services prior to the opening of the union’s 42nd annual convention here on Wednesday, May 25.

Media enquiries: School board employees get 18% wage increases

CUPE, School District, negotiate deal that recognizes value of support staff CANMORE – About 50 clerical staff, teaching assistants, and librarians at the Canadian Rockies School Board are in for a big wage increase thanks to their union.

Media enquiries: Edmonton considering handing half its assets to EPCOR: CUPE

Civic workers say move would reduce city authority, accountability

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Media enquiries: School workers give "thumbs up" to CUPE

About 70 education workers employed in schools in Shellbrook, Shell Lake, Debden, Big River and Canwood are the latest group of employees to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Media enquiries: CUPE poll shows most Ontario residents agree government, not private companies, should provide public services

Three out of four Ontario residents agree that communities are better off when governments and not private companies provide public services, according to poll results released by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

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Join CUPE: Diversity in organizing

Workers of colour and equity seeking groups met for a three-day member-organizing workshop in Toronto, May 9 to 11, to prepare for work on organizing campaigns on behalf of CUPE.

Join CUPE: Diversity in organizing

Workers of colour and equity seeking groups met for a three-day member-organizing workshop in Toronto, May 9 to 11, to prepare for work on organizing campaigns on behalf of CUPE.

Join CUPE: Diversity in organizing

Workers of colour and equity seeking groups met for a three-day member-organizing workshop in Toronto, May 9 to 11, to prepare for work on organizing campaigns on behalf of CUPE.

News: Port of Montreal workers reach tentative agreement

Dockworkers at the Port of Montreal (CUPE 375) have reached a tentative agreement with their employer

News: Whistler, B.C., workers call for mediation to end dispute

In an effort to end a three-month labour dispute, Whistler’s municipal workers have sent their employer an offer to begin informal mediated negotiations.

News: B.C. election outcome creates opportunities – HEU

CUPE’s British Columbia health care division is calling for a more even-handed approach to health care issues and workers in the wake of last week’s provincial election.

Media enquiries: CUPE school board workers in Niagara win improved four-year contract

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – School board workers at the District School Board of Niagara, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have a new four-year collective agreement following ratification votes by workers and the school board. The 1400 office, clerical, instructional support and custodial maintenance workers won a 11.5 per cent wage and benefits increase over the term of the contract – from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2008.

Media enquiries: Hundreds of CUPE activists will take no-P3 message to Niagara Falls MPP’s office tomorrow

NIAGARA FALLS — Hundreds of CUPE activists attending their annual Ontario convention will demonstrate against public private partnerships (P3s) at the constituency office of Niagara Falls Liberal MPP Kim Craitor tomorrow (Thursday, May 26) at 12:30 p.m.

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Media enquiries: City workers fight concessions – ready for strike if negotiations fail

SUDBURY, Ont. – Negotiators for Local 4705 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing over 1200 inside and outside workers with the City of Greater Sudbury, are warning the public a strike may be unavoidable if municipal council and city management don’t back away from concession demands at the bargaining table.

Media enquiries: Home care will only improve with end of competitive bidding: CUPE

TORONTO — The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario will continue to lobby Health Minister George Smitherman to end competitive bidding in home care as he prepares his response to Elinor Caplan’s report released today.

Media enquiries: Long term care workers join CUPE

CALGARY – Over 80 employees of Monterey Place, a Calgary long-term care facility, have voted to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

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Media enquiries: Municipal workers gather to build stronger communities

Municipal workers from across Canada, members of Canada’s community union, are meeting in Toronto to defend the services and infrastructure that keep cities strong.

Media enquiries: Sudbury community living staff show disapproval of management style, narrowly approve new contract

Sudbury, Ont. – Showing disapproval for a management style they say denigrates workers and compromises services for intellectually disabled individuals, front line staff at Sudbury Developmental Services have narrowly ratified a new contract with the agency.

Media enquiries: Education workers go ‘homeless’ for a night CUPE leader joins fundraiser at Telus field

EDMONTON – An Edmonton union official and education worker is putting herself ‘on the street’ by participating in the “Homeless for a night” fundraiser for the Youth Emergency Shelter. The fundraiser, which takes place June 3rd at Telus Field, is an annual event to raise awareness and funds for the shelter.

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Media enquiries: Support and solidarity of 220,000 Ontario CUPE members coming to Espanola community living workers’ picket line

Espanola, Ont. – Buoyed by tens of thousands of dollars in financial support they received from delegates attending the annual Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario convention last week, Espanola community living workers are facing their third week on strike with renewed optimism.

P3 Alert - May 2005: Ontario budget takes P3 page from Tories

The Ontario Liberal government’s latest budget has taken up where the provincial Tories left off, announcing a scheme that pushes private financing and P3s for the province’s roads, recreation centers, schools, transit systems, bridges, hospitals and water systems.

P3 Alert - May 2005: Privatizing Winnipeg garbage stinks

Winnipeg city council is considering a plan to privatize the city’s entire garbage collection – a plan that municipal workers and academics say should end up on the trash heap.

P3 Alert - May 2005: Montreal hospitals no longer P3s – for now

Two major hospitals planned for Montreal will no longer be P3s. Quebec treasury board president Monique Jérome-Forget made the surprising announcement in mid-May, as part of an update on the province’s P3 progress.

P3 Alert - May 2005: Montreal public transit head rules out P3

The president of Montreal’s public transit board is on the record saying that public private partnerships are not in the cards. Société de transport de Montréal president Claude Dauphin was responding to questions from CUPE and other union members at the public meeting.

P3 Alert - May 2005: Suez pulls out of Argentine province

Water multinational Suez has pulled out of the Argentine province of Santa Fe, ending troubled contracts with 13 cities. Community groups had been pressing for Suez to leave for more than three years.

P3 Alert - May 2005: Naked chef vs. British P3 schools

Celebrity superchef Jamie Oliver has run up against P3-style contracts in his quest to get junk food out of British school cafeterias.

P3 Alert - May 2005: Corporations cozy up to Scottish government

The Scottish government is facing charges its policy-making has been hijacked by corporate interests, after news emerged that key figures from eight major corporations have been “loaned” to the government’s executive.

P3 Alert - May 2005: Quotable quote: Privatized garbage a big mistake in the Big Apple

“When sanitation services are privatized, contractors make money and residents end up with poor garbage collection and filthy streets … using government employees to do the job is actually the cheapest and most cost-effective way to achieve a clean city.”

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Media enquiries: Retirees, members to gain control of Ontario municipal pension plan

 
TORONTO – After years of fighting for autonomy in the governance of the OMERS pension plan, hundreds of thousands of OMERS retirees and plan members “will finally have wrested control of their pension plan from the bureaucrats now being investigated by FSCO and sued in the courts by CUPE,” says Sid Ryan, the Ontario president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Sudbury rally in support of striking Espanola community living workers this Saturday

Espanola, Ont. – Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) members from across Ontario are heading to Sudbury and Espanola this Saturday to lend their support to striking Espanola community living workers (CUPE 2462).

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Media enquiries: Municipal workers demand public investment to rebuild communities

 
Municipal workers from across Canada have renewed their demand that governments rebuild municipal infrastructure and services with public investment, not higher-cost private “partnerships.”

Media enquiries: Campbell River city workers set to strike Monday

Mediated talks between the city of Campbell River and its municipal workers, represented by CUPE 401, have failed. The union has issued a 72-hour strike notice and plans to set up picket lines as early as Monday.

Media enquiries: CUPE National leadership presses for public investment at Federation of Canadian Municipalities AGM

National leaders from Canada’s largest union will be pressing for public investment in municipal infrastructure and services at this year’s annual meeting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) from June 3 to 6.

Media enquiries: N.S. and NL. CUPE leaders gather at Terra Nova for “media training” session

CUPE leaders from Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador will gather in Port Blandford at the Terra Nova Resort for a week-long session on media relations.

Media enquiries: North Bay Hydro management starts countdown to legal strike/lockout deadline

NORTH BAY, Ont. – Negotiators for Local 72 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 32 North Bay Hydro workers, are warning the public of another possible strike or lockout after management applied for a “no-board” report from the Ministry of Labour, starting the countdown to a legal strike or lockout deadline of 12:01 am, June 15th.

Media enquiries: Whistler workers one step closer to strike, mediated talks fail

Mediated talks between the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) and its unionized water, wastewater, utilities and bylaw officers failed yesterday after the RMOW stuck to its benefit concessions and refused to discuss the workers’ affordability concerns.

Media enquiries: North Bay Hydro management starts countdown to legal strike/lockout deadline

Negotiators for Local 72 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 32 North Bay Hydro workers, are warning the public of another possible strike or lockout after management applied for a “no-board” report from the Ministry of Labour, starting the countdown to a legal strike or lockout deadline of 12:01 a.m., June 15.

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Media enquiries: Tentative agreement reached for Greater Sudbury municipal workers

SUDBURY, Ont. – Negotiators for Local 4705 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing over 1200 inside and outside workers with the City of Greater Sudbury, reached a tentative agreement with city negotiators yesterday, Saturday, June 4th.

News: Solidarity road trip – rally and picket support for striking CUPE 2462

CUPE members from Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Durham, Sarnia, Guelph, Sault Ste. Marie, Manitoulin and Sudbury went on a solidarity road trip on Saturday, June 4, in support of striking Community Living Espanola front line staff (CUPE 2462).

Media enquiries: CUPE long-term care workers win improved wages and stop concessions at Hillside Manor

Long-term care workers from Hillside Manor Nursing Home, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), won wage increases and pay equity improvements ranging from 12 to 13 per cent over three years, in an Interest Arbitration Award issued by Arbitrator Professor G. Simmons on May 25th.

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News: CUPE lobbies for public investment, challenges P3s at FCM

CUPE leadership and members lobbied for public investment in municipal infrastructure and services, while challenging the privatization model of “public private partnerships” (P3s) at the 2005 meeting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) that ended yesterday (June 6) in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador.

Media enquiries: Compass Canada employees at V.G. and Dixon Buildings have June 15th strike deadline

Halifax – Employees of Compass Canada at the Victoria General and Dixon Buildings of the QE 2 Hospital in Halifax will be in a legal strike position as of midnight June 15th.

Media enquiries: Ending mandatory retirement puts all workers at risk, CUPE Ontario president says

OSHAWA — For most working people, ending mandatory retirement creates a risk that employers will continue their attacks on long-established pension benefits while introducing tests to decide if workers of any age are fit to do their jobs, says CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan.

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Media enquiries: Whistler workers turn attention to ‘made-in-Whistler’ solution to labour dispute

WHISTLER – After mediated bargaining failed this weekend, Whistler’s municipal workers have been receiving calls from local residents and community leaders that point to a ‘made-in-Whistler’ solution to the 3½ month labour dispute between CUPE 2010 and the Resort Municipality of Whistler.

Media enquiries: Education workers hold information picket today in Esterhazy

ESTERHAZY, SK - Education workers employed by the Potashville School Division are holding an information picket line today in Esterhazy to demonstrate their resolve to achieve a fair contract settlement. The picket line will be up from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. outside the school division office on Main Street.

Media enquiries: Striking CUPE social workers bolstered by financial support – urge employer to resume negotiations

TIMMINS, Ont. – Donations from CUPE locals and labour groups, as well as CUPE’s Ontario Division and CUPE National, representing over half a million CUPE members across Canada, topped $58,000 this week in support of striking Child and Family Services of Timmins and District Workers.

Media enquiries: Strike looms at Windsor-Essex Health Unit

WINDSOR, Ont. – Windsor-Essex Health Unit workers, represented by Local 543.3 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will be in a legal strike or lockout position on June 20, 2005.

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Media enquiries: Chaoulli ruling not a license to privatize

 
Today’s Supreme Court ruling on private health care, while applying only to Quebec, highlights the urgent need for all governments to move swiftly and decisively to strengthen public health care.

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Media enquiries: Schools facing reduced staffing – CUPE

Cutbacks mean fewer hours for teaching assistants, librarians

Media enquiries: BBQ Friday Support CUPE 1158

EDMONTON -- CUPE 1158, representing employees at Capital Care, is being raided by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE).

Media enquiries: Mobile hospital room kicks off provincial tour in campaign to fight superbugs

Toronto – Increasing outbreaks of superbugs and recent ward closures at southern Ontario hospitals have prompted the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to begin a province-wide mobile hospital room tour to demonstrate how vital cleaners are to controlling hospital infection rates and to activate a 1-888 hospital-acquired infection hotline.

Media enquiries: Campbell River ratifies municipal deal

CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – Last night, city workers ratified the strike averting deal made Friday between CUPE 401 and the city of Campbell River. The workers voted 90 percent in favour of the agreement, which ensures Campbell River’s water will remain public and that students are not used as replacements for regular employees.

Global Justice: Stop the GATS power play

We, the undersigned civil society organizations from around the world, wish to express our deep concerns regarding the current round of negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services [GATS] of the World Trade Organization [WTO], following the effective inclusion of these negotiations as part of the ‘single undertaking’ through the highly criticized July 2004 Framework Agreement.

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Media enquiries: CUPE launches mobile display to fight superbug infections; sets up 1-888-599-0770 reporting hotline

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) today put a mobile hospital room on a tour of the province in its campaign to fight the spread of superbug infections at Ontario hospitals.

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Privatization: The Chaoulli Supreme Court of Canada Decision, June 9, 2005

The Supreme Court has sent a very strong signal that provincial governments must move swiftly to strengthen their health care systems if they wish to avoid similar challenges.

Media enquiries: Winners at annual CALM Awards

CUPE took home several awards from the Canadian Association of Labour Media conference held June 10-12 at Algonquin College in Ottawa.

Media enquiries: Shame on Timmins Council for refusing to hear about crisis in children’s services: CUPE to focus on Board of Directors as other unions join fight at City Council

For the third time in a row, Timmins municipal councillors have refused to hear a deputation from striking Child and Family Services workers about the current crisis in children’s services.

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Global Justice: Criteria for Global Justice Funding

This document explains who is eligible and how to apply for funding from the Global Justice Fund.

Media enquiries: Scabs and security to sustain month-long strike cost Community Living Espanola administration more than $125,000

Services to people with developmental disabilities are in disarray although the administration of Community Living Espanola has spent an estimated $125,000 to sustain a strike that includes hiring dozens of scab labour and three security guard investigators, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has found.

Global Justice: The Wall Must Fall

CUPE BC releases new edition of Israel-Palestine booklet

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Media enquiries: CUPE, health coalition to begin organizing North Bay community against a private P3 hospital

Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE) and Natalie Mehra of the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) are meeting with local public health care activists in North Bay tonight to begin organizing community opposition to the proposed private P3 hospital for North Bay.

Media enquiries: Child care: Latest stats bolster calls for federal leadership

 
The latest snapshot of the state of Canadian child care leaves no doubt the federal government must take an active role in improving the picture, says the president of Canada’s largest union.

Health Care: Health Care Acquired Infections

Infections acquired in hospitals and nursing homes kill thousands of Canadians every year, and the problem is becoming worse. Yet right wing governments and for-profit corporations continue to undermine adequate hygiene in our health care facilities. This June 2005 fact sheet explores health care acquired infections and the important role of health care support workers.

Media enquiries: Privatized BC health workers take strike vote to back first contract talks with giant French corporation

BURNABY, BC -- The B.C. employees of Paris-based Sodexho – a company that cashed in on the privatization of public health services – will cast strike votes over the next week to back fair wage proposals covering cleaners, dietary workers and other health care support staff.

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Media enquiries: Libraries build strong communities

CUPE has strong presence at Canadian Library Association Conference

CALGARY -- Think library workers are quiet and timid? Get a few hundred in a conference room together and you will soon see a group of people quite passionate about their work, and about the role libraries play in communities.

Media enquiries: CUPE BC calls for more cooperative approach from new Liberal cabinet

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is taking a wait-and-see approach with the new BC Liberal cabinet, offering praise for the establishment of three new ministries and expressing hope that Gordon Campbell’s second term will herald a more cooperative approach with working British Columbians.

Media enquiries: Pride in public services — town hall forum examines impact of privatization on gay/lesbian/trans communities

The Coalition for Lesbian & Gay Rights in Ontario (CLGRO) celebrates 30 years of activism on Saturday, June 18, with a town hall forum on the impact of privatization on queer and trans communities.

Media enquiries: Collingwood Neighbourhood House settlement highlights forward move

Unionized staff at Collingwood Neighbourhood House in Vancouver, ratified a four-year collective agreement last night, which takes the first steps on the long road to regaining the wage levels and benefits lost as a result of severe funding cuts imposed during the first provincial Liberal mandate (2001 – 2004).

Media enquiries: Union members on the street to keep garbarge collection public

City solid waste collectors are going to be on their routes tomorrow, but they will be spreading information, not collecting garbage.

Media enquiries: Time for equal marriage legislation is now says CUPE

 
The federal government should not allow the Conservatives’ tactics to delay the passage of legislation, which will allow equal marriage for lesbian and gay couples and end years of discrimination, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Pride: Help pass the equal marriage law before summer

It's down to the wire. It is still possible to pass the equal marriage bill before Parliament breaks for the summer. Even if you have already contacted the Prime Minister's office we need you to do so again.

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Media enquiries: CLC delegates acclaim CUPE V-P for second term

MONTREAL – Marie Clark Walker, a Toronto school board worker (Local 4400) was acclaimed vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress for a second three-year term at the CLC’s 24th constitutional convention held here June 13-17.

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Media enquiries: CUPE wins major victory for former Royal Crest long-term care workers in out-of-court settlement

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing over 500 long-term care workers at former Royal Crest nursing homes and retirement homes, has won back collective agreement rights, wage increases, benefits and pension plan contributions and entitlements for workers who lost their collective agreement and workplace rights when the homes were transferred to a Trustee following bankruptcy in 2002.

News: CUPE wins major victory for former Royal Crest long-term care workers in out-of-court settlement

CUPE has won back collective agreement rights, wage increases, benefits and pension plan contributions and entitlements for 500 long-term care workers at former Royal Crest nursing homes and retirement homes in Southern Ontario, who lost their collective agreement and workplace rights when the homes were transferred to a Trustee following bankruptcy in 2002.

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Aboriginal: June 21 - National Aboriginal Day

On May 23, 1996, the Government of Canada proclaimed June 21 – the first day of summer of every year – as National Aboriginal Day.

Aboriginal: June 21 - National Aboriginal Day

On May 23, 1996, the Government of Canada proclaimed June 21 – the first day of summer of every year – as National Aboriginal Day.

Media enquiries: DNV, CUPE BC and RCMP crime prevention initiative first on North Shore

In an effort to increase the safety and security of residents, the District of North Vancouver, CUPE BC and North Vancouver RCMP will soon implement District Watch, a first for the North Shore.

Media enquiries: Toronto “outside” workers begin countdown to legal strike/lockout deadline

Frustrated with the lack of progress in negotiations with the City of Toronto, the Toronto Civic Employees Union, Local 416 – CUPE, representing 6,000 outside workers, asked the Minister of Labour to issue a “no board” report, starting a 17-day countdown to a legal strike/lockout deadline.

Media enquiries: Ontario Library Services North shuts down Thunder Bay office – library services diminished

Every part of the province will continue to benefit from Ontario library services, but residents across the north, from Kenora to Thunder Bay are now out of luck because Ontario Library Services North shut its Thunder Bay office yesterday.

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Media enquiries: James hits the mark with “shadow cabinet”

Official Opposition leader Carole James has chosen a shadow cabinet that strikes the right balance for B.C. communities while challenging Premier Gordon Campbell to provide open, accountable government for the next four years, CUPE BC president Barry O’Neill said today.

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Media enquiries: CUPE National President boosting Timmins picket line

Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will join the workers of CUPE 2196 on the picket line tomorrow, June 24.

Media enquiries: Trojan horse in Niagara in support of a 100% public hospital

St. Catharines – A 14 foot tall replica of the Trojan horse is making pit stops in many Niagara communities this week to help spread the word that Niagara deserves public, non-profit hospitals.

Media enquiries: CUPE National President boosting Espanola picket line

Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will join the workers of CUPE 2462 on the picket line tomorrow, June 24.

Media enquiries: Dosanjh admits that private clinics hurt public system

CUPE calls for Minister to “step up, take action and shut private clinics down”

Media enquiries: Pharmacy workers in Durham ready to strike - fighting for fairness and respect

Employees of three local Oshawa and Whitby pharmacies, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will be in a legal strike position at 12:01 a.m. on July 1.

Media enquiries: Dosanjh admits that private clinics hurt public system

CUPE National President Paul Moist is pleased that the federal Health Minister has acknowledged the threat to public health care posed by private clinics.

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Media enquiries: Agreement reached at Royal Oak Burial Park

After three days of bargaining, a new collective agreement was reached between CUPE 50 and the Board of Cemetery Trustees of Greater Victoria.

Media enquiries: Public cautious about contracting out of city garbage collection

Over 80 per cent of the respondents in a recent poll say they are very or somewhat satisfied with city garbage collection.

Media enquiries: CUPE calls on all its members to lobby MPs in favour of equal marriage

Canada’s largest union is urging its members to lobby their MPs in favour of equal marriage.

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Media enquiries: Strike looms for Toronto Public Library workers – July 14 deadline

A strike by 2,400 Toronto library workers could shut down the library system at 12:01 a.m., July 14, if a deal cannot be reached between the Toronto Civic Employees’ Union, Local 416 (CUPE) and the Toronto Public Library Board.

Media enquiries: Child and Family Services talks fail after management tables evening shift – strike continues

There’s no end in sight to the strike by 150 Child and Family Services of Timmins and District workers after the employer tabled a two-tier contract proposal that would force newly hired workers to take on an evening shift, warned CUPE.

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Media enquiries: CUPE 1560 recognized for community involvement

Congratulations to CUPE 1560, representing secretaries and maintenance staff in the Avalon East Region, on being awarded Corporate Citizen of the Year by the Terra Nova Council 1452 of the Knights of Columbus.

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Media enquiries: CUPE applauds work of its members in fight for equal marriage

Canada’s largest union is proud to applaud the hard work of so many of its members in their victorious fight for Bill C-38, the equal marriage legislation, says National President Paul Moist.

National Executive Board: Daniel Légère

Regional Vice-President, New Brunswick

National Executive Board: Leo Cheverie

Diversity Vice-President

Media enquiries: Passage of Bill C-38 a victory for human rights says CUPE

 
OTTAWA – The passage of Bill C-38, legislation that will extend marriage rights to all lesbian and gay Canadians, is a victory for human rights says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Environment: Winning posters for Earth Day contest 2005

Nine children have won nifty environment-friendly radios for their creative efforts in CUPE’s third annual Earth Day poster contest for kids.

Media enquiries: Espanola agency scabs provide diminished services, reduced care for people with developmental disabilities

Working with parents and families of loved ones receiving care at the Espanola agency, CUPE has assessed the quality and the level of care provided to clients by the scab labour who have been delivering services since a seven-week strike by CUPE 2462 began on May 14.

Media enquiries: CUPE urges Niagara Region to keep employment services public

CUPE Ontario and its members who provide employment services in Niagara are urging regional council to support a recommendation to keep those services public and not-for-profit.

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Media enquiries: City of Toronto “outside” workers vote in favour of strike action

TORONTO, Ont. – City of Toronto “outside” workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate for their negotiating committee, to call a strike if a settlement cannot be reached with City management. The workers, members of the Toronto Civic Employees Union, Local 416 (CUPE), voted 85% in favour of the strike mandate.

Media enquiries: CUPE raises concerns about Regina Recovery Homes - Union wants health minister to call in provincial auditor

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) wants the health minister to ask the provincial auditor to investigate the financial operations and governance structure of Regina Recovery Homes Inc., a non-profit agency that provides addictions treatment and counselling services in Regina and Indian Head.

Media enquiries: Continuing care consultations must consider views of frontline workers - CUPE

(Truro) – The Hamm government’s consultation forums on the future of continuing care in Nova Scotia must seriously consider the views of frontline workers who provide those services.

Media enquiries: Employees of Scotia Recycling vote to join CUPE

(St. John’s) – The newest members of CUPE in Newfoundland and Labrador are the employees of Scotia Recycling.

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Global Justice: Moist to Martin: Increase foreign aid, lift debt burden

Read CUPE National President Paul Moist's letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin calling on the Liberal government to take action to meet the UN's millennium goal of 0.7% of national GDP for foreign aid. In the letter, CUPE also calls on Canada to increase efforts to convince the international community to provide comprehensive debt relief to Third World nations.

Media enquiries: New Waterford home support workers vote in favour of strike

(Sydney) – Home support workers in New Waterford have voted 98% in favour of strike if they don’t get a fair contract this year.

Media enquiries: Workers reject Hamilton airport’s final offer – vow to fight Tradeport’s contracting out plans

HAMILTON, Ont. – Hamilton airport workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), overwhelmingly rejected the final contract offer from the airport’s operator, Tradeport International Corporation, and vowed to fight off Tradeport’s plans to contract out critical airport operations, including airport security.

Disability Rights: It's About Respect! Communicating With Our Sisters and Brothers With Disabilities

This discrimination can take many different forms. One form is people without disabilities interacting with their CUPE sisters and brothers with disabilities in a way that makes them feel awkward or excluded.

Environment: Winning posters of Earth Day contest 2005

Nine children have won nifty environment-friendly radios for their creative efforts in CUPE’s third annual Earth Day poster contest for kids.

Media enquiries: P3 Okanagan bridge cost overrun bilks public, says CUPE BC

BURNABY – CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill issued the following statement following Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon’s announcement Wednesday that the new Okanagan Lake (William Bennett) Bridge P3 will cost taxpayers almost 50 per cent more than originally estimated:

Media enquiries: Kingston Frontenac Public Library workers fight concessions – strike looms

KINGSTON, Ont. – A strike by 92 library workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), could shut down all branches of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library system as early as July 29th, if a deal is not reached between the union and the Kingston Frontenac Public Library Board.

P3 Alert - June 2005: Chaoulli ruling not a license to privatize

The recent Supreme Court ruling on private health care, while applying only to Quebec, highlights the urgent need for quick government action across Canada to strengthen public health care.

P3 Alert - June 2005: Private clinics hurt patients, say British MDs

As the privateers renew their push for private clinics and other for-profit schemes in the wake of the Chaoulli ruling, there’s fresh evidence from Britain that privatizing creates problems, rather than solving them.

P3 Alert - June 2005: A bad month for UK P3s

It hasn’t been a banner month for Private Finance Initiatives, or PFIs – the UK equivalent of P3s. A PFI hospital mega-project planned for central London has just been cancelled at a cost of $31.5 million (CDN).

P3 Alert - June 2005: Longueuil rules out transit P3s

In a further victory for CUPE public transit workers, the head of the Longueuil, QC, transit authority has said no to P3s.

P3 Alert - June 2005: Edmonton city workers fight water changes

Edmonton City Council is considering handing control over sewage and drainage services, representing half the city’s assets, to the city’s wholly-owned utilities corporation, EPCOR.

P3 Alert - June 2005: Ontario pays high-priced P3 kill fee

The Ontario government has forked over $63 million to end a failed private sector contract to connect the provincial justice system on a computer network.

P3 Alert - June 2005: Sodexho workers vote to strike

In late June, B.C. health care workers employed by French corporation Sodexho voted 96 per cent in favour of striking as they fight for a first contract.

P3 Alert - June 2005: Media attention halts Ontario water P3

If only all fights were this quick and easy. It took just one week to scrap privatization plans after news broke that water corporation Zenon Environmental Inc. was interested in buying the Ontario community of Collingwood’s water filtration plant.

P3 Alert - June 2005: New public water resource: Waves of regret

A new report from US citizens’ watchdog Public Citizen documents key lessons learned from water privatization fiascos in the United States.

P3 Alert - June 2005: St. John's NL unveils public harbour cleanup

The city of St. John's, Nfld., recently unveiled long-awaited plans for a sewage treatment plant - and it's going to be public.

P3 Alert - June 2005: Quotable quote

“When we are out on our routes, people will come up to us and say thanks. Even if we aren’t helping them bring their trash to the street or load extra stuff, they just come up and tell us how much they appreciate us. Now we are asking people to call their councillors and tell them what they think.”

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Media enquiries: Services compromised, level of care reduced for people with developmental disabilities, say Espanola parents and families

Espanola – Scabs hired by Community Living Espanola are not providing an adequate level of care, and programs and supports for people with developmental disabilities are being compromised, said parents and family members with loved ones receiving services from the agency at a media conference in Espanola today.

Media enquiries: Timmins Child and Family Services workers ratify improved contract – strike ends

 
TIMMINS, Ont. – Child and Family Services of Timmins and District workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted last night to ratify a new collective agreement. The five-year deal, reached on Thursday, June 30th, includes annual wage increases of 3 per cent, a voluntary, flexible workweek arrangement, and a mechanism to review and improve workloads.

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General mailing guides: Organize magazine, Spring 2005

The spring 2005 issue of Organize magazine has been shipped to locals. Contact your local to get your copy.

Convention 2005: Official Call to the Twenty-second National Convention

This call to all organizations chartered by CUPE is in accordance with Article VI, Section 3 of the CUPE Constitution. Credentials, together with a $175 registration fee for each delegate, alternate delegate, or observer must reach the office of the National Secretary-Treasurer by AUGUST 17th. There is an additional registration fee for delegates and alternate delegates planning to attend the pre-convention sectoral meetings on Sunday, October 2, 2005. Information on the sectoral meetings is enclosed. Registration will take place Sunday, October 2nd, from noon to 6:00 p.m. and will continue Monday, October 3rd, from 8:00 a.m.

Convention 2005: Child care arrangements

Arrangements are being made to provide child care at the Winnipeg Convention Centre during the 2005 National Convention proceedings.

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Media enquiries: No Canada Day celebrations for Community Living Espanola clients as callous management refuses to negotiate

Espanola – Although parents of developmentally-delayed individuals have appealed publicly to the Community Living Espanola management to reach a contract settlement and restore regular services, the agency has refused to resume negotiations and end the two-month-long strike.

Media enquiries: Mobile hospital room on provincial tour to fight superbugs, comes to Kingston Monday

Kingston – Increasing outbreaks of superbugs and recent ward closures at southern Ontario hospitals have prompted the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to begin a province-wide mobile hospital room tour to demonstrate how vital cleaners are to controlling hospital infection rates and to activate a 1-888 hospital-acquired infection hotline.

Convention 2005: Delegate representation and per capita

Each year we receive enquiries concerning the determination of local unions’ delegate representation to the CUPE National Convention.

Convention 2005: New deadline for convention assistance fund

The application has been re-issued with a new deadline of September 1st.

Convention 2005: Application to reserve display space in the CUPE gallery

Yes, we want to be involved in the CUPE Gallery at this year’s national convention. Please reserve a standard ten-foot-wide display area which includes a chair and an eight-foot table.

Convention 2005: Access & Services for persons with disabilities

Registered delegates or observers attending the 2005 CUPE National Convention who require assistance when the convention is in session are requested to complete the form below and return it to the CUPE National Convention Office.

Media enquiries: Alberta deal props open the door to big box child care

 
The federal and Alberta governments have propped open the door to giant commercial child care chains in the deal they signed today, says D’Arcy Lanovaz, president of the Alberta division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Convention 2005: Diversity Vice-Presidents selection caucuses

In order to vote at the Workers of Colour and Aboriginal Peoples selection caucuses, credentialed delegates must register by self-identification prior to the selection caucus of each group.

Convention 2005: Sectoral meetings notice

Sectoral meetings will be held immediately prior to the national convention on Sunday, October 2nd.

Convention 2005: Observer registration form

Observers can attend convention, but they sit in a separate area and they cannot participate in any way. They cannot replace delegates either. Use this form to list any observers you local is sending to convention.

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Media enquiries: HRM-CUPE talks break off - union filing 'bargaining in bad faith' complaint

(Halifax) – Talks between HRM and its outside workers have broken off, and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) says it is filing a ‘bargaining in bad faith’ complaint with the Labour Board.

Media enquiries: Local 416 Toronto outside workers extend strike deadline to 12:00 noon, July 9th

TORONTO – Negotiators for the Toronto Civic Employees’ Union, Local 416 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have extended their strike deadline to 12:00 noon, Saturday, July 9th.

National Executive Board: Daniel Légère

Daniel Légère has been a union activist ever since he was first hired as a correctional officer in St. Hilaire, N.B. in 1980.

Convention 2005: Accommodations

All requests must be received NO LATER THAN AUGUST 30th.

Media enquiries: Mobile hospital room on provincial tour to fight superbugs, comes to Windsor Tuesday

Windsor – Increasing outbreaks of superbugs and recent ward closures at southern Ontario hospitals have prompted the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to begin a province-wide mobile hospital room tour to demonstrate how vital cleaners are to controlling hospital infection rates and to activate a 1-888 hospital-acquired infection hotline.

Media enquiries: Toronto Public Library workers vote to strike – July 14 deadline

TORONTO – Toronto Public Library workers have voted 79% in favour of strike action if a deal cannot be reached between the Toronto Public Library Board and the Toronto Civic Employees’ Union, Local 416 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The 2,400 workers will be in a legal strike or lockout position at 12:01 am, July 14th.

Media enquiries: Chaoulli Supreme Court decision: Tell Ujjal Dosanjh to take action against private clinics

 
The recent Supreme Court decision on buying private health insurance to cover medically necessary services in Québec has pro-privatization business interests smelling blood. Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh needs to hear from you!

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Canadian Union of Public Employees: LOCAL 416 TORONTO OUTSIDE WORKERS REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT -- STRIKE AVERTED

Local 416 reached a tentative agreement with the City of Toronto on behalf of 6,000 outside workers on Sunday, July 10th, averting a strike after marathon bargaining sessions.

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Media enquiries: Mobile hospital room on provincial tour to fight superbugs, comes to London Tuesday

London – Increasing outbreaks of superbugs and recent ward closures at southern Ontario hospitals have prompted the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to begin a province-wide mobile hospital room tour to demonstrate how vital cleaners are to controlling hospital infection rates and to activate a 1-888 hospital-acquired infection hotline.

Media enquiries: Strike looms at McMaster University – lecturers fight for job security

HAMILTON, Ont. – Sessional lecturers and music instructors at McMaster University, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are set to begin a strike over job security if an agreement with university management cannot be reached.

Media enquiries: CUPE launches mobile display to fight superbug infections; sets up 1-888-599-0770 reporting hotline

Kingston – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) today put a mobile hospital room on a tour of the province in its campaign to fight the spread of superbug infections at Ontario hospitals. Hospital-acquired infections kill 8,000 to 12,000 people each year making this the 4th biggest killer in Canada. Of the 220,000 hospital-acquired infections in Canada each year, thirty to fifty per cent are preventable.

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News: CUPE mobile hospital tour fights superbugs

CUPE Ontario hospital workers have launched a province-wide tour to promote the union's hospital-acquired infection hotline and explain how important cleaners are to controlling hospital infection rates.

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Media enquiries: Ontario health ministry pilot project to reduce hospital-acquired infections, "woefully inadequate," says union on superbug awareness provincial tour

Toronto - While the Ontario health ministry has responded to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) province-wide campaign to fight hospital-acquired infections by announcing the launch of a new "infection control core competency pilot project", the ministry's action appears woefully inadequate, says Michael Hurley, president of CUPE's Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.

News: HEU campaigns against poverty wages at Sodexho

The Hospital Employees Union has launched a world-wide appeal for help in its bargaining with french multinational Sodexho.

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Media enquiries: Espanola community living staff hopeful new round of bargaining will end two-month strike

Espanola – After more than two months on strike, Espanola Community Living front line staff are hopeful that a new round of bargaining beginning on Tuesday, July 19, will end in a new contract settlement so that quality services for developmentally-disabled individuals can resume.

Media enquiries: Toronto Public Library workers reach tentative agreement – strike averted

TORONTO – A tentative agreement was reached at 6:30 am this morning between the Toronto Public Library and the Toronto Civic Employees’ Union, Local 416 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 2,400 library workers.

Media enquiries: Regina city workers will be ‘on the job’ for the Canada Summer Games

REGINA - The nearly 1,700 civic workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 588 will be on the job during the Canada Summer Games, working to ensure it’s a gold medal event for the city.

Media enquiries: School workers in Davidson School Division join CUPE

DAVIDSON, SK - About 75 education workers employed in the Davidson Public School Division are the newest members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. The new CUPE members include teacher assistants, bus drivers, caretakers and secretaries. The labour relations board certified CUPE as the school workers’ bargaining agent on July 7th.

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Media enquiries: Toronto outside workers ratify collective agreement

TORONTO – Toronto outside workers, members of the Toronto Civic Employees’ Union, Local 416 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have voted to ratify a tentative agreement negotiated between Local 416 and the City of Toronto on July 10th. Ratification votes were held Wednesday, July 13th, and Thursday, July 14th, with results this evening showing 93 per cent in favour the contract.

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Media enquiries: CUPE fights discriminatory benefits at Near North District School Board

NORTH BAY, Ont. – Office, clerical and technical employees (OCT) with the Near North District School Board, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1165-1, are asking a provincial conciliator to help with negotiations, as management continues to offer this predominantly female group of workers lower wage increases and inferior benefit contributions.

Fighting Privatization: The Connection Between Privatization and Workers with Disabilites

Connecting the dots between privatization and disability


Members of CUPE’s national contracting out and privatization committee are working to strengthen the connections between everyone in our union when it comes to fighting privatization.


At their most recent meeting, held in June 2005, they deepened their understanding of privatization’s impact on people with disabilities through a presentation from Sylvia Diamond. Diamond, a member of CUPE 4222, sits on CUPE’s persons with disabilities national working group.


Diamond co-chairs CUPE Ontario’s disability rights committee and sits on the Division’s human rights committee, as well as being active on several of her local’s committees. Her presentation outlines privatization’s impact on disabled union members as well as other people with disabilities.


You can download Diamond’s presentation here: Diamond's presentation


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Media enquiries: Kingston Frontenac Public Library workers to hold information rally on Wednesday

KINGSTON, Ont. – Kingston Frontenac Library workers and their supporters will hold an information rally from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m., on Wednesday, July 20th in front of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library’s central branch in downtown Kingston.

Media enquiries: Employer concession demands scuttle Black River-Matheson negotiations; municipality pushing a lockout

MATHESON, ON – Black River-Matheson municipal workers, who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 1490), have unanimously rejected an employer offer that includes major concessions such as two-tier benefits for new hires.

Media enquiries: Winnipeg city workers wants to be heard on garbage collection issue

WINNIPEG – The Union representing City workers, who will be affected by the contracting-out of all city solid waste collection, are going to City Hall on Wednesday, to draw attention to their position.

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Pride: Canada legalizes equal marriage

 
The Canadian Senate has voted 47-21 in favour of Bill C-38. This historic occasion caps over three years of bitter debate between equality activists and opponents of human rights for gay and lesbian Canadians.

News: CUPE 1707 locked out at Montreal-area high school

The administration at Collège Saint-Paul de Varennes, in the Montreal suburb of Varennes locked out its 40 teachers, members of CUPE 1707, on July 18.

Media enquiries: Tentative deal in nine week long Espanola community living strike

Espanola – Community Living Espanola front line workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will vote on a tentative settlement tomorrow (Thursday) at 4:00 p.m. at the Pinewood Inn in Espanola.

General mailing guides: Mailing Guide, July 7, 2005

The enclosed package contains important information for your members. A summary of the contents is provided for your guidance, along with suggested action.

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News: Kingston Frontenac Library workers stage solidarity rally to fight concessions

CUPE 2202 members and their supporters participated in a noon hour solidarity rally on Wednesday, July 20th, to raise awareness of the library workers’ struggle against concession demands by their employer, including attacks on job security, workplace rights and working conditions at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library.

CUPE RESOURCES: Literacy Advocate's Kit

The Literacy Advocate’s Kit is now available.

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Media enquiries: CUPE calls for renewed Freedom of Speech at Timmins Council

TORONTO — The Canadian Union of Public Employees protests the bylaw passed at Timmins Council, May 30, 2005, to no longer entertain deputations from organized labour actively engaged in a dispute.

Media enquiries: Mediation last chance to prevent Kingston Frontenac Library strike

KINGSTON, Ont. – Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) negotiators will enter mediation talks on behalf of 92 library workers with the Kingston Frontenac Public Library in a final effort to prevent the first ever strike by area library workers. The talks are scheduled to begin Tuesday July 26th.

Media enquiries: Espanola community living staff ratify new deal: rebuilding services priority for dedicated workers

Espanola – Community Living Espanola front line staff, who voted to ratify a new collective agreement yesterday, say they are happy to be returning to work on Sunday, and will focus on rebuilding diminished services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

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Media enquiries: CUPE calls for renewed Freedom of Speech at Timmins Council

TORONTO — The Canadian Union of Public Employees protests the bylaw passed at Timmins Council, May 30, 2005, to no longer entertain deputations from organized labour actively engaged in a dispute.

Health Care: Ralph Klein’s “third way” program – an analysis

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein and Minister of Health and Wellness Iris Evans announced their “third way” changes to health care on July 12, 2005. The “third way” program has some positive elements, but these are overshadowed by its privatization agenda. The most alarming step is the approval of hospital user fees for “enhanced medical goods and services”.

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CUPE RESOURCES: CUPE Literacy Pamphlet

CUPE has a new union literacy pamphlet. The six page pamphlet explains why literacy is a worker's right and a union issue. Order by clicking on the picture on the right.

Media enquiries: Labour and community rally to keep trash collection public

WINNIPEG, Mb. - About 100 CUPE 500 members and other union and community members attended the “Don’t Trash Us” rally on July 20 in an overwhelming show of support for the city's solid waste workers. The rally, held at City Hall was part of CUPE 500’s campaign to fight the city’s proposal to contact out all garbage collection.

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Media enquiries: CUPE leaders to present information on LHINs’ impact on public health care delivery

ST. CATHARINES, ON. – Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), will hold an evening information session on Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and their impact on public health care delivery in the Niagara region. The information session will be held on Thursday, July 28th at 7:30 pm, in the union hall at 124 Bunting Road, St. Catharines.

CUPE RESOURCES: Clear Language Guide

Can your members read their contract? A clear language guide for CUPE locals. This guide can help you clear up your collective agreement and other texts your local produces.

Resources: CLC RESOURCES

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) workplace literacy project has developed 5 resources in a series called Learning in Solidarity.

Resources: WEBSITE RESOURCES

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Media enquiries: Kingston Frontenac library workers reach tentative agreement – strike averted

KINGSTON, ON. – Kingston Frontenac Public Library workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), reached a tentative agreement with their employer this morning, Thursday, July 28th.

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Media enquiries: CUPE Leaders raise local awareness of LHINs’ impact on health care in St. Catharines

ST. CATHERINES, ON. - Paul Moist, CUPE national president and Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), led an information session on July 28th for residents and hospital workers in St. Catharines, about the impact Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) will have on public health care. The St. Catharines event was attended by over 75 community residents, hospital workers, CUPE members and local health care activists, and was hosted by Mike Rotundo, president of CUPE Local 1097.

Media enquiries: Regina city unions serve strike notice

REGINA, SK. - The unions representing nearly 1,700 Regina civic workers notified the city this morning their members are prepared to commence job action on August 22, if the employer continues to stall contract negotiations.

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Media enquiries: Paramedics prepare for strike after Renfrew County management cancels talks

PEMBROKE, ON. – Renfrew County paramedics, 97 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have begun strike preparations after the County’s human resources director cancelled contract negotiations scheduled for the month of August. The ambulance workers have been trying to negotiate a collective agreement since they were downloaded to Renfrew County from the Pembroke Regional Hospital in January 2005.

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Media enquiries: CUPE applauds Ontario’s new child care investment

 
TORONTO, ON — The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario commends the Ontario government’s announcement last week of 25,000 new child care spaces in the province.

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Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan to discuss health care issues and strengthening public hospital services Thursday

ST. CATHARINES, ON. – CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan will speak with area hospital workers about health care issues and CUPE’s efforts to strengthen and protect public health care services in Ontario at the Shaver/Rehab Hospital workers’ barbeque, tomorrow (Thursday, August 4th), at 12:00 noon. Mr. Ryan will talk about the advantages of CUPE membership as area hospital workers prepare to choose which union will represent them following the restructuring of Hotel Dieu and Niagara Health Systems.

National Executive Board: National Executive Board Highlights - June 2005

The National Executive Board met in Ottawa June 21-23, 2005.

  • The National Executive Board called on all CUPE divisions, councils, locals, and members to urgently contact their Members of Parliament to immediately pass Bill C-38 before Parliament stands down for summer recess and has issued an immediate press release to this effect.
  • Various issues regarding National Convention planning were reviewed by the Board, and it is with incredible excitement that members crafted and endorsed a resolution calling for the expansion of the NEB to include five (5) women vice-president positions.

News: Local 79 and City of Toronto reach tentative agreement

Local 79 negotiators reached a tentative agreement at 3:30 am on August 4th, on behalf of 16,000 inside workers with the City of Toronto.

News: Locked-out Quebec teachers win back their wages

The locked-out teachers of the St-Paul-de-Varennes College, near Montreal, received some good news this week when a court ordered their employer to pay them their summer salaries.

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Convention 2005: Task force on women's representation

CUPE's national executive board will recommend that convention delegates establish a national task force to examine issues of women's representation at all levels of the union. The board adopted the following proposal at its June 2005 meeting

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Convention 2005: NEB proposes five vice-presidential positions for women

Convention delegates will consider a proposal from CUPE's National Executive Board to create five vice-president positions for women. The board adopted the proposal at its June meeting. The positions would be elected by region at national convention. "Representation of women on CUPE's National Executive Board is at its lowest level in a generation," the resolution argues. If approved, the proposal would take effect at the 2005 convention.

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Health Care: “Weighing the Evidence” Health Care Conference presented by Friends of Medicare Calgary, April 30 – May 1, 2005

Alberta's Friends of Medicare coordinated a conference that highlighted the overwhelming evidence that non-profit and public health care is the best way to fund and deliver care. Called "Weighing the Evidence", the conference took place in Calgary, Alberta, April 30 – May 1, 2005.

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News: Support locked-out Telus workers

 
Are you a Telus subscriber? Telus is the main phone company in Alberta and BC, though they provide mobile phone service and business phone services across Canada. Please support locked-out Telus workers.

Media enquiries: Coalition of Teaching Assistant Unions holds First Annual Conference

VANCOUVER, BC. - Teaching Assistant Unions from across Canada will come together in Vancouver from August 12 – 13, 2005, to share information and strategies to improve their working conditions and position themselves to get better contracts. The inaugural meeting of the Canadian Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions (CCGEU) is set to include discussions of coordinated bargaining and organizing.

Water: French Creek Water Services: The Case for Integration, Coordination and Regional Ownership

"Although most water distribution and supply is publicly owned and operated in the rest of the Regional District of Nanaimo B.C., the water distribution system in the small community of French Creek has been owned and operated by a private company (Breakwater Enterprises). Epcor recently purchased Breakwater and has applied to the B.C. government for permission to continue private operation of the French Creek water system. C.U.P.E. Local 401 (Nanaimo Civic) made a submission to the provincial Comptroller of Water Rights, arguing against privatisation of French Creek water services."

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Media enquiries: Saint Mary’s TESL teachers ratify new contract

HALIFAX, NS. - Workers who teach English as a second language at Saint Mary’s University have accepted a new contract that makes major strides for the teachers, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 4406.

Media enquiries: Elgin St. Thomas public health inspectors to enter conciliation talks

ST. THOMAS, ON. - Public health unit workers at the Elgin St. Thomas health unit, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have asked a provincial conciliator to assist negotiations with their employer, in efforts to avoid a strike over wage parity.

Media enquiries: CUPE to premiers: No more waiting, stop privatization

 
OTTAWA, ON. – Canada’s largest union is urging provincial and territorial leaders, meeting today at the Council of the Federation, to take a vital step in shortening wait times for medical treatment by stopping the spread of health care privatization.

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Health Care: Waiting lists: a research backgrounder

Better management and resources are needed to tackle health care bottlenecks. A comprehensive wait list strategy would include the following:

Media enquiries: CUPE BC president turns up heat in Telus dispute

BURNABY, BC. – CUPE BC president Barry O’Neill will have a message for Telus chief executive Darren Entwistle when the influential labour leader addresses a rally in support of striking Telus workers in Victoria tomorrow (Thursday, August 11).

National Executive Board: Mark Hancock

Mark Hancock was appointed August 2. 2005 to replace Colleen Jordan as the Regional Vice President for BC after Colleen Jordan stepped down.

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K-12: P3 Schools: Public Interest vs Private Profits

Next time you drive by a school, ask yourself – who owns that building? Then ask yourself, who should own it - the community or a for-profit company

Media enquiries: Five years in Hell

Robert Bellrose shares the story of Alvin Gibbs, a Montreal educator falsely accused of sexual assault against minors.

Convention 2005: Nominations for the CUPE National Literacy Award

Do you know a CUPE member or group of members who champion workplace literacy and clear language? Get your nomination in by September 1, 2005.

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News: Living in the city

Is the New Deal for Cities really a good deal for our communities? Karin Jordan and David Robbins talk to CUPE municipal workers across Canada to get their view.

Media enquiries: CUPE Local 79 members overwhelmingly ratify agreements with City of Toronto

TORONTO, ON. - Members of CUPE Local 79 City of Toronto workers overwhelmingly endorsed contract agreements reached with the City of Toronto in a ratification vote Sunday.

News: Read it and weep

Funding woes, violent patrons, privatization … Barry Doyle checks out what it takes to survive as a Canadian public library worker.

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Media enquiries: Strike seems unavoidable for Red Cross home support workers

FREDERICTON, NB – Many New Brunswickers could soon be without the service of the Red Cross Home Support Workers.

General mailing guides: Organize Magazine, Summer 2005

The summer 2005 edition of Organize magazine is now available. Contact your local to get your copy.

Media enquiries: CUPE national president to walk Winnipeg CBC picket line

OTTAWA, ON – Paul Moist, National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will join the picket line of locked-out CBC workers in Winnipeg tomorrow, Wednesday, Aug. 17.

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Media enquiries: CUPE supporting locked-out CBC workers

OTTAWA, ON. – Canada’s largest union is throwing its weight behind locked-out CBC workers, supporting their fight against the increased use of contractors and calling on CBC management to return to the table to bargain in good faith.

National President: Meeting our employers: we need to be where they are with our ideas

Usually, when we meet with our employers, it’s during a crisis. We might be on a picket line or locked out. We may be across the table at bargaining. We may face them in arbitrations or even in court.
This article appeared in the Summer 2005 edition of Organize Magazine.

Privatization: Privatization of public services: What does it mean for women?

Women, in Canada and around the globe, have a lot to lose with the privatization of public services. Good jobs for women in the public sector are being replaced with insecure employment at about half the pay, a heavier workload, and fewer union rights.

National Secretary-Treasurer: Money in, money out

Over the past two years, CUPE has put its finances on stronger footing, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been scrimping and saving.

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Media enquiries: CUPE 391’s support for Telus workers pays off - Vancouver libraries suspending Telus work until dispute ends

Vancouver library workers’ staunch support for locked-out Telus workers in BC and Alberta has paid off. After lobbying their employer, CUPE 391 received word that Vancouver Public Libraries (VPL) was suspending its ongoing work with Telus until the labour dispute is settled.

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Media enquiries: Regina Civic Coalition

 
REGINA, SK. - The first major civic strike in Regina’s history began at 8 a.m. today after the City of Regina failed to provide a fair wage offer to its 1,700 unionized employees.

Canadian Union of Public Employees: Alberta government should use surplus for infrastructure

D'Arcy Lanovaz says oil money should build communities
CALGARY - A projected $7 billion dollar provincial surplus could almost wipe out Alberta's infrastructure deficit in one year, says CUPE Alberta President D'Arcy Lanovaz.

Media enquiries: Don’t write Epcor a blank cheque

NANAIMO, BC. — The Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) will be up the creek without a paddle if it adopts a proposed public-private partnership with the Edmonton-based firm Epcor for water services in the area, CUPE BC president Barry O’Neill will tell the RDN’s board of directors tomorrow.

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Media enquiries: CUPE Manitoba gives $10,000 to help kids with cancer

WINNIPEG, MB. – CUPE Manitoba has given $10,000 to help enhance the children’s playroom at the new Manitoba Cancer Care facility.

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Media enquiries: CUPE urges Thames Valley District School Board to replace bankrupt contractor with dedicated public service custodians

LONDON, ON. – Thames Valley District School Board workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are calling for the reinstatement of full public custodial services at the board, after a private contractor hired to clean 17 schools went bankrupt.

News: Public waves of CBC solidarity

Across the country, CUPE members are walking community picket lines with locked-out CBC and Societé Radio-Canada workers. They’re also pressing CBC management and politicians to end the lockout of the 5,500 workers, which began Aug. 15.

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Media enquiries: “Water Watch” wins big on Island

NANAIMO, B.C.—Epcor wasn’t exactly “voted off the Island,” to borrow a popular TV phrase, but an August 23 decision by the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) to back away from the private water corporation seemed a pretty good start.

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Privatization: Inside the Chaoulli ruling: What the Court did (and did not) say

An in-depth look at the ruling, including the dissenting judges' judgment.

Privatization: Inside the Chaoulli ruling: Assessing the international evidence

An overview of international experiences with health care privatization and private health insurance.

Privatization: Inside the Chaoulli ruling: Real solutions for shorter wait lists

An examination of why privatization won't shorten wait times, and public solutions that will.

Privatization: Inside the Chaoulli ruling: Trade dangers of privatization

The facts on how international trade deals make health care privatization, including private insurance for publicly-insured services, doubly dangerous for medicare.

Privatization: Inside the Chaoulli ruling: The role of drugs in rising health costs

A look at the fastest-growing costs in health care, pharmaceuticals.

Privatization: Inside the Chaoulli ruling: Taking action

The facts on what provincial and federal governments must do to strengthen public health care in the wake of the Chaoulli Supreme Court ruling on private health insurance.

Media enquiries: Public sector jobs at highest level since 1994

Statistics Canada figures for the second quarter of 2005 show that more people were employed by the public sector than in nearly a decade. According to data released this week by StatsCan, there were just over 3.0 million public sector employees between April and June 2005, the most since the fourth quarter of 1994.

Media enquiries: Safety, equity top Canadians’ collective bargaining priorities

A new study by Statistics Canada shows that in 2001, the most common collective bargaining provisions, or those appearing in over 80 per cent of settlements, were occupational health and safety and job security. Cost-of-living clauses were least common, appearing in only 43 per cent of settlements.

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Media enquiries: School Board misses opportunity to make custodial services public – CUPE vows to push for full public services in upcoming negotiations

LONDON, ON. – Local 4222 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 2,000 school board workers at the Thames Valley District School Board, is warning parents the board has missed an opportunity to reinstate full public custodial services, after learning of the board’s decision to replace a bankrupt contractor with another private supplier to clean 17 schools.

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Media enquiries: Poland celebrates 25 years of Solidarity

Poland is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the birth of the Solidarnosc (Solidarity) movement this week.

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Media enquiries: Civic workers will vote tomorrow on latest contract offer

 
REGINA, SK. - More than 1,700 Regina civic workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local (ATU) will walk-off the job tomorrow, August 31, and vote on the city’s latest contract offer. The union meeting will begin at 8 a.m. at the Centre of the Arts.

Media enquiries: University of Guelph workers fight management concession demands – prepare for strike

GUELPH, ON. – University of Guelph trades, maintenance and service workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are preparing for a strike as early as next month if a fair deal is not reached with the university.

Media enquiries: Workers won't tolerate attack on job security: Child and Family Services workers support strike action

WINNIPEG, MB. – Support workers at Winnipeg Child and Family Services (WCFS) voted 98 per cent in support of taking job action to prevent their employer from gutting their job security provisions in the collective agreement.

Privatization: Inside the Chaoulli ruling: Real solutions for shorter wait lists

An examination of why privatization won't shorten wait times, and public solutions that will.

Media enquiries: Moncton outside workers sign new agreement

MONCTON, NB. – The City of Moncton has signed a new collective agreement with its outside workers CUPE Local 51.

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Media enquiries: Regina workers start city's first-ever strike

 
REGINA, SK. - The Mayor and Council’s refusal to improve their contract offer to 1,700 unionized workers by one per cent has spurred civic workers to commence a full-scale strike today – the first in Regina’s history – after massively rejecting the employer’s offer at a membership meeting this morning.

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: Niagara rejects job placement P3

The region of Niagara has voted to steer clear of a controversial job placement P3, rejecting the Ontario government’s plan to privatize employment services for people on social assistance.

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: Water Watch wins big on Vancouver Island

EPCOR wasn’t exactly “voted off the Island,” to borrow a popular TV phrase, but a late August decision by the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) to back away from the private water corporation is a very good start.

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: Terasen sale raises NAFTA questions

The recent sale of British Columbia utility corporation Terasen to American giant Kinder Morgan is bad news for many reasons, including Terasen’s involvement in Canadian water systems.

News: Tell Martin to end the CBC lockout

OTTAWA – Our Public Airwaves, a public broadcasting advocacy group, is calling for an end to the lockout of CBC workers. See the OPA’s latest message below and go to their site to send a letter to the prime minister.

Media enquiries: Tell Martin to end the CBC lockout

OTTAWA, ON.– Our Public Airwaves, a public broadcasting advocacy group, is calling for an end to the lockout of CBC workers. See the OPA’s latest message below and go to their site to send a letter to the prime minister.

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: P3s spreading in Ontario hospitals

Despite campaigning against P3 hospitals, the Ontario Liberals have announced five new ones over the summer. They are trying to spin the privatized hospitals as public facilities, calling them “alternative financing and procurement projects.”

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: B.C. P3 bridge already over budget

At the end of June, British Columbia Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon announced that a new P3 bridge spanning Okanagan Lake will cost taxpayers almost 50 per cent more than originally estimated. CUPE’s response? “We told you so!”

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: RAV costs, risks continue to rise

The price tag for the RAV, a P3 Vancouver transit project, continues to grow – and the public is picking up the tab.

Privatization: Inside the Chaoulli ruling: A CUPE backgrounder

A comprehensive look at the arguments and evidence in the Chaoulli Supreme Court ruling on private health insurance. This backgrounder is a primer on why the ruling isn't a licence to privatize public health care.

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: Winnipeg privatizes trash collection

On July 27, Winnipeg city councillors approved a management recommendation to contract out all solid waste collection in the city, despite CUPE’s hard evidence that taxpayers would not save money.

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: Quebec labour leaders denounce Ménard report

The leaders of Quebec’s three main labour organizations held a joint news conference at the end of July to denounce the “undemocratic” process behind a major report on long-term sustainability of the province’s health care system.

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: More privatized B.C. health workers join HEU

Nearly 300 employees of U.K.-based Compass Group, the corporation contracted to provide retail and patient food services and housekeeping at three B.C. health care facilities, voted 76 per cent in favour of joining the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU).

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: British doctors warn Canadian MDs to reject privatization

Doctors debating privatization at the recent Canadian Medical Association (CMA) conference in Edmonton got a strong dose of reality from British doctors who’ve experienced for-profit care.

P3 Alert - Summer 2005: Quotable Quote

"The jobs at the CBC, even at the higher levels, will become nothing but McCBC jobs. We all have a stake in this labour situation. The growing trend to hire temporary employees on contracts hurts us all. We want people to have security in their jobs. This is not only important for individuals but also for the whole economy... We must all stand up to any employer who wishes to deprive employees of rights. A union is the community voice so to paraphrase: ask not who this lockout hurts; it hurts us all. "

Municipal: P3 Recreation Facilities: Who benefits?

Physical activity is essential to human health and development. As communities grow, municipalities across Canada are seeing an increase in demand for recreation services such as community ice time at local hockey arenas. Municipal governments have an opportunity to invest in publicly owned and operated facilities that build community assets and expand access to services. But competing costs and limited capital budgets are leading local governments to seek alternatives to public investment for capital projects like arenas and recreation facilities.

Media enquiries: Talks broke off between CUPE Local 1190 and the Government

FREDERICTON, NB. – After more than a year at the negotiation table, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1190 has applied for Conciliation.

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Media enquiries: Civic workers to give $10,000 to Regina

 
REGINA, SK. - The leaders of 1,700 striking civic workers will make a presentation to city manager Bob Linner tomorrow, Sept. 2, at 10:30 a.m. outside city hall.

Media enquiries: Labour Day 2005

Reflecting on our struggles, working for stronger communities

On this Labour Day, we celebrate the role of CUPE members in every town and city in Canada. We can be rightly proud that our work makes our communities stronger and healthier, making a concrete difference in peoples’ daily lives.

Media enquiries: Labour Day statement from CUPE Nova Scotia

HALIFAX, NS. – Workers should have greater control over pension funds, since the monies are actually deferred wages and not just investment funds for employers, says Danny Cavanagh, president of CUPE Nova Scotia.

Media enquiries: CUPE national president at Hamilton Labour Day Parade

OTTAWA, ON. – Paul Moist, National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, will join workers in Hamilton, Ont., for Labour Day 2005.

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Media enquiries: Global TV in Quebec City: cutting jobs, burning bridges

OTTAWA, ON. – Global Television is breaking its promises to Quebec City residents by transferring production activities from its Québec City station CKMI to Toronto, says Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Mourning day for the Red Cross support workers

FREDERICTON, NB. – The Red Cross Home Support Workers in Bathurst and their supporters participated in a noon hour solidarity rally, to raise awareness on their struggle to obtain better working conditions.

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Media enquiries: CUPE 1975 members hold strike vote

REGINA/ SASKATOON, SK University workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1975 are voting today and tomorrow on whether to support job action to achieve a fair collective agreement.

Media enquiries: Glace Bay child care workers vote to join CUPE

SYDNEY, NS - A group of child care workers in Glace Bay have voted to join Canada’s largest union.

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Media enquiries: Employers urged to step up on International literacy day - September 8

 
OTTAWA, ON. – Canada’s largest union is urging employers to do more for workplace literacy and education.

Canadian Union of Public Employees: Long-term care report disappointing - CUPE Alberta

Nursing home staff union wants whistleblower protection, better standards
CALGARY – The President of CUPE Alberta is calling the long-term care review ‘a step in the right direction, but still disappointing.’

Media enquiries: Civic leaders seek resumption of contract talks

REGINA, SK. - Union leaders representing 1,600 striking civic workers have asked the city to resume contract negotiations.

Media enquiries: CUPE 1975 members support strike action: University workers send a message to their employers

REGINA/SASKATOON, SK. - “Workers at the two largest universities in the province have voted to send a strong message to their employers to drop their demands for concessions and negotiate a fair agreement,” says union spokesperson Rhonda Heisler.

General mailing guides: Mailing guide - August 30, 2005

The enclosed package contains important information for your members. A summary of the contents is provided for your guidance, along with suggested action.

Media enquiries: Western municipal conference in Kelowna

BURNABY, B.C.— As many as 200 municipal workers from Canada's Western provinces will meet in Kelowna, B.C. this weekend to exchange information on programs related to municipal infrastructure and to develop joint strategies for confronting increasing attempts to privatize public services and utilities in communities of every size throughout the west.

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Media enquiries: CUPE National President Paul Moist to address civic rally tomorrow

REGINA, SK. - The president of the country’s largest union will be in Regina tomorrow, September 9, to lend support to striking civic workers.

Media enquiries: Western municipal conference in Kelowna

BURNABY, BC. — As many as 200 municipal workers from Canada's Western provinces will meet in Kelowna, B.C. this weekend to exchange information on programs related to municipal infrastructure and to develop joint strategies for confronting increasing attempts to privatize public services and utilities in communities of every size throughout the west.

Media enquiries: Regina union leaders seek resumption of contract talks

 
REGINA, SK. - Union leaders representing 1,600 striking civic workers have asked the city to resume contract negotiations.

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Privatization: Inside the Chaoulli ruling: What the Court did (and did not) say

An in-depth look at the ruling, including the dissenting judges' judgment.

Media enquiries: HEU issues Sodexho a 72-hour strike notice

 
“Poverty-level wages” main issue for union
The union representing B.C. employees of a massive French hospital contractor issued 72-hour strike notice today.

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Media enquiries: School transportation strike looms at four area school boards

NORTH BAY, ON. – Members of Local 1165-6 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services for the Near North District School Board, the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, Le Conseil scolaire de district du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, and the Conseil scolaire Franco-Nord, have voted 100 per cent in favour of strike action if mediation talks scheduled for Friday, September 16th, fail to reach a settlement.

Media enquiries: St. Thomas municipal workers prepare for strike

ST. THOMAS, ON. – Frustrated with the lack of progress in negotiations with the City of St. Thomas, municipal inside and outside workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), filed for conciliation with the Ministry of Labour – setting the stage for a potential strike.

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News: CUPE donates "down-payment" at CBC picket line radio show

CUPE National President Paul Moist pledged the union's support today for locked out CBC workers today at a noon hour live webcast in Ottawa. The union bought food for the picketers and Moist presented the Canadian Media Guild with a $10,000 "down-payment" of support.

Media enquiries: CUPE blasts Alberta’s private insurance recklessness - Union releases in-depth examination "Inside the Chaoulli ruling"

 
OTTAWA, ON. – The Alberta government’s reckless private insurance schemes are driven by ideology and not evidence, the head of Canada’s largest union said today.

Economic Issues: Economic Climate for Bargaining - September 2005

This report provides a broad overview of the general trends in wage settlements and other economic information as it pertains to collective bargaining in Canada. This issue contains data from the first and second quarters of 2005 from various sources including: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Bank of Canada; Workplace Information Directorate of Human Resources and Skill Development Canada (HRSD); and Statistics Canada. As well, this issue analyses the recent Stats Canada study on collective bargaining priorities.

Media enquiries: A memorial site to remember fallen UBC workers

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Tuesday, September 15 at 2:00 p.m. a site to commemorate UBC support staff who have died either during their active work lives—some while on the job at UBC will be dedicated to those workers’ memory. The site and the ceremony will be situated adjacent to the Rose Garden behind the Chan Centre at UBC.

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Media enquiries: City invites unions back to the table!

REGINA, SK. - The city has requested the unions representing striking civic workers return to the bargaining table on Friday, September 16.

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Media enquiries: Liberal budget another corporate giveaway, says CUPE

BURNABY, B.C. – For the second time, B.C.’s Liberal government has delivered a massive post-election giveaway to their corporate supporters that was kept hidden during the election campaign, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) said today, in response to the provincial budget announcement.

Media enquiries: In memoriam: UBC and CUPE members join forces in creating a memorial to honour support staff tragedies

VANCOUVER, B.C. – The dedication of a serene meditation spot complete with a memorial plaque and stone benches all set under a giant, old cedar tree demonstrated the potential of co-operative possibilities at the University of British Columbia today September 15, 2005.

Media enquiries: Calgary Casino staff to take strike vote

CALGARY, AB – The 425 employees at Calgary Casino are taking a strike vote on Monday in a bid to win better wages and the respect of their employer.

Media enquiries: CUPE members ratify agreement with Squamish

SQUAMISH, B.C.—Unionized staff who work for the District of Squamish have ratified a four-year collective agreement following six months of negotiations. The agreement contains a wage increase in each of four years, benefits improvements, a nine-day fortnight and other provisions.

Media enquiries: CUPE members ratify agreement with Squamish

SQUAMISH, B.C. — Unionized staff who work for the District of Squamish have ratified a four-year collective agreement following six months of negotiations. The agreement contains a wage increase in each of four years, benefits improvements, a nine-day fortnight and other provisions.

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News: School Transportation workers on strike to fight concessions in North Bay

Three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services at Student Transportation Serivces Nipissing Parry Sound, members of Local 1165-6, walked off the job September 19th, to fight concession demands by their employer.

Media enquiries: School transportation workers to strike Monday – fight employer concession demands

NORTH BAY, ON. – A strike by members of Local 1165-6 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services for the Near North District School Board, the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, Le Conseil scolaire de district du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, and the Conseil scolaire Franco-Nord, will begin Monday, September 19th, after mediation talks failed to reach a settlement today when the employer, Student Transportation Services Nipissing Parry Sound, refused to back away from concession demands.

News: NEB pledges $10,000 to locked-out Telus workers

CUPE’s national executive board has pledged CUPE’s full support to locked-out Telecommunications Workers Union at Telus, including a donation of $10,000.

Media enquiries: BC’s largest union to sever all ties with Telus

BURNABY, B.C.—The B.C. division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees—the largest union in the province, with 70,000 members—is about to put Telus permanently on hold.

Media enquiries: More public money to private schools?

BURNABY, B.C.—The Canadian Union of Public Employees is questioning why the BC Liberal government chose a news-quiet Sunday to announce an increase in special needs funding to private and independent schools—something it never promised in the May 17 election.

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Media enquiries: Sid Ryan is keynote speaker as paramedics gear up for fall campaigns aimed at provincial Liberals

SUDBURY, ON. — The OMERS pension plan, local health integration networks and P3 hospitals — all on the provincial Liberal agenda this fall — will be the focus of a Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) ambulance workers conference that opens tomorrow morning with a speech by Sid Ryan.

Media enquiries: Guelph city workers vow to fight waste collection privatization plans

GUELPH, ON. – Contracting out waste collection will lead to a loss of accountability, lower the quality of service and open the door to further privatization of public services, warns the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing over 264 City of Guelph outside workers.

Media enquiries: Calgary Casino staff vote to strike

Union gives notice it intends to put up picket lines Friday
CALGARY -- The staff of the Calgary Casino have voted 75% in favour of a strike.

Media enquiries: CUPE and Capital Care reach agreement

AUPE raid attempt fails
EDMONTON – CUPE members at Capital Care have a new contract giving them 8.5% in wage increases, (more for some job classifications) improved medical benefits, and topped up wages when collecting WCB.

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Media enquiries: Unions request appointment of conciliator; city says no.

REGINA, SK. - The unions representing 1,600 striking civic workers requested the assistance of a provincial department of labour conciliator to help break the impasse in the protracted contract dispute.

Media enquiries: Charities warned - casino revenue will go down

CUPE asks charities to pressure Calgary Casino to treat staff fairly
CALGARY, AB – The union representing 435 employees of ABS Calgary Casino is warning city charities ABS Casinos might not be able to live up to the contracts they have signed.

News: School transportation workers on strike to fight concessions in North Bay

Three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services at Student Transportation Serivces Nipissing Parry Sound, members of Local 1165-6, walked off the job September 19th, to fight concession demands by their employer.

Media enquiries: Union calls on city council to re-think garbage decision

WINNIPEG, MB. – City managers underestimated the cost of garbage collection contracts, according to CUPE officials, leading City Council to make a serious mistake in contracting out garbage collection.

Media enquiries: CUPE urges resumption of job evaluation talks

REGINA/SASKATOON, SK. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is calling on the University of Saskatchewan to return to joint job evaluation talks following an arbitration award that found the university in breach of its collective agreement with the 2,400 workers represented by the union.

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Media enquiries: Public sector unions take action for casual workers

FREDERICTON, N.B. - The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the New Brunswick Union (NBU) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 37 have taken a major step to obtain freedom of association for the thousands of casual workers employed throughout the public service of New Brunswick.

Media enquiries: Enroll in the “School of the 3Ps” Monday at Queen’s Park launch

TORONTO, ON. – Don’t miss the opportunity to enroll in the “School of the 3Ps” on Monday, Sept. 26. The mobile, one-room schoolhouse will be at Queen’s Park at 11:00 a.m. for its official launch before heading out on its province-wide tour.

Media enquiries: School transportation workers back on picket line – employer reneges on verbal agreement

NORTH BAY, ON. – Members of Local 1165-6 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services for the Near North District School Board, the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, Le Conseil scolaire de district du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, and the Conseil scolaire Franco-Nord, returned to the picket line this morning after their employer, Student Transportation Services Nipissing Parry Sound, backed away from an agreement reached September 21st.

Media enquiries: Union files grievance: Art Hauser Centre Board can’t contract-out concession operation

PRINCE ALBERT, SK. - The Art Hauser Centre Board and the City of Prince Albert cannot proceed with their plan to contract-out the concession operation at the former Comuniplex because it violates the collective agreement with union members employed at the facility.

Media enquiries: Local 1418 is requesting a conciliation board

MONCTON, N.B. – The lack of progress in negotiations with the Government and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1418 – Rehabilitation and Therapy Group, is setting the stage for a potential strike once again.

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Media enquiries: Pictou County landfill and recycling employees

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. - Employees at the Pictou County landfill and recycling facilities have voted 84% in favour of strike action, if they don’t reach a fair settlement in bargaining.

Media enquiries: Town of Springhill employees to fight employer’s demand for concessions

SPRINGHILL, N.S. – Public Works and arena employees with the Town of Springhill have voted 100% in favour of strike action, following their employer’s demand for concessions at the bargaining table.

Media enquiries: Queen’s County home support workers vote 96% in favour of strike

LIVERPOOL, N.S. – Home support workers in Queen’s County have voted 96% in favour of strike if they don’t get a fair contract this year.

Media enquiries: Court Stenographers voted in favor of a strike

FREDERICTON, N.B. — The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1840 representing provincial court stenographers voted 97% in favor of a strike.

Media enquiries: Court stenographers vote in favour of a strike

FREDERICTON, N.B. — CUPE Local 1840, representing provincial court stenographers, has voted 97 per cent in favour of a strike.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario president Ryan launches campaign to change Liberal OMERS bill speaks at Kitchener meeting next Monday

KITCHENER, ON. — Workers who belong to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension plan could see a permanent cap on improvements to their pension benefits if a Liberal bill passes without amendment, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

Media enquiries: U.S. public employees devastated by Katrina

The Canadian Union of Public Employees' (CUPE’s) American counterpart has set up a $100,000 (U.S.) fund to help thousands of members devastated by one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.

Media enquiries: ABS Casino workers go on strike

 
Moist announces $100,000 for public campaign
CALGARY, AB. – The employees of the ABS Calgary Casino began a strike today at noon in a bid to win higher wages and better working conditions.

Media enquiries: Civic unions ask city to refer the dispute to binding arbitration

REGINA, SK - The unions representing 1,600 striking civic workers hand-delivered a letter to city manager Bob Linner today, requesting the employer agree to refer the dispute to binding arbitration and end the 23-day strike. In the letter, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Amalgamated Transit Union propose the Minister of Labour appoint the chairperson for the arbitration board.

Success Stories: Peer tutors a success in Return to Learn Program

“It was really an interesting position to be a peer tutor because the sessions were learner-directed. We were all learning together as opposed to more formal learning,” says Alie Dobbs, joint committee member and peer tutor.

Media enquiries: CUPE local apologizes to university

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Colleen Garbe, President of CUPE local 116 today offered an apology to UBC President Dr. Martha Piper for mis-stated information contained in a media release issued on September 15, 2005 following the dedication of a memorial to CUPE workers who have died tragic deaths in recent years.

Convention 2005: Gaining Ground: Strategic Directions Program for CUPE, 2005-2007

Delegates to CUPE's 2005 convention will engage in an open discussion about the union's strategic direction for the next two years. Delegates will use this document as a starting point for several plenary sessions on issues like strengthening our bargaining power, increasing our day to day effectiveness and intensifying our campaign against contracting out and privatization.

News: CUPE gives $50,000 to Katrina relief

OTTAWA-Canada’s largest union is donating $50,000 to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. The killer storm that hit the U.S. Gulf Coast earlier this month has left tens of thousands homeless and jobless, including thousands of public workers.

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Media enquiries: CUPE national convention in Winnipeg next week, Oct. 3 – 7

 
OTTAWA, ON. – Members, leaders and staff from locals across Canada will gather next week in Winnipeg for CUPE's 22nd biannual convention.

CUPE RESOURCES: It's Our Right Booklet

This booklet highlights stories of different CUPE locals across Canada that have successfully taken on the challenge of setting up workplace education programs for their members. We hope these stories will “spread the word” about literacy and inspire other locals and members to get involved.

News: Nova Scotia health care workers to explore co-ordinated bargaining

For the first time, health care workers in Nova Scotia's acute care, long term care and home support sectors met to discuss co-ordinated bargaining

Media enquiries: Gambling on an ad campaign

Striking Casino workers unveil their next tactic in labour dispute
CALGARY, AB -- Striking employees at ABS Casino Calgary are rolling the dice, hoping city gamblers will go to other casinos after hearing their advertisements.

Media enquiries: CUPE Women get ready to lead

Twenty-five women—16 from B.C. and 9 from Alberta—spent the last week learning the basics of what it takes to become leaders within Canada’s largest union, CUPE.

Media enquiries: Solidarity rally for school transportation workers tomorrow (Tuesday, September 27)

NORTH BAY, ON. – A solidarity rally will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, September 27th, at 5:00 pm, at the Near North District School Board office, 963 Airport Road, in North Bay, in support of members of Local 1165-6 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services for the Near North District School Board, the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, Le Conseil scolaire de district du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, and the Conseil scolaire Franco-Nord.

Media enquiries: One-room schoolhouse launched at Queen’s Park

TORONTO, ON. - A $1 million P3 (public-private partnership) campaign was launched today at Queen’s Park by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario Division. The campaign will take to the road via a mobile one-room schoolhouse with content that teaches the 3Ps of public-private partnerships.

Media enquiries: Regina civic strike ends with tentative agreement

REGINA - Union leaders representing 1,600 Regina civic workers reached a tentative agreement with the city yesterday to end a 26-day strike by members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees and Amalgamated Transit Union.

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Media enquiries: School board workers fight contracting out

GUELPH, ON. – Upper Grand District Board workers will campaign against the board’s plans to contract out maintenance work at schools in Guelph and Wellington County. The workers, who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), say contracting out will lead to a loss of accountability, lower the quality of maintenance services and open the door to further privatization of public services.

News: Oct. 17: Women unite against poverty, violence

Women all over the world are being urged to take over the streets at for an hour noon Oct. 17. Organized by the World Women’s March, the 24 hours of Feminist Action and Solidarity is meant to show commitment to the elimination of women’s poverty and violence against women.

Bargaining Benefits: An Overview of the Issues

The quality of workers’ benefits has a huge influence on their well-being. At bargaining tables across the country, benefits are under attack. Faced with large increases in health costs, employers are demanding concessions in existing benefits and, in collaboration with insurance companies, developing new and creative ways to erode benefit plans.

Bargaining Benefits: Collective Agreement Language

Too many CUPE collective agreements only include language on the share of premium to be paid by the employer. Very few contain language addressing actual benefit coverage, which means that benefit coverage cannot be grieved and the employer can make changes without advising the union.

Health Care: Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) -- CUPE Discussion Document

This background discussion document reviews CUPE's major concerns about the Ontario government's latest attempt to "transform" health care and (certain) social services. LHINs threaten to introduce competitive bidding, privatization, reduced community control, reduced accesss, and reduced provincial government accountability for health care and social services. CUPE will fight these threats to public health care and health care workers. The document was circulated at the CUPE LHINs conference September 15, 2005

Bargaining Benefits: Drug Costs

Drug costs are rising rapidly. From 1998 to 2002 the costs of prescription drugs increased a whopping 61% in Canada.

Bargaining Benefits: “Flexible” Benefits

Flexible benefit plans are an attack on traditional benefit plans. Calling them ‘flexible’ makes them sound better than they really are. Flexible plans are also referred to as “cafeteria’, ‘supermarket’ or ‘smorgasbord” plans.

Bargaining Benefits: What to Watch for

CUPE members and staff are being told by employers that the comprehensive benefit plan cannot be maintained at the present cost and the employer is determined that his premiums not increase.

Bargaining Benefits: Health Spending Accounts (HSAs)

Health Spending Accounts (HSAs) are being promoted by employers as a way to save costs. While common in the U.S, HSAs are just starting to appear in Canada. Canadian consulting and insurance companies (often subsidiaries of U.S. companies) are increasingly marketing administrative services for HSAs to employers as a way to save benefit costs.

Convention 2005: CUPE’s Strategic Directions 2003-2005: Reporting Back

Media enquiries: Pay equity legislation needed to combat low-paid work, CUPE tells commission

SASKATOON, SK. - The Saskatchewan division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees said today that the provincial government should enact comprehensive pay equity legislation if it is serious about tackling the problem of low-paid work.

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News: Montreal local prepares for coming election fight

With municipal elections coming on Nov. 6, Montreal city workers, are calling for support in their effort to win back losses suffered under the current mayor and council.

Media enquiries: Winnipeg and Assiniboine district health care workers accept new collective agreement

WINNIPEG, MB. – CUPE members throughout the Winnipeg and Assiniboine Regional Health Authorities and with the Rock Lake District overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new Collective Agreement on September 26th and 27th.

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Media enquiries: Edmonton says no to EPCOR

City Council opts to keep drainage public
EDMONTON, AB. - By a seven to six margin, Edmonton City Council voted against a plan that would have seen the city’s sewer and drainage system given over to EPCOR, a city owned corporation with an exclusive mandate to generate profit.

Media enquiries: Australian child care expert brings warnings to Canada

OTTAWA, ON. – The growth of commercial child care in Australia has created a public policy crisis, says Australian child care expert Lynne Wannan who will visit Canada in October as part of a three-week tour co-sponsored by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Ituna group home workers finally achieve first collective agreement

ITUNA, SK - After spending seven months on the picket line and another nine months with a labour relations board agent assigned to provide first contract assistance, group home workers at Deer Park Villa in Ituna have their first collective agreement. It takes effect on Saturday.

Privatization: CUPE Submission to Ontario Expert Panel on Water

"The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) welcomes this opportunity to contribute to the deliberations of the Expert Panel on Ontario’s Long-Term Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Investment and Financing Strategy. In this brief, we submit that publicly funded, delivered and operated water systems are the only way to assure high-quality, accessible and accountable water services for all. Private financing results in compromised public regulation and control over accountability and transparency, pricing, and other regulations impacting drinking water quality, labour force issues, and quality of life in communities. In this brief we address the following topics:

  • The background to our current challenges in financing water and wastewater infrastructure;
  • Recent developments in private sector participation in water and wastewater systems;
  • The problems with private sector financing;
  • Public financing options;
  • Issues in governance and a longer-term water strategy for Ontario, including:
    • Full-cost pricing, user fees and life-cycle planning
    • Governance and accountability
    • Conservation, efficiency and innovation
    • Trade and regulation
    • The Ontario Clean Water Agency and labour transition issues"

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Updates: Speakers, meetings and awards

In addition to our own national leaders, we will hear from Manitoba Premier Gary Doer, noted health and safety expert Dr. Linda Rae Murray, Canadian Labour Congress president Ken Georgetti, New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton and others.

Updates: Strategic Directions action

At this convention like the last, we will debate a single policy paper called “Gaining Ground”.

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Updates: CUPE gallery rocks

As is our tradition, the CUPE Gallery (ground floor) offers hands-on demonstrations and displays of all kinds.

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Convention 2005: CUPE membership survey results

As mandated by the 2003 convention, CUPE commissioned NOW Communications to conduct a survey of member attitudes about the union and what it should be doing. NOW conducted focus groups in ten cities and surveyed 2425 members across the country. This is a presentation of the results of this survey.

Updates: Municipal sector meeting

Privatization, contracting out, declining urban infrastructure and sharing federal tax dollars with cities were passionately discussed at the Sector Meeting. While members said there were different perspectives on common issues, one thing was clear, it is so important that supportive councilors be elected in each city and town where CUPE members work.

Updates: Health care workers call for ambitious anti-privatization strategy

Despite the efforts of CUPE’s 150,000 health care workers to highlight the risks associated with for-profit health care, medicare is under increasing threat. That’s the consensus of delegates attending Sunday’s health care sectoral meeting.

Updates: Sectors talk shop

CUPE sectors met Sunday to trade information.

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Updates: A rose for justice

Beryl Williams, a retired CUPE Manitoba executive member, wears the sash and holds the pressed rose she wore at the 1981 national convention in Winnipeg.

Updates: Solidarity urged in wake of Bill 12

CUPE members throughout British Columbia are standing behind members of the BC Teachers’ Federation in the wake of the Liberal government’s introduction of Bill 12, the Teachers’ Collective Agreement Act, which legislates teachers back to work without addressing any of the BCTF’s bargaining issues.

Updates: We’re in the black – Généreux

Building on our sound financial footing continues to be a priority, National Secretary-Treasurer Claude Généreux told delegates in his financial report.

Updates: Moist recalls ‘defining moments’

In his report to delegates, CUPE National President Paul Moist rattled off a long list of successes that highlight the impact of our collective action since last convention.

Updates: CUPE leads on social change – Doer

Manitoba Premier Gary Doer praised CUPE yesterday for taking a leadership role on social issues.

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Media enquiries: CUPE to march and rally on Communities Day Oct. 5

 
WINNIPEG, MB. – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) delegates, here for their biennial national convention, are marching against poverty tomorrow as part of their ‘building strong communities’ campaign.

Media enquiries: New Waterford home support workers ratify

SYDNEY, N.S. – Home support workers in New Waterford have ratified a new three-year contract that gives them major improvements.

What's New: Up to the Certification Challenge: A Study of Education Initiatives to Support CUPE Members

The water and wastewater sector is undergoing major changes. CUPE sponsored a study to examine how basic skills programs can support members to qualify for their operator certificate. The study also looked at other ways CUPE can help such as calling for changes to the training system, calling for a Canadian exam and demanding employment security.

Media enquiries: Red Cross Home Support workers expand strike

CAMPBELLTON, N.B. – The Red Cross Home Support Workers, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 4598, are expanding their strike action to the Campbellton area this morning.

Media enquiries: Private hospital for Sudbury just the start of Ontario Liberal’s massive health care privatization

SUDBURY, ON. – Sudbury Regional Hospital workers are warning the community that the McGuinty Liberals aren’t being upfront about pursuing the biggest privatization of health services in Ontario’s history and radically changing how health care services are funded and delivered.

Updates: Communications award winners

The CUPE Communications Awards for websites and newsletters were handed out yesterday. They recognize locals of all sizes who work hard – and smart – to reach their members.

Updates: Linda Rae Murray speaks to convention: unions are for the common good

A weakened public infrastructure is like a house with termites, Dr. Linda Rae Murray told delegates. It may look good on the outside but inside everything is crumbling.

Updates: Who’s here: delegate count for Day 2

Convention moved into Day 2 with 1,670 registered delegates from more than 650 local unions, district councils and divisions.

Updates: Don Postar wins the CUPE national health and safety award

Kawartha Ontario school board worker Don Postar of CUPE 5555 is the recipient of the sixth national health and safety award. Postar, the unanimous choice of the national committee, said he shared the honour with the other seven nominees because it’s team work that succeeds.

Updates: Activists talk up health and safety at forum

About 200 members, more than 60 per cent of them women, lined up at the mikes to talk about serious health and safety issues at Tuesday night’s forum.

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Updates: CUPE should put more resources into organizing: delegates

CUPE must put additional resources into organizing more workers – especially women, delegates said in the opening debate on the “Strategic Directions” policy paper.

Updates: Women on the front line

Women are on the front line every day, but they still face major barriers to political participation in CUPE, agreed a panel of community, political and union activists.

Media enquiries: One-room schoolhouse visits Kenora next week

KENORA, ON. — A mobile one-room schoolhouse is holding “open house” in Kenora on Thursday, October 13th from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the City Hall parking lot.

Updates: Getting serious about health and safety

Delegates passed two resolutions concerning health and safety issues Wednesday morning: resolution 277 (workers’ compensation and injured workers) and resolution 8 (airline regulation).

Media enquiries: National CUPE convention passes emergency resolution supporting BCTF

WINNIPEG—Union delegates representing 540,000 CUPE members across Canada today voted unanimously in favour of an emergency resolution put forward by CUPE BC declaring absolute support for the BC Teachers’ Federation in its ongoing dispute with the provincial Liberal government.

News: CUPE dragon boat racers for cancer

CUPE locals in Windsor, Ont., celebrated Communities Day on Oct. 5 by raising money for cancer research in local dragon boat races.

Updates: Women’s NEB seats debated

After a passionate but respectful debate on how to increase women leaders in CUPE, resolution C27 failed to reach the required two-thirds majority.

Updates: $180,000 raised for strikes

Delegates and locals raised over $89,000 for strikers (1,100 HEU workers at 30 Sodexho work sites in B.C., 75 Red Cross workers in New Brunswick, 435 Casino Calgary employees, and three employees at Student Transportation Services in North Bay, Ont.), then Claude Généreux told delegates that CUPE National would match those contributions.

Updates: Yussuff on political action

CLC Secretary-Treasurer Hassan Yussuff urged delegates to be politically active 365 days a year – not just during elections.

Updates: National officers, five GVPs re-elected

Delegates re-elected National President Paul Moist and Secretary-Treasurer Claude Généreux to another two-year term.

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Media enquiries: CUPE national convention backs B.C. teachers’ fight

WINNIPEG – Delegates to CUPE’s national convention representing 540,000 CUPE members today voted unanimously to support the BC Teachers’ Federation in its ongoing dispute with the provincial Liberal government.

Media enquiries: Renfrew County Paramedics enter conciliation talks

PEMBROKE, ON – Renfrew County paramedics, 97 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will enter conciliation talks with Renfrew County on October 12th and 13th, with the assistance of a provincial ministry of Labour conciliation officer. The ambulance workers have been trying to negotiate a collective agreement since they were downloaded to Renfrew County from the Pembroke Regional Hospital in January 2005.

Updates: CUPE convention blogs

At least two delegates have set up 'blogs about their experience at CUPE's national convention. Delegates from local 391 and 402 have set up weblogs (a sort of online journal) of their experiences at national convention.

Updates: Breaking barriers – one delegate at a time

Like most delegates, Tarryl Tamlin is grateful for the opportunity to represent his local at CUPE’s national convention. But as a deaf delegate, his perspective is unique.

Updates: Fighting for global justice

South African guest Xolile Nxu told delegates about increasing privatization since the first free elections in 1994.

Updates: Jordan wins Grace Hartman award

Former NEB member Colleen Jordan will be recognized Friday as the 2005 Grace Hartman Award winner, an honour created at the 1999 convention to celebrate the leadership role of CUPE’s first woman president.

Updates: Executive members, trustee elected

Delegates elected or re-elected the following regional vice-presidents...

Updates: Stem privatization tide – Layton

The New Democrats will introduce legislation this fall making a non-profit health care system the law of the land, federal leader Jack Layton told delegates yesterday.

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Media enquiries: Leadership elected at CUPE convention

 

Moist wins as national president; Généreux as secretary-treasurer

WINNIPEG – Paul Moist was re-elected to his second two-year term as CUPE national president at the union’s 22nd biennial convention yesterday. Moist, 49, became national president in 2003.

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Media enquiries: Red Cross Home Support Workers: A third group on strike

TRACADIE-SHEILA, NB – The Red Cross Home Support Workers, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4598, in the Acadian Peninsula joined their co-workers from Bathurst and Campbellton on the picket line this morning.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario president Ryan brings campaign to change Liberal OMERS bill to Windsor; speaks at meeting tomorrow night

Attention business editors, municipal and labour reporters:

WINDSOR, ON — Workers who belong to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension plan could see a permanent cap on improvements to their pension benefits if a Liberal bill passes without amendment, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

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Media enquiries: Enroll in the “School of the 3Ps” Thursday in Kenora

KENORA, ON – Don’t miss the opportunity to enroll in the “School of the 3Ps”. The mobile, one-room schoolhouse featuring information on the adverse impact of Public-Private Partnerships, is welcoming visitors to its “Open House.”

Media enquiries: Health care unions to hold noon-hour rally this Friday

REGINA - The unions representing 25,000 Saskatchewan health care providers will hold a rally this Friday in Regina to protest the lack of progress in contract negotiations.

Media enquiries: Health integration networks top CUPE concerns as McGuinty agenda delivered in throne speech

TORONTO — The McGuinty government’s health integration networks (LHINs) are the central target of a million-dollar the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario campaign aimed at taking on the Liberal agenda for the province.

Media enquiries: CUPE’s 25,000 school workers support teachers

BURNABY, BC – The second day of the teachers’ fight for free collective bargaining ended Tuesday with rallies across B.C. in which the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) members were front and centre.

Media enquiries: Striking school transportation workers to info-picket Education minister tomorrow

NORTH BAY, ON – Striking school transportation workers and local supporters will hold an information picket outside a dinner organized for Ontario minister of Education Gerard Kennedy, on Thursday, October 13th, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, outside the Quality Inn, in North Bay. The workers want to highlight issues in the month-old strike by members of Local 1165-6 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services for the Near North District School Board, the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, Le Conseil scolaire de district du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, and the Conseil scolaire Franco-Nord.

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Media enquiries: INFO PICKET CANCELLED – school transportation workers to meet with Education minister

NORTH BAY, ON – Striking school transportation workers have cancelled an information picket planned for today, accepting instead an offer from Education minister Gerard Kennedy to meet privately. The workers will discuss the issues in the month-old strike by members of Local 1165-6 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services for the Near North District School Board, the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, Le Conseil scolaire de district du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, and the Conseil scolaire Franco-Nord.

Water: CUPE Local 401 President weighs in on proposed sale to Epcor of French Creek Water systems.

Rodger Oakley, President of C.U.P.E. Local 401, Nanaimo Civic Employees, wrote this letter to the Comptroller of Water Rights in the Government of British Columbia in response to documents recieved concerning Epcor's application to purchase Breakwater Enterprises and to operate a private water utility in the French Creek Area. CUPE also made a detailed submission to the Comptroller regarding the dangers of privatization of the French Creek water system in the summer of 2005.

p3 alert - september 2005: Guelph takes over failed arena P3

In July 2005, the city of Guelph, On took over an arena P3 that had been in financial trouble from the start. The $21-million Guelph Sports and Entertainment Centre opened in 2000 as a 35-year public private partnership with Nustadia Developments Inc. The city was carrying much of Nustadia’s risk, footing half the construction costs and guaranteeing a $9-million loan to the corporation.

Media enquiries: University of Guelph workers ready to strike if mediation fails

GUELPH, ON – University of Guelph trades, maintenance and service workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are set to go on strike on October 25, 2005, at 12:01 a.m., over the university’s unfair demands for benefit concessions and unresolved pension issues, if mediation talks fail.

p3 alert - september 2005: B.C.’s NDP wants public hearings into Terasen sale

British Columbia’s New Democrats are demanding full public hearings into the sale of B.C.-owned Terasen Gas to American energy giant Kinder Morgan.

p3 alert - september 2005: Maximus not meeting minimum requirements

Maximus Inc., the private firm hired to handle the administration of the Medical Services Plan (MSP) in British Columbia, has been fined three times in the last three months for failing to meet performance targets. The giant U.S.-based corporation’s Canadian division was contracted to manage B.C.’s MSP and PharmaCare over the next 10 years at a cost of $324 million. The contract took effect April 1, 2005.

p3 alert - september 2005: Extra $506,000 at school board, but no public jobs for custodians

The Thames Valley District School Board in Ontario decided to contract out custodial services at 17 schools to two private firms after the initial contractor filed for bankruptcy. The decision of the board comes despite a recent announcement of a $506,000 budgetary surplus.

p3 alert - september 2005: Eau Secours, CUPE fighting two water P3s in Montreal

Concerned CUPE members have joined the Eau Secours Coalition to fight the privatization of water services in two municipalities on the island of Montreal.

p3 alert - september 2005: Quebec green lights private dam in pristine wilderness

In August, the Quebec government gave the go-ahead to a controversial private hydroelectric dam project on the Magpie River in the province’s North Shore.

p3 alert - september 2005: Chaoulli analysis at cupe.ca

Check out the thorough information on the Chaoulli ruling handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada on CUPE’s website. You can find seven valuable documents at www.cupe.ca/www/insidechaoulli

p3 alert - september 2005: New resources to fight privatization

The latest issue of Public Citizens’ water newsletter, Defend the Global Commons, features case studies of privatization failures in Santa Fe, Argentina; Puerto Rico; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Laredo, Texas. Visit www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/new/defend/ to download the newsletter, available in English, French and Spanish.

p3 alert - september 2005: Quotable Quote

“Experience seems to show that it’s very difficult for the [privatization] model to meet the needs of the very poorest. Not impossible, but very difficult.”

Media enquiries: CUPE urges school boards to help resolve the K-12 dispute

BURNABY, BC — The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) BC President Barry O’Neill today encouraged elected school boards to pressure the B.C. government to repeal anti-union legislation imposing a two-year contract on teachers.

News: Mobile school on P3s touring Ontario

CUPE Ontario is touring the province with a mobile, one room school house to raise awareness of the dangers of P3s.

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Media enquiries: CUPE slams University of Saskatchewan for flouting job evaluation arbitration

REGINA/SASKATOON - University workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are slamming the University of Saskatchewan’s decision this week to request a judicial review of a recent arbitration award regarding job evaluation.

Media enquiries: Court Stenographers reach a tentative agreement

FREDERICTON — A tentative agreement has been reached between CUPE 1840, the Court stenographers and the provincial Government.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario president Ryan brings campaign to change Liberal OMERS bill to Durham Region; speaks at meeting Monday night

Attention business editors, municipal and labour reporters

OSHAWA, ON — Workers who belong to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension plan could see a permanent cap on improvements to their pension benefits if a Liberal bill passes without amendment, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

Media enquiries: BC Supreme Court freezes teachers' defence fund

 
BC Supreme Court justice Brenda Brown's Oct. 13 decision surprised everyone by imposing a freeze on the BC Teacher’s Federation (BCTF) strike fund rather than imposing heavy fines.

Media enquiries: Nursing Home Unions back at the negotiating table

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick Council of Nursing Home Unions (NBCNHU) is heading back to the negotiation table on Monday morning.

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Media enquiries: CUPE workers off the job in northern B.C. on October 18th

BURNABY—CUPE members in northern B.C. will be off the job on Tuesday October 18th if there is no resolution to the teachers’ dispute. CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill said the northern CUPE members will follow Vancouver Island workers, who are scheduled to be off the job on Monday.

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Media enquiries: CUPE Vancouver Island expands support for teachers’ protest

BURNABY, BC—The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) BC President Barry O’Neill announced today that the union will expand its protest of Bill 12, the Teachers’ Collective Agreement Act, beginning Monday October 17th.

News: Moist praises BC teachers for defying unjust law

 
CUPE National President Paul Moist and National Secretary Treasurer Claude Généreux sent BC teachers union president Jinny Sims a letter congratulating BC teachers on their continued resistance to Bill 12, and promising more support from CUPE. Our 25,000 CUPE BC school board sector members are already on the streets with you, and our entire union can be counted on to stand shoulder to shoulder with you, the letter reads.

News: HEU retail food workers launch general strike against Sodexho

HEU members on strike against french multinational Sodexho began a general strike today, closing retail food outlets at a dozen BC hospitals.

Media enquiries: Rally and picket in support of striking casino workers

CALGARY – Striking workers at ABS Calgary Casino will hold a rally and mass picket this Saturday. Speakers will include D’Arcy Lanovaz, President of CUPE Alberta, and other labour leaders.

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News: CUPE to follow “Solidarity Monday” with protest in Prince George

Victoria rally draws 20,000; Island workers walk off the job to support BCTF

BURNABY, BC—Education Minister Shirley Bond will get a lesson in the ABCs of democracy tomorrow (Tuesday) when the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) holds a massive rally outside her Prince George offices demanding that the BC Liberal government repeal Bill 12 and return to the bargaining table with B.C. teachers.

Media enquiries: Union for CBRM outside workers slams “contracting out” comments from Councillor Stubbert

SYDNEY, NS - The union representing CBRM (Cape Breton Regional Municipality) outside workers says the timing of Councillor Wes Stubbert’s remarks on contracting out of residential garbage collection and recycling is “highly suspect”.

Media enquiries: Court of Appeal rules unanimously in favour of Nova Scotia Highway Workers’ Union

HALIFAX – The provincial Court of Appeal has ruled unanimously in favour of the union representing the province’s highway workers and against the provincial government, in a legal process that began more than 18 months ago.

Media enquiries: Person’s Day picket! Regina public school workers to hold information picket today

REGINA - Regina public school workers are marking “Person’s Day” today by holding an information picket outside the school board office at 4:30 p.m. to press their demands for a pay equity plan and a fair wage increase.

Media enquiries: Rally and picket in support of striking casino workers

CALGARY – Striking workers at ABS Calgary Casino will hold a rally and mass picket this Saturday. Speakers will include D’Arcy Lanovaz, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Alberta, and other labour leaders.

Media enquiries: CUPE in the North - off the job in solidarity with BC teachers

BURNABY, BC—Education Minister Shirley Bond will get a lesson in the ABCs of democracy today, October 18, when the Canadian Union of Public Employees holds a massive rally outside her Prince George offices demanding that the BC Liberal government repeal Bill 12 and return to the bargaining table with B.C. teachers.

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Media enquiries: CUPE to protest Bill 12 in East and West Kootenays on Wednesday

BURNABY — Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will be front and centre at a labour protest in the Kootenays tomorrow (Wednesday) as British Columbia’s union workers continue a co-ordinated protest plan aimed at convincing the BC Liberal government to return to the bargaining table.

Media enquiries: Sid Ryan to lead solidarity rally for Guelph University workers

GUELPH, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan will lead a solidarity rally for University of Guelph trades, maintenance and service workers at 12:00 noon, on Thursday, October 20th, at Branion Plaza, in Guelph.

News: Who controls OMERS? Sid Ryan campaigns for joint governance

CUPE Ontario president Ryan is touring the province, campaigning for true joint control of Ontario municipal workers' pension plan and against the government's plans to change it.

Media enquiries: Sudbury Liberal MPP no-show at hospital town hall forum

SUDBURY, ON – “The people of Sudbury and front line hospital workers deserve answers to the many questions we have about the proposed private hospital for our community. But, Sudbury Liberal MPP, Rick Bartolucci, has declined our invitation to speak at a town hall forum about the future of our hospital,” says Marlene Izzard, the president of the local union representing Sudbury Regional Hospital workers.

News: CUPE supports Winnipeg family hit by tragedy

In the wake of her parents' arrest, and after neighbourhood bullies stole her pet dog, eleven year old Kathleen Beardy took her own life.

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Media enquiries: CUPE off the job in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley on October 21

- Rallies in Vancouver and Surrey -

BURNABY, BC - Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley will be off the job on Friday, October 21st if there is no resolution to the teachers’ dispute.

Convention 2005: Committee and working group presentations

All national committees and working groups report to convention. Each committee makes a video presentation about their work and the issues they've been dealing with for the last two years. This article links to online versions of their reports (Requires free download of Quicktime Player)

Media enquiries: New Brunswick nursing home unions reach a tentative agreement

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick Council of Nursing Home Unions (NBNHU) and the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes Inc. (NBANH) have reached a tentative agreement at the bargaining table.

Guides for Activists: Local union trustee guide

Trustees act as internal auditors. The primary duty of Trustees is to uncover any fraud or misuse of union funds. The secondary function of Trustees is to review the way that the Secretary-Treasurer is doing his or her job and to suggest ways that the financial affairs of the local could be improved.

Media enquiries: CUPE National President Paul Moist to support B.C. teachers Oct. 21

 
National President Paul Moist will be in British Columbia tomorrow to bring a strong message of solidarity and support to striking teachers and the thousands of CUPE members who are standing with them.

Media enquiries: Back to negotiations for the Home Support Workers

FREDERICTON – The Red Cross Home Support Workers, CUPE Local 4598, are back at the bargaining table this morning.

Media enquiries: St. Joseph’s at Fleming long-term care workers hold information picket Friday

PETERBOROUGH, ON – Long-term care workers at St. Joseph’s at Fleming will hold an information picket outside their home for the aged on Brealey Drive in Peterborough, tomorrow, Friday, October 21st, from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, to protest management’s refusal to replace workers when they are sick.

Media enquiries: CUPE fights ambulance service cuts in Hearst – news conference October 28th

HEARST, ON – Hearst area paramedics, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are warning residents that planned layoffs and ambulance service cuts will jeopardize the health and safety of Northerners.

Media enquiries: CUPE BC confirms Friday's political protest and rallies

BURNABY-- Tonight, CUPE BC president Barry O'Neill confirmed that members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley will be off the job on Friday, October 21st if there is no resolution to the teachers' dispute.

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Media enquiries: EMTs in Tracadie-Sheila vote in favor of a strike

TRACADIE-SHEILA, NB– The Emergency Medical Technicians of the Ambulances de la Péninsule de Tracadie-Sheila – the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4657 have voted 100% in favor of a strike this afternoon.

Media enquiries: Canada’s largest union gives B.C. teachers its full support

 
Stand tall against school bullies, CUPE national president tells mass rally

OTTAWA – Paul Moist, the national president of Canada’s largest union, urged British Columbia’s striking teachers to stay strong and keep standing up to the school bullies in Premier Gordon Campbell’s government.

News: Mother and daughter link up on BC protest line

CUPE 608 member Marlene Kantz had her daughter Nicki with her on many picket lines while she was growing up. Now Nicki's a BCTF member taking part in the protest against Bill 12, out in front of Trout Creek Elementary School where she went from grade one to seven.

Media enquiries: Employer cuts off benefits for striking school transportation workers despite union paying premiums

NORTH BAY, ON – Striking school transportation workers have had their benefits cut off by Student Transportation Services Nipissing Parry Sound, despite a verbal agreement with Local 1165-6 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to pay for premiums and administrative costs since a strike began September 19th.

Media enquiries: Negotiations broke off between the Home Support Workers and the Red Cross

FREDERICTON – The negotiations between the Home Support Workers, CUPE Local 4598, and the Red Cross broke off after one day at the negotiating table.

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Media enquiries: ABS Casinos attempt to stomp free speech

Struck Casino takes union to labour board for leafleting
CALGARY – A casino mired in a four-week-long labour dispute has made an application to the Labour Relations Board to stop the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) from passing out leaflets around their operations.

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Media enquiries: Solidarity rally for school transportation workers tomorrow (Tuesday, October 25)

NORTH BAY, Ont. – A solidarity rally will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, October 25th, at 4:00 pm, at the Near North District School Board office, 963 Airport Road, in North Bay, in support of members of Local 1165-6 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services for the Near North District School Board, the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, Le Conseil scolaire de district du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, and the Conseil scolaire Franco-Nord.

Media enquiries: Miramichi Red Cross Home Support workers on strike

MIRAMICHI - The Red Cross Home Support Workers, CUPE Local 4598, in Miramichi went on strike this morning joining on the picket line their co-workers from Bathurst, Campbellton and the Acadian Peninsula.

Media enquiries: A crazy night on a crazy picket line

Calgary - As a secretary in the Calgary Area CUPE office, Pam Smith is no stranger to picket lines. But her eyes were opened when she spent Saturday afternoon and evening on the line at Casino Calgary. In a recent email exchange with other staff, Pam described her experiences. The following is reprinted with her permission.

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Media enquiries: Richibucto Red Cross Home support workers on strike

RICHIBUCTO - The Red Cross Home Support Workers, CUPE Local 4598, in Richibucto went on strike this morning.

Media enquiries: Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day

CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan and Windsor councillor Ron Jones to present special gift to child care workers on Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day

Media enquiries: Boost productivity with public services, CUPE to tell finance committee

OTTAWA – Public investment in public services is a better boost to productivity than corporate tax cuts, Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will tell the Standing Committee on Finance tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct. 26.

Media enquiries: University of Guelph workers reach tentative agreement – strike averted

GUELPH, Ont. – A tentative agreement was reached early this morning between the union representing University of Guelph trades, maintenance and service workers and university management, averting a strike that would have affected Guelph University students.

Media enquiries: Over 120 municipalities in Ontario proclaim Wednesday, October 26 child care staff appreciation day

Toronto, Ont. - Wednesday, October 26 is the annual day of appreciation for child care staff and a celebration of all public initiatives that are helping lay the foundations of a quality, universal and accessible developmental early learning and care system.

Pensions: Why We Need Joint Trusteeship of Our Pension Plans

In the past, employers controlled everything that had to do with pensions. They usually decided the level of benefits paid, how administration would work, how investment policy should be made, even how to communicate to plan members. Far too often, they have exercised this control at workers’ expense – taking our surpluses for their contributions, freezing or reducing benefit levels, keeping plan members in the dark about their “deferred wages”, and all the while acting as though even offering a pension is a symbol of their generosity.

Media enquiries: Profiles in courage: The Demers family on the casino picket line

For Terri and Jason Demers picketing is a family affair
Terri Demers isn't even an employee of ABS Casinos. But her husband is. She started hanging around the picket line, and couldn't stop. The following is her story.

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Media enquiries: Over 130 municipalities in Ontario celebrate child care staff appreciation day today

Toronto, Ont. - Wednesday, October 26 is the 5th annual day of appreciation for child care workers and Early Childhood Educators in Ontario and a celebration of the public initiatives that are moving early learning and child care forward in Ontario and Canada.

News: Paul Moist walks with HEU members as Sodexho strike hits week six

CUPE National President Paul Moist was in Abbotsford last weekend to give a boost to HEU members on strike against french multinational Sodexho.

News: CUPE and NUPGE press Canadian Blood Services directors on mandate shift

Staff at Canadian Blood Services are feeling like they're delivering a product to consumers, rather than delivering a service to the public. Reprentatives of CUPE and the National Union of Public and General Employees carried that message to the board of Canadian Blood Services at its October 25th meeting.

News: Moist 'immeasurably proud' of workers in BC

Trade union members in BC should be proud of what they've accomplished since October 7, when teachers walked off the job to protest a law that settled their contract before they'd even started bargaining.

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Media enquiries: Public libraries need public support Victoria municipal libraries

Victoria, B.C. — Yesterday, Tuesday, October 25, 2005 the Greater Victoria Library Board voted to hold the line - budget line that is - or so it seemed.

News: CUPE welcomes Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College staff

CUPE welcomes the Faculty from The Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC), located in Toronto, Ontario. This new CUPE group is comprised of the Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Laboratory Technologists and Librarians.

News: CUPE president celebrates appreciation day with child care workers

Several hundred child care workers and early childhood educators, along with CUPE National President Paul Moist, marked the 5th annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day with a gala celebration last night.

K-12: The Impact of School Division Amalgamations on CUPE Members: An Overview of the Amalgamations in 1997 and 2004

With the massive restructuring of school divisions taking place, it is important to have an understanding of how CUPE support staff workers have fared in past amalgamations. Overall, CUPE members have benefited positively in past amalgamations, achieving improved benefits, working conditions and wage parity with higher paid support staff in the former school divisions. Past school division amalgamations have had the effect of bringing lower paid workers up to the highest standard in the newly formed school division. At the same time, overall wages, in general, have continued to rise for all workers in the amalgamated division.

K-12: Bargaining Achievements in the Saskatchewan School Board Sector

This is the seventh consecutive year that CUPE Research has produced this summary of the bargaining achievements in the Saskatchewan school board sector. Because of the high number of bargaining units and collective agreements in this sector, the Education Workers’ Steering Committee requested this report so that we could track the trends and successes in school board bargaining on an annual basis.

K-12: Comparison of Coverage in Saskatchewan School Board Benefit Plans - September 2005

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Media enquiries: North Bay school transport workers ratify contract -- strike ends

 
NORTH BAY, Ont. – Members of Local 1165-6 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing three transportation technicians who plan and ensure bus routing and transportation services for the Near North District School Board, the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, Le Conseil scolaire de district du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, and the Conseil scolaire Franco-Nord, will return to work Monday, October 31st. The union and employer both ratified a collective agreement reached in mediation talks earlier this week.

Media enquiries: O’Neill praises CUPE members for solidarity in teachers’ dispute

CUPE BC president Barry O’Neill praised CUPE members this week for the commitment and solidarity they demonstrated during the three weeks of resistance to Bill 12, the regressive legislation introduced by the BC Liberal government to strip away teachers’ bargaining rights

Media enquiries: CUPE Saskatchewan marks Health Care Providers’ Week with advertising campaign

REGINA: The Canadian Union of Public Employees is launching a public advertising campaign to mark “Health Care Providers’ Week,” which the Government of Saskatchewan has designated as October 31 to November 4.

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Public Private Partnerships (P3): Lessons Learned: The UK experience of privatization of public services

The Ontario Federation of Labour organized a delegation to visit the UK to learn about their experience with public-private partnerships, called "private financing initiatives." Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has been getting advice from the Blair government on PFIs. This report summarizes the findings of the OFL delegation.

P3 Alerts: Quotable Quote

P3 alert - October 2005: CN Rail on the wrong track

P3 alert - October 2005: Terasen sale to Kinder Morgan has steep downside for public

P3 alert - October 2005: Privateville, U.S.A.? Even privatization pushers are raising eyebrows

P3 alert - October 2005: 407 saga continues

P3 alert - October 2005: Nutrition and publicly delivered school meals get an A+

P3 alert - October 2005: So bad that MFP has to change its name

P3 alert - October 2005: AFPs aka P3s aka giant rip-off

P3 alert - October 2005: Still more on garbage in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality . . .

P3 alert - October 2005: And over to Guelph . . .

P3 alert - October 2005: Privatization of garbage services getting messy

P3 alert - October 2005: Back to class at the School of the 3Ps

Media enquiries: Manitoba health care CUPE members accept new collective agreement

WINNIPEG, M.B. – CUPE members throughout the Central Regional Health Authority and at Tabor Home voted to ratify a new Collective Agreement on October 25th, 26th and 27th.

Media enquiries: Yorkton high school workers seek wage parity

Yorkton, SASK.: The union representing education workers at the Yorkton Regional High School is recommending members reject the employer’s latest contract offer, stating it does not address their need for wage parity with elementary school workers.

Media enquiries: Northern Ontario residents face less access to care under McGuinty plan to merge and redistribute health and community social services

Dryden, ONT. – The McGuinty Liberals are proposing massive changes to the way hospital, long-term care, home care and community social services are funded and delivered in Ontario. The government intends to pass legislation that will create 14 new regional health structures called Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) across the province. Through the LHINs, the province intends to merge and redistribute regionally the funding and delivery of health care and some social services.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario president joins four million people protesting against Bush-led free trade agenda at the Peoples’ Summit of the Americas in Argentina

TORONTO – Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, will participate in the third Peoples’ Summit of the Americas being held November 1 to 5 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Media enquiries: Town of Springhill employees to launch strike averting campaign

Media enquiries: N.S. child care workers among lowest paid in the country - with above average levels of training

Halifax, N.S. – Child care workers in Nova Scotia are not only among the lowest paid in the country, they have higher than average levels of training. That news comes from a study conducted for the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the largest child care union in Canada.

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Media enquiries: The drummer who tried to run over casino workers

CALGARY -- In a previous release, (October 24th) CUPE News reported to you about an entertainer, pulling a trailer, who twice attempted to run over picketers in an attempt to avoid waiting four minutes to get into Casino Calgary. Witnesses to the event reported him as ‘glassy eyed’ and ‘wired.’

Media enquiries: British Columbians keep water in government hands

Three-Quarters of British Columbians Oppose Privatization of Drinking Water
71% Trust Their Community’s Local Government More Than the Private Sector to Provide Safe Drinking Water

Media enquiries: Hemispheric campaign for public health care launched from Argentina

MAR DEL PLATA, ARGENTINA – Health care workers will campaign together throughout the Americas to build public health care for all while fighting privatization and corporate free trade deals, report CUPE officials on the eve of the Summit of the Americas.

Media enquiries: Strike looms at South Essex Community Council – mediation talks November 3rd

LEAMINGTON, Ont. – Social service and community support workers at South Essex Community Council, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have begun strike preparations after conciliation talks failed to produce a settlement between the union and management. Mediation talks are scheduled for November 3rd.

Media enquiries: Northern Ontario residents face less access to care under McGuinty plan to merge and redistribute health and community social services

Media enquiries: McGuinty Liberals’ LHINs plan will compromise access and quality of health services in Northern Ontario

Dryden, Ont. – Health and social service workers from Northern Ontario cautioned today that the McGuinty Liberal’s plan to introduce new regional health authorities called Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) will compromise the quality of health care and community social services, and make it harder for people in the north to access already scarce health services.

Media enquiries: City of Ottawa targeted by CUPE anti-P3 campaign

Ottawa – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) anti-P3 campaign, launched to create awareness about the negative impacts of P3s (Public-Private Partnerships), will roll into Ottawa Thursday morning. The stopover will highlight the significant number of P3 projects underway in the nation’s capital.

Media enquiries: British Columbians: Keep drinking water in local government hands

VANCOUVER—A new survey shows that British Columbians are very wary of any privatization of community drinking water. In fact, three-quarters (75%) of British Columbians are opposed to privatization of water services including drinking water, with six-in-ten (60%) BC residents saying they are strongly opposed. These results are from a recent telephone survey conducted by Ipsos Reid on behalf of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Media enquiries: Major labour rally to take place at University of Saskatchewan Wednesday

SASKATOON - Hundreds of union activists will join university workers on Wednesday, November 2, for a noon hour rally to urge the presidents of the two universities to make the conclusion of a fair settlement an urgent priority. .

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Media enquiries: City of Ottawa targeted by CUPE anti-P3 campaign

OTTAWA – CUPE’s 50-foot mobile classroom on public private partnerships (P3s) will roll into Ottawa tomorrow, Thursday morning.

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News: Peterborough long-term care workers rally for sick-leave replacements

Long-term care workers at St. Joseph’s at Fleming in Peterborough recently held an information picket to protest management’s refusal to replace workers when they are sick.

Media enquiries: School division support staff in McCreary Manitoba reject employer's final offer

MCCREARY, MB – Turtle River School Division support staff rejected the Employer’s contract offer yesterday, putting Union members into a strike position.

News: Municipal workers strike in Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac

 
Outside city workers in Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, a suburban community on Montréal's north shore went on strike Nov. 3 at 9am. The 20 workers are members of CUPE 1962

Media enquiries: CUPE 520 members practice 'Faith Day' in their own way

Catholic School employees refuse to go to work after picket line goes up
CALGARY -- The 300 members of CUPE 520 know the meaning of a picket line.

News: Carleton University stationary engineers fight for fair wages and job security

OTTAWA, Ont. – Stationary engineers at Carleton University, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have asked a conciliation officer from the ministry of Labour to assist with contract talks after the university tabled inferior wage offers compared to what other employee groups negotiated.

News: Get on the bus and make P3s an election issue: lesson from Ottawa

CUPE Ontario’s mobile School of the 3Ps was greeted in Ottawa Nov. 3 with a lesson from union leaders: make privatization of public services an election issue at every level.

Media enquiries: Kings Regional Rehabilitation Centre employees now one year without a contract

Waterville, N.S. – Unionized employees at Kings Regional Rehabilitation Centre (KRRC) are crying foul over changes by the Department of Community Services for Youth Care Workers.

Media enquiries: Yorkton high school workers prepared to strike for wage parity

Yorkton, Sask. - School support workers at the Yorkton Regional High School are prepared to take job action, if that’s what it takes to persuade the school division board to pay them the same wages as elementary school workers.

Media enquiries: Poll: Thumbs down to water privatization on the Island Island Water Watch campaign heats up

NANAIMO, B.C. - Vancouver Island residents do not support water privatization. On issues of safety, cost for taxpayers and basic rights, public water management wins hands-down.

Media enquiries: Casino strike may be over

Mediator’s report accepted by CUPE, Casino

CALGARY – A six-week-old strike at Casino Calgary may soon be over.

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Media enquiries: Interlake health care workers accept new contract

WINNIPEG – CUPE Local 4214 members throughout the Interlake Regional Health Authority voted to ratify a new Collective Agreement on November 2, 2005.

Media enquiries: McGuinty Liberals’ LHINs plan will compromise access and quality of health services in Northern Ontario

Timmins, ONT. – Health and social service workers from Northern Ontario cautioned today that the McGuinty Liberal’s plan to introduce new regional health authorities called Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) will compromise the quality of health care and community social services, and make it harder for people in the north to access already scarce health services.

Media enquiries: CUPE joins call to lift living standards of aboriginal people

CUPE National President Paul Moist and National Secretary-Treasurer Claude Genereux joined leaders of more than 50 Canadian unions to express their solidarity this week with the aboriginal community of Kashechewan.

Updates: CUPE supports water struggle in Kentucky

CUPE applauds citizen action in Lexington, Kentucky to take control of their water.
Just 26 days before voters were to vote on local democratic control of their water, the Kentucky Supreme Court cancelled the election.

Media enquiries: Striking Turtle River school division support staff come out en masse

 
MCCREARY, MB - This morning, about 70 support workers in the Turtle River School Division picketed in front of the Division office, at the start of strike action.

Media enquiries: Over 50,000 celebrate as free trade withers in the Americas

Delegates from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) joined over 50,000 people in the streets of this seaside resort today to celebrate a significant slowdown in the development of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA).

Media enquiries: No result yet in Casino ratification vote

Pickets go back up for now - CUPE seals ballot box
CALGARY – There is still no settlement in the six-week strike at ABS Casino Calgary.

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Media enquiries: Casino deal ratified

Two-year deal includes wage increases, amnesty for fired strikers
CALGARY – Place your bets.

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News: Rotating Québec strikes set to begin November 10th

Québec government, education and health sector workers in the Mauricie and Central Québec regions are set for a 24-hour strike November 10th. This will be the first rotating strike by members of the common front between the Québec Labour Federation (FTQ) and the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN).

News: Kowalski named Sister of the Year

Veteran CUPE Nova Scotia Staff Representative and activist Barb Kowalski has been posthumously awarded that province’s Sister of the Year Award. Kowalski died in February 2005 of cancer. She was 59.

News: Learning the skills of a rep

A dozen CUPE members from across the country have completed the first stage of the trainee representative orientation program in Ottawa.

Media enquiries: Mediation fails at South Essex Community Council – strike set to begin November 14th (Monday)

LEAMINGTON, Ont. – A strike by social service and community support workers at South Essex Community Council, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), seems inevitable after mediation talks failed to reach a settlement with management. Unless the employer presents the union with an improved offer, the workers are set to walk off the job Monday, November 14th.

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Media enquiries: Radio ad urges voters to support public water on Vancouver Island

Burnaby, B.C. – Today, the Island Water Watch campaign launched a radio ad aimed at raising the issue of protecting public water services on Vancouver Island during the municipal elections.

Media enquiries: New Brunswick Red Cross home support workers reach an agreement

 

FREDERICTON – A tentative agreement has been reached between the Home Support Workers, CUPE Local 4598, and the Red Cross.

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Media enquiries: Education support staff should be consulted on student learning environments

RICHMOND, B.C. – Representatives of 25,000 school support staff are concerned about the future of support services in schools if the proposed changes to school governance are passed before Christmas.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario president Ryan brings campaign to change Liberal OMERS bill to Kingston; speaks at meeting tomorrow night

Kingston, Ont. — Workers who belong to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension plan could see a permanent cap on improvements to their pension benefits if a Liberal bill passes without amendment, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

Media enquiries: Buffalo Trail school trustees line their pockets - again

CUPE calls for reversal of Trustee raises while school cutbacks happening

WAINWRIGHT, ALTA. - At the same time as the Buffalo Trail School Division is cutting staff and services, Trustees have voted for big increases for their wages and expenses.

News: Turtle River School Division workers picket trustee meeting

On Nov. 9, members of CUPE Local 1897, support workers in Turtle River School Division held a rally at the administration office in McCreary, Manitoba.

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Media enquiries: Sid Ryan to lead school board workers’ rally Saturday

Guelph, Ont. – CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan will lead a solidarity rally to support the Upper Grand District School Board workers’ campaign against the board’s plans to contract out maintenance work at schools in Guelph and Wellington County. The rally will take place at Willow Road Public School, 125 Willow Road, Guelph at 10:00 am on Saturday, November 12th.

Media enquiries: School board must make contract negotiations a priority

Yorkton, SASK. - The Yorkton School Division Board must make contract negotiations with its high school support staff a priority so an agreement can be reached before the board’s term ends on December 31.

Media enquiries: Salvation Army employees to vote on union representation

EDMONTON – Fifty employees of the Salvation Army’s Addictions and Residential Centre will decide next Tuesday if they want to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: McGuinty Liberals’ LHINs plan will compromise access and quality of health services

Peterborough – Health and social service workers from the Peterborough area cautioned today that the McGuinty Liberal’s plan to introduce new regional health authorities called Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) will compromise the quality of health care and community social services, and make it harder for people to access health services at their local hospital.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan calls for OMERS pension plan joint trusteeship

Toronto - CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan is calling for co-management of OMERS. “The current model, which gives government a say on plan benefits, is unacceptable,” Ryan says.

Media enquiries: Cape Breton Victoria home support workers vote in favour of strike

BADDECK, NS – Another group of home support workers in Cape Breton has voted in favour of strike if they don’t get a fair contract this year.

Media enquiries: Red Cross Home Support Workers ratify tentative agreement

 

FREDERICTON – New Brunswick home support workers, CUPE 4598, have voted in favor of the tentative agreement reached earlier this week with the Red Cross.

Media enquiries: CUPE Local 1190 applies for conciliation board

Fredericton – Negotiations between CUPE Local 1190 and the Government came to a halt today.

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Media enquiries: CUPE NL doubles flood relief donation to Stephenville residents

(ST. JOHN'S) – CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador has doubled its contribution to flood victims in the Stephenville area.

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News: Rotating strikes hit Montreal

Public sector workers in greater Montreal and Laval, including CUPE members, will hold a 24-hour strike November 17. The action is part of a series of province-wide rotating strikes organized by a common front made up of the Quebec Federation of Labour (FTQ) and the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN).

News: Edmonton Sally Ann employees to vote on union representation

Fifty employees of the Salvation Army’s Addictions and Residential Centre in Edmonton will decide next week if they want to join CUPE.

News: Radio ad urges voters to support public water on Vancouver Island

The Island Water Watch campaign has launched a radio ad to raise the issue of protecting public water services on Vancouver Island in the run-up to the November 19 municipal elections.

News: CUPE joins softwood lumber boycott campaign

A 10-year-old boy from New Westminster, BC has started a campaign to get Canadians to boycott McDonald's restaurants on Dec. 3 to protest the United States' refusal to obey a trade panel ruling on softwood lumber.

Media enquiries: Algoma University perpetuates low wages at Windsor Park retirement home – CUPE requests conciliation officer

SAULT STE-MARIE, Ont. – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 34 workers at Windsor Park Retirement Inc., has asked the Ontario Ministry of Labour to assign a conciliation officer to assist with negotiations between the union and the owner of the home, Algoma University College, after the university refused to adequately address the issue of low wages in contract talks.

Media enquiries: Anti-P3 mobile schoolhouse joins North Bay Hospital rallies

NORTH BAY, Ont. – North Bay Hospital plebiscite rallies being staged this week in Sturgeon Falls, Mattawa, North Bay, and Powasson, are receiving visits from “The School of the 3Ps”. The mobile schoolhouse, sponsored by CUPE Ontario, offers information about the adverse impacts of P3s (Public-Private Partnerships).

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Media enquiries: Union representing CBRM crossing guards files for conciliation

Sydney, N.S. – The union representing almost 100 crossing guards has asked the Department of Labour to appoint a conciliator in its contract talks with CBRM.

Media enquiries: Less access to care, further away from local communities as province readies to merge, downsize health and community social services

Hamilton, Ont. – The McGuinty Liberals are proposing massive changes to the way hospital, long-term care, home care and community social services are funded and delivered in Ontario. The government intends to pass legislation that will create 14 new regional health structures called Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) across the province. Through the LHINs, the province intends to merge, downsize and regionalize the funding and delivery of health and some social services.

Media enquiries: Stettler Lodge employees ratify a new contract

STETTLER, Alta. – Employees of the County of Stettler Housing Authority have ratified a new contract giving them raises of 10-19% over three years.

Media enquiries: Liberals to put tax cuts ahead of Canadians’ priorities

OTTAWA – The Liberal government’s Economic and Fiscal Update is a crude pre-election mini-budget that promises to put tax cuts ahead of Canadians’ priorities like protecting public health care, said Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Goodale gets a C-minus

OTTAWA – Finance Minister Ralph Goodale gets a C-minus grade for his pre-election mini-budget, said the head of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Salvation Army employees join CUPE

Workers at addictions centre vote for protection and better conditions
EDMONTON -- Fifty employees of the Salvation Army’s Addictions and Residential Centre voted today to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

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Media enquiries: CUPE urges province to use surplus energy revenues to pursue social agenda

REGINA: The Saskatchewan Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is urging the provincial government to use its higher-than-expected energy revenues to pursue a more aggressive social agenda in its mid-year economic statement today.

Media enquiries: Brandon Regional Health Authority CUPE members accept new collective agreement

WINNIPEG – CUPE Local 4242 members throughout the Brandon Regional Health Authority voted to ratify a new Collective Agreement on November 14, 2005.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario president Ryan brings campaign to change Liberal OMERS bill to Ottawa; speaks at meeting tomorrow night

Ottawa, Ont. — Workers who belong to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension plan could see a permanent cap on improvements to their pension benefits if a Liberal bill passes without amendment, says Sid Ryan, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

Media enquiries: McGuinty Liberals’ LHINs plan will compromise access and quality of health services

Hamilton, Ont. – Health and social service workers from the Hamilton area cautioned today that the McGuinty Liberal’s plan to introduce new regional health authorities called Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) will compromise the quality of health care and community-based social services, and make it harder for people to access health services at their local hospital.

Media enquiries: York Region school board workers vote 97 per cent in favour of possible strike

AURORA, Ont. – Employees of the York Region School Board say they are prepared to go on strike if the school board does not drop its demands for concessions and agree to fair wage increases and improvements to working conditions.

Media enquiries: Less access to care, further away from local communities as province readies to merge, downsize health and community social services

London, Ont. – The McGuinty Liberals are proposing massive changes to the way hospital, long-term care, home care and community social services are funded and delivered in Ontario. The government intends to pass legislation that will create 14 new regional health structures called Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) across the province. Through the LHINs, the province intends to merge, downsize and regionalize the funding and delivery of health and some social services.

Medicare: Five concrete actions to protect public health care! Lobby the federal government to act NOW!

The Liberal government has declined to take any meaningful steps to stem the tide of privatization of our health care system. But, there’s still time to stop the political games and make a real difference to health care for all Canadians. The solutions are clear if the Americanization of our health care system is to be stopped in its tracks.

Media enquiries: Dinsdale Personal Care Home CUPE members accept new collective agreement

BRANDON, MB – CUPE Local 3050 members at Dinsdale Personal Care Home overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new Collective Agreement on November 15, 2005.

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Pride: Ontario tribunal rules on sex reassignment surgery

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the province must pay for sex reassignment surgery (SRS) for a CUPE member and two others in an interim decision handed down on Nov. 9.

Defending Public Health Care: CUPE's analysis of the Liberal government’s Public Health Care Protection Initiative

Protecting, or posturing?
The Liberals’ response to NDP demands to address health care privatization was superficial and inadequate. The NDP rejected it, but the Health Minister Dosanjh went ahead and released the plan, calling it the Canadian Public Health Care Protection Initiative.

Defending Public Health Care: Talking points on the Liberals' Public Health Care Protection Initiative

Use these talking points in meetings with government.

Defending Public Health Care: Sample letter to the editor on the Liberal government’s Public Health Care Protection Initiative

Use this letter as a starting point for one of your own to newspapers, radio, online-discussion boards.

News: Five easy ways to protect public health care - no election needed

 

The Liberal government hasn't lifted a finger to defend the public health care system against privatization, which has been alternately crashing and creeping up on Canadians.

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Media enquiries: School board workers tell board to stop ‘two-tier employment’

LINDSAY, Ont. – Trillium Lakelands District School Board workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will ask board members to end their practice of contracting out custodial services in some of its schools. CUPE will present the advantages of bringing contracted cleaning in-house, on Tuesday, November 22nd, at 6:00 pm, at the board’s monthly meeting.

News: BC parliamentarians twist the knife with 15 per cent pay hike

Demonstrating that being bereft of compassion doesn't leave you humourless as well, British Columbia's ruling Liberals voted themselves a 15 per cent pay increase last week.

News: CUPE Nova Scotia members promote their work

Our work builds strong communities, ad campaign says
CUPE Nova Scotia is getting the word out about the great work being done by our members right across the province, whey they begin airing provincewide TV ads for the next two weeks. They're using the slogan "Our work builds strong communities!"

News: CUPE 1897 members turn up the heat - so to speak - on their employer

CUPE 1897 members, on strike against the Turtle River School Division in McCreary Manitoba, got some support Nov. 19 from members at the annual CUPE Manitoba Municipal Employees Conference being held nearby.

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News: Windsor Public Library workers vote to strike

WINDSOR, ON - Windsor Public Library workers voted 90% in favour of strike action after their employer walked away from negotiations, leaving 87 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) with little choice to defend library services in the face of threatened branch closures and cutbacks. A strike could begin early in the New Year.

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News: Turtle River school trustees get failing grade from parents

Striking CUPE 1897 members and local parents went directly to the Turtle River School Division Trustees, Nov 22. They wanted some straight talk on what was going to happen next.

Media enquiries: CUPE Local 79 calls for an end to gender discrimination in OMERS pension plan

TORONTO -- Local 79 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will call upon the provincial government today to change proposed legislation, Bill 206, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System Act, 2005, which discriminates against women workers.

Media enquiries: CUPE transit workers win new collective agreement

OSHAWA, Ont. – Ajax-Pickering transit workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, CUPE Local 111, have reached a new collective agreement with improvements in many areas. By end of the year the 135 workers will have a total wage increase of 6.9% for 2005.

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News: CUPE Manitoba support workers prepare for next municipal elections

About 35 CUPE members and staff attended the annual CUPE Municipal Employees Conference in Elkhorn Manitoba last week.

Media enquiries: CUPE reaches deal with Bell Canada

BURNABY – The B.C. division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees – the largest union in the province, with 70,000 members – has reached an agreement with Bell Canada to provide the union’s members and staff with corporate rates for wireless services.

Media enquiries: “CUPE Watch” to make streets safer in the Town of Truro

TRURO, NS – Municipal outside workers in the Town of Truro have come up with an idea that will help make the town a bit safer.

Media enquiries: Queen’s County home support workers reach tentative agreement

LIVERPOOL, NS – A tentative agreement has been reached for 35 home support workers at the Region of Queen’s Home Support.

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Media enquiries: Durham CUPE workers launch Holiday Food & Toy Drive

OSHAWA, ON – Women’s shelter workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), launched a Holiday Food and Toy Drive campaign in Durham Region. The campaign, led by CUPE local 4724, is seeking donations of non-perishable food items and new, unwrapped toys for children and teens.

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News: CUPE BC chalks up municipal election wins

Despite some disappointments, the November 19, 2005 community elections saw at least 22 current or former CUPE members and three staffers voted on to municipal councils and school boards throughout British Columbia.

News: Transit workers win new collective agreement

Southern Ontario transit workers in Ajax-Pickering, represented by CUPE Local 111, have reached a new collective agreement with improvements in many areas. By the end of the year, the 135 workers will have a total wage increase of 6.9 per cent for 2005.

News: Stop contracting out, say Ontario school board workers

Trillium Lakelands District School Board workers have asked board members to end their practice of contracting out custodial services in some schools

Updates: College employees launch annual coat drive CUPE members moved by Christmas spirit, cold weather

RED DEER, Alta. – As the mild autumn comes to an end, Red Deer College employees are launching their second annual coat drive.

Media enquiries: CUPE and York Region School Board reach tentative contracts

YORK REGION, Ont. – Two union locals reached tentative agreements with the York Region School Board yesterday. Members of Local 1196 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will be voting on whether or not to accept the offer on Sunday afternoon. Members of CUPE Local 1734 will vote on Monday.

Media enquiries: Unions say flawed Liberal plan will create health care chaos

TORONTO - Four unions representing almost 200,000 Ontario healthcare workers say the Liberal government's plan for Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) is deeply flawed.

Media enquiries: York University Education Workers Ratify Tentative Agreement

TORONTO - Contract faculty, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants at York University voted to ratify a tentative agreement on Wednesday (Nov. 16). "The agreement represents a vindication of our democratic process," said Rajiv Rawat, chair of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3903, which represents the workers.

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Election updates: CUPE members to vote for positive change, public health care

 

Today's election call provides CUPE members and all Canadians with an opportunity to vote for positive change and for public services, especially public health care.

P3 Alert November 2005: Quotable quote

“The concept of a global water player has not really worked. Scale and synergy effects in the water business are regional, not global.”

P3 Alert November 2005: Maximus update

P3 Alert ran a story in September 2005 about the poor performance of Maximus in British Columbia.

P3 Alert November 2005: P3 plans shelved for Quebec City long-term care centre

In October, Quebec Health Minister Philippe Couillard officially announced that the Liberals are providing $21 million to renovate the Saint-Charles long-term care centre in Quebec City.

P3 Alert November 2005: Manitoba to privatize Winnipeg hospital services

In a radical and disturbing departure from its pro-public stance, Manitoba’s NDP government is contracting out payroll and accounting services for Winnipeg hospitals to a private firm.

P3 Alert November 2005: Local health integration networks: shades of B.C.’s Bill 29?

Local health integration networks (LHINs) are new regional health authorities that will change the health care landscape in Ontario.

P3 Alert November 2005: RWE to sell off U.S. and U.K. water divisions

German utilities giant RWE AG recently announced it wants to sell off its American and United Kingdom water operations, American Water and Thames Water respectively.

P3 Alert November 2005: Privateers hired to endorse privatization in Alberta

Aon Consulting Canada Inc. won a $1.5-million contract on Nov. 3, 2005, to provide Alberta with a plan to lay out options for transferring parts of the publicly insured health care system to private insurers.

P3 Alert November 2005: Walkerton considers privatizing water services

In what can only be described as a descent into utter irrationality, the town council in Walkerton, Ont., plans to request bids for water services from private water companies.

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Site news: Public comments reinstated on cupe.ca

CUPE has reinstated the public comment feature of its national website.

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Election updates: Day Two: Where is Martin’s commitment on World AIDS Day?

 

Today is World AIDS Day. Over 450,000 people will die of HIV/AIDS over the course of this federal election campaign. Most of the deaths will be in Africa. And yet not one cheap pill has been shipped from Canada.

National Executive Board: Wyman MacKinnon

Regional Vice-President, Northern Ontario.

Media enquiries: Concerned McGuinty LHINs plan will diminish patient care, health service workers to picket Ontario Liberal MPPs on December 2

Toronto – Area health service workers, concerned that the McGuinty government’s plan for Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) will diminish patient care, will join health care workers from across the province in picketing at the constituency offices of MPPs, and at the Ottawa office of Premier Dalton McGuinty.

Media enquiries: Enter CUPE Alberta's photo contest - $500 to the best picture

EDMONTON - CUPE Alberta is calling on members to get out their cameras and start taking pictures.

Media enquiries: CUPE renews call for free collective bargaining in ’06

Finance minister’s announcement of “negotiating framework” just a start, says union

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News: Health care privatization has a new name in ontario: LHINs

Key politicians in the Ontario Liberal government faced gauntlets of health care workers today as workers across Ontario challenged their “local health integration networks” (LHINs) in health care.

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Election updates: Day Five: Why strategic voting doesn’t work

 

Inevitably, in close elections some people call for voters to vote “strategically” to keep one party from gaining power. In this election, they are advocating to vote Liberal instead of NDP to ensure that the Conservatives do not win in certain close ridings. Their logic is faulty.

Election updates: Day Four: Disabled persons day is a time to act not just promise

Today, Dec. 3, is International Day for Disabled Persons. It is an opportunity for federal election candidates to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities.

News: CUPE denounces Bank of Canada governor’s P3 message to privateers

The Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships wrapped up its annual conference in Toronto this week after hearing Bank of Canada governor David Dodge endorse P3s for public infrastructure in the face of evidence that the deals harm the public sector and the financial bottom line.

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Media enquiries: Tax deductions aren’t social programs: Does Harper know the difference?

“Choice” in child care code for big boxing our kids

OTTAWA – A tax deduction for child care is not a social program and Stephen Harper should know the difference, said Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

News: Test yourself with CUPE's weekly election quiz

Test your knowledge of the election trivia and win CUPE wear. During the federal election campaign each week we will have an online, multiple choice quiz.

Media enquiries: Edmonton school custodial workers distribute white ribbons

After a female custodian was attacked, co-workers promised ‘never again’

EDMONTON – Custodial workers at Edmonton Public Schools distributed 10,000 white ribbons to school staff to raise awareness about violence against women during the National Campaign on Violence Against Women. This years campaign has expanded to all custodial workers within Black Gold Regional Division No.18 and all workers with Operation Friendship Seniors Society.

Media enquiries: CUPE National President to join Turtle River School Division support workers

McCreary, MB. - Support workers on strike in the Turtle River School Division are still confident they will reach a fair agreement after being on the picket line for a month.

Media enquiries: Kedgwick-Saint-Quentin EMTs vote to strike

KEDGWICK-SAINT-QUENTIN, NB – The Emergency Medical Technicians of Kedgwick-Saint-Quentin voted unanimously for strike action.

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Election updates: Day seven: Liberal child care promises are a shell game in which kids are the losers

 

The Liberals’ child care promises are a shell game in which kids are the losers, said Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

News: CLC begins campaign for freedom and equality for women

The Canadian Labour Congress launched its campaign for freedom and equality of women today, to commemorate the murders of 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montréal.

News: Chilly rally spreads holiday cheer through McCreary Manitoba

About 45 members of Local 1897 rally through McCreary, MB, Dec. 5, as part of their work stoppage. CUPE National President Paul Moist spent part of the day with the members. While the issue the members are striking for is serious - wage parity - all had a rousing good time.

Media enquiries: Kedgwick-Saint-Quentin EMTs on strike tomorrow

Media enquiries: First collective agreement for KC Irving Centre employees

BATHURST, N.B. - The City of Bathurst and the employees of the KC Irving Regional Centre signed their first collective agreement.

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Election updates: Day Eight: Solid environmental leadership from the NDP

 

The NDP is once again demonstrating that their party’s environmental agenda is the best fit for CUPE members.

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Election updates: Day nine: The Liberals should eliminate poverty and racism as well as handguns

 

Today, the Liberals are announcing a ban on handguns in response to a rise in gun deaths in Toronto.

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Election updates: DAY 10: Liberals missing the green economy boat at UN Kyoto conference

 

The United Nations Kyoto conference on climate change ends today in Montreal. There’s good news and there’s bad news.

Background information: This time we can vote positive for children

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Election updates: DAY 11: The Liberal and Conservative privatization agenda hurts women

 

The United Nations’ Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, is a good time to reflect on the rights of women in Canada in 2005, and to take that reflection into action by voting positive this election.

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Election updates: DAY 12: We need a positive vision for child care

 

Very different visions of child care are being presented this election. The Liberals and Conservatives are both failing to build a strong, non-profit, public child care system. The NDP puts them both to shame.

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Election updates: Day 13: Are Liberal benchmarks the teeth marks of for-profit health care?

 

Provincial and territorial governments released today their long-awaited list of benchmarks for wait times for medically necessary services. The federal Liberals are relying on benchmarks to try to show they are actually doing something to strengthen health care.

Media enquiries: Don’t let “benchmarks” become teeth marks of for-profit health care - The only thing private clinics will speed up is how fast they profit

Benchmarks for wait times in health care could become the teeth marks of private, for-profit care unless governments reduce wait times through public delivery, the head of Canada’s largest union said today.

News: Members praised for response to Legionnaire’s disease outbreak

A report on the recent Legionnaire’s disease outbreak at a Toronto nursing home praises staff for their “exemplary” behaviour and CUPE for its response to the crisis.

Media enquiries: Response to School Division News Release

McCreary, MB: This backgrounder relates to a News Release from the Turtle River School Division Superintendent Bill Main, of December 5th, 2005.

Background information: This time we can vote positive for health care

Background information: This time we can vote positive for women

Media enquiries: Children protection: Immediate action needed

FREDERICTON - The Union representing over 600 Social Workers in New Brunswick is calling on Premier Bernard Lord to take the lead and finally implement all the recommendations of the Children Come First report released in 2000.

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Election updates: Day 14: This time we can vote positive for cities and towns

 

Public investment in public services and infrastructure is the key to strengthening our communities. That’s why CUPE is stressing this as an important issue in the federal election campaign.

News: CUPE members part of rotating strikes in Québec

More than 80,000 public sector workers – including CUPE members – are on strike today as talks between the common front and the provincial government continue.

Federal Election 2006: Play CUPE's 2006 federal election pool

Be the person who comes closest to guessing the seat counts in the Jan. 23 2006 federal election and win a CUPE leather jacket.

Site news: Paul Moist launches blog

CUPE national president Paul Moist launched his blog today, http://paulmoist.cupe.ca/. Moist is in Hong Kong, at ILO-sponsored events that co-incide with WTO meetings that were the subject of protests today [cbc.ca].

Campaign reality checks: Reality check on health care

Each of the big three parties is claiming to be the saviour of medicare. But what are they actually promising to do?

Federal Election 2006: CUPE members running for office in the federal election

There are a number of CUPE members running for office in this federal election. If we're missing you, please let us know.

Background information: This time we can vote positive for cities and towns

We want to expand and upgrade our infrastructure with public services and public financing to strengthen our communities.

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Election updates: Day 15: The Liberals stage a tiff with the Empire

 

Prime Minister Paul Martin’s public rebuke of the United States’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto protocol to stop climate change has brought a “scolding” from Washington.

Media enquiries: CUPE Saskatchewan praises federal NDP crackdown on health care privatization

REGINA, SK – The Canadian Union of Public Employees praised federal NDP Leader Jack Layton’s promise today to defend Canada’s public health care system with the introduction of tough new measures.

News: HEU dispute with Sodexho ends with arbitration

The Hospital Employees Union's seven week dispute with French Multinational Sodexho is finally over.

Media enquiries: New Liberal health care scheme will bring more privatization and force patients to travel, health workers say

TORONTO – Four unions, representing almost 200,000 Ontario health care workers, say the Liberal government will undermine patient access to local care with its Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) plan.

Media enquiries: CUPE members accept new collective agreement

WINNIPEG, MB – CUPE Local 4606 and 3028 members throughout the Parkland Regional Health Authority voted to ratify a new Collective Agreement on December 13, 2005.

Federal Election 2006: Strategic voting: more on why it won't work

Psychic voting might. But unless you can see into the future, experience has shown a strategic vote is more likely to cause the problem you seek to avoid.

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Election updates: DAY 16: Don't be fooled – Martin is not “defending” Canada

 
Prime Minister Paul Martin is continuing his chest-thumping, saying he will not “be dictated to” by the U.S.

Media enquiries: CUPE releases comprehensive report on child care in Nova Scotia

HALIFAX - With the issue of child care hitting the front pages courtesy of the federal election campaign, the most comprehensive research report done on child care in Nova Scotia in the last four years was released Dec. 15.

Election updates: DEBATES 2006: watch the candidates talk the talk on Dec. 15 and 16

Tonight, Thursday, Dec. 15, the four main party leaders debate in French, and tomorrow night, Friday, Dec. 16, they debate in English. Both debates start in Vancouver at 5 p.m. Pacific Time.

Child Care: The case for building a public child care system in Nova Scotia

Entitled Child Care at the Crossroads: The case for building a public system in Nova Scotia, this 38 page research report makes a case for using the new federal child care funding to expand the community-based, non-profit child care as the basis for a universal system and recognize the role of early childhood educators in that system.

Election updates: Debate questions

The 2006 federal election debates will provide good opportunities for CUPE members to decide if candidates will stand for accountability, strengthened public services and improved working conditions.

Media enquiries: Paramedics urge Kenora District Services Board to protect ambulance services – reject cuts

KENORA, Ont. – Kenora District paramedics are urging the Kenora District Services Board (KDSB) to protect ambulance services instead of threatening service cuts that will jeopardize the lives of northern residents.

Media enquiries: New collective agreement for paramedics in Campbellton

CAMPBELLTON, N.B. - The paramedics employed by the Campbellton Regional Ambulance Service just signed a new collective agreement.

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Election updates: Day 17: Layton's Stock Rises After First Debate

 
Francophone CUPE members from Ottawa and Inkerman, N.B., gave us their views on how the four main party leaders performed during last night’s French-language debate.

Site news: Vote for cupe.ca as Labourstart's website of the year

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Media enquiries: Saskatchewan health care talks yield little movement as employer offer proves insufficient

REGINA - More than 25,000 health workers will be preparing for job action if the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO) doesn’t produce a reasonable offer.

Media enquiries: Kawartha Pine Ridge school board workers apply for conciliation – prepare for strike

PETERBOROUGH, ON – Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board workers have asked the provincial ministry of Labour to assign a conciliation officer to assist with contract negotiations after talks with their employer broke off, setting the stage for a potential strike in the New Year.

Media enquiries: Belleville Children’s Mental Health Services in jeopardy as strike looms

BELLEVILLE, ON – Children’s Mental Health Service providers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), could be on strike in the New Year, if a contract settlement is not reached between management and the workers.

Media enquiries: CUPE Nova Scotia asks Tory leadership hopefuls for their positions on private health clinics

TRURO, NS – The president of CUPE Nova Scotia, Danny Cavanagh, is asking Neil LeBlanc, Bill Black and Rodney MacDonald to come clean on the issue of private health clinics.

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Election updates: Day 20: Moist, Layton united on care for seniors, disabled people

 

CUPE National President Paul Moist stood united with Jack Layton as the NDP leader pledged his commitment to home care and long-term care for seniors during an Ottawa stop on the campaign trail.

News: Election quiz three: Debts, infrastructure and the GDP. Who says the election is boring?

Test your knowledge of the election trivia and win CUPE wear. During the federal election campaign each week we will have an online, multiple choice quiz.

P3 Alert December 2005: Correction to October 2005 P3 Alert

In “Terasen sale to Kinder Morgan has steep downside for public,” Laurence Booth was misquoted in his reference to Kinder Morgan’s similarity to Enron. Booth indicated that Moody’s, the bond-rating agency, is confident that an Enron situation could not affect Terasen. See http://cupe.ca/www/P3_Alert_October_200/a438cac3ed8ded for the updated story. We regret the error.

P3 Alert December 2005: Quotable Quotes

“The Liberals say AFPs [alternative funding and procurement projects] are different [from P3s], but they haven’t said how they are different. The deals are secret because the companies demand secrecy. Yet we keep paying the bills.” – Oxford Health Coalition member Dora Jeffries.

“P3s are called AFPs in Ontario.” – Ontario Minister of Infrastructure Renewal David Caplan at the CCPPP conference, finally admitting the Liberals simply have a different name for P3s.

P3 Alert December 2005: Bottom line trumps patients’ pain in U.K.

Some of the United Kingdom’s cash-strapped primary care trusts – regional health authorities funded by the National Health Service (NHS) – have begun imposing restrictions on some medical procedures to curb a massive deficit.

P3 Alert December 2005: Australian P3 tunnel causes public uproar

A 2.1-km P3 tunnel in Sydney, Australia, is causing massive headaches for the New South Wales government. Intense pressure from motorists, the opposition and other critics has forced the state government to release 30,000 pages of documents related to the construction, financing, operation and maintenance of the Cross City Tunnel.

Media enquiries: Gesture of good faith offered by health provider unions

SASKATOON - The Health Provider union coalition, SEIU, CUPE and SGEU, has been meeting with SAHO and the Employers this past week in Saskatoon.

News: Unions join forces to fight new Ontario health care scheme

Four unions representing almost 200,000 Ontario health care workers have joined forces to fight the Dalton McGuinty government’s local health integration network (LHIN) plan.

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Election updates: Day 21: Employment Insurance: Workers pay the premiums, don’t get the benefits

 

Figures released by Statistics Canada today show that less than 45 per cent of unemployed workers actually receive Employment Insurance benefits.

Funding: Re-establishing a Federal Role in Hospital Infrastructure Finance

“Will Paul Martin Live Up to His Father’s Legacy?" CUPE and Health Coalitions Call for the Federal Government to Restore Its Role in Hospitals in New Discussion Paper.

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Election updates: Day 22: Poverty is not a seasonal concern

 

With the holidays upon us, and the election going on hold, it’s bonus time for Bay Street CEOs of both the Liberal and Conservative persuasion.

News: Compass health care workers on Vancouver Island vote HEU

More than 700 dietary and cleaning workers employed by Compass Group at Vancouver Island Health Authority facilities are now members of the Hospital Employees’ Union.

News: Lift the veil of secrecy on “repurposing” education: CUPE

Public needs to know what’s in store for school support services in 2006, says union.

Media enquiries: Lift the veil of secrecy on “repurposing” education: CUPE

Public needs to know what’s in store for school support services in 2006, says union.

Media enquiries: “Sock it to em” campaign bigger than ever

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – Happy feet make for a happy Christmas season.

Issue Sheets: This time we can vote positive for long-term care and home care

Background information: Fact Sheet: This time we can vote positive for women

We want to live in communities where women enjoy a better quality of life and have equal access to employment, stable full-time jobs with fair wages, and public pensions. We also want fair access to unemployment insurance, including parental benefits that replace 75 per cent of lost income.

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Election updates: Day 23: Public safety paramount for flight attendants

 

Leading up to the election, the Liberals and Canada’s airlines have made moves to threaten passenger safety by reducing the number of flight attendants on airplanes.

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News: Peace and a ‘people-first’ federal government in 2006

We are nearing the end of a tumultuous year of hardship and hope that began with the devastating tsunami disaster last Dec. 26. CUPE responded to the crisis with compassion, speed and generosity.

  • Please note: regular updates to the CUPE website will resume in January

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News: Election Quiz #4: rooftop gardens and quiet political contemplation

Test your knowledge of the election trivia and win CUPE wear. During the federal election campaign each week we will have an online, multiple choice quiz.

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Media enquiries: Liberals and Tories have made youth cynical about politics

 

As the election campaign resumes, the Liberals and Conservatives battle over who will be more accountable. Meanwhile, both parties continue to ignore the concerns of young voters.

Media enquiries: Health unions looking for “equitable” offer from SAHO

REGINA - Three unions representing 25,000 health workers say the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO) must return to the common bargaining table tomorrow prepared to address ‘equity issues’ in order to achieve contract settlements and avert possible job action.

Media enquiries: Health care unions to hold joint news conference today

REGINA - Three unions representing 25,000 health care workers will hold a joint news conference in Regina today at 1:30 p.m.

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Election updates: Tories and Liberals keep post-secondary education for the rich

 

Will we keep quality post-secondary education public and accessible? Or do you have to be rich to get a good education?

Federal Election 2006: Vote Early – Vote Positive

You can get a head start on the Jan. 23 election by voting at an advance poll. Elections Canada advance polls open as early as Jan. 13. Find out where in your riding you can vote early and vote positive in an advance poll.

Federal Election 2006: The best “strategic vote” is for the NDP

The idea of “strategic voting” has come up during the election campaign, the notion being that the best way to stave off the Conservatives is to vote for the Liberals.

Really, the best way to make sure we have a Parliament that works for working people is to make sure we have as many NDP MPs as possible. And the way to do that is to vote for what you really want by voting positive.

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Election updates: Liberals and Conservatives choose drug patents and profits over patients

As drugs became one of the fastest rising costs in the health care system, the Liberal government didn’t just sit back and watch. They made things worse by protecting patents and profits, not patients. And they ignored calls for a national pharmacare program.

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Election updates: The Conservatives: Standing up for a meaner Canada

Some voters looking for a change from the governing Liberals may be tempted to vote Conservative. And to be sure, punishing the Liberals for their arrogance, corruption and privatization agenda is a worthy goal. But the Conservatives’ plans would fail CUPE members, and all Canadians.

News: Election quiz #5: Fend for Canada and spurn strategic voting

Test your knowledge of the election trivia and win CUPE wear. During the federal election campaign each week we will have an online, multiple choice quiz.

Fact sheets and issue sheets: This time we can vote positive for pharmacare

What we want

  • A national pharmacare program that provides universal coverage for essential drugs and controls the rising costs that threaten the sustainability of public health care.
  • Regulations that put patient safety and health before the interests of the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Cancel regulations that allow drug companies to reap high profits by extending their patent protection.
  • A program that reduces the escalating costs of employee drug plans making Canadian businesses more competitive.

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Election updates: Little hope for jobless if Liberals or Tories form government

No wonder we aren’t hearing much about jobs in this election. The latest Statistics Canada figures reveal that Canada’s 1.2 million unemployed workers haven’t got much to hope for if either the Liberals or the Tories form a government after Jan. 23.

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Election updates: For workers the only strategic vote is an NDP vote

It may have been raining cats and dogs but that didn’t put a damper on the hundreds of trade unionists, including many CUPE members, who welcomed NDP Leader Jack Layton and NDP candidates to an energetic election rally in Vancouver yesterday.

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Election updates: Tune in to the election debates tonight and tomorrow to see who will best protect working families

Which party leader will work hardest to protect your day-to-day needs as an ordinary Canadian working family? Tune in to the election debates and decide for yourself.

Media enquiries: Saskatchewan health care provider unions reach tentative agreements

The Health Care Provider Unions Coalition - Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and Saskatchewan Government and General Employees Union (SGEU) - is pleased to report that they have reached tentative agreements with SAHO and the employers.

Media enquiries: Mediation last chance for Children’s Mental Health Services

BELLEVILLE, ON – Mediation talks between the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and Children’s Mental Health Services will be the last opportunity for management to prevent a strike that could affect counselling and support services for over 200 children and their families.

Media enquiries: Paul Moist to appear on Dave Rutherford show

CALGARY - CUPE National President Paul Moist will appear on the Dave Rutherford show Wednesday January 11th between noon and 12:30 Mountain Standard Time. He will be discussing national politics and other issues raised by the federal election.

Federal Election 2006: CCPA Minority Report weighs in

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released its Minority Report, a report card on the 2004-05 Liberal minority government.

Media enquiries: Kawartha Pine Ridge school board workers deliver strong strike mandate

PETERBOROUGH, ON – Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board workers, who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted 90 per cent in favour of a strike, if a fair contract cannot be reached with school board management.

Media enquiries: Nominations open for CUPE Alberta equality award

EDMONTON - CUPE locals in Alberta are invited to submit nominations for the CUPE Alberta 2006 Equality award. The award will be presented at the CUPE Alberta Convention in Fort McMurray, March 23-25, 2006.

Fact sheets and issue sheets: This time we can vote positive for Canada’s democracy

Canada’s democracy must be protected from deep integration – the integration of Canada’s political, economic, security and cultural institutions with the United States and Mexico.

Fact sheets and issue sheets: This time we can vote positive for military spending

We want Canada’s role as a respected peacekeeping nation restored and revitalized.

Fact sheets and issue sheets: This time we can vote positive for post-secondary education

We want a $4.2 billion increase to current funding that is tied to reductions in tuition fees and an end to funding private, for-profit institutions.

Fact sheets and issue sheets: This time we can vote positive for the environment and energy

The federal government needs to enact a national environmental protection plan that reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions now.

Fact sheets and issue sheets: This time we can vote positive for trade

We want fair trade agreements that sustain and support workers, social justice, the environment and Canada’s autonomy instead of free trade that works only for business interests.

Fact sheets and issue sheets: This time we can vote positive for water and wastewater services

The federal government must start a loan program that directly addresses water and wastewater infrastructure for municipalities. Without federal support, municipalities are vulnerable to corporate control and exploitation of their water systems.

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Election updates: Layton more attuned to working families, women, youth

CUPE members watching last night’s English debate in Montreal noted that NDP leader Jack Layton had the most to say about the need to protect their interests and needs of working families across Canada.

Media enquiries: Increased costs, secrecy linked to private wastewater treatment

BURNABY Concerned citizens and workers in the Resort Municipality of Whistler attended Whistler council’s January 9th meeting to urge the newly elected group to keep wastewater treatment public.

Media enquiries: Refugee workers hold town hall meeting three major parties to weigh in on refugee issues

WINNIPEG - Political candidates will debate issues relevant to immigrants and refugees in Canada at a Town Hall Meeting. Candidates representing the three main political parties will participate.

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Election updates: Layton scores in French-language leaders’ debate

NDP Leader Jack Layton demonstrated again in last night’s French-language leader’s debate that the NDP is the best choice for working people.

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Election updates: Special letter from NDP leader Jack Layton to CUPE members:

NDP Leader Jack Layton has written a special letter to CUPE members, reminding them that they have a choice between corruption and Conservatives:

Federal Election 2006: Join Ed Broadbent and CUPE: Sign our call to action!

As we enter the election's final stretch, tax cuts have emerged as a major issue in the campaign. We think that's wrong. We believe it is an attempt to bribe Canadians with their own money, and distract voters from what REALLY matters to working families: like investing in improved health care, education, affordable housing, and protection for children and seniors. And keeping Canada's promises to the world on vital issues like climate change and fighting poverty.

If you agree that these priorities are more important than tax giveaways, please take a moment to sign our Call to Action now.

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Election updates: Vote positive to stop the Conservatives

People want change this election. On Jan. 23 we have the opportunity to make positive change for working people.

News: Election quiz #6: Notwithstanding the attack ads

Test your knowledge of the election trivia and win CUPE wear. During the federal election campaign each week we will have an online, multiple choice quiz.

Federal Election 2006: "Vote positive, Vote public" flyer (PDF)

This time, we have a real chance to make Parliament work. More New Democratic Party MPs means a balanced Parliament - one that works for people. It means more say in our real priorities, like health care, housing, curbing poverty, the environment.

A Parliament that works means quality public services and strong communities. Reliable, accessible, quality public services provide good value for money, employ a stable work force and ensure that when things go wrong, you can hold someone to account.

Strong communities. Public services. Public accountability.

Media enquiries: New Whistler town council asked to nix private wastewater treatment deal

Concerned citizens and workers from the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) in British Columbia have urged the newly elected town council to keep wastewater treatment public.

Media enquiries: CUPE questions ‘overhaul’ of child welfare services

HALIFAX – The union representing most of the unionized workers in local child welfare agencies across the province has some serious questions and a number of concerns, following an announced overhaul by the Community Services Minister.

Media enquiries: Harper challenged: Will Tories sell off Canada’s water?

BURNABY, BC – The Canadian Union of Public Employees is calling on Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper to reverse his party’s position on bulk water exports after a Conservative candidate on Vancouver Island showed enthusiastic support for the idea at an all-candidates meeting.

Media enquiries: Increasing private health care and diminished patient care real story behind Liberal LHINs scheme, say North Bay health care workers

NORTH BAY, ON – The McGuinty Liberals propose massive changes to health service delivery that will open the door to more private health care, while compromising local access to services and diminishing patient care, say North Bay area health and community-based social service workers.

Media enquiries: Harper challenged: Will Tories sell off Canada’s water?

CUPE condemns bulk water exports in wake of Vancouver Island candidate’s comment

Fact sheets and issue sheets: This time we can vote positive for community infrastructure

We want a national program aimed at expanding and upgrading physical infrastructure – our roads, public transit, transportation, water services and sewers, utilities, streetlights, parks, etc. – all publicly financed, built, owned, operated and delivered.

News: Pat Martin addresses refugee support workers

At a Town Hall Meeting yesterday, MP Pat Martin (left) addressed about 40 community members interested in party positions affecting new Canadians. While Reg Alcock agreed to participate, the Liberals withdrew at the last moment.

News: CUPE Manitoba Contracting-Out and Political Action Committee emphasizes the role of public services

The CUPE Manitoba Contracting-Out and Political Action Committee (COPAC) held an election briefing on Wednesday, January 11th with Barb Byers, Executive Vice-President of the CLC and Pat Martin, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre. Pictured here are Barb, Pat behind her and Tracey Beastall, COPAC Co-chair.
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Election updates: Harper’s Conservative platform would dismantle the Canada working people built

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has tried to remake his public image into something more moderate to get elected. But his true intentions, as revealed in his party’s just-released policy platform, are to dismantle the caring society built by working Canadians with help from the party that protects their best interests, the NDP.

News: Only 9 days left to secure a passenger safety pledge from your candidates!

Transport Canada is ready to gamble with air passenger safety by allowing Canadian airlines to fly with up to 25% fewer flight attendants. Flight attendants save lives. With fewer hands on deck, the odds of surviving an emergency will be cut too.

Don't let Transport Canada gamble with passenger safety by cutting flight attendant crew minimums. Send a message to your local candidates by visiting www.airpassengersafety.ca today!

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Election updates: Layton energizes Ontario campaign rally

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With TV funnyman Rick Mercer watching from the sidelines and Bare Naked Ladies singer Stephen Paige introducing him with a rousing song, NDP Leader Jack Layton leaped energetically to the stage of a packed-house rally in Toronto on Saturday. “Tell Liberal voters that Paul Martin’s party needs a time-out to clean itself up and find out what it believes in,” Layton told the crowd of about 1,000 trade unionists and other NDP candidates and supporters. “Ask them to change their vote to the NDP.”
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Election updates: New Democrats, not Conservatives, are the real friends of working people

Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are trying to pass themselves off as friends of working people, but their agenda promises bad news for working women and men. And on every substantial point for working people, NDP policies come out much further ahead. The best way to defeat a Conservative majority is to vote for the NDP.

Media enquiries: North Bay health workers say LHINs will erode public system

NORTH BAY, ON – Area health care and community social service workers today announced they have formed an unprecedented coalition opposing a McGuinty government restructuring plan that they say will erode our public health system and compromise patient care.

Media enquiries: Eastern Ontario Catholic school board workers deliver strong strike mandate

CORNWALL, ON – Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario support staff have voted 92 per cent in favour of a strike if talks between the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 500 education workers, fail to reach a fair contract settlement with board management.

Fact sheets and issue sheets: This time we can vote positive for pensions

We want improved benefit levels of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) to ensure all seniors’ incomes are well above the poverty line.
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Election updates: The home stretch: vote positive to protect public health care

Don’t be fooled by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Under his government, health care privatization would flourish.

Media enquiries: Water testing to remain public in Campbell River

NANAIMO, British Columbia – Campbell River City Council will keep the city’s Water Quality Monitoring Program in public hands. Rodger Oakley, chair of the Island Water Watch Campaign, congratulated the council late Monday, January 16, following a standing-room-only meeting in which council voted 4-3 against contracting out the important public service.

Media enquiries: Union drive finds ‘fertile ground’ in rural Saskatchewan

SASKATOON - Two out of every three school support workers in Saskatchewan are now represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, following a major organizing drive by the union in the K-12 education sector.

Media enquiries: CUPE’s Cavanagh says private health care would flourish under a Harper government

TRURO, NS – The president of CUPE Nova Scotia, Danny Cavanagh, says Nova Scotians should not be fooled by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in the final days of the federal election.

Economic Issues: Economic Climate for Bargaining - January 2006

This report provides an overview of economic developments and wage settlements related to public sector collective bargaining in Canada. The focus of this issue is on an economic outlook for the coming year.

Water: Privatization of Wastewater Treatment in Whistler, BC

Based on advice from the Campbell Liberal government of B.C., the Resort Municipality of Whistler has decided to privatize sewage treatment. CUPE Local 2010 presented the attached submission to Whistler Council on January 9th, 2006. The submission warns of the pitfalls of P3s for water and wastewater and urges the municipality to reject use of a P3 for its wastewater treatment upgrade.
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Election updates: The NDP can keep the child care dream alive

A Conservative majority government would trash the emerging national child care program. But by voting NDP, we can keep the Conservatives from destroying it outright by forcing them into a minority government position.

Media enquiries: CUPE pioneer passes away

John Francis “Lofty” MacMillan, one of Canada’s trade union giants and a founding CUPE pioneer, has died at the age of 88. He will be remembered for the substantial, long-term improvements he helped bring about for Canadian workers.

Media enquiries: Bulk water exports ‘a disaster’: Port Alberni mayor

British Columbia - Ken McRae disputes Conservative candidate’s view on benefit to local communities

Federal Election 2006: CUPE Voter's Guide 2006

The CUPE voter's guide is a useful tool to compare the platforms of the four major parties. It covers issues like health care, cities, child care, women and a whole lot more. Compare the platforms and remember to vote positive, vote public.

Media enquiries: CUPE’s Lucas calls on province to help settle Daybreak strike

ST. JOHN'S – Wayne Lucas, the President of CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador says the provincial government is going to have to get involved to settle the current strike at Daybreak Parent Child Centre.
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Election updates: Our communities need positive support in Parliament

Communities are the engines of Canada’s economy and the hub of human development, but Canada’s mayors must think the Liberals and Conservatives have forgotten this fact.

Media enquiries: Canada’s largest union urges members to support the NDP

OTTAWA – The top leaders of Canada’s largest union are urging members outside of Quebec to support the New Democratic Party in the Jan. 23 federal election.

“Neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives have policies that will benefit CUPE members or working families,” the national executive board of the Canadian Union of Public Employees said in a statement released today.

News: Health workers say LHINs will erode public system

In meetings across the province organized by an unprecedented coalition, health workers are speaking out against the McGuinty government's health restructuring initiative. More than 1500 health care workers concerned about the stability of our public health care system packed into the Hamilton Sheraton Monday night, overwhelming organizers and staff, and meetings continue across the province.

News: Election quiz #7: pure election trivia

Test your knowledge of the election trivia and win CUPE wear. During the federal election campaign each week we will have an online, multiple choice quiz.

Media enquiries: CUPE 2086 wins contract-in of garbage collection

HOUSTON, B.C. – Fighting to bring contracted-out services back to CUPE pays off. Just ask CUPE 2086, which represents workers in the District of Houston, B.C.

National Executive Board: Statement from the CUPE National Executive Board - The 2006 Federal Election

Canadians go to the polls on January 23 in an election that is crucial for the future of the country. Polls show that the Conservative Party, led by Stephen Harper, will form either a minority or perhaps even a majority government, underscoring the need for us to elect as many New Democrat Party MPs as possible.

Media enquiries: CUPE’s Lucas calls on province to help settle Daybreak strike

ST. JOHN'S – Wayne Lucas, the President of CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador says the provincial government is going to have to get involved to settle the current strike at Daybreak Parent Child Centre.

Media enquiries: CUPE demands drastic amendments to OMERS Bill 206 or go back to the drawing board

TORONTO – Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario demands that McGuinty’s Liberal government make drastic amendments to the OMERS Bill 206 — the new plan to manage the municipal employees pension plan — or, that they start over using a collaborative process that includes the real stakeholders.

Media enquiries: Strike deadline approaches for Limestone District School Board workers

KINGSTON, ON – School board workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will enter mediation talks with the Limestone District School Board in a final effort to reach an agreement before a January 20th, 2006, legal strike deadline.

Federal Election 2006: Open letter to Stephen Harper and Paul Martin on wait time ‘guarantees’

The Conservatives and Liberals promise that "wait time guarantees" will be the solution to problems in Canada's public health care system. In fact, they are really guaranteeing that our public health care system will be further eroded. CUPE has signed the letter.
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Election updates: Let’s vote positive to protect our social programs and women’s equality

On Jan. 23, women are looking for a government that will advance social programs and economic equality.

Election updates: Be strategic: Vote NDP

If the polls are right. and that's not always a sure thing, the Conservative party will form a minority -- perhaps even a majority -- government following Monday's election. This prospect underscores the need for progressive voters to elect as many New Democratic Party MPs as possible, Paul Moist writes in today's National Post (January 20)

News: Strike averted at Limestone District School Board

Limestone District School Board workers averted a strike after reaching a tentative four-year collective agreement on Friday, January 20.

LHINs campaign tool kit: Public hearing information (Bill 36)

LHINs campaign tool kit: Stop LHINs

Media enquiries: Strike looms for Ontario school board workers

The 860 members of CUPE Local 1480 will enter mediation talks with the Limestone District School Board near Kingston, Ontario, in a final effort to reach an agreement before a January 20th legal strike deadline.

LHINs campaign tool kit: LHINs and YOU Flyer - September 14, 2005

LHINs campaign tool kit: Communications Tree

Media enquiries: CUPE demands drastic amendments to OMERS Bill 206

CUPE Ontario is demanding that Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government make drastic amendments to the OMERS Bill 206, or start over using a collaborative process that includes stakeholders.

Media enquiries: Water testing to remain public in Campbell River

The city council of Campbell River, British Columbia, voted this week to keep the city’s water quality monitoring program public.

Media enquiries: WHSCC employees vote in favour of a strike

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1866 representing the support workers for the Workplace, Health, Safety and Compensation Commission (WHSCC) voted 91% in favor of strike action.

Media enquiries: Layton energizes NDP rallies in Toronto and Vancouver

With TV funnyman Rick Mercer watching from the sidelines and Barenaked Ladies singer Stephen Paige introducing him with a rousing song, NDP Leader Jack Layton leaped to the stage at a rally in Toronto last weekend.

Media enquiries: Warning from CUPE Cape Breton on private health care under a Harper government under a Harper government

SYDNEY, N.S. - The president of the Cape Breton and District CUPE Council says islanders should not be fooled by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in the final days of the federal election.
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Election updates: Ten reasons to vote positive for the NDP

On Monday, we will cast our votes. Working people want a government that listens to them and will be responsive to their needs at all times, not just at election time.
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Media enquiries: Warning from CUPE Cape Breton on private health care under a Harper government

SYDNEY, N.S. – The president of the Cape Breton and District CUPE Council says islanders should not be fooled by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in the final days of the federal election.

News: Paul Moist casts positive vote with NDP MP Pat Martin

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This morning, Paul Moist accompanied Pat Martin (NDP MP for Winnipeg Centre) to a polling station where Pat voted. Pat is expected to win his seat again. This Martin has a strong profile in the community and neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives have shown they can represent the constituency with the commitment and courage that Pat and the NDP have over the years.
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Election updates: Strong NDP presence will keep Conservatives in check

OTTAWA – New Democrats will keep Conservatives in check and that’s good news for Canadians, said Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Bargaining Benefits: Drug Plan - Can we negotiate cost savings?

Drugs are the greatest source of benefit plan cost increases, so, employers target drugs for cost saving schemes. Even though the research shows that the primary source of skyrocketing prices is the new “me-too’” drugs and not increased usage, employers usually seek solutions that download costs to plan members.

Health Care Reform: National Wait Times Roundtable

The Canadian Health Coalition held a Wait Times Roundtable in Ottawa, partly sponsored by CUPE. Attendees heard arguments for public health care solutions instead of wait time promises that would serve to further privatization.
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Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario votes to approve province-wide strike action

TORONTO - The leadership of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario from across the province voted unanimously this morning to take province-wide strike action if the McGuinty Liberals continue with Bill 206, the new OMERS legislation, in its current state.

Media enquiries: Niagara region school representative makes deputation to Queen’s Park on Bill 206

NIAGARA REGION – Frank Ventresca, president of CUPE 4156, representing support staff workers with the District School Board of Niagara, will be part of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario’s campaign to have Bill 206, the new legislation that changes the way OMERS — the municipal employees’ pension plan — is managed when he joins a deputation at the second round of public hearings into the Bill at 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, January 25.

Media enquiries: CUPE Ontario provincial leaders called to emergency meeting regarding OMERS

TORONTO – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario has called leaders from across the province to an emergency meeting in Toronto on Wednesday, January 25, at the Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, beginning at 10 a.m.
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General mailing guides: Organize Magazine, Fall/Winter 2005-06

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The fall/winter 2005-06 edition of Organize magazine is now available. Contact your local to get your copy.

Media enquiries: Supreme Court of Canada dismisses Air Canada’s Appeal: Flight Attendants Can Proceed with Pay Equity

TORONTO - The Supreme Court of Canada has handed down a unanimous decision dismissing Air Canada’s appeal on pay equity. This decision paves the way for the Union to prove that Air Canada is discriminating against Flight Attendants, a predominantly female workforce.

Media enquiries: Turtle River support workers back on the job

McCREARY, MB – After two months on the picket line, the 100 support workers in the Turtle River School Division are back at work.

National Secretary-Treasurer: Another world is possible

From Seattle in 1999 and Quebec City in 2001 to Argentina and Hong Kong today, activists around the world are fighting globalization because they believe in a better world. What’s more, we’re winning.

Media enquiries: “Speak the truth” about Tory health policy

CALGARY – Now that Conservative backbenchers have approved the government’s health care reform package, it’s time for Albertans to know what the government is up to.

News: Your money, your future

Catherine Louli looks at the ins and outs of one of the hottest topics for the trade union movement today: your pension.

National President: Convention 2005: passion, pride and power

This issue of Organize reports on our 22nd national convention held in Winnipeg in early October. I am immensely proud of our union. Some 1,700 delegates debated the issues, pledged support for striking members and formed policy to guide CUPE over the next two years.
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Media enquiries: Tentative settlement reached for school board workers

BELLEVILLE, ON – The Algonquin & Lakeshore Catholic District School Board and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1479, are pleased to announce that the parties have reached a tentative, four-year collective agreement, subject to ratification by the respective parties.

Media enquiries: University workers reach tentative agreement

REGINA/SASKATOON - University workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1975 reached a tentative agreement last night with the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina, after more than two years of contract negotiations.

National Executive Board: National Executive Board Highlights - January 2006

The National Executive Board met in Ottawa, January 18-19, 2006.

The National Executive Board endorsed a statement of clear support for the New Democratic Party as the Party for working people for all electoral races outside of Quebec. In the province of Quebec, the NEB respects the political choice of CUPE members to support the Bloc Québécois. The statement was distributed widely and states that:

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Media enquiries: WHSCC employees on strike

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — The support workers for the Workplace, Health, Safety and Compensation Commission (WHSCC), members of CUPE Local 1866 were forced on strike today.

P3 Alert January 2006: Quotable Quote

“Privatization has made matters so much worse that in many countries, [it] is jokingly referred to as ‘briberization’.

P3 Alert January 2006: Transport Canada loses battle over Digby wharf

On Jan. 19, Transport Canada lost its four-year legal battle against the Maritime Harbours Society (MHS) over the controversial privatization of a wharf in Digby, N. S.

P3 Alert January 2006: Three strikes against privatization in B.C.

A series of good news stories out of British Columbia this month started the New Year off in great style.

P3 Alert January 2006: PSAC brings ferry jobs in-house in N.W.T.

The Northwest Territories government has brought three ferry services in-house over the last five months.

P3 Alert January 2006: Accountants actually don’t like user fees?

The International Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – not always known for their progressive leanings on issues like privatization and user fees – has done an investigation of the effects of user fees on public services in developing countries.

P3 Alert January 2006: Highway 407 tolls rise

Like clockwork, Highway 407 tolls will rise on Feb. 1, 2006, by 1.3 cents a km for cars and motorcycles, pushing the peak rate to 16.25 cents a km for light vehicles.

P3 Alert January 2006: Quebec Bill 124 puts child care services at risk

Quebec’s Bill 124 (www.mfacf.gouv.qc.ca/publications/pdf/projet_loi124_en.pdf) was adopted in December 2005 amid much fanfare from Jean Charest’s Liberals.

P3 Alert January 2006: Benchmarks for wait times open door for privatization

The Ontario Liberal government says benchmarks for wait times will show how well they are improving access to health care.
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Media enquiries: CUPE members prepare demands for contract talks

Security, fairness and respect the watchwords for union in 2006 round of bargaining BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA – CUPE members attending a pair of weekend bargaining conferences were united in their determination to have key issues addressed in contract talks.

Privatization: Public health care solutions better way to address wait time problems - key message at National Wait Times Roundtable

Media enquiries: CUPE’s nursing home ‘lead table’ votes 85% in favour of strike

Halifax - The members of CUPE Local 1245 voted last night. CUPE National Representative Peter Baxter says the vote is significant because, “This group is the ‘lead table’ negotiating provincial issues on behalf of 3,000 CUPE nursing home workers in 37 facilities across the province.”

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Media enquiries: Increase gas tax transfer now and use it help our communities - CUPE

OTTAWA –The new Conservative government should increase the gas tax transfer to municipalities now and make it permanent instead of phasing it in over four years, says Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

News: Health care not for sale, say Ottawa LHINs protesters

OTTAWA – As the provincial standing committee on social policy heard submissions on Bill 36, CUPE National President Paul Moist and 200 health care workers from four unions protested the service-cutting legislation at a noon rally.

Media enquiries: Muir must step in to help resolve Cumberland school bus strike: CUPE

TRURO – CUPE Nova Scotia is calling on Education Minister Jamie Muir to help resolve a strike by school bus drivers in Cumberland County that has gone on for almost three weeks.

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Media enquiries: Daybreak strike ends

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The 25 striking members of CUPE Local 3017 at the Daybreak Parent Child Centre in St. John's vote today on a tentative settlement.



Media enquiries: Sorry, Buzz -- it just doesn't wash

Barry O'Neill's column in today's Vancouver Sun takes issue with the CAW president's defence of strategic voting.

Media enquiries: Paramedics respond to management’s divisive tactics with 100% strike vote

BELLEVILLE, Ont. – Paramedics in Hastings and Prince Edward counties, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), recently voted 100 per cent in favour of strike action if a fair settlement is not reached with their employer. The paramedics have a legal strike or lockout deadline of February 9th, at 12:01 am.

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Media enquiries: Sale of Breakwater to EPCOR is approved

Public water advocates say regional district must act
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Media enquiries: Leave national child care agreements alone – CUPE to Harper

OTTAWA – Building a universal child care program that offers real choice for families begins with upholding the signed provincial agreements, says the president of Canada’s largest union.

Regionalization and Shared Services: LHINs -- OCHU Brief to the Standing Committee on Bill 36

This is the January 30, 2006 brief by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions to the Standing Committee on Social Policy of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario concerning Bill 36 ("An Act to provide for the integration of the local system for the delivery of health services"). As written, the Bill would set up Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and give government enormous powers to restructure and privatize health care and certain social services.
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News: HEU at the Supreme Court over 2002 contract-breaking law

The Hospital Employees Union's case against a 2002 BC law that tore up their collective agreement goes to the Supreme Court Feb. 8.

News: Vigil for federal-provincial agreements on child care

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About 40 union and child care activists gathered in front of the prime minister’s residence to protest the Conservative government’s announcement on Monday that federal child care agreements with the provinces will be scrapped.

Media enquiries: 6,000-plus CUPE N.S. health care workers form provincial co-ordinating committee

HALIFAX – More than 6,000 CUPE health care workers from across Nova Scotia have created a new provincial health care committee to represent workers in three sectors – hospitals, long term care and home support (home care).
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Media enquiries: CUPE, child care advocates demand provincial deals continue

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced he will kill the child care agreements with the provinces, but the Canadian Union of Public Employees and child care advocates have vowed to vigorously protect them.
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Media enquiries: CUPE president protests PM’s plans to wipe out child care deals, writes premiers

CUPE National President Paul Moist has written directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper urging sober second thought on the threatened cancellation of child care agreements with the provinces.

News: More CUPE nursing home workers hold strike votes

Nursing home workers at several more Nova Scotia facilities have given their union a strike mandate

News: Town of Mississippi Mills municipal workers enter conciliation – prepare for strike

Roads maintenance, parks, recreation and arena workers with the Town of Mississippi Mills in Ontario, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are hoping conciliation talks scheduled for February 16th will help reach a settlement and avert a strike that would affect snow ploughing and other important services.

News: Cutbacks at Fairhaven will hurt residential care

Reduced hours and staff cuts proposed by management at Fairhaven Home for the Aged in Peterborough, Ontario, will have a negative impact on residential care, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). CUPE represents 280 full and part-time frontline health care workers in the 250-bed home.

Media enquiries: CUPE paramedics call on government to fix Bill 206

TORONTO — The CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario (CACO) has called on the Liberal Government to fix Bill 206, the bill that makes changes to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension plan.

News: Town of Mississippi Mills municipal workers enter conciliation – prepare for strike

Roads maintenance, parks, recreation and arena workers with the Town of Mississippi Mills, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are hoping conciliation talks scheduled for February 16th will help reach a settlement and avert a strike that would affect snow ploughing and other important services.

Media enquiries: Cutbacks at Fairhaven will hurt residential care

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – Reduced hours and staff cuts proposed by management at Fairhaven Home for the Aged will have a negative impact on residential care, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). CUPE represents 280 full and part-time frontline health care workers in the 250-bed home.

Media enquiries: Town of Mississippi Mills municipal workers enter conciliation – prepare for strike

MISSISSIPPI MILLS, Ont. – Roads maintenance, parks, recreation and arena workers with the Town of Mississippi Mills, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are hoping conciliation talks scheduled for February 16th will help reach a settlement and avert a strike that would affect snow ploughing and other important services.

Media enquiries: CUPE president protests PM’s plans to wipe out child care deals, writes premiers

CUPE National President Paul Moist, has written directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper urging sober second thought on the threatened cancellation of child care agreements with the provinces.
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News: CUPE Ontario to strike if Bill 206 unchanged by third reading

CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan told media today that members would strike if the government introduced its OMERS reform bill 206 for third reading without making changes to it.

Media enquiries: Ball is in Premier’s court — CUPE ready to talk to prevent OMERS Bill 206 strike action, Ryan says

TORONTO – With an overwhelming 93 per cent strike mandate from members who belong to the OMERS pension plan, CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan says it is now up to Premier Dalton McGuinty to prevent a strike.

Media enquiries: Ottawa-Carleton Catholic school board workers fight employer concession demands

OTTAWA, Ont. – School board workers with the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic District School Board, represented by Local 2357 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have asked a provincial conciliation officer to assist with negotiations, to try and avert a strike that could affect thousands of students in the Ottawa-Carleton area.
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Media enquiries: Ipsos Reid: 67 percent opposed to privatization in K-12

VANCOUVER - British Columbians are more likely to trust locally elected school boards than the provincial government when it comes to decisions on school services, a new survey has found.

News: Time is running out to enter CUPE photo contest

EDMONTON – CUPE Alberta members have a little more than two weeks to enter their union’s first ever photo contest and win $500.

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Media enquiries: Public Libraries Can’t Live on Love Alone

The Greater Victoria Public Library is No Exception

VICTORIA — Valentine’s Day is an auspicious occasion for love in all its forms. But employees of the Greater Victoria Public Library (GVPL) want to remind thousands of users that “Public Libraries Can’t Live on Love Alone”.

Media enquiries: CUPE and Town of Truro settle new four-year deal

Truro, N.S. - CUPE Local 734, representing municipal outside workers with the Town of Truro, has a new, four-year contract.

Media enquiries: Talks broke off between Saint Thomas University cafeteria workers and Aramark Canada Ltd

FREDERICTON – Saint Thomas University might soon be without cafeteria services.
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Media enquiries: Guelph municipal and library workers on strike to protect public services

GUELPH, Ont. – Guelph library, inside and outside municipal workers are on strike to protect public services. The 560 workers, who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), walked out at 12:01 am on Wednesday, February 15th.

Media enquiries: CUPE Toronto locals hold press conference to discuss political action against Bill 206

TORONTO - The presidents of Toronto’s four largest CUPE locals will hold a press conference at Queen’s Park tomorrow (Thursday, February 16) at 11 a.m.

Media enquiries: Premier designate gets support from CUPE on child care funding issue

TRURO, N.S. – Premier designate Rodney MacDonald is receiving support from the country’s largest union in his demand for more child care funding from the Harper government.

Media enquiries: Home support workers in Cumberland County vote 92% in favour of strike

SPRINGHILL, N.S. - Home support (home care) workers in Cumberland County have given their union a 92% strike mandate.

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Media enquiries: CUPE health care workers ratify provincial agreement

REGINA - The Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Health Care Council announced today that the membership has ratified the collective agreement reached on January 7, 2006 with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations.

Media enquiries: Oxford County wastewater workers vote 100% for strike over wage parity

Media enquiries: Home support workers in Cumberland County reach tentative agreement

SPRINGHILL, NS – Home support (home care) workers in Cumberland County have reached a tentative agreement with Victoria Order of Nurses - Cumberland Home Support.

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Media enquiries: No place for more privatization in health care says CUPE

Quebec Liberals push plan to allow private insurance

OTTAWA – Premier Jean Charest’s Liberals say there is a “new era” in health care for Quebec after urging privatization of services and insurance, but the province’s plan will only undermine the public system, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Media enquiries: Union coalition calls on province to stop OMERS Bill 206

TORONTO — The Ontario government should stop Bill 206 and set up a process whereby employees and employers can negotiate a workable model for governing the OMERS pension plan, says the Coalition for OMERS Pension Fairness.

Media enquiries: Halifax nursing home workers vote to strike

HALIFAX – Workers at Glades Lodge Nursing Home in Halifax have voted to take strike action to back their union’s contract demands.

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Canadian Union of Public Employees: Paul Moist leads energetic rally for striking Guelph municipal and library workers

CUPE National President Paul Moist led an energetic rally for striking municipal and library workers in Guelph on Monday, February 20th. “CUPE supports you in your struggle to defend public services and protect your work,” brother Moist told the enthusiastic crowd of CUPE members and supporters.
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From root@judy.cupe.ca Wed Feb 22 01:11:52 2006 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy [10.1.5.2]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1M6BqWS029389 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:11:52 -0500 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy.cupe.ca [127.0.0.1]) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1M6C1fM025024 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:12:01 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id k1M6C1fC025023; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:12:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:12:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200602220612.k1M6C1fC025023@judy.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: cupetoday-sender@lists.cupe.ca Subject: [cupetoday] for Wednesday February 22, 2006 X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6b4 Precedence: list List-Id: "a daily bulletin of stories posted to cupe.ca" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:11:52 -0000 CUPE Today

Media enquiries: Budget priorities reveal ‘litany of double standards’

Numbers on child care, skills development and education don’t add up, says CUPE

Media enquiries: Kings Regional Rehabilitation Centre employees give union a strike mandate

WATERVILLE, N.S. – Unionized employees at Kings Regional Rehabilitation Centre in Waterville (KRRC) have given their union a strike mandate.

Media enquiries: CUPE says CBVRSB must “clear the air” on student being prevented from riding school bus

SYDNEY, NS – The union representing a Cape Breton-Victoria school bus driver who was caught in the middle of a controversy over a student’s right to ride the bus says the school board has an obligation to clarify who actually made the decision.

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News: CUPE Ontario political action stepped down as talks progress

TORONTO — Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan has stepped down province-wide political action scheduled to begin at midnight tonight.

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News: CUPE Ontario political action stepped down as talks progress

TORONTO — Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Sid Ryan has stepped down province-wide political action scheduled to begin at midnight tonight.

For the latest news see: CUPE Ontario's website

Media enquiries: Health unions launch multi-media ad campaign against health regionalization scheme

Toronto – Four unions representing 200,000 health care and community social service workers have taken their campaign to fight the Ontario government's Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) plan to the province's airwaves and TV screens.

Media enquiries: Heritage Fund high enough: Klein must fund infrastructure and services

CUPE Alberta calls on Conservatives to use money on provincial needs not Heritage Fund

EDMONTON – The $1 billion earmarked for the Heritage Fund is a mistake considering the growing infrastructure needs of the province says the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

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Media enquiries: Lower municipal credit rating linked to privatization

BURNABY BC - Regional and municipal politicians should think twice about using public-private partnerships (P3s) for infrastructure projects
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News: CUPE national president attends vigil for child care

Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, was part of a crowd of about 100 child care workers and activists who braved -18 C temperatures at a bracing vigil outside 24 Sussex Drive tonight.

Media enquiries: CUPE President blasts Finley, supports child care workers at vigil

Minister’s “flat earth” statements reflect prehistoric view of working women

OTTAWA –Social Development Minister Diane Finley’s comments yesterday signal a mindset that reflects “a prehistoric view of working women,” said Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

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News: What CUPE Ontario achieved with the Bill 206 campaign

Through effective lobbying backed by a powerful mandate from members for political action, CUPE Ontario moved Bill 206 closer to what members of the OMERS pension plan need to be able to retire with dignity. And, where the bill falls short, we will have an independent review of the new governance structure enshrined in law.
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News: 1,300 people sign child care open letter in three days

Canadians who care about child care are telling federal and provincial politicians to honour the child care agreements signed last year.

Media enquiries: Guelph municipal and library workers ratify new contract – strike ends

GUELPH, Ont. – Guelph library, inside and outside municipal workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted in favour of a new three-year collective agreement, Saturday, February 25th, ending a strike that began on February 15th.

Health and Safety: Tuesday, February 28 is RSI Day

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RSIs (Repetitive Strain Injuries) are the most common type of workplace injury in Canada. They include a variety of disorders that affect muscles, tendons, nerves and joints. Injuries to the wrists, fingers, forearms, hands, elbows, shoulders and the neck are the most recurrent.

News: CUPE calling for a national pharmacare program

The Canadian Health Coalition has released a paper calling for a national pharmacare program for Canada.

Media enquiries: Three more nursing home groups vote to strike

HALIFAX – Workers at three more Nova Scotia nursing homes have voted to take strike action to back their union’s contract demands.

Media enquiries: Patrons recognize that love just isn’t enough! Library campaign a great success.

Thousands of citizens from Victoria, Oak Bay, Saanich, Esquimalt, Langford, Metchosin, Highlands, View Royal, Colwood, and Central Saanich have responded enthusiastically to the staff-organized postcard campaign that began on Valentine’s Day.
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World Water Day: Joint letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper

A joint letter from water activists to Prime Minister Stephen Harper urges the Canadian government to adopt a national water policy that recognizes clean drinking water as a basic human right.

World Water Day: Sample declaration for your municipal Council

More than 100 Canadian municipalities and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities have endorsed declarations that oppose the privatization of water and urge provincial and federal governments to protect public water. This sample declaration is one you can use or adapt to ask your own municipal Council for their support in the fight for public water.
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News: Four Atlantic/Maritime provinces team up for joint ‘Political Action’ conference in St. John’s

Activists and leaders of the country’s largest union will be in St. John’s starting tomorrow for a first-ever, Atlantic/Maritime joint political action conference.
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News: Klein’s ‘third way’ will encourage two-tiered health care

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has thrown down the gauntlet on private health care and it is up to federal Health Minister Tony Clement to pick it up and ensure that the Canada Health Act is not violated, says Canada’s largest health care union.

World Water Day - March 22, 2006: Join forces with our allies

CUPE’S national allies on water issues include:

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Media enquiries: Workplace learning in Grande Prairie

Joint project promotes learning in Grande Prairie -- Grande Prairie City Manager Dave Gourlay (left) stands with CUPE 787 President Randy Wald shortly after launching a workplace learning project for City employees.

CUPE, City, work together on literacy project
Grande Prairie -- CUPE members in the City of Grande Prairie are working with city officials to promote a new workplace literacy program.

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News: International Women’s Day – March 8, 2006

On March 8, women and men across Canada and around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. This year, March 8 is especially important for CUPE members and staff.

Media enquiries: Privatization of Newfoundland dementia units a “betrayal of our public health care system”

CORNER BROOK, NL - The provincial government’s plan to have a private company design, build and operate a dementia unit on the west coast flies in the face of everything the Newfoundland and Labrador governmnet has been saying about protecting our health care system.
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Media enquiries: TransLink review undermines public control

BURNABY, B.C. - Today’s review of TransLink announced by the provincial government will eliminate meaningful public input into taxation and transportation planning in the Lower Mainland, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) said today.

Child Care: Making a better choice for child care in Saskatchewan

Why we need to fight for a national child care system

P3 Alert - February 2006: Quotable Quote:

“P3s don’t work for every project, but we look at them for every project.”

P3 Alert - February 2006: Thailand woos German business for P3s

Thailand’s foreign affairs minister told delegates to a finance conference in Munich, Germany, that his country is open to public private partnerships to fund mega-projects such as the extension of Bangkok’s subway system.

P3 Alert - February 2006: India airport workers strike over P3 plan

Thousands of Indian airport workers went on a three-day strike Jan. 31 after the government-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced it would lease the country’s two largest airports to private construction firms and their foreign partners.

P3 Alert - February 2006: Britain having second thoughts about PFI hospitals

It appears that the United Kingdom is having doubts about the future of hospitals built with private money.

P3 Alert - February 2006: B.C. businesses love P3s—just don’t ask them why

Premier Gordon Campbell received two standing ovations when he announced a $3-billion highway and bridge mega-project to delegates at the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce’s convention on Jan. 3.

P3 Alert - February 2006: B.C. municipal credit rating dip linked to privatization

Regional and municipal politicians should think twice about using public private partnerships for infrastructure projects.

P3 Alert - February 2006: Kingston councillor leads colleagues to reject P3 for ice rink

Thanks to councillor Rick Downes, the City of Kingston, Ont., has voted “not to enter into any public private partnership that would prevent or in any way restrict the City of Kingston from constructing new publicly owned and operated arenas…as the need for more indoor ice surfaces arises.”

P3 Alert - February 2006: CUPE 30 in Edmonton freezes plan for P3 ice rink

Quick action by CUPE 30 and the Edmonton and District Labour Council froze a plan by city council to close community ice rinks and replace them with a privately owned mega-complex.

Media enquiries: CUPE urging CBRM Public Services Committee to accept recommendations in Future Solid Waste plan

SYDNEY, N.S. – The union representing CBRM outside workers is applauding the decision by its committee on the Future of Solid Waste to recommend staying with its own forces when they upgrade services for residents in CBRM.

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National President: CUPE Saskatchewan Division pledges to act on child care

Saskatoon, SK – Delegates attending the CUPE Saskatchewan Division Convention have voted to take “vigorous” action on child care.

Media enquiries: Ottawa-Carleton Catholic school board workers vote for strike to fight concessions

OTTAWA, Ont. – School board workers with the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic District School Board, represented by Local 2357 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted in favour of a strike at a local union meeting on Wednesday, March 8th, to fight concession demands from their employer.

Media enquiries: Windsor child care workers join CUPE

WINDSOR, Ont. – Child care workers from the Come and Play Day Nursery have voted unanimously to become members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media enquiries: Five more N.S. nursing home groups vote to strike

(Halifax) – Workers at five more Nova Scotia nursing homes have voted to take strike action to back their union’s contract demands.

Media enquiries: Tuition fee increase a tax on working families: CUPE

TORONTO — The McGuinty government’s tuition fee increases will tax working families and increase pressure on student workers, especially graduate students, says the union representing most university workers in Ontario.

Media enquiries: CUPE delegation travels to Mexico City for World Water Forum

(OTTAWA) – Four representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will leave Canada March 13 for events associated with the World Water Forum to be held in Mexico City, March 16-22.
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Media enquiries: Union leaders gather to plot strategy against privatization threats

OTTAWA — More than 75 trade union leaders and activists from six countries will gather in Ottawa this week, under the umbrella of the Public Services International (PSI), to foster alliances and develop a coordinated agenda to prevent the privatization of public services.

News: CanJet flight attendants join CUPE

CUPE has been certified to represent about 125 flight attendants at CanJet, a Halifax-based carrier that flies throughout Canada and to Florida.

Media enquiries: University Workers Frustrated with Lack of Movement

VANCOUVER BC- After seven days of mediated bargaining, representatives of 12,000 university workers, including members of CUPE and TSSU, who work as support staff, teaching assistants, instructors, food and other campus services are expressing frustration with the bargaining process as they see time ticking away and significant issues have yet to be resolved.
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World Water Day - March 22, 2006: Send a World Water Day letter to Canada's politicians

March 15, 2005 - World Water Day is a week away. Here's something you can do to make a difference.

Media enquiries: Social workers ask provincial conciliator to help kickstart stalled contract talks

OTTAWA, Ont. – The union representing social workers and counselling staff at Ottawa’s Family Services à la Famille, has asked a provincial conciliator to become involved in negotiations after contract talks between management and Local 3661 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) reached an impasse earlier this week.

Media enquiries: UBC support staff take strike vote

One of UBC’s largest support staff unions, CUPE Local 116, representing trades, maintenance, food services and support workers is taking a strike vote beginning today, March 15, 2006.

Media enquiries: Time to crack the whip on employers O’Neill tells Taylor

BURNABY - CUPE BC president, Barry O’Neill is calling on Carole Taylor to live up to her promises to fix a bargaining system that has been broken for some time.
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News: HEU settles with BC hospital employers

Unions representing 38,000 hospital and long-term care workers have reached a tentative agreement with B.C.’s health employers after seven weeks of negotiations.

Media enquiries: CUPE Alberta to hold convention in Fort McMurray

EDMONTON – The annual convention of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, (CUPE) Alberta Division, opens in Fort McMurray next week.

World Water Day - March 22, 2006: CUPE delegates report from Mexico City

CUPE delegates Rodger Oakley (far left) and Frank Mentes (far right) meet with Luis Isarra Delgado (inside left) and Jose Perera (inside right) while Patricia Jones,centre, translates. (photo by Damaris Oakley)
For the four CUPE delegates living in Mexico City this week, World Water Day will mark the final 24 hours of World Water Week. Reports from the delegates are posted regularly to this site.
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CUPE delegates report from Mexico City - Most recent reports come first on this page: Global activists protest inside 4th World Water Forum

Water warriors from around the globe entered the 4th World Water Forum (WWF) Sunday to protest water privatization and to demand water as a basic human right.

CUPE delegates report from Mexico City - Most recent reports come first on this page: French activists build bridges; Canadian NGOs meet Canadian officials

French activists build bridges between popular water forum and official forum while Canadian NGOs meet with our government officials

CUPE delegates report from Mexico City - Most recent reports come first on this page: Human right to water discussed as International Forum gets underway

CUPE delegates discussed water as a human right and options for reclaiming public water as an international civil society forum kicked off in Mexico City Friday.

CUPE delegates report from Mexico City - Most recent reports come first on this page: 20,000 stream through Mexico City streets in defence of water and life

An estimated 20,000 citizens flooded Mexico City's streets Thursday in defence of public water and to protest water privatization.

CUPE delegates report from Mexico City - Most recent reports come first on this page: Public-public partnerships featured at Public Water for All Symposium

CUPE delegates heard about "public-public partnerships", NOT "public-private" experiences from around the world Wednesday at a symposium entitled "Public Water for All".
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News: CUPE members in Canada and Mexico to celebrate and agitate on World Water Day

OTTAWA – On March 22, CUPE members across Canada will attend water walks, gather at public meetings, and join with other activists to celebrate and protect the right to public water.

Racism: March 21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

It was on March 21, 1960 that white South African police fired more than 700 shots at peaceful Black demonstrators protesting discriminatory “Pass Laws” in the Sharpeville Township. This shooting resulted in 69 killed and 180 wounded, almost all of them shot in the back.

National Executive Board: University employers continue with demands for contracting-out and student exploitation

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Spring may have entered like a lamb for some, but not for instructors, teaching assistants and support staff in BC’s universities who are in their 15th day of mediation and still facing employers who are bent on contracting-out, exploiting student labour and freezing pay grades for the lowest paid workers in the ranks. In addition, bargaining committees are still waiting for a fair wage offer.

Racism: Actions to take to challenge racism in your workplace

Here’s what you can do to challenge racism in your workplace:

Media enquiries: CUPE long-term care workers fight cutbacks at Golden Plough Lodge

COBOURG, Ont. – Frontline health care workers at the Golden Plough Lodge are determined to fight a management proposal to reduce hours and cut staff at the home for the aged. The workers, who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted on Monday, March 20th, to reject management’s strong-arm tactics to cut staff.
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Media enquiries: Vancouver Island water activists fight privatization

Vancouver Island has become a key battleground in the global fight against water and wastewater privatization. That is the message from water activists at a Victoria public forum, It's only water... or is it? The forum is being held today (March 22), which the United Nations has designated World Water Day.

CUPE delegates report from Mexico City: CUPE delegates forge strong bond with Mexico City water workers and rural water defenders

On Tuesday, March 21, CUPE´s delegation attended an informative and emotional meeting with Mexico city water workers and rural campesinos (farmers with small land holdings).
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Media enquiries: CUPE files for conciliation with Cape Breton Transition House

SYDNEY, NS – Talks between the Canadian Union of Public Employees and Cape Breton Transition House are not going well, says CUPE National Rep. Kathy MacLeod.

Water: Vancouver Island Water Watch Campaign

Vancouver Island locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have joined in coalition with allies such as the Council of Canadians, KAIROS and the Sierra Club to successfully fight back against privatization of water and wastewater in communities across the Island. The case study summarizes the strategy, tactics, organizational structure, campaign materials, accomplishments, and future directions of a very successful campaign.

Water: Developments in privatization of public services

This background paper was prepared by CUPE Research for the Public Services International Workshop on Trade Union Responses to New Forms of Privatization that took place March 14 –16, 2006 in Ottawa, Canada.

Media enquiries: March 22, 2006, Education day workshops full: CUPE members get educated

Over 100 CUPE members took part in seven workshops today on a range of topics.

Media enquiries: CUPE Alberta Convention opens today

Over 150 delegates will get down to work today as the 54th annual CUPE Alberta convention gets underway in Fort McMurray.

Media enquiries: CUPE town hall forum to focus on privatization and corporate influence in Ontario universities

OTTAWA — CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan will join activists and researchers at a town hall forum tonight focusing on ways to push back against creeping privatization and corporate influence in Ontario universities.

CUPE delegates report from Mexico City: Protest against privatization marks World Water Day in Mexico City

World Water Day was marked in Mexico City with a demonstration against privatization at the zocalo (central plaza of the city). The lively protest for water as a human right wrapped up 10 days of water-related events in the Mexican capital.
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Media enquiries: UBC absence threatens universities’ bargaining stability

VANCOUVER - UBC negotiators failed, yesterday, to even respond to the March 22nd counter proposals offered by its three CUPE locals' negotiating committees. The UBC, CUPE local had countered the university’s first and only monetary offer—one that failed to deal with contracting out, failed to address language that exploits students working in food services and added a wage freeze on the lowest paid UBC workers.

Defending Public Health Care: April 7 is International Health Workers’ Day

International Health Workers’ Day is a time to celebrate the contributions made by health care workers in Canada and around the world. It is also a day to support the right of citizens of all countries to have universal access to health care delivered by public sector workers.

Media enquiries: Provincial budget must include better funding for services for people with developmental disabilities

New money needed to stem staff turnover rates, resolve expanding waiting lists for services in Ottawa

News: Make Poverty History in the Speech from the Throne: April 4, 2006

The April 4 Speech from the Throne will set out the agenda of Canada's new Conservative government. This is a crucial moment for the government to commit to more and better aid.
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News: No way for Klein’s third way – Moist to Alberta delegates

Moist and Genereux tour Fort McMurray water treatment plant.
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – CUPE National President Paul Moist took aim at Alberta Premier Ralph Klein’s “third way” health care proposals in his speech to about 200 delegates and guests at the 56th annual CUPE Alberta division convention March 23-25.
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Economic climate for bargaining: Economic Climate for Bargaining - March 2006

This report provides an overview of economic trends affecting wage settlements for public sector bargaining in Canada. Included in this issue is an round-up of federal and provincial budgets.

Media enquiries: McGuinty Budget Provides Nothing New For Provincial Infrastructures: CUPE

TORONTO - “There is nothing in this new McGuinty budget gives us any comfort,” says Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario Secretary-treasurer Brian O’Keefe.

Media enquiries: Photo contest winners announced

FORT MCMURRAY -- Edmonton Paramedic Jason Jolson was the grand prize winner in CUPE Alberta's first ever photo contest.

News: Elections

FORT MCMURRAY – Elections were held for a number of positions on the CUPE Alberta executive. The following were elected:

Media enquiries: McGowan calls for fight against health care changes

FORT MCMURRAY – Health care reforms proposed by the Klein government are not ‘reform at the edges’ but ‘the beginning of the end of health care as we know it,’ according to Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) President Gil McGowan.

Media enquiries: Généreux: A boring report

FORT MCMURRAY – Calling his own report ‘boring’ National Secretary-Treasurer Claude Généreux told CUPE Alberta delegates that the union’s finances are healthy, and CUPE is ready to meet and finance the battles ahead.

Media enquiries: Water should be public - Council of Canadians

FORT MCMURRAY – Council of Canadians representative Susan Howett took the opportunity of the CUPE Alberta convention to deliver a message far too familiar to most delegates – control of water resources is under attack.
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Long term care: The Eden Alternative

Saskatchewan health care employers are introducing the Eden Alternative into long-term care facilities. The CUPE Health Care Council asked CUPE Research for information about the Eden Alternative and how it might affect CUPE members working in long-term care.

Media enquiries: Cutbacks at Davey Home will hurt residents – CUPE fights back

SAULT STE-MARIE, ON. – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is calling on management at F.J. Davey Home nursing home to stop cutting frontline services, after learning management is planning cutbacks and layoffs because of budget problems.

Bargaining: Tabletalk - Winter 2006

Did you know that delegates to the 2005 National Convention outlined some bargaining objectives for the Union? Check out page 1. Have you heard of Health Spending Accounts? They aren't the cost savers employers say they are - see page 2. Negotiating travel allowances? You may want to know what the Canada Revenue Agency rules are -see page 4. Want to know what private employers are projected for compensation increases this year? See page 2.
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News: HEU community health workers settle with BC government

Negotiators for BC's 13,000 community health workers, including 1,500 HEU members have reached a tentative agreement with their employer.

Media enquiries: Maple Hill Manor employees vote 100% in favour of strike

SYDNEY, NS – Employees of Maple Hill Manor have voted 100% in favour of strike action to back their union’s contract demands.

Media enquiries: CUPE BC rips right-wing smear campaign in Tri-Cities

Kingsbury hypocritical to slam ‘Big Labour’ after soliciting its endorsement, says union

P3 Alert March 2006: Quotable Quote

I would really take the example of the United Kingdom.

P3 Alert March 2006: British company gets rich on P3 hospital contracts

Laing, a British construction company heavily involved in PFIs (private finance initiatives) in the health care sector, has reported a 45 per cent increase in profits in 2005.

P3 Alert March 2006: Florida gives birth to a new P3 acronym

Educational facilities benefit districts (EFBDs) are the newest way for school districts in Florida to pay for new schools.

P3 Alert March 2006: British researcher blasts B.C. doctor’s comments on health privatization

When Dr. Les Vertusi returned from a provincially funded tour of hospitals in four European countries, he did not expect a radio interview with a British researcher to cast a different slant on his views about the state of health care in the United Kingdom.

P3 Alert March 2006: Newfoundland to build private dementia unit?

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has continuously preached its total commitment to a publicly delivered health care system.

P3 Alert March 2006: Toronto workers wage battle to “de-privatize” garbage services

Although Toronto now is one big city, not all its former components are using public employees to collect garbage.

P3 Alert March 2006: Fort McMurray decides against P3 for new waste water plant

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in northern Alberta (which includes the city of Fort McMurray) will be using a local contracting firm to build a new waste water plant.

P3 Alert March 2006: Hamilton joins anti-P3 hospital public vote

In a plebiscite in Hamilton, Ont., residents have voted almost 98 per cent in favour of keeping their hospitals publicly funded, financed, owned, administered and operated.

P3 Alert March 2006: Water forum protest stresses water as human right

CUPE members attending this year’s World Water Forum Mexico City saw a lively demonstration against privatization of water.

P3 Alert March 2006: Anti-privatization protests mark World Water Day

CUPE joined forces with the Council of Canadians and various Canadian faith-based organizations to mobilize thousands of Canadians on World Water Day, March 22.

Media enquiries: Quest – A Society for Adult Support and Rehabilitation employees vote 81% in favour of strike

HALIFAX, NS – Employees of Quest – A Society for Adult Support and Rehabilitation have voted 81% in favour of strike action.

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News: New report focuses on new forms of privatization

Those who follow trends know that new and more complex forms of privatization have emerged in Canada and around the world. A new CUPE research paper helps you understand and identify these “monsters.”

Media enquiries: CUPE files ‘unfair labour practice’ complaint against Scotia Recycling

ST JOHN'S – The union representing workers at Scotia Recycling has filed two complaints against the company with the province’s Labour Relations Board.

Media enquiries: McGuinty government forcing fights on pensions & privatization, CUPE president will tell municipal union leaders’ meeting in Niagara Falls

NIAGARA FALLS, ON — The McGuinty government is forcing fights with CUPE on pensions and privatization, the union’s Ontario President Sid Ryan will tell more than 200 leaders and activists from the municipal sector who begin meeting here tonight (Wednesday).

Media enquiries: CUPE New Brunswick concerned with provincial budget

FREDERICTON – The Canadian Union of Pubic Employees is concerned with the path chosen by the New Brunswick Government to reduce its main source of revenues.
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News: CUPE pledges $100,000 to child care campaign

CUPE's national executive board has pledged $100,000 to the campaign to defend the federal-provincial agreements on child care. The NEB also conferred with NDP leader Jack Layton about the party's strategy on the issue.

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Media enquiries: The smallest carrot for the most meaningful work

BC Government should be embarrassed over Community Social Services Agreement

Media enquiries: Bargaining down to the wire in B.C.

March 31st has a special meaning for the thousands of CUPE members in B.C. who have been bargaining under a tight timeline imposed by the provincial government. On November 30, 2005 B.C. Finance Minister Carole Taylor announced a negotiating framework for public sector bargaining in B.C.

Media enquiries: CUPE University workers beat the deadline—just!

VANCOUVER, B.C.- It took twenty-five days of intense mediation but representatives for 10,000 members of CUPE and 2,000 TSSU members have signed tentative agreements with six university employers

National Executive Board: Resolution on Child Care

The National Executive Board adopted this resolution on child care at its March 2006 meeting.
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Defending Public Health Care: Día Internacional de los(as) Trabajadores(as) de la Salud - 7 de Abril

El día internacional de los(as) trabajadores(as) de la salud es un momento para celebrar las contribuciones hechas por de los(as) trabajadores(as) de la salud en Canadá y en el mundo. También es un día para apoyar el derecho de la ciudadanía de todo el mundo a tener acceso universal a la salud suministrada por el personal sanitario del sector público.
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Media enquiries: Conservatives need to become more accountable, listen to citizens on health care, child care

OTTAWA – In his first speech from the throne, Prime Minister Stephen Harper needs to pledge that his Conservatives will become more accountable and pay more attention to what Canadians are telling them, says CUPE.
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Media enquiries: Harper's Throne Speech betrays working families, threatens health care

OTTAWA - Yesterday's Throne Speech lays out a Conservative agenda that should ring alarm bells for Canadians from coast to coast to coast, says Canada's largest union.

News: Meeting challenges of organizing Aboriginal members

Members discuss barganing in front of new CUPE Aboriginal Council banner
Activists and staff from across the country met in Ottawa March 31-April 1 to discuss the challenges of organizing Aboriginal members.

Media enquiries: Pension plans, protecting public education on agenda as CUPE president Sid Ryan opens school board workers conference

HAMILTON — Protecting pension plans and public education will be high on the agenda as CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan opens a conference of more than 300 union activists from the school board sector tonight.

Aboriginal: Resolutions Developed by CUPE Regional Councils

The following resolutions were devoloped by the existing CUPE Regional Councils. We encourage CUPE Locals and Divisions to use them as examples and submit similar resolutions at their upcoming Division Conventions.
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Defending Public Health Care: Health workers from B.C.’s far north to Argentina celebrate April 7

On April 7, health care workers from the top of British Columbia to the tip of South America mark International Health Workers’ Day.

Media enquiries: Bargaining begins for 3,300 CUPE hospital workers

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. – Bargaining has begun on behalf of 3,300 people in 32 hospitals across the province.
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News: Another victory for falsely accused CUPE educator

Alvin Gibbs, the Montreal-area educator and CUPE 2718 member falsely accused in 2000 of sexually molesting the teens in his charge, has won another victory in court.
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Media enquiries: City employees warn of service cuts for Vancouver

Vancouver - “Sleep on it.” That is the budget advice given to the City of Vancouver from its employees. City Council began its budget meeting in the morning of April 6th and debate continued until close to 5:00 a.m. the next morning.
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Media enquiries: CUPE NB annual convention

FREDERICTON – Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) secretary-treasurer Hassan Yussuf opened the 2006 New Brunswick division convention of Canada’s largest union with an impassioned plea for greater, more focused political action to counter creeping Conservative and anti-worker agendas at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.
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News: Newfoundland and Labrador pay equity settlement

CUPE National has set up a special website for information on the Mar. 23, 2006 pay equity settlement reached between public sector unions and the provincial government.
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Media enquiries: CUPE school board workers eager to meet new education minister, says re-elected committee chair

WELLAND, ON — The chairperson of CUPE Ontario’s school board workers coordinating committee (OSBCC) says he is eager to meet with new education minister Sandra Pupatello with an eye to making progress on issues that have been on the table since the McGuinty government was elected three years ago.
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News: Make your voice heard on the 2006 federal budget, says Moist

National President Paul Moist is encouraging CUPE members to make their voices heard in the federal budget process by emailing their comments to the Finance Department.

News: Poll exposes child care mutiny in Harper’s backyard

Albertans favour keeping existing federal-provincial child care plans
The vast majority of Albertans don’t want the Conservative child care scheme, favouring the existing federal-provincial child care arrangements, a new poll finds.

World Water Day - March 22, 2006: Joint declaration by the movements in defense of water

From March 14 to19th, we, human beings with an integral vision of life, activists from the social movement, non-governmental organizations and networks that struggle around the world in defense of water, land and common resources, have shared ideas, struggles, concerns and proposals. At the same time, we have become aware that the experiences of struggle have changed the reality around the globe holding back the process of water privatization. Now that we are no longer on the defensive, we are able to promote concrete proposals that are already progressing in every corner of the globe.

Media enquiries: Olivia Chow to address Halifax child care advocates

HALIFAX – Olivia Chow, the Federal NDP child care critic, will be in Halifax Monday night to address a gathering of child care workers, activists, directors, centre owners and local politicians.

Media enquiries: McGuinty Liberals’ controversial health care “transformation” fueling confrontation, say Ontario hospital workers in Hamilton to plan fightback against attack on public health care

HAMILTON – The McGuinty government “transformation” of health care is nothing more than a thinly veiled plan to increase private health service delivery in Ontario and a surreptitious attack on medicare.

Federal budget issues: Summary of CUPE Submission for Federal Budget 2006 Consultation

The following is a summary of the submission that CUPE will be making to the Federal Finance Minister in preparation for the 2006 federal budget.

Media enquiries: Thames Valley District School Board workers prepare for strike

LONDON, Ont. – Thames Valley District School Board workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are preparing for strike action after talks broke down yesterday between management and union negotiators.

Media enquiries: CUPE Locals in Toronto question 'needs assessment' of the homeless planned by the city

TORONTO - On April 19 the City of Toronto is planning to use 1500 volunteers to question and count homeless people in the downtown core, in what they are calling a ‘needs assessment’.

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Media enquiries: “Six bucks sucks” – CUPE NL president slams two-tier minimum wage idea

ST. JOHN’S, NL – Canada’s largest union says an idea being floated by the head of the provincial Liberal party for a two-tier minimum wage system would be a huge step backwards for this province.
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News: Winnipeggers rally for child care as Harper talks crime to the chamber of commerce

Lori Schroen, CUPE 1543 (left) Charlene Kernaghan, CUPE 1063 (right) at the April 19 rally
About 300 people took part in a rally for child care outside a chamber of commerce meeting in Winnipeg April 19 where Stephen Harper was speaking.

Pride: CUPE pink triangle delegates protest in Geneva

Two CUPE national pink triangle committee members joined a demonstration at the Russian Embassy in Geneva recently to protest the mayor of Moscow’s vow not to hold a Pride celebration.
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Media enquiries: NPA muzzling of budget consultation ‘anti-democratic’

Vancouver city council decision to exclude the public sets bad example, says CUPE BC

National Women's Task Force: National Women's Task Force backgrounder on child care in Canada

Media enquiries: CUPE university locals ratify

VANCOUVER - CUPE members who work at universities in Burnaby, Kamloops, Vancouver and Victoria have all ratified agreements with their employers at Simon Fraser, Royal Roads, Thompson Rivers, UBC and UVic. Expiry dates vary but all fall in the year 2010.

National Women's Task Force: Questions and answers about the National Women's Task Force

Who is on the task force? Is it really necessary? Why is the national president its co-chair?

News: Momentum keeps building for child care

A recent town hall on child care in Halifax organized by CUPE and a child care motion from the city council of London, Ontario have upped the momentum of forces demanding a universal child care program.

National Women's Task Force: Contact the task force

CUPE member participants on the National Women's Task Force
For general inquiries about the National Women’s Task Force, email us at: women@cupe.ca. Email contact information for Task Force members:
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Media enquiries: Canadian Union of Public Employees provincial convention in Dauphin

DAUPHIN, MB – Public sector support workers represented by CUPE will meet in Dauphin next week for their 43rd Annual Convention.

About our union: CUPE National Constitution

CUPE 2005 Constitution

The CUPE National Constitution as amended at the 2005 National Convention
The CUPE Constitution determines the union’s objectives and how the union operates. It forms the basis for the functioning of the more than 2,200 CUPE local unions across Canada.

Statements and reports: CUPE Celebrates: year in review 2005

Cover of CUPE Celebrates: 2005 Year in Review
In this second edition of CUPE Celebrates, we attempt to capture the impressive size and scope of our union’s activities over the past year.

Media enquiries: CUPE Local 1190 - A step closer to a strike

FREDERICTON – A last ditch effort to negotiate a Collective Agreement for the members of CUPE Local 1190 failed this week.

Media enquiries: K-12 education workers seek provincial bargaining rights

SASKATOON: More than 6,000 Saskatchewan school support workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) want the same provincial bargaining rights and benefit coverage as teachers, says union spokesperson Omar Murray following a provincial meeting of education workers in Saskatoon.
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News: National committees meet to take action

OTTAWA – CUPE’s national committees gathered in Ottawa for four days last week to tackle the ongoing work of the national union

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Bargaining: Tabletalk - Spring 2006

Have you ever wondered if your employer can look at your Email? Investigate this article and examine examples of collective agreement language to protect against electronic surveillance and monitoring. Sector bargaining in health care has been winning some substantial gains for workers – check out the latest! Looking for innovative language to help workers facing violence at work? It’s in this issue!
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Media enquiries: Manitoba CUPE members back public child care

DAUPHIN, MB – Public sector support workers meeting in Dauphin this week at CUPE Manitoba’s Annual Convention will blast the federal government on its approach to child care.

Media enquiries: CUPE BC convention opens Wednesday

VANCOUVER— With the theme “Building from Strength”, partly a reference to the union’s province-wide show of support for teachers last fall, the B.C. division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees kicks off its 43rd annual convention at the Hyatt Regency tomorrow night.

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Media enquiries: Federal budget must include ongoing child care funding or be changed: CUPE

DAUPHIN, MB – The opposition parties should force changes to the May 2 federal budget if it fails to include ongoing funding for a national child care and early learning program, says Canada’s largest union.

News: Hamilton's contracted-in water proves cheaper, safer, more efficient

A year after taking back public control of water and wastewater operations and maintenance in the City of Hamilton, management reported improved performance and cost effectiveness, thanks to dedicated public workers. CUPE 5167 represents workers at the water and wastewater department and the city’s inside and outside workers.

Media enquiries: Oshawa pharmacy workers vote 100 % to strike for real drug plan

OSHAWA, ON – Pharmacy workers in two Oshawa pharmacies voted 100 per cent to strike for a fair drug and pension plan. The workers, who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), will be in a legal strike position at 12:01 am, on May 8th, and will launch a Do you have a drug plan? We don’t campaign later this week.
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News: National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job

The canary
April 28, the National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured at work, is particularly important for CUPE. It was our union's National Health and Safety Committee in 1984 that came up with the idea for a day to honour workers injured and killed at work. In 1991, the federal government passed legislation declaring each April 28 "A Day of Remembrance for workers killed or injured at work." The Day of Mourning is now recognized in dozens of countries worldwide.

Child Care: Making a better choice for child care in British Columbia

Why we need to fight for a national child care system

Child Care: Making a better choice for child care in Manitoba

Why we need to fight for a national child care system

Media enquiries: Marystown to host CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador provincial convention

MARYSTOWN, Nfld – CUPE members from across Newfoundland and Labrador will be in Marystown April 30 to May 3 for the 2006 provincial convention.

P3 Alert - April 2006: Quotable quote

The reforms expose the deficits, they do not create them. Our reforms are opening up the system for scrutiny.

P3 Alert - April 2006: CUPE details the privatization of public services

CUPE has produced a report, Developments in Privatization of Public Services, which was prepared for the Public Services International workshop on trade union responses to new forms of privatization.

P3 Alert - April 2006: PSI “Pipe Dreams” report available

Public Services International’s research unit has released its Pipe Dreams report detailing the failure of the private sector to invest in water services in developing countries.

P3 Alert - April 2006: Job cuts, trust deficits keep rising at U.K.’s National Health Service

Job cuts and the rising pay of doctors are plaguing the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.

P3 Alert - April 2006: New York State employees fight to keep their jobs public

The powerful New York State Public Employees’ Federation has launched an ambitious public awareness campaign aimed at fighting privatization and contracting out of their jobs.

P3 Alert - April 2006: Ontario MDs peeved at P3 hospital plans

Almost 70 Ontario doctors have opposed the provincial government’s plan to build P3 hospitals in an open letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty.

P3 Alert - April 2006: Public employee paid big bucks to dismantle B.C. public services

The unelected head of Partnerships BC, Larry Blain, earned $499,000 in 2004-05. Blain’s base salary was $329,000 with a bonus of $170,000.

P3 Alert - April 2006: Hamilton's contracted-in water proves cheaper, safer, more efficient

A year after the City of Hamilton took back public control of water and wastewater operations and maintenance, management is reporting improved performance and cost effectiveness.

P3 Alert - April 2006: Projected RAV savings due to “ludicrously high” rider projections

British Columbia’s Richmond-Airport-Vancouver (RAV) rapid transit line will cost $92 million less as a public private partnership than it would if it was done by the public sector, says a new report.

Media enquiries: “One workplace death is one too many” - says CUPE’s Cavanagh

TRURO, NS – As workers and employers across the province prepare to mark the International Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job, the president of CUPE Nova Scotia says, “One workplace death is one too many”.
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Media enquiries: B.C. marks April 28 with 188 coffins

Paul Moist carries coffin at Vancouver's Day of Mourning ceremony
Delegates to CUPE BC’s convention marked the Day of Mourning on April 28 in Vancouver with a procession of 188 black coffins representing the workers who died in the last year.

Media enquiries: Alberta Liberals insult custodial workers

EDMONTON -- In a statement made in the Legislature on Wednesday, Lethbridge East Liberal MLA Bridget Pastoor insulted public school custodial workers by suggesting there would be no impact on education if custodial jobs were cut.

Media enquiries: Sid Ryan to lead solidarity rally for school board workers Saturday

LONDON, Ont. – Sid Ryan, president of CUPE Ontario, will lead a solidarity rally for Thames Valley District School Board workers at 1:00 pm, on Saturday April 29th, at Victoria Park in London.

National Women's Task Force: Women in CUPE - 2006 Events

National Women's Task Force: Women in CUPE

  • Women make up approximately 66% of CUPE members.
  • Women are presidents of 48% of CUPE Local unions.
  • Forty-nine per cent (49%) of CUPE Locals with less than 100 members have a woman president.
  • Only 27% of CUPE Locals with 1,000 or more members have a woman president.
  • Women hold 3 of 23 positions on the National Executive Board, or 13% of the positions.
  • Only one woman (in PEI) serves as CUPE Provincial Division President.
  • Forty-three per cent (43%) of national representatives are women; fifty-eight per cent (58%) of administrative/technical employees at national office are women.

Women in CUPE fact sheet.

National Women's Task Force: Women in Canada - a statistical report

FAMILY AND POVERTY

Media enquiries: Toronto Civic Employees Union Local 416 settles first contract with Toronto Community Housing

TORONTO – Toronto Civic Employees Union, Local 416-CUPE, is recommending a tentative settlement signed today with Toronto Community Housing (TCHC), on behalf of 650 Toronto Housing workers.

National Women's Task Force: Women in Canada - a statistical report

EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES

Media enquiries: Tory childcare policy doesn’t play nice

Fifty-four cents per day not enough for ‘twelve-year-old baby sitter’ – CUPE

CALGARY – A report by the Caledon Institute, a think tank specializing in child care issues, says that because of the way the federal government is implementing its $1,200 childcare benefit, rich families will earn far more than poor.

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National President: May Day statement

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May Day is a time of celebration and reflection of our collective struggle. It is a day to celebrate all the gains that the trade union movement has made.

CUPE: CUPE's new website

We hope you like the look of CUPE's new website. In any redesign, things move. Here's where you can find out what went where.

National Women's Task Force: The National Women's Task Force

The National Women’s Task Force, launched on March 8th, International Women’s Day, is reaching out to CUPE members across the country. Its purpose: to make our union stronger by increasing women’s participation and representation in the union.
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Budget: Harper’s first budget: tax cuts trump child care, public services

Federal Budget 2006
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s first budget abandons children, working families and a federal role in social programs, warns CUPE. Far from “Standing up for Canada”, Harper’s first budget lays out a plan for the federal government to walk out on important areas of national responsibility.

Communications Branch: McGuinty must make good on child care promise with or without Harper, CUPE president says

TORONTO — No matter what appears in Stephen Harper’s first budget tomorrow, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty must make good on his promise to create 20,000 new child care spaces before the next provincial election, says Sid Ryan.
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Child Care: Activists disrupt Conservative child care press conference

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Conservative Social Development Minister, Diane Finley, was visibly rattled due to outside chanting by child care activists, acknowledging that "not everyone agrees with our plan."

Public-private partnerships: P3Research

This list is for sharing research ideas, information and findings to oppose privatization in health care. Participants on the list are progressive researchers from health coalitions, universities, community organizations, unions, research institutes, the NDP and independent researchers.

Mailing list: cupepsechat - Discussion list for post-secondary workers

CUPE-PSE-CHAT is an open discussion forum for workers in the post secondary education sector. While the list is hosted and moderated by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, membership is open to any worker in the post-secondary education sector. See list archives

Privatization: Fighting the Privatization of Public Services

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The P3 Alert for April 2006 details recent attempts to privatize essential services in key sectors such as public transit and health care. From wastewater operations in Hamilton to the United Kingdom's National Health Service, the fight to keep public services public continues.

Settlements: Thames Valley District School Board workers reach tentative agreement – strike averted

LONDON, Ont. – A tentative agreement was reached this evening between the union representing educational and instructional assistants (EAs and IAs) and the Thames Valley District School Board, averting a strike that would have affected students in 186 schools in the city of London and in the counties of Elgin, Oxford and Middlesex.

Child Care: All aboard for strong public childcare – Saturday rally

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VANCOUVER — On the heels of Stephen Harper’s first step toward abandoning the long-promised national childcare initiative, Vancouver parents, childcare advocates and children will be meeting at Victoria Park in East Vancouver on Saturday (May 6) at 10:00 a.m. to speak out against the derailing of the promised national childcare program.

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Union Education: Federal Budget 2006: CUPE Analysis

The minority Conservative government’s first budget is clearly designed to buy a majority in the next election. But Stephen Harper has squandered the opportunity to invest huge economic surpluses into Canada’s future. Instead of “standing up for Canada,” he has set the stage for the federal government to abandon its role in national programs and setting national standards.

Settlements: Agreement promotes a strong municipal library for Nelson

NELSON, B.C. –The Nelson Municipal Library’s contract dispute is settled and with that settlement comes guarantees that promote a strong and active public library for the B.C city.

Convention: Wayne Lucas re-elected president of CUPE NL. for ninth consecutive term

(Marystown) – CUPE members from across Newfoundland and Labrador have re-elected St. John’s school board worker Wayne Lucas as their provincial president for the ninth time in a row.

Union Education: Wayne Lucas re-elected president of CUPE NL. for ninth consecutive term

(Marystown) – CUPE members from across Newfoundland and Labrador have re-elected St. John’s school board worker Wayne Lucas as their provincial president for the ninth time in a row.

Strikes and Lockouts: Bridgetown Adult Residential Centre employees vote 85% in favour of strike action

(Bridgetown) – Employees at the Bridgetown Adult Residential Centre (ARC’s) have voted 85% in favour of strike action. The 33 members of CUPE Local 2859 held the vote May 1.

Health Care: Liberal community care plan falls short, will not create stability in system: CUPE

TORONTO — Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman has failed to address the main barrier to creating a stable community care system in the province — competitive bidding — while introducing changes that will bring minor relief to some personal support workers, says Brian O’Keefe, CUPE Ontario secretary-treasurer.
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LGBTT: Protect Equal Marriage - Take Action Now!

Prime Minister Harper has confirmed that his government will introduce a motion to vote on re-opening equal marriage – that is to take-away the right for same sex marriage.

The wider union: Eagles soar over founding of national aboriginal council

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CUPE aboriginal members met to find ways to battle against the barriers that have long stopped aboriginal workers from fully participating in Canadian society. And they came away with a renewed spirit to accomplish those goals. Three eagles soared high above the Saskatchewan plain as about 50 members witnessed the founding of CUPE's national aboriginal council.

Media: City workers vote to support job action

Prince Albert, SASK. - City workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 882 in Prince Albert voted 97 per cent in support of taking job action at a membership meeting last night.

Campaigns: REAL Women advocate to have Status of Women Canada disbanded

Help prevent the disbanding of the Status of Women Canada (SWC). Letters to the government from feminist groups supporting SWC are urgently needed. Let's not let them do to women in the whole country what they've done to women in Ontario!
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Aboriginal Issues: N.S. budget abandons child care workers, steals from the NDP and dithers on hospital wait times

The budget tabled by Finance Minister Michael Baker does absolutely nothing to address poverty level wages for child care workers, and a puts a possible solution to hospital wait times some three years away.

Media: School board workers reject tentative settlement – extend strike deadline to May 11th

LONDON, Ont. – Educational and instructional assistants with the Thames Valley District School Board rejected a settlement proposal in ratification votes last night, setting a new strike deadline of 12:01 am, Thursday, May 11th.

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Child Care: Hamilton, Edmonton demand national child care program

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Edmonton and Hamilton have joined the growing list of municipalities fighting for a national child care program. The cities have endorsed resolutions to pressure the federal and provincial governments to honour the child care agreements they signed last year.

School Boards: Thames Valley District School Board workers strike for more time with students

Education and instructional assistants in London and surrounding counties are walking the picket line to demand more time to do their work.

News: "Pride in CUPE" course explores homophobia

Members of the CUPE Alberta executive, along with some staff and CUPE activists, recently took part in the "Pride in CUPE" course. The course was aimed at building tolerance and understanding of the issues faced by gay, lesbian and trans CUPE members.

News: Licensed practical nurses celebrate Nursing Week in B.C.

May 13 has been designated licensed practical nurse (LPN) Day as part of Nursing Week activities kicked off May 8. Across British Columbia, LPNs will be hosting information tables and talking to their colleagues about recent gains made during 2006 contract negotiations.

News: Edmonton school workers call on government to cover board deficit

Deficits at Edmonton Public School and three other school districts are further evidence the provincial government is underfunding schools, says CUPE, the union representing about 3,000 school support workers at Edmonton public schools. Edmonton public schools recently announced that it would run a $7-million deficit this year.

News: Air Transat flight attendants get new contract

Flight attendants with CUPE's Air Transat component have voted 88 per cent to accept their new contract. The new collective agreement promises a 16.5 per cent wage increase over its five-year term. Per diems will also go up and the employer has agreed to cover 100 per cent of the cost of employee uniforms.
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Media: MPs must reject Canada Health Act annual report

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This year's annual report to Parliament on the Canada Health Act is once again missing data on for-profit health services and must be rejected by MPs. The federal government has an obligation to ensure that the principles of the CHA are upheld, says CUPE National President, Paul Moist.

Aboriginal Issues: Sample

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Media: Limited government funding provokes strike mandate

Winnipeg: Frontline workers at Osborne House have voted overwhelmingly to strike.

Media: School board workers vote for strike to fight cutbacks and concessions

BROCKVILLE, Ont. – The Upper Canada District School Board is jeopardizing the education of thousands of students by demanding a long list of concessions in contract talks, and setting the stage for a bitter strike, warns the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 1,400 workers in Eastern Ontario public elementary and secondary schools.

Organize Magazine: Organize Magazine, Winter/Spring 2006

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The fall/winter 2005-06 edition of Organize magazine is now available. Contact your local to get your copy. Read about the state of Canadian child care, Ed Broadbent's views on politics and the role of unions, the founding of the National Women's Task Force, and more.

Media: CUPE Local 79 holds information "Picket-Nic" at Bridgepoint Hospital

THURSDAY, MAY 18th, 11 A.M. – 3 P.M.

Media: Ontario special education in crisis, say CUPE educational assistants

TORONTO — A strike by educational assistants at the Thames Valley District School Board signals a looming crisis in special education, says the union representing EAs in most of the province’s school districts.

School Boards: School Board Trustees must show leadership to end strike

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Thames Valley District School Board Trustees must show leadership and find ways to resolve a strike by education and instructional assistants, and stop hiring replacement workers, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). More than 1,000 school board workers went on strike on May 11th to fight for more time to do their work.
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Equality Branch: May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada! Year 2006 - 10th Anniversary of Asian Heritage Month!

Let us all embrace and appreciate diversity and celebrate the Asian Heritage Month together.

Media: Canadian unions protest Aussie PM visit

Paul Moist addresses the rally
Visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard received a less than warm welcome today from Canadian trade unionists upset at the Howard government’s draconian and regressive new labour laws.
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Media: Meal Break Victory for Ontario Paramedics

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CUPE achieved a major victory that will improve the working conditions of Paramedics both in the City of Ottawa and potentially across Ontario, ensuring that no Paramedic works more than five consecutive hours before being given a one half hour meal break that is free from any interruption.

Media: Two CUPE members die in B.C. mine incident

Paramedics Shawn Currier and Kim Weitzel, members of CUPE 873, were two of the four victims in this week’s tragic accident at a decommissioned mine in Kimberley, B.C. Paul Moist and Claude Généreux extend their condolences on behalf of all CUPE members to the families, friends and colleagues of these two dedicated professionals.

Water: Leaky Propositions: The Ontario Watertight Report

The Canadian Union of Public Employees brings experience and expertise to the discussion of long-term planning for water systems in several ways. Our union represents most municipal workers in Canada and in Ontario, and thereby represents the majority of the men and women who work in our water and wastewater systems.

Media: CUPE BC, HEU win CALM Awards

Public Employee, CUPE BC’s flagship publication, was named “Best overall publication produced by staff” at this year’s Canadian Association of Labour Media (CALM) Awards.

Media: Two settlements for Lorraine workers

In Lorraine, Quebec, outside workers (CUPE 2129) and inside workers (CUPE 2134) have recently signed new collective agreements. The four-year contracts, which expire in 2007, include raises of 2.5 per cent a year. The lengthy negotiations also resulted in improvements for employees with casual or contingent job status and wage increases for library workers, among other things

Media: City workers vote to reject City’s offer

Prince Albert - City workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 882 in Prince Albert voted overwhelmingly to reject the City’s latest offer at a membership meeting on Tuesday, May 16, 2006.

Media: Ocean View Manor nursing home employees ratify new contract

Halifax – Employees at Ocean View Manor nursing home have ratified a new contract with their employer.

Media: Talks break off between CUPE and District of West Hants

Windsor, N.S. – Contract talks between the Municipality of the District of West Hants and the union representing its outside workers have broken off.

Child Care: Help save a national social program that's vital to strong communities

A high quality and affordable public early learning and child care system, accessible to all, benefits children, their parents, and to the community. Canada was developing such a program. All the provinces had signed agreements with the federal government for a multi-year commitment to develop and expand child care services. Ontario had the Best Start Program and was on the way to creating 25,000 new licensed spaces by 2010 in communities throughout the province with the $1.9 billion funds from the federal government.

Child Care: Build Child Care- Help save a national social program that's vital to strong communities

A high quality and affordable public early learning and child care system, accessible to all, benefits children, their parents, and to the community. Canada was developing such a program. All the provinces had signed agreements with the federal government for a multi-year commitment to develop and expand child care services. Ontario had the Best Start Program and was on the way to creating 25,000 new licensed spaces by 2010 in communities throughout the province with the $1.9 billion funds from the federal government.

British Columbia: CUPE BC mourns fallen paramedics

CUPE BC joins Local 873 and all CUPE members, as well as the entire B.C. labour movement, in mourning the tragic deaths this week of two ambulance paramedics who gave their lives trying to save others.
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Communications: CUPE School Support Staff reach Tentative Agreement

VANCOUVER - It took an entire long weekend of intense negotiations but representatives of 25,000 school support workers have reached tentative agreements with their employers association and the B.C. government.
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School Boards: Paul Moist brings solidarity message to striking school board workers

Paul Moist brings solidarity message to striking school board workers
CUPE National President Paul Moist encouraged striking school board workers to keep up their fight for adequate time to do their work. “You have the full support of Canada’s largest union and your CUPE sisters and brothers, from coast to coast, are with you every step of the way,” Moist told over 400 CUPE 4222 Unit C members.

The wider union: CUPE celebrates Aboriginal Council with new artwork

CUPE's Aboriginal Council was founded on May 5, 2006 to battle against the many barriers that have long stopped aboriginal workers from fully participating in Canadian society. In solidarity with aboriginal peoples, CUPE celebrates the new council with beautiful artwork created for this historic occasion.

Communications: CUPE National President Paul Moist to kick off solidarity events for striking school board workers Tuesday

LONDON, Ont. – CUPE National President Paul Moist will kick off a series of solidarity events on Tuesday, May 23rd, to show support for striking Thames Valley District School Board workers.
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Publications: P3 Alert - May 2006

P3 Alert
The P3 Alert for May 2006 marks some of our successes in the fight to keep public services public, while highlighting new threats in Canada and around the world. From Ontario to Wall Street to Thailand, we're keeping an eye on the pushers of privatization.

Communications: Municipal strike looms in Cornwall over management concession demands

CORNWALL, Ont. – Municipal inside workers with the City of Cornwall will be in a legal strike or lockout position at 12:01 am, June 17th, after management negotiators refused to back away from concession demands, warns the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media: Age Care workers go CUPE

CALGARY – A group of about 135 employees of Age Care Beverly seniors’ home have joined the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media: Livingstone McLeod School Employees to hold strike vote

Seniority, job security main issues as bargaining breaks down

Media: School cutbacks mean 200 fewer education workers – union

EDMONTON – The union representing teaching assistants and administrative staff at Edmonton Public Schools says it expects over 200 full time equivalent positions to be reduced at Edmonton Public Schools next year.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Quotable quote

>“(P3s are) not a sell-off of the family silverware. You leave it with someone who can polish it up and earn more money for the use of it.”

P3 Alert - May 2006: Wall Street seeks to profit on public infrastructure

Some of the biggest investment firms on Wall Street have started exploring ways they can make big bucks in the lucrative public infrastructure business.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Thai court blocks privatisation of state power company

A Thai court has blocked government plans to partially privatise the state-owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT).

P3 Alert - May 2006: Privateers messing with Texas

A Bermuda-based contractor hired to streamline and privatize the state welfare eligibility system in Texas has been paid US $91 million under a problem-ridden contract that is the subject of increasing criticism from legislators.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Global support for privatization waning: World Bank

From Central America to Europe to Asia, popular support for privatization is declining, a recent World Bank report says.

P3 Alert - May 2006: CUPE school board workers urge end to contracting out

Catholic school board workers around London, Ont., are sending a strong message to school trustees to stop contracting out custodial services.

P3 Alert - May 2006: City of Ottawa auditor general to probe P3s

The City of Ottawa’s auditor general has promised to look at whether the municipality’s partnerships with private companies are “worthwhile.”

P3 Alert - May 2006: Nursing Week marked by opposition to privatized health care

More than 300 Ontario nurses celebrated Nursing Week in May by urging the Ontario government to put a stop to P3 hospitals.

P3 Alert - May 2006: OFL takes anti-P3 campaign on the road

The Ontario Federation of Labour’s campaign against privatization travelled across Ontario in April and May.

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Publications: P3 Alert - May 2006

P3 Alert
The P3 Alert for May 2006 marks some of our successes in the fight to keep public services public, while highlighting new threats in Canada and around the world. From Ontario to Wall Street to Thailand, we're keeping an eye on the pushers of privatization.

Communications: Municipal strike looms in Cornwall over management concession demands

CORNWALL, Ont. – Municipal inside workers with the City of Cornwall will be in a legal strike or lockout position at 12:01 am, June 17th, after management negotiators refused to back away from concession demands, warns the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media: Age Care workers go CUPE

CALGARY – A group of about 135 employees of Age Care Beverly seniors’ home have joined the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media: Livingstone McLeod School Employees to hold strike vote

Seniority, job security main issues as bargaining breaks down

Media: School cutbacks mean 200 fewer education workers – union

EDMONTON – The union representing teaching assistants and administrative staff at Edmonton Public Schools says it expects over 200 full time equivalent positions to be reduced at Edmonton Public Schools next year.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Quotable quote

>“(P3s are) not a sell-off of the family silverware. You leave it with someone who can polish it up and earn more money for the use of it.”

P3 Alert - May 2006: Wall Street seeks to profit on public infrastructure

Some of the biggest investment firms on Wall Street have started exploring ways they can make big bucks in the lucrative public infrastructure business.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Thai court blocks privatisation of state power company

A Thai court has blocked government plans to partially privatise the state-owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT).

P3 Alert - May 2006: Privateers messing with Texas

A Bermuda-based contractor hired to streamline and privatize the state welfare eligibility system in Texas has been paid US $91 million under a problem-ridden contract that is the subject of increasing criticism from legislators.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Global support for privatization waning: World Bank

From Central America to Europe to Asia, popular support for privatization is declining, a recent World Bank report says.

P3 Alert - May 2006: CUPE school board workers urge end to contracting out

Catholic school board workers around London, Ont., are sending a strong message to school trustees to stop contracting out custodial services.

P3 Alert - May 2006: City of Ottawa auditor general to probe P3s

The City of Ottawa’s auditor general has promised to look at whether the municipality’s partnerships with private companies are “worthwhile.”

P3 Alert - May 2006: Nursing Week marked by opposition to privatized health care

More than 300 Ontario nurses celebrated Nursing Week in May by urging the Ontario government to put a stop to P3 hospitals.

P3 Alert - May 2006: OFL takes anti-P3 campaign on the road

The Ontario Federation of Labour’s campaign against privatization travelled across Ontario in April and May.

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Publications: P3 Alert - May 2006

P3 Alert
The P3 Alert for May 2006 marks some of our successes in the fight to keep public services public, while highlighting new threats in Canada and around the world. From Ontario to Wall Street to Thailand, we're keeping an eye on the pushers of privatization.

Communications: Municipal strike looms in Cornwall over management concession demands

CORNWALL, Ont. – Municipal inside workers with the City of Cornwall will be in a legal strike or lockout position at 12:01 am, June 17th, after management negotiators refused to back away from concession demands, warns the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media: Age Care workers go CUPE

CALGARY – A group of about 135 employees of Age Care Beverly seniors’ home have joined the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media: Livingstone McLeod School Employees to hold strike vote

Seniority, job security main issues as bargaining breaks down

Media: School cutbacks mean 200 fewer education workers – union

EDMONTON – The union representing teaching assistants and administrative staff at Edmonton Public Schools says it expects over 200 full time equivalent positions to be reduced at Edmonton Public Schools next year.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Quotable quote

>“(P3s are) not a sell-off of the family silverware. You leave it with someone who can polish it up and earn more money for the use of it.”

P3 Alert - May 2006: Wall Street seeks to profit on public infrastructure

Some of the biggest investment firms on Wall Street have started exploring ways they can make big bucks in the lucrative public infrastructure business.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Thai court blocks privatisation of state power company

A Thai court has blocked government plans to partially privatise the state-owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT).

P3 Alert - May 2006: Privateers messing with Texas

A Bermuda-based contractor hired to streamline and privatize the state welfare eligibility system in Texas has been paid US $91 million under a problem-ridden contract that is the subject of increasing criticism from legislators.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Global support for privatization waning: World Bank

From Central America to Europe to Asia, popular support for privatization is declining, a recent World Bank report says.

P3 Alert - May 2006: CUPE school board workers urge end to contracting out

Catholic school board workers around London, Ont., are sending a strong message to school trustees to stop contracting out custodial services.

P3 Alert - May 2006: City of Ottawa auditor general to probe P3s

The City of Ottawa’s auditor general has promised to look at whether the municipality’s partnerships with private companies are “worthwhile.”

P3 Alert - May 2006: Nursing Week marked by opposition to privatized health care

More than 300 Ontario nurses celebrated Nursing Week in May by urging the Ontario government to put a stop to P3 hospitals.

P3 Alert - May 2006: OFL takes anti-P3 campaign on the road

The Ontario Federation of Labour’s campaign against privatization travelled across Ontario in April and May.

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Publications: P3 Alert - May 2006

P3 Alert
The P3 Alert for May 2006 marks some of our successes in the fight to keep public services public, while highlighting new threats in Canada and around the world. From Ontario to Wall Street to Thailand, we're keeping an eye on the pushers of privatization.

Communications: Municipal strike looms in Cornwall over management concession demands

CORNWALL, Ont. – Municipal inside workers with the City of Cornwall will be in a legal strike or lockout position at 12:01 am, June 17th, after management negotiators refused to back away from concession demands, warns the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media: Age Care workers go CUPE

CALGARY – A group of about 135 employees of Age Care Beverly seniors’ home have joined the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Media: Livingstone McLeod School Employees to hold strike vote

Seniority, job security main issues as bargaining breaks down

Media: School cutbacks mean 200 fewer education workers – union

EDMONTON – The union representing teaching assistants and administrative staff at Edmonton Public Schools says it expects over 200 full time equivalent positions to be reduced at Edmonton Public Schools next year.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Quotable quote

>“(P3s are) not a sell-off of the family silverware. You leave it with someone who can polish it up and earn more money for the use of it.”

P3 Alert - May 2006: Wall Street seeks to profit on public infrastructure

Some of the biggest investment firms on Wall Street have started exploring ways they can make big bucks in the lucrative public infrastructure business.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Thai court blocks privatisation of state power company

A Thai court has blocked government plans to partially privatise the state-owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT).

P3 Alert - May 2006: Privateers messing with Texas

A Bermuda-based contractor hired to streamline and privatize the state welfare eligibility system in Texas has been paid US $91 million under a problem-ridden contract that is the subject of increasing criticism from legislators.

P3 Alert - May 2006: Global support for privatization waning: World Bank

From Central America to Europe to Asia, popular support for privatization is declining, a recent World Bank report says.

P3 Alert - May 2006: CUPE school board workers urge end to contracting out

Catholic school board workers around London, Ont., are sending a strong message to school trustees to stop contracting out custodial services.

P3 Alert - May 2006: City of Ottawa auditor general to probe P3s

The City of Ottawa’s auditor general has promised to look at whether the municipality’s partnerships with private companies are “worthwhile.”

P3 Alert - May 2006: Nursing Week marked by opposition to privatized health care

More than 300 Ontario nurses celebrated Nursing Week in May by urging the Ontario government to put a stop to P3 hospitals.

P3 Alert - May 2006: OFL takes anti-P3 campaign on the road

The Ontario Federation of Labour’s campaign against privatization travelled across Ontario in April and May.

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Media: Livingstone Range school employees to hold strike vote

LETHBRIDGE – Over 100 employees at Livingstone Range School Division will hold a strike vote May 25-26 to decide whether or not to go on strike.
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Child Care: Hundreds rally for child care on Parliament Hill

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Colourful paper dolls billowed in the warm spring breeze as hundreds rallied on Parliament Hill yesterday to push the Harper government to build a real child care program. Child care advocates brought thousands of paper dolls and stuffed animals to symbolize the 7,000 Ottawa children who are stuck on child care waiting lists under misguided Conservative child care policies.

Media: Striking school board workers buoyed by donations and support from CUPE convention

London, Ont. – Striking Thames Valley District School Board workers received over $120,000 in donations and pledges when they attended the CUPE Ontario convention in Ottawa over the weekend.

Media: City walks out on negotiations

Prince Albert, SK - At a bargaining session yesterday with the union representing ‘inside’ city workers, the City of Prince Albert’s negotiating committee walked out – a move the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) describes as “irresponsible.”

Media: CUPE Ontario delegates support campaign against Israeli apartheid

OTTAWA – Delegates to the CUPE Ontario convention here have voted overwhelmingly to support the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel until that state recognizes the Palestinian right to self-determination.

Media: Livingstone Range school employees vote to strike

FORT MACLEOD – Custodial employees, teaching assistants, bus drivers and other workers at the Livingstone Range School Division have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike.

Media: City of Edmonton Paramedics among the thousands expected in Kimberly, BC

EDMONTON - City of Edmonton Paramedics among the thousands expected in Kimberly, BC on Monday, May 29, 2006 to pay their respects for fallen emergency personnel – paramedics Kim Weitzel and Shawn Currier.

Media: City brings more work in house, CUPE praises decision

Move shows ‘Nobody does it better’ – Grimaldi
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News: Thousands attend memorial service for B.C. paramedics

CUPE BC president Barry O’Neill joined about 4,000 mourners for today’s memorial service honouring Kim Weitzel and Shawn Currier, two paramedics who died at the Sullivan mine earlier this month.

Media: Teachers' assistants need to be part of the inclusion process

FREDERICTON – The New Brunswick Government needs to include all stakeholders if it wants to address the problems of the children inclusion in the education system.

Strikes and Lockouts: Special needs, maintenance funding gets a failing grade

EDMONTON - Front line school support workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) met this weekend in Edmonton and discussed funding for special needs students and deferred maintenance projects on schools.

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Municipalities: Poll finds Canadians want municipal services public, not private

Nine out of 10 Canadians want their water and sewage services kept public, according to a new poll released on the eve of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) annual conference in Montreal.

Human rights: CUPE National statement on the Ontario Division vote to support a boycott of Israel

CUPE encourages democratic debate on international issues. Debates focused on the Middle East should respect the legitimate aspirations of both the Palestinian and Israeli people.

Media: Child welfare workers call ‘1-800 number’ idea “an accident waiting to happen”

Halifax – The union representing frontline workers in child welfare agencies across the province says a planned 1-800 number to replace on-call services is an accident waiting to happen.

Municipalities: Major victory for CUPE on PEI

CHARLOTTETOWN — The majority of the Island’s Paramedics chose the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to represent them on PEI.
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Health Care: National groups plan public health care campaign

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National President Paul Moist hosted a major meeting of national organizations this week to discuss plans for a joint national campaign to protect and enhance our public health care system. "Public health care is Canadians' proudest achievement," Moist said. "We embrace it as a social right in Canada, one that speaks to our best values of fairness, pragmatism, inclusion and hope."

Elections: 3 CUPE candidates running in N.S.

Kim Cail, Charles Muise, and John Deveau are three CUPE members running in the Nova Scotia provincial election.

Bargaining: Inflation Calculator

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This tool can be used to measure inflation and see if your wages are keeping up with changing prices. The calculator uses the all-items Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a measure of inflation for different locations in Canada. The CPI is the most widely used measure of inflation in Canada, but it is not a perfect measure and many people will face quite different changes in their cost of living.

Political action: Acting accountably or merely acting?

Private sector gets big loopholes in Conservative Federal Accountability Act

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Elections: CUPE reaches tentative agreement for education and instructional assistants

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A tentative agreement was reached this afternoon between Thames Valley District School Board management and CUPE 4222, representing 1,100 education and instructional assistants, on strike since May 11th. The deal will be recommended to the members for ratification on Saturday.

Media: Independence of AG’s office ‘seriously compromised’

Liberals’ appointment of Arn van Iersel sends the wrong message, says CUPE BC

Media: School Disgrace

Come to a public meeting on the state of Calgary school buildings

Fast Facts: Fast Facts June 2, 2006

  • CUPE National statement on Ontario vote to support Israel boycott
  • National groups plan public health care campaign
  • Hundreds rally for child care on Parliament Hill
  • Thousands attend memorial service for British Columbia paramedics
  • Striking Ontario school board workers buoyed by support
  • Edmonton brings more work in-house
  • HEU urges better protection against needle injuries
  • New Brunswick teachers' assistants need to be part of the inclusion process
  • Alberta government is choking school boards… “If parents knew”
  • Strike looms in Cornwall, Ontario
  • Prince Albert City negotiators “irresponsible”
  • Livingstone Range school employees vote to strike
  • Calgary elderly care workers choose CUPE
  • Health care wait times top Nova Scotia poll of concerns for unionized workers
  • Three CUPE candidates running in Nova Scotia

Media: North Bay District CUPE Council and members to rally against privatization Saturday

North Bay, Ont. – Members of the North Bay District CUPE Council and local CUPE members, along with community and labour supporters, will hold a rally against public-private partnerships and the privatization of public services, in front of Liberal MPP Monique Smith’s constituency office, on Saturday, June 3rd, at 1:00 pm, at 165 Main Street, in North Bay.

Media: CUPE looks for commitment from Premier MacDonald on seasonal employees at DNR

Halifax – The Canadian Union of Public Employees is going after Premier MacDonald on what it is calling a human rights issue.

Media: School Maintenance Staff, Board start contract talks today

Union expects a hard round of bargaining in light of school deficit
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School Boards: CUPE school board workers win more time with students

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Thames Valley District School Board workers have voted 83 per cent in favour of a tentative agreement reached June 1st. The new collective agreement will add 30 minutes to the workday for 1,100 education and instructional assistants. "We want to thank our students, their parents, school board workers and our community for their support during our strike," said Helena McConkey, spokesperson for CUPE 4222, Unit C.

Municipalities: CUPE's FCM Diary, Friday, June 2, 2006

National President Paul Moist greets a delegate at the CUPE booth
Read our daily updates from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting in Montreal, where Paul Moist and Claude Généreux are building relationships and making friends to help CUPE build stronger communities across the country.
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Municipalities: CUPE's FCM Diary, June 3, 2006

Today's update from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting in Montreal looks at environmental issues, municipal financing, and the new federalism.
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Municipalities: CUPE's FCM diary, June 4, 2006

CUPE contest winner Tony Whelan with Paul Moist
Read our daily updates from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting in Montreal, where Paul Moist and Claude Généreux are building relationships and making friends to help CUPE build stronger communities across the country.

LGBTT: CUPE PROUDLY SUPPORTS PRIDE DAY EVENTS

Over the summer pride day events will take place across the country. Go out and enjoy the celebrations!

Media: University unions coordinate tuition fee fight at the bargaining table

TORONTO — Five CUPE locals representing university workers are filing notice to bargain with their employers today in an effort to coordinate their fight against tuition fee increases, among other issues, at the bargaining table.

News: Pamela Anderson Says Well Maintained Schools Are Important

In an exclusive commentary in the Sun newspapers on Saturday June 3, 2006, Canadian Superstar Actress Pamela Anderson, who is to be inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame this week, says; “We have great education. My schools were beautiful and well-maintained.”

News: CUPE, Livingstone Range return to the table this week

Union looking for better deal after 88% strike vote

News: City workers are not happy with stalled contract talks

Prince Albert - Buttons depicting unhappy faces are being worn around city hall, the outdoor pool and other city-owned facilities today. The buttons belong to city workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 882, who have been without a new collective agreement for more than two years.

Municipalities: Build Child Care

A high quality and affordable public early learning and child care system, accessible to all, benefits children, their parents, and the community.

Municipalities: Advancing Solutions for Sustainability in Municipalities

Sustainable practices can prevent environmental destruction. Municipalities are on the cutting edge of sustainable thinking and practices in their choices about policy, planning, infrastructure and investment. Many communities have ‘sustainability plans’ for greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, watershed management, community energy, housing and more.

Municipalities: Achieving Success through Public Services:

Many municipal leaders are considering privatization of public services, through ‘public private partnerships’, and contracting out. Some are convinced that they have insufficient resources to deliver quality services. But claims that handing control to the private sector will produce quality, affordable services are misleading. Public control allows local governments the authority they need to be innovative, forward thinking, financially sustainable, enforce quality controls and to put their communities first.

Municipalities: P3 Recreation Facilities: Who benefits?

Physical activity is essential to human health and development. As communities grow, municipalities across Canada are seeing an increase in demand for recreation services such as community ice time at local hockey arenas.

Municipalities: Leaky Propositions: The Ontario Watertight Report

The Canadian Union of Public Employees brings experience and expertise to the discussion of long-term planning for water systems in several ways. Our union represents most municipal workers in Canada and in Ontario, and thereby represents the majority of the men and women who work in our water and wastewater systems.

New Revenue Sources for Cities and Communities: New Revenue Sources for Cities and Communities

Canadian municipalities have become increasingly dependent on property taxes and user fees for their revenues. Over 76% of municipal revenues came from property taxes and user fees in 2004, up ten percentage points from 66% in 1995. Over the same period, the contribution of federal and provincial transfers to municipal revenues dropped by a similar amount. Federal and provincial governments have surpluses available that could provide the funds that municipalities need. New revenue sources for municipalities should grow at a stable rate and be matched to program needs, progressive, flexible and efficient to administer - and not subject to harmful tax competition and avoidance.

Increasing Cost Pressures for Municipalities: Infrastructure Deficits and Beyond: Increasing Cost Pressures for Municipalities: Infrastructure Deficits and Beyond

Municipalities are facing increasing cost pressures to provide services for infrastructure, environment, housing, social services, immigrant settlement, emergency and protective services and in other areas to improve the overall quality of life in their communities. We need coherent and progressive national policies on social, environmental and urban issues - and funding for programs to match these policies. Unless this is done, local governments will continue to face ever increasing challenges and costs to improve the quality of life in their communities with very limited revenue sources.
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Media: First collective agreement

MONCTON – The employees of LaidLaw Educational Services in Moncton will vote on their first collective agreement Wednesday.
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Media: Ron Parks urges more “assertive” and “investigative” approach to P3s from Auditor General’s office

In a report released today, the province’s best-known forensic accountant says that the B.C. Auditor General’s office should play a more active and direct role in assessing whether taxpayers are getting value for money from government-mandated privatization schemes worth up to $10 billion.
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Media: Mediation last chance to avoid Cornwall municipal strike

CORNWALL, Ont. – Mediation talks on Friday, June 9th, are seen as the last chance to avoid a strike by 125 Cornwall municipal workers, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
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From root@judy.cupe.ca Sat Jun 10 04:04:34 2006 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy [10.1.5.2]) by grace.cupe.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5A84TuN015334 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:04:34 -0400 Received: from judy.cupe.ca (judy.cupe.ca [127.0.0.1]) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k5A8C2fM022768 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:12:22 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by judy.cupe.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id k5A8C27k022767; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:12:02 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:12:02 -0400 Message-Id: <200606100812.k5A8C27k022767@judy.cupe.ca> To: cupetoday@lists.cupe.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: cupetoday-sender@lists.cupe.ca Subject: [cupetoday] for Saturday June 10, 2006 X-BeenThere: cupetoday@members.cupe.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: "a daily bulletin of stories posted to cupe.ca" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:04:34 -0000 CUPE Today

Job Evaluation: Job Evaluation Courses

Because our goal is to meet the needs of CUPE members and locals, CUPE's Job Evaluation staff across the country offer at least 3 kinds of workshops that can be tailored to your workplace.

Media: No progress bargaining with Livingstone Range

Two sides heading towards a strike in September

Media: Reaching Atlantica Business Without Boundaries Conference

SAINT JOHN – CUPE Presidents from Atlantic Canada are attending the “Reaching Atlantica Business Without Boundaries Conference” this week in Saint John.
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Airlines: Canadians reject attempts to cut flight attendant crews, cite safety as priority

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Canadians do not want their safety jeopardized by cuts to flight attendant crews, says a poll released today by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The poll shows the public would reject a bid by the airline industry to allow certain flights with full passenger loads to fly with up to 25 per cent fewer flight attendants. Most of those polled considered plans to cut cabin crews a compromise to passenger safety and security.

Media: Conference confirms CUPE’s suspicions on the real ‘Atlantica’ Agenda

Saint John – The Presidents of CUPE in the four Atlantic Provinces want a full public debate on the concept of ‘Atlantica’ before there are any further moves toward ‘business without boundaries’.

Media: New building could mean job loss for library workers

CALGARY – The union representing 600 mostly female Library Board employees says construction of a new downtown library will result in layoffs.

Media: Council holds the key to settle municipal negotiations: CUPE

CORNWALL, Ont. – Representatives of CUPE 3251 are encouraged by progress made in mediation talks today, Friday, June 9th, on behalf of 125 municipal workers, but Cornwall Council still holds the key to a settlement without a strike, according to CUPE national representative Bob Manny.

Media: HRM outside workers to present brief on ‘contracting out’ to Council, June 13

Halifax – The union representing some 450 ‘outside workers’ with HRM is wading into this year’s budget debate.

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Media: McGuinty funding announcement ignores educational assistants, support workers

TORONTO — The McGuinty government has once again ignored the people who support students and teachers in our elementary and secondary schools with its announcement of education grants for 2006-07, says the union representing 45,000 education workers across Ontario.

Fast Facts: Fast Facts June 9, 2006

  • Poll finds Canadians want municipal services public, not private
  • CUPE highlights from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)
  • BC forensic accountant urges BC Auditor General to be more “assertive” and “investigative” in approach to P3s
  • Kensington water to remain public
  • No progress bargaining with Livingstone Range
  • Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, city workers not happy with stalled contract talks
  • London CUPE school board workers win more time with students
  • STOP ATLANTICA: CUPE New Brunswick in fight to stop east coast “free trade zone”
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Child Care: A guide to Conservative government doublespeak on child care

It's time to deconstruct the conservative spin on child care.

Media: Nova Scotia Highway Workers Ratify New Four Year Deal

Halifax - The Nova Scotia Highway Workers have a new four-year contract. Members of the Nova Scotia Highway Workers, CUPE Local 1867 ratified the deal today with a vote of 80% in favor of the new contract.

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Public-private partnerships: Keeping tabs on the P3 promoters

In this Vancouver sun op-ed, Judy Darcy and Barry O'Neill review the Parks report and the questions it raises on the wisdom of pursuing public-private partnerships.

Media: Tentative contract settlement between CUPE and OHA helps ensure labour stability

Toronto – The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced today that they have reached a negotiated tentative three-year collective agreement for hospital employees. The settlement, covering 18,000 hospital employees at 56 hospitals, helps ensure significant labour stability over the next few years during an anticipated period of change in Ontario’s health care system.

Media: Toronto developmental services staff vote to defend services; overwhelmingly reject employer contract offer

TORONTO - Front line workers with Community Living Toronto (CLT) — who provide services and supports for individuals who have a developmental disability — voted this week to defend quality services for clients and to reject an employer contract offer attacking their workplace rights.

Media: Union rejects School Board offer - Staff cuts, cost of living the major factor

FORT MCMURRAY - The union representing 270 support staff with the Fort McMurray Public School District has rejected a tentative agreement with the Board and has asked the Board to return to the bargaining table.

Media: School staff union attacks board for inaction

EDMONTON – The Edmonton Public School board is allowing the provincial government to walk all over education – and children are suffering as a result.

Media: Women's crisis workers face bargaining crisis

Winnipeg – Frontline workers at Osborne House, represented by CUPE, have given their employer notice that they will strike on Friday, June 23rd, if there is no progress in bargaining a new collective agreement.

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Government: NDP makes major gains in Nova Scotia

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Nova Scotia's recently minted young premier, Rodney MacDonald, has just learned a tough political lesson: Be careful what you wish for. Instead of gaining the majority he was looking for, he has shrunk his minority and given the New Democratic Party five new seats in the legislature.

Fast Facts: Fast Facts June 16, 2006

  • Canadians reject attempts to cut flight attendant crews, cite safety as priority
  • NDP makes major gains in Nova Scotia election
  • Real ‘Atlantica’ agenda confirms CUPE’s suspicions
  • CUPE staff vote to defend services, reject contract offer
  • Tentative deal between CUPE and OHA helps ensure labour stability
  • Cornwall council holds key to settlement
  • New building could mean job loss for Calgary library workers
  • CUPE BC member wins $12 million
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Media: Twenty postal workers arrested at Canada Post

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Magnifying glasses in hand, members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) climbed over police barricades outside Canada Post headquarters today in a bid to search the crown corporation for its “strategic planning” documents.

Water: Letter to Stephen Harper

CUPE and allies in the movement for public water took amessage to Parliament Hill on Monday June 12, 2006: Canadians are ready for federal action on water. The Conservatives refused to meet with us, but discussions with the members of the Federal NDP, the Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois, did take place.

School Boards: Education Funding Announcement Ignores Support Workers in Ontario

The General Legislative grants (GLGs) for education that were released today are another big disappointment for education support workers.

Economics: Economic Climate for Bargaining - June 2006

Canada’s economy has continued to grow strongly this year with GDP increasing at an annual rate of 3.8% in the first quarter. A booming housing sector and accelerating consumer spending pushed economic growth above expectations.

Libraries: CUPE a hit at Canadian Libraries Association conference

CUPE at the CLA, from left: CUPE 1582's Steven Burdick, staff rep Nancy McNeil, Kim Perry and Pam Hambrock of CUPE 905 and Doug McNeil.

CUPE was a welcome presence last week in Ottawa at the Canadian Library Association’s annual meeting.

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Media: Reduction to number of flight attendants will compromise passenger safety, CUPE tells committee

OTTAWA – The House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities needs to stop proposed changes to the regulations that would allow airlines to reduce the number of flight attendants on certain aircraft, CUPE said today.

Media: Town of Norwich municipal workers enter conciliation talks – fight management concession demands

NORWICH, Ont. – Town of Norwich municipal workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have asked a provincial conciliator to assist negotiations with their employer, in efforts to avoid a strike over concession demands by management negotiators.

Media: Trustees Order Public Schools to Cut Staff By 10% - “It’s The End of School Based Management” Says Union

Edmonton, AB - In a move that contradicts the Edmonton Public School Board practicf School-Based Management, the Board of Trustees at last night’s public board meeting, approved a budget that cuts 10% of funding from all schools in the district. Regardless of whether schools had increased enrollment, no decrease in enrollment or decreasing enrollment, all schools were ordered by the administration to cut 10% of staffing to make up for a deficit the board has incurred due to lack of provincial funding.

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Media: Big wage settlement for former AUPE members

GRANDE PRAIRIE - A group of employees who recently left the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have learned CUPE gets better deals for its members.

Aboriginal Issues: Community Care Access Centre-Oxford management abandons contract talks – CUPE appeals to ministry of Labour

WOODSTOCK, Ont. – Negotiators for Local 1146 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 34 office, clerical and technical employees at Community Care Access Centre-Oxford, will ask the ministry of Labour to get involved in contract negotiations, after management walked away from the bargaining table on Monday, June 19th.

Air Canada: Whistler flushes wastewater P3

WHISTLER - On Monday June 19th, the council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) voted against going to referendum on a proposed public-private partnership (P3) for a wastewater treatment plant upgrade, ending a proposal that would see the plant operation privatized.

Research, Job Evaluation, Health & Safety Branch: Canadians' Attitudes Toward National Child Care Policy

The results of a poll released today by the CCAAC show that Canadians are rejecting Stephen Harper’s plan to distribute a $1,200 child allowance to parents with children under six years of age.

P3 Alert - June 2006: Just say “No” in Whistler

Representatives of the Whistler Water Watch Coalition in British Columbia hit the bricks and collected nearly double the signatures needed to make city hall and the province take notice of their concerns through an Alternate Approval Process (AAP).

P3 Alert - June 2006: Privatization will ‘save’ public sector, says Tony Blair

British Prime Minister Tony Blair enraged public sector unions at a conference this week, saying he was (saving) Britain’s public services with his reform agenda that encourages privatization, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper.

P3 Alert - June 2006: The number you have reached is no longer in service

Last month, P3 Alert ran a story about the privatization of Texas social services.

P3 Alert - June 2006: Be careful what You wish for

More than 20 years ago, the British Parliament embarked on an era of private public partnerships (P3s) that would revolutionize British society.

P3 Alert - June 2006: CUPE BC urges Auditor General’s office to be more skeptical of P3s

British Columbia’s best-known forensic accountant says the provincial government’s Auditor General’s office should play a more active, direct and skeptical role in assessing whether taxpayers are getting value for money from $10 billion worth of government-mandated privatization schemes.

P3 Alert - June 2006: Quebec to introduce ‘limited’ privatization into public health system

Last year, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the Quebec government could not prevent people from paying for private insurance for procedures covered under medicare – if the public health care system could not deliver the service quickly enough.

Media: Stop Cuts to Edmonton Public School Custodial Staff - Union launches ad campaign for graduation week

As most students in Edmonton Public Schools begin exams and the end of the school graduation ceremonies throughout the K-12 Division, the union representing custodial workers in the district, CUPE Local 474, has launched a newspaper advertising campaign protesting job cuts.

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Air Canada: Private operation of Events Centre may lack public support

Penticton residents may have concerns about city council’s recent announcement of a private partner to operate the new South Okanagan Events Centre and the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre.

Media: Long Term Care newsletter now available

The second edition of CUPE Alberta's Long Term Care news is finished and copies will be mailed out to locals soon

Privatization: CUPW begins Operation Transparency campaign

The future of the public postal service should be in the hands of the public, said CUPE’s national executive board in a resolution endorsing the “Operation Transparency” campaign launched by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
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Privatization: P3 Alert - June 2006

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  • Quebec to introduce ‘limited’ privatization into public health system
  • CUPE BC urges Auditor General’s office to be more skeptical of P3s
  • Be careful what You wish for
  • The number you have reached is no longer in service
  • Privatization will ‘save’ public sector, says Tony Blair
  • Just say “No” in Whistler

Fast Facts: Fast Facts June 23, 2006

  • CUPE in solidarity with aboriginal people
  • Moist, NEB support CUPW campaign; 20 postal workers arrested
  • Reducing flight attendant numbers will compromise passenger safety
  • Whistler flushes wastewater P3
  • CUPE ads urge no more Edmonton school custodial staff cuts
  • Norwich, Ontario, municipal workers enter conciliation talks
  • Big wage settlement for former AUPE members
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Home Care: Employees in continuing care facilities hold strike votes

SYDNEY – Employees in continuing care facilities across the province are holding strike votes.

Union Education: Workshops from CUPE Education

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Privatization: Private operation of B.C. trade centre raises alarms

A recent poll suggests Penticton residents have concerns about city council’s recent announcement of a private partner to operate the new South Okanagan Events Centre and the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre.
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Workers' compensation: The Stanhope Manifesto on Workers' Compensation

In 2002, representatives of three unions representing unionized workers at various workers’ compensation boards across Canada met in Stanhope, Prince Edward Island. The three unions were the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), and the Compensation Employees’ Union (CEU). The decision to develop a statement of principles of a fair and comprehensive workers’ compensation system was made at that meeting, hence the name, “Stanhope Manifesto”.

Group homes: Seaview Manor employees ratify new contract

SYDNEY – Employees at Seaview Manor nursing home in Glace Bay have ratified a new contract.

Education: Education workers rally for public education

EDMONTON - Schools are cutting back staff, buildings are falling into the ground, employees are being asked to do more for less. This can't be good for our children.

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  • Peace: Labour Peace Forum inspires activists

    Labour Peace Forum Participants
    For two busy days on a sun-drenched campus at the University of British Columbia, labour activists from around the world enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime networking opportunity they won’t soon forget. The Labour Peace Forum, organized by the Vancouver and District Labour Council as part of World Peace Forum 2006, offered international union activists a chance to share histories, identify common goals and develop strategies for a collective position on the issues of war and peace and the impact of war on working families.

  • Union Education: Apology and correction: BC Education Committee

    In the June 28th CUPE Today, we linked to an old list of education committees, which incorrectly stated that there was no committee active in BC. We apologize to the sisters and brothers of the BC education committee for the oversight - for more information on the committee, please visit CUPE BC's web site or contact Judy Armstrong, BC education representative.

  • Education: Unions Invite Trustees to Rally for Public Education

    CUPE and CEP challenge Education Minister; Show Us the Money
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  • Homes for the aged: HEU unbowed as Compass cancels contract with long-term care facility over arbitrated settlement

    British multinational Compass has walked away from its cleaning and food services contract at a Burnaby BC long-term care home after an arbitrator ordered a wage increase for its 25 employees.

  • Fast Facts: Fast Facts July 7, 2006

    • Drop the political games around wait times for health care
    • Supreme Court: No change to RCMP municipal staff
    • Top N.S. health care unions file grievances over pension surplus
    • CUPE Local 774 rejects employer’s final offer
    • Alberta senior’s lodge workers win by staying with CUPE
    • CUPE files for conciliation with Cape Breton child care facility
    • Parents asked to help avert school strike
    • $10,000 to help Java earthquake victims

  • Municipalities: Thunder Bay municipal workers fight concessions

    Thunder Bay municipal workers have voted to strike if necessary, to fight concession demands by their employer, including benefit cuts and other take-aways. Negotiators for CUPE 87, representing 650 inside and outside workers in this Northwestern Ontario community, will enter mediated talks with city management on July 18th.
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