Rained out CUPE BC Canadians game rescheduled to August 11

BURNABY— The June 30th game was rained out—but CUPE BC is now sponsoring the Vancouver Canadians’ August 11th game against the Yakima Bears. That’s the message from CUPE BC and the Vancouver Canadians baseball team to all the CUPE members who had tickets to see the Vancouver Canadians game that was rained out this past […]

CUPE Supports Cowichan School Board’s Stand

COWICHAN— CUPE’s K-12 local in the Cowichan Valley has come out in strong support of fired School District 79 school trustees. The democratically-elected SD 79 Board was fired on Canada Day for submitting a needs-based budget instead of the province’s demand for a “balanced” budget. “It’s regrettable that the provincial government has chosen to put political advocacy […]

UNBC workers overwhelmingly approve strike action

PRINCE GEORGE–CUPE support workers at UNBC have voted 91 per cent in favour of strike action. The vote was taken over the last week and tallied this morning. CUPE 3799 represents more than 300 support workers at the University of Northern BC. Turnout for the vote was 75 per cent.    CUPE Local 3799 president […]