Persons with Disabilities Working Group releases new video

BURNABY—CUPE BC’s persons with disabilities working group has released a new educational video in conjunction with the national union’s campaign on disability awareness rights. Titled “Ready and Able: Disability rights and the CUPE activist,” the video was produced by Angelina Cantada of Curly Tail Productions in conjunction with Working TV and CUPE Communications. In the […]

We’d take jobs over free coffee, Skytrain workers told Translink

BURNABY—The union representing 560 workers for Skytrain says it made a proposal last year to management that could have saved at least one job in administration, but Translink eliminated the position and is cutting four more jobs in the IT department while deciding to spend $1.5 million for a five-year contract to provide coffee to […]

Simon Fraser University guilty verdict sticks

BURNABY – The BC Labour Relations Board has rejected an SFU bid to overturn a ruling that it is bargaining in bad faith with its 1,000 CUPE Local 3338 employees. The decision was announced on Monday. The original unfair labour practices judgment was handed down by the LRB back in January. The decision was based […]