CUPE Local 947 Victoria education workers ratify collective agreement
VICTORIA – Members of CUPE Local 947 voted to ratify a collective agreement with School District 61 (Victoria) last night. CUPE Local 947 served strike notice on Wednesday, January 15th and met until late in the day on Friday, January 17th achieving a settlement and averting job action. With the CUPE Local 947 ratification, all […]
Uniting for fairness: strengthening our union and our movement
These are difficult times for union members in Canada. Over the past several decades, labour leaders and activists in our country have quite rightly pointed to wave after wave of anti-union sentiment and laws in the United States, as things like so-called “right to work” states emerged and resulted in a serious decline in union […]
Paramedics honour station chief, search & rescue legend
NORTH VANCOUVER – Hundreds of CUPE 873 ambulance paramedics joined the Celebration of Life ceremony Saturday for Tim Jones. Jones died suddenly a week earlier of a heart attack at age 57. Jones was an Advanced Life Support Paramedic for 32 years and was the Chief at Station 256 in North Vancouver. He is known across the […]
Naramata Centre considering contracting out
NARAMATA – CUPE Employees at the Naramata Centre are facing layoffs as the Centre considers contracting out their work. Naramata Centre, which is owned by the United Church of Canada and operated by the Naramata Centre Society, issued layoff notices to food services, grounds maintenance and housekeeping staff and informed CUPE Local 608 of the […]
CODE ROUGE: CUPE education workers’ quick action saves children’s lives
SURREY – On October 31st, 2013, a man with a kitchen knife jumped the playground fence at Surrey’s École Gabrielle-Roy and grabbed a 10-year-old boy. Thanks to the quick action of CUPE Local 4227 members, no one was harmed. Among the six education workers supervising the playground that day were Isabelle Rheault and Latifa Kahany. […]
CUPE Metro District Council supports low-income students in Burnaby
BURNABY- Representatives of the CUPE Metro District Council presented a $3,000 contribution to Peggy Woodruff of the Burnaby Association of the Southeast Side (BASES) to help them continue their mission of supporting underprivileged children in the Burnaby Edmonds community. CUPE Local 409 President Marcel Marsolais and CUPE BC General Vice President Ian Norton were joined […]
CUPE mourns death of search & rescue leader, paramedic mentor
NORTH VANCOUVER-Tributes are pouring in from around the province and across the country for long-time CUPE 873 ambulance paramedic and tireless North Shore Rescue team leader Tim Jones. Jones died suddenly of a heart attack Sunday night while returning to the city from a rescue cabin on Mount Seymour. He was 57. “In his over […]
CUPE Local 947 serves 72 hour strike notice for Victoria schools
VICTORIA – CUPE Local 947 representing education workers in School District 61(Victoria) has issued 72 hour notice of potential job action. The union is hoping the situation can be resolved without a strike. As a courtesy to Victoria area parents, notice has been issued in order to advise that job action may be a possibility. […]
Prince George city workers reach tentative agreement
PRINCE GEORGE – After more than one year with no collective agreement city workers in Prince George, represented by CUPE 399 and CUPE 1048, have reached a tentative agreement with the City. Gary Campbell CUPE 399 president and Janet Bigelow CUPE 1048 president both report that they are relieved to have reached a new deal […]
Arbitrator rules in favour of faculty at Northwest Community College
TERRACE – “We knew going into this arbitration that the employer was ignoring the collective agreement,” said Cindy Oliver, President of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE), one of two unions representing the faculty at Northwest Community College. “Unfortunately, the administration at Northwest decided to follow an expensive and time-consuming litigation that has undermined labour […]
