CUPE Metro celebrates 2015 International Women’s Day with North Shore community
NORTH VANCOUVER – First Nations elder Audrey Rivers-Tiyaltelote welcomed everyone to the International Women’s Day event on Squamish territory at the Chief Joe Mathias Centre on Friday, March 6. She opened by honouring the three generations of the past, present and future. The Squamish elder spoke about the hundreds of missing and murdered women in […]
Southern Rail strikes out at Labour Board
NEW WESTMINSTER – The BC Labour Relations Board has derailed Southern Railway (SRY) from circumventing the provincial labour code. The U.S.-owned railway walked away from contract talks and locked out its 126 CUPE Local 7000 workers in January. The LRB has now ruled that Southern unlawfully used replacement workers (scabs) when they used A&B Rail […]
White Rock residents give a thumbs down to privatized waste collection
WHITE ROCK – CUPE members in the City of White Rock have been out talking to the community about the proposed privatizing of residential garbage and recycling services, and they have heard lots of support for keeping it public. CUPE 402-01 President Mike Guraliuk said that local members were handing out information this weekend, including […]
