The Drummond Commission’s report proposes cuts to Ontario’s public services that would be twice as deep as the cuts under former Conservative premier Mike Harris. It doesn’t need to be this way. CUPE’s "Austerity Doesn’t Work" document shows Ontario can balance its budget while improving public services by implementing just a few fair tax measures.

The union representing outside workers with the Town of Springhill has received an overwhelming strike vote from its 21 members.

The Provincial Council for the Communications Sector (CPSC) of CUPE-Quebec has filed a complaint against TVA with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council for violating its Code of Journalistic Independence.

Mediation talks between Lincoln County Humane Society, in Ontario, and their front line workers broke off today after management provoked their own workers to strike, says CUPE, representing 15 humane society workers.

More than 100 cafeteria workers with the Eastern School District, Newfoundland, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new deal with Chartwell’s Compass Group Canada.

The new provincial budget continues the former Campbell government’s tradition of having mid-and low-income British Columbians pay increased fees and taxes to make up for poor economic management, says CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill.

CUPE Local 4823 has signed a new collective agreement with Kids and Company, a private child care provider with over 40 centres in 14 cities across Canada. In Ontario, 15 Kids and Company centres in Toronto, Mississauga, Ajax and Ottawa are represented by CUPE.

On February 16, over 1,000 members of the University community rallied to support CUPE 3902, which represents 4,200 education workers. In bargaining since June 2011, the union and university administration have been unable to come to an agreement. A strike date has been set for February 24.

The presidents of the three largest unions in the post-secondary sector in British Columbia have united in opposition to the B.C. Liberal government’s anti-democratic amendments to the College and Institute Act and the University Act, being debated in the legislature as part of Bill 18.

Both sides in the labour dispute between CUPE Local 227 and the Halifax Regional Water Commission have agreed to return to the bargaining table.

Members of CUPE 3902 - Unit 1, representing over 4,000 contract education workers at the University of Toronto, have set a strike deadline of February 24. Join the community rally on February 16.

The Drummond Report released today is an “austerity” plan that will kill Ontario’s economic recovery, delay balanced budgets and put thousands more Ontarians out of work, says Fred Hahn, CUPE Ontario president.

Release of the Don Drummond report on the review of Ontario’s public services is chapter one in a move to privatize Ontario’s health care system, charges Michael Hurley, president of OCHU (CUPE's hospital sector in Ontario).

HEU health care workers at Malaspina Gardens in Nanaimo and Acacia Ty Mawr Lodge in Shawnigan Lake battled back against contracting out with rallies that drew supportive crowds to the facilities earlier this month.

Liberals’ health “action plan” ignores minimum care standard for frail long-term care residents. Advocates will speak on this issue at media conferences taking place in cities across Ontario over the next two weeks. The events will include a six-minute video featuring LTC workers.

CUPE Nova Scotia President Danny Cavanagh says, “Parents with children in the P-12 school system need to realize that a second year in a row of budget cuts is going to affect every single aspect of school boards operations.

Members of CUPE 416 have ratified a four-year collective agreement with the City of Toronto. Highlights of the new agreement include six per cent in wage improvements, an interest arbitration mechanism for EMS workers and the retention of employment security provisions for permanent employees with 15 years or more of service.

In late January 2012, the Nicaraguan Parliament unanimously approved a Comprehensive Violence Against Women Act, a victory for women's organizations that have long struggled to bring attention to this issue.

In Quebec, CUPE will be the first union to hold a think-tank session on pension plans. A special meeting of activists will be held in Montreal February 22 and 23, to take stock of pension plans and supplemental plans in particular.

Organized labour in Cape Breton is coming together to fight a second round of school board cuts announced by the Nova Scotia Education Minister on February 17.