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KEEP HYDRO PUBLIC
Learn more about CUPE’s work on the Keep Hydro Public campaign to fight privatization and to protect our jobs here at Manitoba Hydro.
Canada Post Strike Action
It’s important that we all stand in solidarity with all unions on strike. CUPE would like to share this message from the CUPW Prairie Regional Office.
If you are interested in joining a picket line in Winnipeg, signs are available through our CUPE office. Please feel free to reach out for more details.
***On Behalf of The CUPW Prairie Regional Office***
As we have done in the past rounds of bargaining, CUPW has negotiated an agreement with Canada Post to ensure that Socio-Economic Cheques, including pension checks and child tax benefit checks, are still delivered. We do not want pensioners and people that rely on government assistance to suffer due to the strike.
As a result of performing this delivery, our picket lines will have less picketer’s available than usual and any assistance that could be provided by affiliate unions to help us on our picket lines would be a great show of solidarity.
On November 20th and 21st CUPW members will be delivering Socio-Economic Cheques. We are asking anyone that would like to show their solidarity and help boost the picket lines please do so by finding the nearest picket line location to them at the following link: https://act-cupwsttp.nationbuilder.com/picket_lines.
Please share this message with any of your locals or affiliates across Canada. Thank you!
In Solidarity,
CUPW Prairie Region
Transgender Awareness Week
To celebrate the Transgender Awareness week, there will be a Flag Raising event on Wednesday November 13th at 9:30 AM in the Union Centre front entrance. See more here
All are welcome to attend
In Solidarity,
Jonny Maria
Equal Rights and Opportunity Chair
CUPE National Pink Triangle Committee Chair
Anti Scab Legislation PASSED
Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Friends,
Finally, after 50 years of fighting, we have won 50% + 1 card check and anti-scab legislation. And thanks to Premier Wab Kinew and his NDP government, we have the strongest card check and anti-scab law in Canada.
Bill 37 was given Royal Assent last night, meaning 50% + 1 card check and a ban on scab labour are now the law in Manitoba. Our labour movement never lost hope of winning these protections for workers, and now the dreams of generations of union activists have come true.
Now that this law is in place, it is easier than ever before for workers to join a union. If a majority of employees in a workplace sign a union application card, they’ll get a union.
Due to amendments that the government made, Manitoba’s anti-scab law includes the broadest definition of scab labour in Canada. And it also includes earlier exemptions for unions and employers who don’t supply any essential services, reducing red tape and conflict around essential service agreements.
For much more information about the new rules regarding card check, anti-scab and essential services, please read our FACT SHEET. We have also included a POSTER announcing this major win for working people and their unions in Manitoba.
Unfortunately, the Legislative Assembly website has not yet been updated to incorporate the newly adopted amendments into the text of Bill 37. The website still has the original text of Bill 37 (see Schedule D), and, separately, the amendments.
To make things easier, we’ve created our own updated version of the bill, with all the amendments included.
I want to thank all of the unions and labour activists who helped us win this historic rebalancing of Manitoba’s labour laws.
Thank you as well to Premier Kinew and Labour Minister Malaya Marcelino for championing card check and anti-scab, and to Finance Minister Adrien Sala for bringing these protections forward in his budget legislation after the Opposition PCs tried to block them from being introduced.
These new rights for workers will mean bigger paycheques, greater job security and safer workplaces.
Let’s Get Organizing.
In Solidarity,
Kevin Rebeck
President of the Manitoba Federation of Labour
CUPE Recognizes The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2024
Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day honor’s the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.
On this day we honor the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Widespread public commemoration and acknowledgement of the tragic and painful history, continued impact, and intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school legacy is a vital component of the reconciliation process. You can visit the NTRC website here for more information about events happening around Winnipeg and across Canada. Also you can visit the CUPE National Website for more information
CUPE Welcomes Hydro’s new CEO
CUPE would like to extend a warm welcome to our new CEO, Allan Danroth, at Manitoba Hydro. We are excited about the opportunity to work collaboratively with our new CEO and look forward to a successful partnership on this government’s core objectives.
We know this government is committed to keeping Manitoba Hydro public and reversing the previous government’s cuts and privatization. We look forward to working with the new CEO on delivering high quality, affordable public services that Manitoba families can count on.