Dec 10, 2008 03:10 PM
St. Albert – School support employees at St. Albert’s Protestant school district ratified a new contract giving them wage and benefit improvements.
Dec 8, 2008 10:58 AM
Assailant attacked custodial worker, walks from halfway house
Nov 25, 2008 10:20 AM
Union warns school construction may be delayed or cancelled
Nov 21, 2008 11:47 AM
Do you work in Alberta’s public education system? Have a few issues to get off your chest? Or maybe you just want to connect with other school board workers and see if the grass is any greener in other districts. CUPE Alberta has an email list for school board workers, sign up here.
Nov 20, 2008 03:40 PM
CALGARY – New appointments to the board of Alberta Health Services that come from the US, other provinces, and the private insurance sector are a bad sign for the state of health care.
Nov 20, 2008 11:59 AM
EDMONTON – CUPE 3550 (Edmonton Public Schools Support Staff) has always been serious about building strong communities.
Nov 11, 2008 09:25 AM
Ottawa - Unions representing employees of Canadian Blood Services from across Canada, met in Ottawa October 26th to 28th to share information and plan future strategies.
Nov 11, 2008 09:08 AM
EDMONTON – Edmonton city council has postponed its decision on transferring of one of the city’s main wastewater treatment plants to EPCOR, a city-owned utility that operates as a private corporation
Sep 29, 2008 09:10 AM
ST ALBERT – Thirty employees of the St. Albert RCMP detachment have voted to join CUPE Local 941.
Sep 18, 2008 09:11 AM
Brown & Babcock a huge risk for Alberta - Lanovaz
Jun 20, 2008 09:12 AM
CUPE Local 40 pledged support and solidarity today to the striking members of Calgary Board of Education Support Staff, who have been on rotating strikes for much of the month.
Jun 18, 2008 09:14 AM
CUPE Local 1505 signed an agreement last week with their employer, the municipality of Wood Buffalo. The new deal got the town's municipal workers a sizeable pay increase over the next three years.
May 30, 2008 09:18 AM
Health Minister Ron Liepert announced yesterday that all ambulance and EMS services will be delivered, and paid for, by the recently-created health super authority. The details of this new governance model have yet to be determined, but the Canadian Union of Public Employees locals responsible for EMS services are cautiously optimistic about some of the impacts it will have.
May 26, 2008 09:20 AM
Trade and public interest lawyer Steven Shrybman has deemed Alberta's Bill 1 to be unconstitutional. The Bill – concerning the Trade Investment and Labour Mobility Act (TILMA), an inter-provincial agreement between Alberta and British Columbia – is slated for third reading this week.
May 15, 2008 09:23 AM
Health Minister Ron Liepert announced today that the Conservative Government plans to merge the provinces nine regional health authority boards with the Alberta Mental Health Board, Alberta Cancer Board and Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC), creating a super authority responsible for every aspect of medical care in the province.
May 7, 2008 09:24 AM
Corporal Michael Starker, a paramedic and member of CUPE 3421 in Calgary, became the 83rd Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan, May 6.