CUPE Manitoba is calling all interested CUPE members in affiliated locals to join a provincial committee in 2025!
Contact your Local President for information on the voting delegation process. All members from affiliated CUPE Locals welcome! All meetings are online & can be joined from anywhere.
Have questions? Please email Deanna West at officeadmin@cupe.
December 20th marks the conclusion of CUPE Manitoba’s “Stronger Together” workplace campaign for the United Way. This year, CUPE Manitoba was proud to present the United Way of Winnipeg with a $10,000 cheque, in addition to separate contributions to the United Way in Brandon and in the Pembina Valley (Morden/Winkler).
United Way of Winnipeg Labour Director Madelaine Dwyer received the $10,000 donation in person at the Union Centre today (with her son, Mason).
Registration is now open for the National Building Strong Locals Conference and the first-ever National Young Workers Conference, in Montreal March 2 - 6, 2025. Find all the details and registration information at: https://cupe.ca/events
The Union Education Winter-Spring 2025 Union Education Calendar is out! Speak to your Local leadership about attending any of these workshops or multi-day schools. https://cupe.mb.ca/members/education/
All members of affiliated Locals are invited to attend any of the following upcoming CUPE Manitoba Committee meetings.
Please contact your Local President to become a Delegate or Alternate. Even members without Delegate or Alternate status from their Local are welcome and encouraged to attend. However, you must be a Delegate or Alternate to stand for election or to have a vote.
An Invitation for Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit CUPE members!
The CUPE MB Indigenous Council is hosting a Beading Night for Indigenous CUPE members. It has been postponed to January 8th from 530-730 PM in Winnipeg. If you are an Indigenous CUPE member and would like to sign up, please send a quick email to: officeadmin@cupe.
Registration for the Prairie Human Rights Conference taking place January 21- 23 in Saskatoon is open!
CUPE Locals looking to build member engagement, build solidarity, and strengthen their Local through learning more about rights and the ways to strengthen collective action, join us!
For more information and to register, click HERE.
Joined by Gina McKay, Shelley Baker, president of CUPE 2153, representing members supporting Child and Family Services in Winnipeg and Eastern Manitoba, spoke to media recently to build awareness of the issues facing CUPE members.
See the CTV coverage here.
"CUPE 2153 was the target of some extreme austerity, cuts and privatization under the previous PC government", says Baker.
This week, CUPE is celebrating the 19,000 CUPE members who work as health care support workers across Manitoba in Locals 204, 8600, 4270, and 500. The Manitoba Government has proclaimed October 21 – 25 as Health Care Support Workers’ Week.
“Health care support workers are part of the foundation of our health care system and a critical part of the health care team,” says Gina McKay, President of CUPE Manitoba.
Today at noon, CUPE members in Locals 204, 4270, and 500 completed their ratification vote. See the new Health Care Bargaining update: CUPE HC Bargaining Update 2024 10 18