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News

CUPE Manitoba is proud to recognize the week of September 29th – October 4th, 2024, as School Support Staff Recognition Week. This important week acknowledges the value of School Support Staff to our education system.

During this important week, we will be celebrating the important contributions of School Support Staff in keeping our schools safer and clean, getting children and youth to school safely and on time, keeping our schools running, shelves stocked with books, and helping our children and youth learn, grow, and succeed.

Bargaining

Today CUPE and the MGEU jointly announced a strike notice for Tuesday, October 8, 2024.
Why is there a potential strike?
Health care support workers have made it clear that if government wants to fix the staffing crisis in health care, they need to offer better wages and supports that don’t leave health care support workers behind.

Bargaining

The following letter of solidarity was sent by CUPE Manitoba President Gina McKay to Locals 204 (Facility and Community), 4270 (Community), and 500 (Riverview/health care unit) as they prepare for possible strike action.

Sisters, Brothers, and Friends,

On behalf of CUPE Manitoba and our provincial executive, I want to send along our solidarity and support to all CUPE health care locals, units, members of the bargaining committee and health care members throughout the province.

Bargaining

On Thursday last week, CUPE presented the employer a package of proposals that seeks significant changes to the recently rejected tentative agreement.

Our bargaining team submitted proposals that reflect what we heard throughout the ratification process including wages that catch up, recruitment and retention initiatives, immediate improvements for home care workers, and more.

Bargaining

For CUPE health care members in:

CUPE 204 (Community & Facility)
CUPE 4270 (Community)
CUPE 500 (Community & Facility)

With your strike mandate, the CUPE bargaining team went back to the bargaining table today.
Based on all the feedback we received from our members, we were able to present a strong case on why health care support workers are ready to strike for better.

Bargaining

For immediate release August 30, 2024

HEALTH CARE SUPPORT WORKERS IN SHARED HEALTH, WRHA, AND SOUTHERN HEALTH-SANTÉ-SUD AUTHORIZE STRIKE ACTION –
WINNIPEG, TREATY 1

Health care support workers in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (community and facility support), Shared Health (community and facility support) and Southern Health Santé-Sud (community support) have rejected a proposed tentative agreement and have authorized strike action.

Bargaining

Your CUPE bargaining team is pleased to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement for Health Care Support Workers in Community Support and Facility Support in Shared Health (CUPE 204), WRHA (CUPE 204 & CUPE 500), Southern Health-Santé Sud (CUPE 4270), and Northern Regional Health Authority (CUPE 8600).
This tentative agreement comes after only four months of negotiations between your CUPE team and the Provincial Health Labour Relations Services (the Employers).

School Sector

Registration is now open for the 2024 CUPE Manitoba School Division Conference taking place October 4 in Brandon, Treaty 2.

Please visit the conference page for more information and to complete the online registration.

Events

On Tuesday, May 14, 2024 the United Way Winnipeg and Winnipeg District Labour Council presented their annual community labour awards to individual labour activists and presented certificates of recognition and excellence to unions for their fundraising efforts.

The event was held at Winnipeg's Union Centre and honoured guests included Minister of Labour Malaya Marcelino, Minister of Advanced Education and Training Renée Cable, and several NDP MLAs as well as labour-friendly city councillors.

School Sector

April 29 through May 3, 2024, is the 33rd annual Week of the Early Childhood Educator in Manitoba.

The week of the Early Childhood Educator is an important week to recognize and thank all Early Childhood Educators in Manitoba who work tirelessly to support our communities' children & families.

“This week serves as an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge the profound impact that early childhood educators have in supporting the social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development of children, from the youngest infants all the way through school age and beyond” (Mb Education & Early Childhood Learning, 2024)

Listen to CUPE Manitoba's radio ad here:

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