On Tuesday, July 11 CUPE Manitoba President Kelly Moist joined other 300 Winnipeg voices in calling for an inquiry into the missing and murdered aboriginal women.
The only representative to speak from the labour movement, Sister Moist shared the stage with aboriginal leaders, municipal and federal politicians and other community leaders in showing their support for an inquiry.
In a letter to the province of Manitoba's Labour Relations Secretariat, the CUPE Bargaining Committee asked for negotiations of the CUPE Master Health Care Agreement to resume. CUPE first met with the LRS on May 23rd, 2012 to submit a brief that made the case against a wage freeze for CUPE health care support workers.
Midwives Really Deliver Campaign Will Draw Attention to Midwife Shortages in Manitoba
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Midwives represented by CUPE Local 2348 are launching an awareness campaign to draw attention to the challenges facing the midwifery program in Manitoba.
Midwives and their clients will be featured prominently on Winnipeg Transit buses standing alongside the slogan “Manitoba Midwives Really Deliver”.
On May 23rd, the Provincial Health Care Council (PHCC) Bargaining Committee met with employer representatives from the Regional Health Authorities and Terry Kindrat of the Labour Relations Secretariat. The Bargaining Committee was accompanied by CUPE Regional Director John Lepine, CUPE Researcher Elizabeth Blackwood, CUPE Health Care Coordinator and lead negotiator Nicole Campbell and CUPE National Representative Allen Bleich.