CUPE Manitoba is proud to endorse the 2025 United Way Campaign in Manitoba! Throughout November and December, we’ll be running our “CUPE Stronger Together” Labour Campaign, and we invite all CUPE Locals across Manitoba to join us in supporting our communities.
As unionists, we recognize the long-standing partnership between the labour movement and United Way as a vital way to strengthen the communities where our members live and work.
October 20–24, 2025
CUPE Manitoba is proud to recognize Healthcare Support Workers’ Recognition Week, taking place October 20–24, 2025.
This week is dedicated to acknowledging the incredible contributions of healthcare support workers across Manitoba — the people who keep our healthcare system running with dedication, compassion, and care. Whether in hospitals, long-term care facilities, community health centres, or other health settings, your work is essential to the well-being of Manitobans.
CUPE’s Engagement with Women’s History Month
Every October, CUPE Manitoba proudly joins Canadians in celebrating Women’s History Month a time to reflect on the contributions of women, in all their diversity, throughout history and to reaffirm our commitment to gender equality in our workplaces, communities, and beyond.
Promoting Union LeadershipAs Canada & Manitoba’s largest public sector union, CUPE is committed to creating opportunities for women, in all their diversity, to lead.
CUPE Manitoba joins CUPE National in strongly condemning the recent measures introduced by Premier Smith of Alberta regarding gender policies for children and youth.
CUPE Manitoba Executive Board representative for 2SLGBTQIA+ members Daniel Richards says, “This is a direct attack on the 2SLGBTQIA+ and trans and gender-diverse community rooted in hate, bigotry, division, and distraction.
CUPE Manitoba President Gina McKay is joining labour leaders from across Canada today outside the Saskatchewan Legislature in Regina to condemn Premier Scott Moe’s attempt to override the human rights of students by using the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
On September 29, an injunction was granted temporarily blocking legislation in Saskatchewan that would require teachers to disclose to parents if students were using different pronouns.
September 30th is the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. CUPE Manitoba is committed to support reconciliation and justice for all Indigenous Peoples. It is also the tenth Orange Shirt Day, a chance to honour the memories of the Indigenous children whose lives were lost in the residential school system, and recognize the strength of the survivors and their families.
A Labour Day greeting, from President, Gina McKay:
Sisters, Brothers, Friends,
On behalf of CUPE Manitoba, I want to wish all 37,000 CUPE members in Manitoba a Happy Labour Day!
Labour Day holds an important significance in our country and in our communities, from coast to coast to coast.
In Manitoba, it is a day when we recognize the tireless efforts and commitments of workers and their families, and celebrate the important roles each and every one of us plays in building safer, stronger public services in our province.
On July 13, CUPE 500, representing municipal staff at the Brady Road Resource Management Facility, including the landfill and 4R Winnipeg Depot, provided a letter of support to the organizers and families who are calling for a search for MMIWG2S at the site.
In our July 13 message we expressed that we are deeply concerned with the City and Province’s inability to provide support and closure for families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI* members of the community.
As a lead sponsor, CUPE Manitoba is pleased to join the 2023 Manitoba Filipino Street Festival June 24-25 at the Maples Multiplex Grounds, 434 Adsum Drive. We will have a tent and booth set up for all to come by.
CUPE members are invited to join CUPE Manitoba's float in the cultural parade at 11 AM on Saturday, June 24.
CUPE Manitoba is sending the support of its 37,000 members to education workers in Ontario, who are returning to the bargaining table after the Conservative government stripped away their right to free collective bargaining, forcing them to walk off the job and hold political protests.
In a vote held last month, the 55,000 Ontario education workers voted 96.