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Committees

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The first full Meetings of CUPE Manitoba’s Standing Committees (Issues-based committees only) have been scheduled in January. These meetings have been scheduled by staff committee liaisons in coordination with the members who participated in the committee welcome meetings in November.

We strongly encourage Local Affiliates and members to circulate, share, and post this notice in order to recruit and promote the renewal of these important Standing Committees in Manitoba.

News

CUPE Manitoba has launched a new website – We Work for Manitoba –  to host CUPE’s public campaigns in Manitoba. This website does not replace the existing CUPE Manitoba website, which will continue to serve as the website for Local resources, news, and updates.

The new website platform has been launched with two new campaign petitions to government:

SPEAK OUT AGAINST HEATHER STEFANSON’S PRIVATIZATION AGENDA

HELP DEFEND PUBLIC HEALTH CARE

Please share the campaigns and the website among your membership and help us promote them on social media!

News

On November 16, 2022, CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) central bargaining committee, representing 55,000 frontline education workers, provided 5 days notice of a potential province-wide strike.

The School Boards Collective Bargaining Act requires that workers employed by school boards give five days’ notice before beginning a job action.

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Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Our union recognizes this important day, and commits to speak out against anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, fascism, and hatred in all its forms.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place on January 27th in recognition of the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where over 11 million people were systematically murdered.

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CUPE Manitoba President Gina McKay offers the following response to today’s Manitoba Throne Speech:

The Provincial Conservative government’s wage mandate continues to affect thousands of Manitoba workers. Premier Stefanson must withdraw this mandate completely, and make it clear to all public sector employers that they are not bound to this mandate.

Custodians & cleaners at the Rolling River School Division have been on strike for four weeks, in part due to the provincial government’s imposition of this wage mandate, which is significantly impacting negotiations.

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The 57th Annual CUPE Manitoba Convention will take place on October 20-22, 2021. This is CUPE Manitoba's first virtual convention. Download the 1st call for more information Credential Registration Form 2021

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The CUPE Bargaining Council and the Provincial Health Labour Relations Services (PHLRS) met on May 11, 19, and June 2, 2021.  The next dates we have set to meet with the PHLRS are June 9, 16 and 23, 2021.  We have proposed dates to meet for July and August.

Status of Proposals

CUPE knows that health care workers have been waiting too long for a new contract.

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WINNIPEG –The union representing workers at the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council (MIIC) says “the employer’s response to their latest offer is evidence that they are unwilling to bargain fairly, and prefer to put vital refugee services at risk,” said Lee McLeod, Manitoba Regional Director of CUPE.

Prior to the recent MIIC decision to lock out its workers, CUPE Local 2348 continued to negotiate the specific issues of concern to the employer and made counteroffers that addressed those concerns, only to be told “no”.

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MANITOBA – The Union that represents home care workers in the WRHA, Southern Health-Santé Sud, and Northern Regional Health Authority, sent a letter today to Cameron Friesen, Minister of Health, Seniors and Active Living, asking that home care workers immediately be provided with personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance to the April 4th directive from Shared Health, and that fully paid sick leave be extended to home care workers for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.