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The following Meetings of CUPE Manitoba’s Standing Committees (Issues-based committees only) are scheduled with elections to take place for Chairs and Co-chairs. These meetings have been scheduled by staff committee liaisons in coordination with the members who participated in the committee welcome meetings. All other Issues-based Standing Committees have held elections and continue to meet (see schedule and more information below).
CUPE Manitoba President Gina McKay was interviewed by the Winnipeg Free Press and CTV News this week, advocating for better K-12 Education funding, training, and staffing to address violence in schools.
McKay said CUPE continues to advocate for additional public dollars for the K-12 system so all schools are adequately staffed with EAs.
Election Readiness Session
Tuesday, May 16
1-4pm
Keystone Centre, Brandon
Manitoba Election 2023 is fast-approaching.
Learn foolproof methods to activate members.
Talk about technical details and rules.
Join with members across the province to build skills and talk strategy.
Target the issues and campaigns that matter most to members.
Every CUPE local in Manitoba has an important role to play.
Get to know your CUPE Manitoba Executive Diversity Reps!
Each of these informal online meetings is open to CUPE members who identify with the specific equity group listed. Please drop in to say hello, meet the elected representative, and have a chat. No registration required.
*Stay tuned for meetings with the CUPE Manitoba Indigenous Representative and Young Members' Representative.
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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.
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!
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.
CUPE Manitoba President Gina McKay offers the following response to today’s Manitoba Throne Speech:
Today’s Throne Speech was a disappointment. Not only did the government fail to introduce the concrete measures that are needed to improve health care, they are making things worse by prioritizing the privatization of Manitoba’s public services.
The government wants to convince Manitobans that by expanding private delivery of diagnostic testing and surgeries that they can speed up wait times, but this simply isn’t true.
Staff at the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba (WCB) held an information rally on Tuesday, mobilizing against contracting out and calling for a fair deal in the workplace.
“We want the WCB to know that staff are not willing to see their jobs devalued or contracted out,” explained Rick Rennie, President of CUPE Local 1063.
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.