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Stay in the know with news and updates from CUPE Manitoba. You can also sign up to the CUPE Manitoba mailing list here.

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Events

Indigenous Council Beading Night: January 8

An Invitation for Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit CUPE members!
The CUPE MB Indigenous Council is hosting a Beading Night for Indigenous CUPE members. It has been postponed to January 8th from 530-730 PM in Winnipeg. If you are an Indigenous CUPE member and would like to sign up, please send a quick email to: officeadmin@cupe.

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Events

Register for the CUPE Prairie Human Rights Conference

Registration for the Prairie Human Rights Conference taking place January 21- 23 in Saskatoon is open!

CUPE Locals looking to build member engagement, build solidarity, and strengthen their Local through learning more about rights and the ways to strengthen collective action, join us!

For more information and to register, click HERE.

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Manitoba throne speech continues to move province forward

Manitoba’s largest union is encouraged by the NDP government’s blueprint for the coming year.

CUPE Manitoba applauds the government's goal to create 3,500 more childcare spaces.

[caption id="attachment_101077" align="alignright" width="324"] CUPE delegation to the Manitoba Throne Speech, 2024. Gina McKay (President, CUPE Manitoba), Margaret Schroeder (President, CUPE 204) , Carmen Prefontaine (CUPE Manitoba Vice-President, CUPE 500), Daniel Richards (CUPE 204), Dale Edmunds (CUPE Political Action), Andrew Loewen (CUPE Manitoba), Matt McLean (CUPE Research)[/caption]

“Manitoba continues to face a childcare crisis, with far too many parents struggling to find quality care in their own communities,” says Gina McKay, President of CUPE Manitoba.

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Bargaining

CUPE 2153 Speaks Out about Staffing Crisis, Low Wages, in Child and Family Services

Joined by Gina McKay, Shelley Baker, president of CUPE 2153, representing members supporting Child and Family Services in Winnipeg and Eastern Manitoba, spoke to media recently to build awareness of the issues facing CUPE members.

See the CTV coverage here.

"CUPE 2153 was the target of some extreme austerity, cuts and privatization under the previous PC government", says Baker.

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Health Care

Manitoba Health Coalition – Now Hiring

The Manitoba Health Coalition is Currently Hiring a Provincial Director!
On behalf of the Manitoba Health Coalition, we are posting the position of Provincial Director.

Click below to download a copy of the Job Description to learn more:

MHC-Job-Posting-10-16-2024 

Resumes are due to the attention of Teresa Bowerman, at MAHCP, by November 13, 2024, 4:30 p.

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Bargaining

CUPE Celebrates Health Care Support Workers’ Week and a New Collective Agreement

This week, CUPE is celebrating the 19,000 CUPE members who work as health care support workers across Manitoba in Locals 204, 8600, 4270, and 500. The Manitoba Government has proclaimed October 21 – 25 as Health Care Support Workers’ Week.

“Health care support workers are part of the foundation of our health care system and a critical part of the health care team,” says Gina McKay, President of CUPE Manitoba.

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Bargaining

Tentative Agreement, October 8th, 2024

Your activism and solidarity won us a tentative agreement! The Health Care Strike organizing team is canceling tomorrow’s protest as we work on next steps.

Each Local (Locals 204, 500, 4270) will be reaching out to members soon to schedule online information sessions to review details of the tentative agreement, and when you can vote on it.

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Bargaining

Health care bargaining update, October 4

October 4, 2024
Earlier today, the employer requested that we enter “conciliation” to continue negotiations into the weekend. We have agreed to move forward with conciliation in an attempt to achieve what we have heard from our members as their top priorities: improved wages that don’t leave anyone behind and improvements to working conditions.

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Health Care

Manitoba health care workers experiencing financial uncertainty, housing insecurity, and food banks – CUPE

WINNIPEG, TREATY 1 – Health care support workers in Manitoba are experiencing a new kind of health care cut, according to a survey conducted from over 5,000 support workers in the WRHA, Shared Health, Southern Health-Santé Sud, and the Northern Regional Health Authority.

One in sixteen Manitoba health care support workers report relying on foodbanks or charity, while one in nine have faced housing insecurity.