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OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The union representing staff at Ottawa’s Villa Marconi are calling out their employer’s union busting tactics after discovering agency staff filling in for laid off union members. Members in the laundry department were unceremoniously laid off by management in June, leaving the department short-staffed and under resourced. “We are seeing the same mistakes all over again,” said Andrea Werlen, Recording Secretary for CUPE 4739. “Our employer has been refusing to...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As workers at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Seattle Downtown Pioneer Square mark 50 days on strike, their union UNITE HERE Local 8 is calling out Hilton Hotels for rejecting proposed contract language that would require Hilton to tell Local 8 if ICE or DHS agents are present on the premises. The union launched a digital billboard in downtown Seattle and digital ads to Hilton customers that place Hilton’s brand inside an ice cube, symbolizing the company’s ongoing positi...

CALGARY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After months of negotiations and finally reaching a tentative agreement with the airline Monday, CUPE 8125, representing WestJet flight attendants, has begun the ratification process with its members. Details of the tentative agreement have been shared with members and will be reviewed during a series of meetings being scheduled for next week. Voting will begin once those meetings are completed. “This tentative agreement represents meaningful progress for WestJet fligh...

CALGARY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Après des mois de négociations et la conclusion d’une entente de principe avec la compagnie aérienne lundi, le SCFP 8125, qui représente les agent(e)s de bord de WestJet, a amorcé le processus de ratification auprès de ses membres. Les détails de l’entente de principe ont été communiqués aux membres et seront discutés en détail lors d’une série d’assemblées prévues pour la semaine prochaine. Le vote débutera une fois ces rencontres terminées. « Cette entente de princip...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU), which represents more than 3,700 workers at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), is cautiously warning the government that as part of their decision to launch a review of the WSIB, they should be looking for ways to improve service delivery for injured workers in Ontario and not ways to cut important jobs across the province. "Yesterday, the government announced this review as part of their plan to protect ta...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Just a week after Scarborough Health Network (SHN) workers held a rally surrounding chronic understaffing and increasing violence against hospital workers, Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced Tuesday that the Ontario government would begin construction of a new emergency department at Centenary Hospital. 2,500 frontline workers at the SHN, represented by CUPE, are facing heightened staffing issues in the face of growing job cuts in the sector. They are curre...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ontario’s hospital crisis has hit a boiling point, says new report released today by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE). Citing the latest data, Pushed over the brink: the escalating assault on Ontario’s hospitals highlights the dire conditions that hospitals are facing in the wake of Ford’s austerity agenda. In the past six years Ontario hospitals have seen a massive drop in their working capital, the funds available to cover daily expenses, includi...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., introduced S. 4390 and H.R. 8511, and if passed, the bills would cut off major paths that offer women-owned and minority-owned small businesses access to federal contracting opportunities. The bills would end the 5% federal contracting goal for women-owned small businesses and bar agencies from tracking who receives contracts by gender or minority status. To combat this direct attack on jobs and opportunity, th...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The share of California’s workers’ compensation claims identified as cumulative traumas (CT) nearly doubled between 2018 and 2025, with the sharpest growth occurring after 2021, according to a new California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) study. The study found that the increase was widespread, extending beyond regions and industries that historically accounted for the largest share of CT claims, but traditional factors such as population and employment...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--La présidente de la section locale 8125 du SCFP, Alia Hussain, sera disponible pour les médias afin de discuter la signature d'un accord de prince et la fin de la grève des agent(e)s de bord de WestJet. Détails : Lundi 3 août 11 h (Heures des Rocheuses) Aéroport international de Calgary, îlôt en face des départs internationaux...