Talks break down in B.C.'s community social services bargaining.

"It is more important than ever to remain vigilant as we see our rights and freedoms being trampled on every day by this Conservative government," said Clancy.

OPSEU/NUPGE members' Save Ontario Place campaign a success!

Capital Health contracts out AV and print services in September 2012.

Bargaining continues for 15,000 community social service workers in B.C.

Essential services protocol finalized in B.C. but negotiations continue for government workers.

Vancouver (08 June 2012) - Since talks broke down at the end of March 2012, the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU/NUPGE) master bargaining committee has been meeting with the employer to reach an agreement about essential service staffing levels if the union engages in job action.

The Conservative government, with its Parliamentary majority, is pursuing an agenda of fiscal austerity, cuts to public services and jobs and a renewed determination to attack trade union righs, all while giving further tax breaks to corporations.

Ontario government outsources to U.S. firm again.

Toronto (08 June 2012) - Ontario’s health ministry has awarded an administrative services contract for the Ontario Drug Benefit Program (ODBP) to a U.S. based company, MAXIMUS INC. Using a private U.S. based contractor potentially exposes the health care information of millions of Ontarians to provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act.

Community college academic members begin face-to-face negotiations.

Members to vote on tentative agreement at CapitalCare.

Edmonton (06 June 2012) - The Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA/NUPGE) bargaining committee is recommending acceptance of the recent tentative agreement reached with CapitalCare on May 23.

Over $210,000 was collected to support the workers who were killed or injured and their families in the Hampstead accident in February 2012.

PEIUPSE/NUPGE campaign highlights the move away from "compassion and cooperation in favour of a society leaning toward privatization and the elimination of people and services that all Islanders depend on.”

The transportation sector accounts for 40 per cent of B.C. climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions.

Employers have hijacked the process based on a misplaced ideological conviction that the right to strike, guaranteed under numerous laws, domestic constitutions and international instruments, poses a threat to corporate greed.

“The OCA decision denying the right of RCMP officers to join a union and engage in meaningful collective bargaining is simply a repeat of the bad Fraser decision.”