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Speech from the Throne: Workers expect better, says NUPGE
Today’s Speech from the Throne sets the tone for the new government’s agenda, but the National Union of Public ...
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Métis CFCS and Michif CFS workers awarded wage parity
MGEU members working at Métis Child, Family and Community Services (CFCS) and Michif Child and Family Services (CFS) have ...
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Employment Insurance (EI) and Canada’s Response to New US Tariffs
The US tariff crisis means changing the conversation about our Employment Insurance program. Community and labour organizations across the country are calling on the Federal Parliament to prioritize ...
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Employment Opportunity
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is seeking a full-time National Representative – Digital Communications and Media Strategist to work in our national office in Ottawa. As our ...
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NUPGE Issues Forum—Caring in Action: Building a More Just Future
Chief R. Stacey Laforme, Chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, opened the forum with smudging, a territories acknowledgment, and thoughtful remarks and poetry. He discussed the ...
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NUPGE hosts Why We Say No tour activists from Ecuador
NUPGE was proud to host a delegation of women human rights defenders from Ecuador at its 3rd Issues Forum. The delegation is in Canada for the Why We Say No Tour, which NUPGE has supported. They aim ...
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Privatizing surgical procedures drives up health care costs
CBC News is reporting that the amounts the Ontario government is paying a for-profit private clinic to perform surgical procedures is more than double than what the province pays public hospital to ...
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Survey finds people want governments to start building housing again
A new report from the Broadbent Institute and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Canada, called Dreams and Realities on the Home Front: Canadians’ Call for Government Action on Housing Affordability, found ...
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October 1 marks the beginning of LGBT History Month
Created in 1994 by gay history teacher Rodney Wilson, LGBT History Month continues to be observed yearly in October to coincide with National Coming Out Day. Today, the month serves as an opportunity ...
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Major Canadian company under fire for tax dodging
Brookfield, the fifth largest company in Canada, is facing calls to come clean about tax dodging. Earlier in June, a report from the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research ...
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Federal Public Safety and National Security committee unanimously supports correcting misclassification of Forest/Wildland firefighters
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is commending members of Parliament serving on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU) for ...