6 h. ago Deal reached between CUPE and Calgary Catholic School District

CALGARY, Alberta — The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 520 has reached a tentative agreement with the Calgary Catholic School District. The deal, like others reached this week, is a four-year agreement ending in August 2028. The wage settlement is higher than the provincial government mandate. CUPE 520 will hold its ratification meeting […]

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15 h. ago Tentative deal reached between CUPE and CBE, support staff could be back in schools Friday

Union happy more school districts are following the pattern set in Fort McMurray and Edmonton

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34 h. ago Calgary CUPE leader 'confident' strike resolution could be reached Monday after Edmonton, Fort McMurray deals

More than 1,000 Calgary school support staff, mostly maintenance and custodial workers, walked off the job Feb. 24

Politics

38 h. ago Media Advisory: CUPE Alberta Convention This Week in Calgary

CALGARY, Alberta — CUPE Alberta will hold its annual convention this Wednesday to Friday in Calgary at the Sheraton Eau Claire Hotel. CUPE Alberta represents 40,000 members including workers in the municipal, school district, health care and other public sector workers. The convention is being held amid a strike of 6,600 education workers across the […]

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55 h. ago Alberta school support workers reach tentative deal to end two

Alberta school support workers reach tentative deal to end strike, with contracts covering Edmonton and Fort McMurray staff. Other districts remain without agreements.

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58 h. ago End in sight for education worker strikes as deals reached in Edmonton, Fort McMurray

Deals that could lead to the end of provincewide strikes by education workers were reached Saturday. Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees still need to ratify agreements carved out by union locals and the Edmonton Public, Fort McMurray Public and Fort McMurray Catholic school districts. “Education support workers are critical to our school […]

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8 d. ago Opinion: Why are education support workers still on strike? Ask the UCP

Education support workers across Edmonton and Fort McMurray have been on strike for almost two months. They have been joined in recent days by workers in Calgary and several other communities. On the surface, the workers are bargaining with the school boards that employ them. In practice, however, the provincial government is calling the shots […]

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1 week ago City of Toronto inside workers seek extension of deadline to Monday

CUPE Local 79 represents 30,000 inside workers

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2 w. ago Trump says he’s confident Putin will ’keep his word’ if there’s a deal to end the war in Ukraine

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that talks to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are “very well advanced” and he expressed confidence that Russian leader Vladimir Putin won’t press to restart the war if a truce can be reached. Trump made the comments at the start of a White House meeting with British Prime […]

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3 w. ago Media Advisory: Picket Line Locations for Calgary, Foothills and Black Gold Strikes

CALGARY, Alberta — The Canadian Union of Public Employees released the picket line locations for Monday, February 24, 2025. Please note, that these locations are for Monday only. Going forward, CUPE expects locations to change. CUPE 40 (Calgary Board of Education) 7:00 am-9:00 am: McDougall Centre, 455 6 St SW, Calgary 9:00 am-11:00 am: Calgary […]

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3 w. ago Calgary school maintenance, custodial staff issue strike notice

Maintenance and custodial staff in the Calgary public and Catholic school divisions could be off the job this weekend after serving 72-hour strike notice Wednesday. About 800 employees at the Calgary Board of Education, members of CUPE Local 40, and another 350 members of CUPE Local 520 with the Calgary Catholic School District are affected. […]

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4 w. ago Calgarians endure bitter cold on Family Day, but warmer weather is coming, meteorologist says

Calgarians faced another brutally cold day on Family Day despite the lifting of an extreme cold warning. While the extreme weather advisory ended around 12:20 p.m. Monday, temperatures barely reached a high of -19 C, with wind chill values dropping to a bitter -34 C in the morning. Environment Canada meteorologist Stephen Berg says the […]

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