CUPE Local 391

08/07/2023

We hope everyone had a wonderful Pride Weekend!

01/10/2022

Incredibly sad news from our friends at CUPE Local 1004. We send our deepest condolences to Gord's family and colleagues.

12/08/2021

If you can, please help support this event!

The 25th Annual Labour Community Christmas Dinner needs your help. Every year, the labour community comes together to celebrate the holidays by sharing with those in need. Following our turkey dinner, every family will head home with a hamper of food, vegetables, clothes and toys for children. Over....

12/01/2021

Eliminating fines is the best way of making our library services accessible and equitable to everyone. We are happy to support calling for Vancouver to join the many libraries across the lower mainland that are going fine free. It is an overdue change!

Opinion: At the time of writing this, about 50,000 cardholders are blocked due to fines in Vancouver and may remain hesitant to return to the Library, or…

11/24/2021

A big welcome to Candace Rennick who was just elected the new Secretary Treasurer of CUPE SCFP!

11/24/2021

Congratulations to Mark Hancock on being re-elected as President of CUPE SCFP at this mornings session of Convention!

11/23/2021

CUPE SCFP National Convention is now underway and we are hearing from President Mark Hancock on the amazing work CUPE members have done over the pandemic. Members from every sector have made it possible for people to stay home and bend the curve.

11/16/2021

Congratulations to our fellow library workers in Prince George on their first collective agreement!

PRINCE GEORGE—Prince George Public Library workers voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first collective agreement in a vote that concluded on November 9. The CUPE 4951-04 bargaining committee had met with the employer for six intense days of bargaining that concluded on October 29. The Library Bo...

10/08/2021

✊✊Solidarity with all the workers at Kellogg's✊✊

Kellogg's workers are on strike across the United States against the expansion of a two-tier contract:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/kellogg-cereal-strike-bctgm-two-tier-labor

Canadian connection: Kellogg's wiped out 500 full-time union jobs in London, Ontario when it closed the London factory in 2014. The big iconic London factory was closed only a few years after the Ontario Liberal government handed Kellogg's $15 million in corporate welfare to expand their lower-wage factory in Belleville, Ontario.

Kellogg's Cereal brands include: All-Bran, Apple Jacks, Austin, Kashi, Frosted Flakes, Corn Flakes, Cheez-It, Carr's, Raisin Bran, Krave, NutriGrain, Mueslix, Corn Pops, Crispix, Eggo, Froot Loops, Pop Tarts, Pringles, Rice Krispies, Honey Smacks, Frosted Mini Wheats, Special K, and TownHouse

09/14/2021

BURNABY—CUPE members across B.C. are applauding the many municipal governments that have stepped up to voluntarily recognize September 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, as a statutory holiday. Established by the federal government, the new holiday—while not proclaimed in time to...