CUPE Nova Scotia

CUPE Nova Scotia

CUPE Nova Scotia represents more than 18,000 working women and men employed throughout the public sector.  We are proud to be part of Canada's largest and fastest-growing union.
 

CUPE represents workers in health care, education, municipalities, libraries, child care, universities, social services, public utilities, transportation, emergency services and airlines.

CUPE members are service-providers, white-collar workers, technicians, labourers, skilled trades people and professionals. More than half of CUPE members are women. About one-third are part-time workers.

Canadians for Tax Fairness

Tired of hearing from all the right-wing, interest groups who are clamouring for tax cuts and service reductions?  Check out this website for a different perspective on why we pay taxes...and then sign their petition to stop corporate tax cuts!

My Wages = Your Profits campaign in Nova Scotia & the 10% shift

Our campaign is making great headway. To date, we've met with three Chambers of Commerce and one Regional Development Authority. We also held four membership meetings about the campaign just prior to the national convention.

Pre-Convention Call - 2012 CUPE NS Convention

The 49th Annual CUPE Nova Scotia Convention will convene on Sunday April 22nd, 2012 and end at 4:00pm on Wednesday April 25th  and will be held at the Rodd Grand Hotel in Yarmouth.  Click here for the pre convention call and all of the other relevant forms, documents, scholarships and so on.

MEDIA ADVISORY - Want to stimulate N.S. economy? Dramatically expand child care: report

CUPE Nova Scotia will be holding a news conference at the Provincial Legislature at 11:30 am Thursday, December 15 to release a ground-breaking report on the economic impact of expanding child care.

Local 5050 concerned about more cuts to school boards

News that the Department of Education is considering more cuts to school boards across Nova Scotia is very troubling to CUPE Local 5050, which represents 1400 members of the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board.  Local President Liz MacDonald submitted the following letter to the editor.

Opinion piece from Danny Cavanagh on health transfer cuts

Over the last few weeks there has been much ado about health care funding, including the all-important  federal health transfers to the provinces.  Canadian Premiers recently gathered in Victoria, B.C., to discuss how they would deal with the Harper government’s unilateral announcement on those transfers.