CUPE New Brunswick

NB Government Refuses Electronic Voting: Strike vote suspended
Fredericton, December 4, 2019 – – CUPE Local 1190 has learned that its members’ strike vote process is to be halted again by governmental procedural hurdles. “The Government is objecting to electronic voting method for our members’ strike vote as if we were in the 1950s,” said Brent Wiggins, President of CUPE Local 1190. Local 1190 wanted secret ballot voting ... Read More

Workers Unite Against Essential Services Act Amendments
Thursday November 28 2019, the NB Council of Nursing Home Unions (NBCNHU), CUPE NB, the NB Nurses Union and the NB Federation of Labour held a joint press conference in Fredericton to denounce Bill 17. Tuesday, November 26, Social Development Minister Dorothy Shephard presented Bill 17 in the NB Legislature. Amendments to the Essential Services in Nursing Homes Act (ESNHA) ... Read More

Firefighters & Police Have a Right to Fair Bargaining
Fredericton, November 22, 2019 – On Friday, NB Post-Secondary, Training and Labour Minister Trevor Holder introduced legislation to restrict binding arbitration with police and fire unions. The bill would modify the Industrial Relations Act to restrict arbitrators’ ability to adjust workers’ wages in negotiations between municipalities and first responders. “Higgs is just using workers’ wages as a smokescreen to divert ... Read More