COVID-19 Update - March 23, 2020 BC Update: There were only 48 new cases since Saturday and three deaths. We now have 472 cases and have had 13 deaths. One…
CUPE 50 staffMarch 23, 2020
COVID-19 and the workplace From WorkSafe - COVID-19 Published on: March 12, 2020 As information about COVID-19 develops, WorkSafeBC continues to monitor the progression of the virus and refer to…
CUPE 50 staffMarch 17, 2020
Dear comrades: I finally arrived to the little school’s construction site and met with members of the families that will receive the benefits of your solidarity. The location is very…
CUPE 50 staffJanuary 28, 2020
Local 50 has a long history of communicating and connecting with our members with gate handouts, but this time it wasn't information ... it was Local 50 toques! To see…
CUPE 50 staffDecember 3, 2019
Labour Day—to know where we need to go, we must remember how we got here While we all look forward to the Labour Day weekend, and think of it as…
CUPE 50 staffAugust 26, 2019
The B.C. government has declared July 27 as Ginger Goodwin Day, celebrating a man considered a pioneer of B.C.'s labour movement. He played a key role in leading the two-year-long…
CUPE 50 staffJune 17, 2019
The wild woman of the Winnipeg strike On a hot summer afternoon in Winnipeg's Market Square in 1917, a crowd of 2,000 listened to labour activists urge them to resist…
CUPE 50 staffMay 30, 2019