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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Progress Residential, a leading provider of professional property management services for single-family rental homes, has been recognized as a 2026 Military Friendly® Employer and Military Spouse Friendly Employer, earning a Top 10 ranking in both categories for the fifth consecutive year. The Military Friendly® designations recognize organizations that demonstrate a strong commitment to supporting veterans and military spouses through recruiting, hiring and...

Vancouver, BC--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Air Canada Component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has begun its first day of arbitration with Air Canada and Arbitrator Paula Knopf to settle wages after flight attendants voted over 99% to reject Air Canada's final wage offer in September 2025. "These hearings will provide our members an opportunity to hear the facts around what transpired in the negotiations spanning December 2024 to August 2025, and also a sense of what to expect from t...

VANCOUVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--La composante d’Air Canada du Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique (SCFP) a entamé sa première journée d’arbitrage avec Air Canada et l’arbitre Paula Knopf afin de trancher la question de la rémunération des agent(e)s de bord qui, en septembre dernier, ont rejeté à 99 % l’ultime offre salariale d’Air Canada. « Ces audiences offriront aux membres l’occasion d’entendre la vérité sur les négociations qui se sont étendues de décembre 2024 à août 2025, ainsi qu’une i...

CALGARY, AB--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CUPE 8125, representing over 4,700 Cabin Crew Members at WestJet and Encore, acknowledges WestJet’s decision to reverse the universally unpopular new 28-inch-pitch seat configuration. This pause follows significant concern from both employees and guests regarding the operational impacts and overall experience resulting from the denser cabin layout. “Our members have been telling us very clearly that these reconfigured aircraft led to increased tensions onboard, mor...

EDMONTON, AB--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A union representing Alberta health care workers is slamming today’s announcement from the UCP government in response to the crisis in emergency rooms. CUPE Alberta President Raj Uppal, herself a former emergency room worker at Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton, says that while the plans look good, no action is being taken. “The number of new beds announced today is exactly what they announced on November 14th,” said Uppal. “You can put the two press releases side by...

Newmarket, ON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paramedics, roads workers, public health workers, and other CUPE 4900 members will hold an information picket and rally outside of Thursday’s Committee of the Whole meeting. The picket sends a clear message that members are mobilizing after the Region’s offer fell short of addressing serious financial pressures facing frontline workers. The tentative deal was rejected by members for failing to respond to a worsening affordability crisis made clear in a recent CUP...

WATERLOO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eSentire's new 2026 CYBERTHREAT LANDSCAPE REPORT found a 389% increase year over year in account compromise identity-based threats in 2025 ....

AMHERST, NS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Workers from Northumberland Hall long term care home, represented by CUPE 5018, voted 94% in favour of a strike mandate late last week, bringing the total number of CUPE long term care homes voting to strike to 30. “This is not how we wanted to start 2026,” said CUPE 5018 President Barb Jenkins. “I think we all hoped that, by now, the government would have made an offer that recognized the vital work we do and our role in the health care system more broadly, but th...

St. John’s, NL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) predicts 2026 to be an incredibly difficult year to defend public services in Newfoundland & Labrador, without public pressure on the provincial government. CUPE members in every public sector are reporting attacks to our services through funding cuts, reduction of services, public-private partnerships (P3s), and the increased use of artificial intelligence. “Our government is systematically deconstructing the pu...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the third consecutive year, both the number and frequency of work injury claims reported by California’s public self-insured employers declined last year, even as total paid and incurred workers’ compensation losses continued to rise, according to a new California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) review of data compiled by the state Office of Self-Insurance Plans (OSIP). OSIP’s summary of public self-insured claims experience, issued two weeks ago, pr...