CUPE PRESIDENT DENIES UCP ACCUSATION OF STRIKE INTERFERENCE

Alberta government minister of finance Nate Horner and treasury board minister Demetrios Nicolaides accused CUPE of pressuring a nursing agency to stop providing services at schools. CUPE Alberta president Rory Gill called the accusations outrageous.

School support workers who are members of CUPE 3550 are in the fifth week of a strike that seems to be at an impasse. Environics Research recently conducted a survey for CUPE which found the majority of the 1,002 participants support the current job action and agreed that education workers in Alberta are underpaid and deserve wage increases.