In 2021, many CUPE locals in New Brunswick put forth in their first pass of Centralized bargaining on a new wage mandate a general economic increase demand of 5% per year, for 4 years. Does this sound like a lot? Let's look at the numbers, with CUPE's Gab Ross and Aditya Rao.

The New Brunswick members of CUPE, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, are uniting to protect and improve the services we all depend on. It's time the Provincial government negotiated fairly with public sector workers to fix the crisis resulting from more than a decade of wages going below inflation. Today, we are preparing for an unprecedented province-wide strike with over 22 000 CUPE members in the NB public service. This video tells the story of how we got here, and the path forward.