{"id":26407,"date":"2026-06-25T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=cd096c2d8849286e6f5deb0e87009eb4"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:34:00","slug":"cupe-ymca-engages-in-union-busting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=26407","title":{"rendered":"CUPE:\u00a0YMCA Engages in Union Busting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It may be fun to stay at the YMCA \u2013 but working there is another story.<\/p><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260625610786\/en\/837781\/5\/CUPE_LOGO_VERY_GOOD.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260625610786\/en\/837781\/22\/CUPE_LOGO_VERY_GOOD.jpg\" \/><\/a><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260625610786\/en\/837781\/5\/CUPE_LOGO_VERY_GOOD.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260625610786\/en\/837781\/21\/CUPE_LOGO_VERY_GOOD.jpg\" \/><\/a><p>\nThe YMCA of Northern Alberta has removed three long-term employees who just happened to be leading an effort to get other employees to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).<\/p><p>\nThe three employees have eight, ten, and twenty-two years of experience working for the employer. Two of them were well qualified for a new position posted one month after the layoff notices were delivered.<\/p><p>\nCUPE has filed an Unfair Labour Practices Complaint with the Alberta Labour Relations Board, calling for the employees to be given their jobs back and for a declaration that the YMCA is engaging in illegal behaviour.<\/p><p>\n\u201cThe YMCA is union busting,\u201d said Raj Uppal, CUPE Alberta President. \u201cWhen an employer goes after the union leadership \u2013 and only the leadership \u2013 it\u2019s to stop the union from succeeding.\u201d<\/p><p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s illegal, and it\u2019s disgraceful.\u201d<\/p><p>\nCUPE and the YMCA have been requested to provide available dates for pre-hearing meetings between July and December 2026.<\/p><p>\n<b>-30-<\/b><\/p><br\/> <b>Contacts<\/b> <br\/><p>\nLou Arab, Communications Representative\n<br\/>780.271.2722\n<br\/><a  href=\"mailto:larab@cupe.ca\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">larab@cupe.ca<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;It may be fun to stay at the YMCA \u2013 but working there is another story.<br \/>\nThe YMCA of Northern Alberta has removed three long-term employees who just happened to be leading an effort to get other employees to join the Canadian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos-businesswire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26408,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions\/26408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}