Picture of attendees of the International Solidarity forum at Convention 2014

International Solidarity Forum

Last night’ s international solidarity forum focused on the “Chevron’s Dirty Hands Campaign,” drawing parallels between oil operations in the Amazon and in North America, with an emphasis on the Alberta Tar Sands. Between 1964 and 1990, U.S. oil giant Texaco (now Chevron) dumping some 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in the Amazon in…

Hundreds in Windsor demand action on poverty

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. WINDSOR, ON – Hundreds of people rallied in Riverfront Festival Plaza today, calling on all parties to end Ontario’s growing poverty crisis. Organized by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario,…

Peterborough’s Candace Rennick elected top financial officer of CUPE Ontario

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. WINDSOR, ON – Candace Rennick, a long-term care worker from Peterborough, Ontario, was acclaimed to a third term as Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, the province’s largest union.…