CUPE Ontario https://cupe.on.ca Building a Better Ontario Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:40:52 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://cupe.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-logo-ready-32x32.png CUPE Ontario https://cupe.on.ca 32 32 Backtracking on promises, layoffs at newly merged child protection agency reveal an agenda of cuts https://cupe.on.ca/backtracking-on-promises-layoffs-at-newly-merged-child-protection-agency-reveal-an-agenda-of-cuts/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:40:52 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54331

BRANTFORD, ON - When two agencies amalgamated to form Child and Family Services of Grand Erie (CFSGE), it was sold with the promise that it would improve support for families. Two years later, that lie has been revealed as the agency announced layoffs and gapped positions that they have no plans to fill. All told, the agency will soon be down roughly 30 positions since they merged

“There were consultations with workers and community meetings, interviews with the media and press releases. And they all said the same thing: that combining agencies would improve services and better equip us to deal with the challenges families are facing. We’re about to lose a significant number of workers. How does that better serve our communities?” said Kathleen Webb, an access coordinator with more than 20 years’ experience and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 7070 representing more than 200 frontline workers and support staff at CFSGE. “It’s time we recognize that what they sold us isn’t working. Instead of efficiencies, it’s been chaotic. Instead of cost savings, the management complement has increased and with new job titles come increased salaries. And instead of meeting the needs of community members, they’re stripping back services.”

CUPE 7070 ratified their first collective agreement in October. CFSGE is blaming workers and wages, in part, for the more than $3.35 million deficit and layoffs but the math doesn’t back their story.

Right now, there are six children and youth in CFSGE’s care that are being kept in unlicensed homes. Instead of a regulated treatment facility or licensed foster home, they spend their days and nights in hotels or motels. This can be dangerous for the children, youth, and staff – and it is incredibly expensive with additional staffing needed to keep the children and youth supervised and safe. This reliance on unlicensed homes alone costs the agency roughly $1 million a year, nearly enough to bridge the deficit.

Then there’s the question of targeted subsidies, which are stipends agencies provide to families whose income falls below a certain threshold. The Ministry of Children, Community, and Social Services only covers 25 per cent of the subsidy. But CFSGE operates in a more depressed area and provides more subsidies than most agencies, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars that, if the government updated their funding model, could be better spent on services.

“Our employer talks about our manageable caseloads, but each case is a child or family in need that will have to be redistributed to another worker,” said Webb. “We’re seeing a workload crisis at nearly every child protection agency in the province. Now we’re watching management make cuts and we know the outcome. They’re going to create a crisis among workers here. What’s worse, they’re going to abandon families and children in need.”

CUPE 7070 is asking all community members and allies to send a message to the ministry, asking them to provide the additional funds needed to stave off layoffs. Visit https://cupe.ca/CFSGE to learn more.

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For more information, contact:

Jesse Mintz, CUPE Communications Representative

416 704 9642

jmintz@cupe.ca

  

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Publicly funded, publicly delivered child care the only solution to growing Waterloo-region waitlists https://cupe.on.ca/publicly-funded-publicly-delivered-child-care-the-only-solution-to-growing-waterloo-region-waitlists/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:03:37 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54316

WATERLOO, ON - To understand why over 9,000 children languish on wait lists for child care in the Region of Waterloo (ROW), Noelle Fletcher says you have to go back to 2020 when the Regional Council made the decision to close five regionally operated child care centers.

“The council had tried to close the same centres five years earlier but the pushback from parents and workers was fierce,” said Fletcher, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1883 representing roughly 900 ROW inside workers, including child care, transit, library, and community service workers. “Then the pandemic hit, and we couldn’t voice our concerns in person when council got a report from KPMG touting cost savings that reinforced all of their assumptions. Council members were so eager in their shortsightedness, voting 12-3 to close the centres right as new funding from the Federal government was coming online.”

A new report delivered to council last month is sounding the alarm about waitlists. The report highlighted the opportunity to transform regionally owned buildings into child care centres. Many of the same councilors who previously voted to shutter centres now cast ballots in favour of the recommendations.

Missing from the report is any mention of a strategy to attract and retain talented staff.

“There is a province-wide shortage of child care workers. Suggesting that the biggest hurdle to providing adequate care is a lack of physical spaces is divorced from reality,” said Carolyn Ferns, Policy Coordinator at the Ontario Coalition of Better Child Care (OCBCC), who was deeply involved in the 2020 campaign to keep regionally operated centres open. “Child care is not just warehousing children in buildings. It’s creative, demanding work and it requires a highly skilled workforce. Publicly funded, publicly delivered services are the gold standard. Short of that, the Regional Council desperately needs a plan that includes a fair, livable wage to ensure there are staff to run any new centres that open.”

The Region of Waterloo is among the most expensive places to live in Ontario – with Waterloo itself costing more than much larger cities like Ottawa and Brampton. Early childhood educators, meanwhile, have a wage floor of just $23.86 an hour with other child care workers – including assistants, cooks and cleaners – earning much less, meaning many can’t afford to live in the communities they work in.

“If we are to keep attracting the kind of talent that helps the Region of Waterloo thrive, we need to make sure that families can thrive and that starts with adequate child care,” said Fletcher. “That can only happen if the council corrects past mistakes and develops a robust plan to expand child care, including publicly delivered options, and ensures decent pay and decent work for the entire child care workforce.”

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Families and allies are encouraged to CUPE’s campaign for publicly funded, publicly delivered child care.

For more information, contact:

Jesse Mintz, CUPE Communications Representative

416 704 9642

jmintz@cupe.ca

 

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“We’ll take on this fight at the picket line and in court”: CUPE files legal application to the Superior Court of Justice against Black River-Matheson https://cupe.on.ca/well-take-on-this-fight-at-the-picket-line-and-in-court-cupe-files-legal-application-to-the-superior-court-of-justice-against-black-river-matheson/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:57:16 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54291

Black River-Matheson, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has filed for a judicial review to the Superior Court of Justice of the Township of Black River-Matheson over the municipality’s heavy-handed escalation in its treatment of striking municipal workers, said the union.

“CUPE Local 1490 is engaged in a legal strike and they’re making a legitimate call for better wages for workers who deliver important services,” said Mark Hancock, President of CUPE. “What the Township is doing is a deeply troubling intrusion on the constitutionally-protected right of our members to collectively bargain and to take strike action. I’m outraged that the Township’s taken to abuse of the Charter rights of its workers – and that’s why we’re sending them yet another loud and clear message.”

On February 15, the Township issued a trespass notice excluding the 14 striking members of CUPE Local 1490 from three municipal locations. Additionally, the notice excluded “members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees” and “employees from the Canadian Union of Public Employees”.

With the union’s application, which was served to the municipality on March 12, the Superior Court of Justice is now tasked with determining whether, among other things, the municipality’s trespass notice violates the Charter-protected rights of CUPE members and employees.

“These rights are protected for a reason,” said Hancock. “We’ll defend the right to strike and demonstrate everywhere, from picket lines to the courts, if we have to.”

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For more information, contact:

Daniel Tseghay | Communications Representative, CUPE

dtseghay@cupe.ca | 647-220-9739

 

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CUPE Ontario statement for International Women’s Day 2024 https://cupe.on.ca/cupe-ontario-statement-for-international-womens-day-2024/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:16:23 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54267

CUPE Ontario is pleased to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) 2024 on March 8 and honour the achievements, experience, and activism of the women in our union.

This year’s theme, “No one is free until we are all free,” is an echo of the words of Black American civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, and the theme resonates with us as trade unionists in its call to justice and solidarity.

It’s with enormous pride that we note that our union is largely a women’s union, with women making up two-thirds of our membership; in sectors like child care, hospitals, and long-term care, their numbers often exceeds 90 percent.

We are indebted to the experience and work of women in CUPE and the myriad ways they have ensured representation for all women in our union, including Indigenous women, Black and racialized women, women who are differently abled, young women, immigrant women, and women from 2SLGBTQI+ communities.

These members carry out their work in the face of enormous opposition and against huge odds: women’s jobs are disproportionately threatened by privatization, cuts and government austerity budgets. Yet women continue to lead in local after striking CUPE local, from the library workers of CUPE 905 in Bradford-West Gwillimbury, to the child care workers of CUPE 5551, who were part of the successful fightback against the closure of a main Francophone child care centre in Toronto.

And of course all low-waged women workers in the public sector were targeted by the Conservatives’ wage restraint legislation, Bill 124. The law has since been repealed after twice being judged unconstitutional, but its impact on women’s wages and working conditions has done untold damage. The fight to gain back stolen wages has only just begun and we can say with certainty that CUPE women workers will be in the forefront of that fight.

International Women’s Day was born out of the socialist and labour movements of the early twentieth century, when women fought for voting rights, better working conditions, higher wages and recognition of their work and contributions. The UN proclaimed March 8 as International Women’s Day in 1977, but as CUPE Ontario Women’s Committee chair Marilena Fox notes in the special IWD edition of CUPE Cast, “The labour movement for women is an ongoing struggle… We are still fighting for a world and workplaces free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination.”

To help make those goals a reality, CUPE Ontario will soon welcome a second group of women to its Women in Leadership Development (WILD) program. This highly popular initiative ensures that Black, racialized and Indigenous women are equipped and ready to take on vital and prominent roles in our union. CUPE Ontario Women’s committee is also developing a province-wide women’s advocate program to strengthen mechanisms for those needing support around gender bias, sexual harassment and violence.

In the days and years ahead, our union and our communities will continue to benefit from women’s leadership. We are proud of the many struggles and successes of women workers as they are reflected in the experiences of CUPE’s women members and in the declaration, “No one is free until we are all free.”

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“The opioid crisis in Belleville isn’t going away, so let’s fund services properly”: CUPE Local 1842 calls on governments to escalate the response. https://cupe.on.ca/the-opioid-crisis-in-belleville-isnt-going-so-lets-fund-services-properly/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:35:46 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54264

Belleville, ON – With a state of emergency declared in Belleville due to the opioid crisis, the city’s paramedics are sounding the alarm and calling for much more to be done.

“We’re seeing an incredible explosion in calls to respond to overdoses and we’re doing our best, but this isn’t sustainable,” said Rob Cunningham, President of CUPE Local 1842, representing the paramedics of the Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Service. “Paramedics are experiencing PTSD, burning out because they’re skipping meal breaks, and stretched thin responding to a range of emergencies, including these complex overdose calls. The reality is we aren’t getting that time to refill our cup before getting out there again to support our community.”

In February, 14 people overdosed within a two-hour period. And in an op-ed in the Maclean’s, the chief of the region’s Paramedic Service wrote: “We usually get six or seven calls for suspected overdoses each week, but in the first week of November in 2023, we responded to 90 calls.” Consequently, the mayor of Belleville, Neil Ellis, declared a state of emergency and issued a request to the province for additional resources. The Ontario government responded to the mayor’s request for $2 million with $216,000.

“This isn’t good enough,” said Cunningham. “The opioid crisis is only exposing the decades of underfunding that have left us understaffed and stretched thin. We need significant and sustained funding – not one-time infusions – to ensure that we can properly recruit and retain paramedics to respond to this continuing crisis.”

“This crisis isn’t going away—we need all levels of government to acknowledge the plea for help and address the problem accordingly.”

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For more information, contact:

Daniel Tseghay | Communications Representative, CUPE

dtseghay@cupe.ca | 647-220-9739

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Academic workers at University of Ottawa vote resoundingly in favour of strike https://cupe.on.ca/academic-workers-at-university-of-ottawa-vote-resoundingly-in-favour-of-strike/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:30:32 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54250

OTTAWA - After 18 months without a contract, academic workers at the University of Ottawa have voted 91 percent in favour of strike action if the employer does not bring forward a proposal that addresses the affordability crisis, job security and quality education.

“As workers and as students, we are deeply concerned about how unaffordable it has become to work and study at the University of Ottawa. After unconstitutional wage restraint under Bill 124, there are real problems of liveability and those problems are interfering with the quality of education,” said Catherine Larocque, president of CUPE 2626.

CUPE 2626 has a diverse membership that includes teaching assistants, research assistants, tutors, demonstrators, correctors, lab monitors, and many others.

“We remain prepared to negotiate and hope the university will understand how difficult they have made life for workers on campus. The cost of rent, of food, of transportation are increasing much faster than our wages,” said Larocque. “That means we’re working extra jobs, living further from campus and having less time to devote to our students. Our working conditions truly are their learning conditions.”

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Community members are encouraged to deliver a message of support for academic workers by sending letters to central administration voicing their concerns.

 

For media inquiries and interview requests, please contact:

Robyn Chalmers, Communications Coordinator, CUPE 2626

Email: comm@2626.ca

Craig Saunders, CUPE Communications, 416-576-7316

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“Ford’s attack on women’s wages”: new report shows real dollar wage cuts in public sector have widened gender pay gap in Ontario https://cupe.on.ca/fords-attack-on-womens-wages-new-report-shows-real-dollar-wage-cuts-in-public-sector-have-widened-gender-pay-gap-in-ontario/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:33:56 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54228

TORONTO – A new research report shows that the Ford government’s policies have led to real dollar wage cuts for the predominantly female workforce in the broader public sector, negatively impacting Ontario’s gender pay gap.

The report, Women’s Wages and the attack on broader public sector workers, released today by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE) says that while average wage growth (27 per cent) across all industries from 2017-2023 outpaced inflation by nearly 7 per cent, workers in health care, education and social assistance faced real dollar wage cuts.

These three female-dominated industries employ more than 90 per cent of the broader public sector workforce, and 32 per cent of all women in Ontario. While women in the rest of the economy improved their earnings relative to men, the wage erosion for public sector workers caused the province-wide gender wage gap to increase.

“This is an attack on women’s wages by Doug Ford. By restraining wages for public sector workers, the Ontario PCs are holding back progress for women,” said Sharon Richer, secretary-treasurer of OCHU-CUPE.

Richer said it appeared that the feminized labour of women in health care, social assistance, and education was deemed less valuable by the Conservative government. She said it was unconscionable for the government to implement wage cuts for the “the women caring for patients, the elderly, and other vulnerable members of our population.”

As of 2023, women across Ontario earned 87.2 cents for every dollar made by men, compared to 88 cents in 2018 when Ford was elected.

OCHU-CUPE’s report makes the case that the gendered impact of government policy is not only affecting women employees but is also negatively affecting the quality of public services with consequences for everyone.

In hospitals, wage suppression by the government has contributed to an unprecedented staffing crisis, as jobs in the sector have become less attractive compared to the rest of the economy.

In 2017, just before the Ford government was elected, hospital service wages were $1.41 less than the all-industry average.  They are now $4.41 behind the all-industry average – a loss of $3 an hour, or $5,850 annually.

Pam Parks, a registered practical nurse in Durham, said she and her co-workers have felt demoralized over the past several years as their wages have declined even as their workloads have sharply increased.

She said government wage restraint has caused many workers to quit the sector altogether, contributing to a growing staffing crisis. Vacancies in hospitals have tripled since 2015 and are now double the all-industry average.

“It’s tougher for us to pay our bills today than it was six or seven years go. It’s tougher to provide a decent quality of life for our children and our families,” Parks said. “Even as we are expected to work harder and selflessly for patients in our community, the government shows that it doesn’t care for our well-being and quality of life.”

Tracing public sector wage trends back to the 1980s, the report shows that workers have faced government wage restraint at various times alternating with periods when wages have improved.

However, since 2011, there has been an unusually prolonged wage decline for workers in health, social assistance, and education, which represents a third of all women workers in Ontario compared to only 9 per cent of men.

Jillian Watt, president of CUPE 7800, which represents workers at Hamilton Health Sciences, said health care workers are increasingly more precarious, which threatens the quality of care as evidenced by a long surgical waitlist, frequent emergency room closures, and an increase in hallway health care.

“Many hospital staff are working two jobs to keep up with the cost of living. Many of them are resorting to food banks,” she said. “Health care workers are cutting back on groceries. Cutting back on kids’ sports and recreational activities. There has been a steady erosion in our quality of life, as well as a decline in our working conditions. Which begs the question – is it worth continuing in this job?”

A recent survey of CUPE hospital staff showed that two out of five workers are considering quitting their jobs, which could further harm patient care in Ontario.

OCHU-CUPE has proposed several solutions to the staffing crisis including improving compensation and offering incentives for retention and recruitment, implementing staff-to-patient ratios, increasing full-time work, and banning agency nursing. The union says the government must increase the hospital budget by at least five per cent beyond inflation annually for the next four years to achieve these goals.

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For more information, contact:

Zaid Noorsumar

CUPE Communications

znoorsumar@cupe.ca

647-995-9859

 

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University of Toronto workers will be on the job Monday morning https://cupe.on.ca/university-of-toronto-workers-will-be-on-the-job-monday-morning/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:12:55 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54215

TORONTO – A tentative agreement was reached between the University of Toronto and workers represented by CUPE Locals 3902 and 3261 in the early hours of Monday morning.

The agreement follows a marathon session of negotiations over the weekend. It is the outcome of historic coordination among campus unions, and ongoing organizing by teaching assistants, contract instructors, postdocs, maintenance workers, caretakers, groundskeepers, veterinary technologists, casual workers, student residence and food service staff, and others.

Members of the five academic and support worker bargaining units will vote on ratification in coming days.

To celebrate, CUPE Locals 3902 and 3261 held a rally on Monday March 4th at 9 a.m. outside of Convocation Hall at King’s College Circle.

 

For more information, contact:

Craig Saunders, CUPE Communications | 416-576-7316 | csaunders@cupe.ca
Marianna Reis, University of Toronto CUPE Locals, 647-680-0252

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Conservative neglect and policy choices are increasing repetitive strain injuries in Ontario https://cupe.on.ca/conservative-neglect-and-policy-choices-are-increasing-repetitive-strain-injuries-in-ontario/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:31:27 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54201

As CUPE Ontario and the Injured Workers Committee mark International Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Awareness Day, we remember that workers across the province are paying a physical as well as a financial and mental price for the underfunding of our public services.

Deliberate and chronic underfunding of public services by the Conservative government of Ontario, combined with wage suppression legislation that violated workers rights, have combined to lead to a staffing crisis throughout the broader public sector. This underfunding has increased workloads dramatically and, as a consequence, increased the rate of repetitive strain experienced by workers. RSIs, also called musculoskeletal disorders, are injuries to the body’s tendons, tendon sheaths, muscles, nerves and joints and they cause chronic and sometimes debilitating pain of the neck, back, chest, shoulders, arms and hands.

No worker should have to live with chronic pain because of the work they do, but many thousands do. As trade unionists, RSI Awareness Day is an occasion to look to the roots of the condition and its prevention and demand better for those who are affected by RSI.

Employers have an obligation to ensure safe workplaces and to do everything they can to reduce repetitive strain.  But employers increasingly can’t recruit and retain workers because the wages they offer are so low, a direct impact of Conservative wage restraint imposed by the unconstitutional Bill 124. Workers continue to find themselves under greater pressure to do more work in less time and cover the work of two or more people.

It’s no wonder, then, that RSIs represent about 50% of all lost-time days in Ontario and 40% of all lost-time claims approved by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.

CUPE Ontario and the Injured Workers Committee are committed to protecting workers who are at risk or suffer from RSI. Improved working conditions, education, and prevention are key to fighting this debilitation condition and your workplace’s Joint Health and Safety Committee and health and safety representatives are key allies.

Fighting to increase wages, ensuring a full complement of workers, funding public services to meet population growth and inflation – these are vital elements of advocacy that, when successful, will have a real and lasting impact on lowering the number of RSIs in the broader public sector.

On this day of awareness, we encourage members to review the Injured Workers Committee RSI Newsletter and CUPE’s factsheet on RSI and visit the recommended sites for more information. And we urge all to remain committed to the political advocacy work we do together in CUPE Ontario. Together, we will continue to demand the measure that support workers living with and at risk of this all-too-common yet preventable condition.

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Conservative funding announcement just political theatre, say university workers https://cupe.on.ca/conservative-funding-announcement-just-political-theatre-say-university-workers/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:22:39 +0000 https://cupe.on.ca/?p=54192

TORONTO – The Ontario Conservative government’s post-secondary funding announcement is political theatre and nothing more, say representatives of CUPE Ontario university workers.

”The announced funding is less than what the Conservatives have already cut from university budgets, and will not change Ontario’s last place in per-student funding compared to every other province in Canada,” said David Simao, chair of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) university workers committee.

On Monday, the Ford Conservatives announced that it was making $1.3 billion over three years available to universities and colleges in the province. By contrast, raising per student funding to the Canadian average just in universities, not the whole postsecondary education sector, would take $2.53 billion in the first year alone.

“After deepening the funding crisis in post secondary institutions with the cuts the Conservatives have made, they are now trying to look like they are doing something to help.  But this is clearly political theatre.  Not only does this announcement not increase per-student funding, it’s a temporary fund being allocated based on institutions jumping a bunch of hurdles including demonstrating “efficiency” and, not based on any equal or permanent increase to base funding,” said CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn. “It won’t anything to address the real problem.”

In the spending announced, only $903 million over three years is dedicated to financial sustainability, which amounts to an average of $301 million. For context, $300 million is what the Ford government is estimated to be spending to build a single parking garage for the new spa project at Ontario Place. Spread across 48 public universities and colleges (and the province is not excluding for-profit schools as well), it’s a small sum.

The province also says it will dedicate $167.4 million over three years to capital repairs and equipment. The government’s own panel pegged the sector’s deferred maintenance costs at $6.4 billion.

On top of that, the government is placing restrictions on the funding, so only schools that follow an undisclosed demand for “efficiencies” will receive funding.

“University workers are already stretched to the limit. Even the government’s hand-picked panel reported that wage restraint has been more severe in post-secondary education than in other sectors,” said Simao. “Workers have to eat. We have to house our families. We need solutions, not political games.”

CUPE represents more than 30,000 workers at 17 universities across Ontario, including instructional and research workers, tradespeople, custodians, groundskeepers, foodservice workers and many others.

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Craig Saunders, CUPE Communications, 416-576-7316, csaunders@cupe.ca

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