HAMILTON, ON — Following tragic stories coming from several Ontario long-term care homes this month, there’s a renewed scrutiny on resident care quality and safety and “urgency make a daily 4 hour resident care standard the law,” say advocates. On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 care providers and residents’ family advocates are holding a media…
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When life presents challenges, some people just rise to the top. Lori Wightman is one of those people. As a self-described introvert, Lori quietly saw to the needs of her fellow CUPE 2974 library workers over the past ten years. She never expected to find herself leading a strike. “Even when the employer came to…
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PETERBOROUGH, ON — Improving care quality and safety for nearly 80,000 residents in long-term care homes requires the “political will and a non-partisan approach” by Ontario’s political parties to pass legislation that mandates a daily four hour resident care standard, said a resident family advocate, an academic researcher, and front line care staff, at a…
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THUNDER BAY, ON – Members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 87, who work for the City of Thunder Bay, have voted to accept their employer’s last offer in recent negotiations. This will conclude negotiations for the approximately 700 inside and outside municipal workers, whose last contract expired nearly two years ago. “This…
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PETERBOROUGH, ON — Following tragic stories coming from several Ontario long-term care homes this month, there’s a renewed scrutiny on resident care quality and safety. There is no doubt say Peterborough area personal support workers, registered practical nurses and others working on the front lines in long-term, along with residents’ families, that the crisis in…
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SUDBURY, ON — Health Sciences North (HSN) is rationalizing “an unpopular decision” to export the jobs of 40 local hospital laundry workers out of Sudbury by “suggesting it is cheaper” to ship its dirty linen to southern Ontario for cleaning, says Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) president Michael Hurley. “Even if we accept the…
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BRAMPTON, ON – Why does the Executive Director of Peel Children’s Aid seem to care so little about the safety of the workers and the children that they are meant to protect, asked CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn, at a rally in Brampton this afternoon. Peel Children’s Aid workers and members of CUPE 4914 have…
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HAMILTON, ON — Hamilton hospitals are having difficulty coping with a surge in patients, “a sadly predictable outcome of 8 years of provincial Liberal (real) budget cuts to our hospitals,” says Dave Murphy, president of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 7800, which represents over 4,000 staff at Hamilton Health Science Centre. “In Ontario, we…
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Laid off hospital laundry workers will ask at Wednesday 4 p.m. Sudbury rally SUDBURY, ON — With Sudbury’s unemployment rate high, laid off hospital laundry workers are asking Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault “why his government is laying them off and moving their jobs to Hamilton” at a rally Wednesday November 2, 2016 at 4 p.m.…
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