We are very pleased to introduce our new Convention app, available in both English and French on the web and in all 4 app stores. Choose sessions and add them to your personal schedule, find the exact locations of meetings and booths, read delegate kit documents on your device, discover cultural events, and more! Get…
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TORONTO – Twelve hundred CUPE Ontario members are set to gather at the Toronto Sheraton Centre on Wednesday to open their annual convention, with a clear message for Premier Wynne: Your fiscally irresponsible privatization plans will hurt the people of our province and they must be stopped. “Our members work directly for municipalities and schools…
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PETERBOROUGH, ON – In March the workers at the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) for Haliburton, Kawartha and Pine Ridge (HKPR) reached and ratified their first collective agreement between the agency and Local 5258 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Workers hoped that by agreeing to a very modest settlement that they could…
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BROCKVILLE, ON – A determined group of friends, some of whom have grandchildren attending Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) schools, are backing the board’s education workers in their efforts to protect frontline jobs and services from swingeing cuts. And although the group supports all workers fighting to protect the services they provide in UCDSB…
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Toronto, Ont. ─ Brampton Civic Hospital personal support worker Carolynne Haynes has been awarded Personal Support Worker of the Year by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU)/CUPE. A ceremony to present Carolynne with her award is scheduled for Personal Support Worker Day, Thursday, May 19 (2016) at 2 p.m. the Brampton Civic Hospital, North…
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Cassellholme board, mayors and councils should know the difference NORTH BAY, ON — Research evidence strongly supports maintaining public municipal control of Cassellholme, says Professor Susan Braedley who will be a guest speaker at a community forum in North Bay on June 7, 2016. What’s more says, the Carleton University academic and researcher on two…
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TORONTO, Ont. — Fewer deaths, increased patient satisfaction, fewer falls, fewer bed sores, shorter lengths of stay are all documented benefits of a diversified nursing team observed in recent studies. “Ignoring this research on positive patient outcomes, to promote a single occupation as was recently done by Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) offends the…
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Tuesday, May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. CUPE Ontario encourages all members to join in marking this day and renewing their commitment to take action in their workplaces and communities to end discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. From the beginning, CUPE has stood…
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TORONTO – In the wake of damaging new details about the Wynne government’s decisions around the Social Assistance Management System (SAMS), CUPE Ontario has released the results of a recent survey of its members in Ontario Works (OW) offices across the province. The survey’s findings confirm that, despite the additional millions spent on the system,…
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