TORONTO – CUPE Ontario delivered a stinging assessment of the Ford government’s provincial budget, as the union charged the government with deliberately underspending on vital services and failing to address the staffing crisis it has created in the hollowing out of the province’s public services. “Starving our public services has been an intentional choice of…
DetailsTORONTO – It’s a strange world where a tuition fee freeze is announced and almost no one cheers. But that’s the reality the Ford government faced earlier this month. And it happened because students and university workers alike know the freeze is only one side of the story. “In theory, a tuition fee freeze should…
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CUPE Ontario recognizes and honours March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (IDERD), which was proclaimed in 1966 as a day of remembrance by the United Nations. The day has its origins in one of the most brutal episodes of apartheid-era South Africa, the attack on peaceful protestors in Sharpeville…
DetailsTransportation planners do not accept being paid 19% less than their coworkers across Ontario and are determined to bargain a fair wage increase NAPANEE, ON – The seven employees who work for Tri-Board Student Transportation Services, members of CUPE Local 1479, are poised to walk off the job in a legal strike on Monday, April…
DetailsTORONTO – Workers at YouthLink, a mental health agency that helps roughly 3,000 Torontonians aged 12 to 24 each year, are unanimous in their belief that youth in crisis need consistent care provided by fairly paid workers. YouthLink’s clinical counsellors, child and youth workers, residential counsellors, outreach workers, shelter workers, student development workers and administrative…
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KINCARDINE (ON) – The municipal workers of Bruce, Grey & Wellington counties have donated $12,000 to three local non-profit organizations over the past month as part of a longstanding tradition of giving back to their communities. Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 255 donated to South Grey Bruce Youth Literacy Council ($5,200), WES for Youth…
DetailsTORONTO – What started a year ago with one-on-one conversations among workers culminated this month with a 100 percent certification vote as workers at the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario (AECEO) joined the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The six members of the AECEO – the professional association for Early Childhood Educators in…
DetailsOTTAWA, ON – This afternoon, contract academic workers at Carleton University are interrupting a meeting of the university’s Board of Governors to deliver a letter calling on the Board to address serious labour concerns on campus. “Negotiations have been drawn out beyond what is reasonable, and it’s up to the Board of Governors to take…
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International Women’s Day has its roots in the labour and socialist movements of the early 1900s. Women’s demands for better pay and conditions, voting rights, and recognition resonated with women workers across borders, classes, and around the world. In 1977, the United Nations proclaimed March 8 as International Women’s Day – a day CUPE Ontario…
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