(Hamilton, ON) About 2,800 teaching and research assistants at McMaster University are on strike following an impasse in negotiations, says CUPE Local 3906. “We would rather continue delivering the services students rely on, but we’ve also always been prepared to strike for good jobs if we needed to,” said Chris Fairweather, President of CUPE Local…
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Trans Day of Remembrance 2022 CUPE Ontario statement CUPE Ontario marks Trans Day of Remembrance on Sunday, November 20, to honour the history of transgender people, the struggles they have faced and continue to live though, and to recommit as a union to the fight for the rights of trans people across the province. On…
Details(Hamilton, ON) About 2,800 teaching and research assistants at McMaster University are bargaining for better wages and job security ahead of a November 21st strike deadline, says CUPE Local 3906. “We’re still right in the middle of historic inflation and our wages just haven’t been keeping up with the rising cost of living,” said Chris…
Details(TORONTO, ON) A strike has been averted and 700 full time and part time front-line service workers have made important gains in a tentative agreement, says CUPE 3261. “I’m so proud of the members for the powerful example of workplace organizing,” said Allan James, President of CUPE 3261. “Thanks to their historic organizing, we sent…
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TORONTO, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has written to the ministers of health and of community and social services calling for an audit of executive compensation at Canadian Hearing Services (CHS) after learning of sharp increases at a time when front-line workers are living under provincial wage restraint legislation. In the…
DetailsToronto, ON – After getting an imposed contract that would have further harmed Ontario schools off their backs with the repeal of Bill 28, Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers have given five days’ notice of a potential province-wide strike. CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) central bargaining committee, negotiating for 55,000 frontline education workers,…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – CUPE 3902 and CUPE 3261, representing two bargaining units of approximately 1,100 contract education workers and 700 full time and part time front-line service workers respectively, held a rally to call on U of T to support good jobs and avert potential strikes. “Good jobs are disappearing at U of T, while…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – Today’s fall economic statement is proof that the Ford government has failed to hear the outcry from so many quarters across the province, said leaders of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, who warned that continuing neglect of public services harms Ontarians. Delivered today by Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy,…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The following is a statement from Laura Walton, educational assistant and president of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions: “This afternoon, Ontario’s education workers have their rights back. With the shadow of Bill 28 lifted, education workers can now focus on achieving a fairly negotiated collective agreement that meets the needs…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – “Good riddance” was CUPE Ontario’s departing comment on the repeal of Bill 28, the anti-worker legislation introduced less than two weeks ago by the Ford government and rescinded following a historic pushback by education and their allies. “This attack on workers’ rights, delivered under the guise of legislation, has been consigned to…
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