Monthly Archives: December 2008

Strike averted as CUPE Local 416 reaches tentative agreement with Toronto Parking Authority

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.     TORONTO, Ont. – The Toronto Civic Employees Union, CUPE Local 416, has reached a tentative agreement with the Toronto Parking Authority, averting a potential strike by about 300…

CUPE to York U: let’s talk

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. TORONTO, Ont. – When York University announced last week that it was ready to negotiate over the holidays in order to reach a settlement, the union representing striking contract faculty and teaching…

Christmas Message

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Holiday Greetings

Holiday Greetings

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. All of us at CUPE Ontario would like to extend our best wishes to you, your family and the members of your local union over this holiday season. We know these…

Unbottle It—Tap Into Public Drinking Water

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.    Canada’s second Bottled Water Free Day! On March 10 2011, communities across Canada will be mobilizing to take action to ban the bottle and reclaim…

Hospital funding freeze would create Chrysler-sized lay-offs

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. 9000 jobs at risk if McGuinty reneges on hospital funding pledge: union OTTAWA – A provincial funding freeze in the hospital sector would cost 9000 jobs, almost equal to the 9800…

Competitive bidding bad for home care clients,bad for workers

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Let’s put this “dead idea” from the Harris era back in the grave, CUPE says TORONTO – Bringing back “competitive bidding” from the graveyard of bad ideas will further weaken Ontario’s…

McGuinty hospital cuts – from bad to worse – A provincial funding freeze would be “catastrophic” for Ontario health care

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. OTTAWA – Ontario hospitals face thousands of job cuts under the McGuinty government unless the Liberals reverse their chronic underfunding of hospitals, says the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), a…

City of Peterborough municipal workers seek fair contract – management pushes for strike in early January

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Peterborough, Ont. – City of Peterborough municipal workers are seeking a fair deal that’s comparable to other city workers, but management and council are determined to push the ‘outside’ workers on strike,…

CUPE transit workers and City of Ottawa reach tentative deal

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.     OTTAWA – OC Transpo supervisors and special constables and the City of Ottawa have reached a tentative deal to establish a new collective agreement, says the workers’ union,…