Monthly Archives: December 2008

CUPE 3903 and undergrad allies occupy York U president’s office

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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. – Starting in the early afternoon, Mon., Dec. 15, more than 120 members of striking CUPE 3903 and undergraduate student allies have occupied the hallway outside the office of York…

Summary of Women’s Conference December 2008

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Click to see photographs from conference  This year’s Women’s Conference – “Creating Safe Spaces for Women” – coincided with the nineteenth anniversary of the Montreal massacre where 14 women were gunned…

Public hospital support services cheaper than for-profit: Ontario A-G Report

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. McGuinty government must end for-profit P3s now TORONTO – The Ontario Auditor General has found that for-profit hospital support services at Brampton’s Civic Hospital, a so-called “public private partnership” (P3), cost…

Don’t sell out our frail and elderly in nursing homes, Front-line workers demand minimum care standards promised by Liberals

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 – The Liberal government must not resolve the economic crisis on the backs of Ontario’s frail and elderly in nursing homes, Sid Ryan, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees…

Canada-Colombia Free Trade – Agreement Signed

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Signed Todd Gordon   Not a government to fail to live up to its reactionary commitments, the Tories signed Canada’s free trade agreement with…

Coalition government – the best plan for Canada

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Click to see photographs from Rally in support of Federal Coalition government Sat, Dec 6th at noon at Nathan Phillips Square  Stephen Harper may have suspended or ‘prorogued’ Parliament for now, but…

Enormous effort leads to School Board Workers Historic Agreement

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. School board workers have reached an historic agreement with representatives from all Ontario school boards, thanks to an enormous effort by bargaining units, staff reps, Provincial Discussion Table (PDT) specialists and union…

Important Polls – Newspaper Pollson on theCoalition Government vs Harper Government

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 the major networks and newspapers have polls on their sites today askingpeople what they think of the coalition plan. The Conservatives have an armyof highly-motivated underlings out there voting like crazy,…

Queen’s Park Rally for 3.5 hours of care in nursing homes

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Calling all CUPE Locals! Queen’s Park Rally for 3.5 hours of care in nursing homes CUPE Ontario’s front-line long-term care workers and others will take the demand for “3.5 hours…