Yearly Archives: 2008

CUPE Ontario brings messages of solidarity to Journal de Québec 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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. A delegation from CUPE Ontario that included the president Sid Ryan, and vice-presidents Yolanda McClean and Candace Rennick, visited the office space of MédiaMatinQuébec on July 8, and distributed plaques to mark…

Rock for Public Services

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Rock for Public Services rewards workers, city’s animals Free Civic Centre show featured headliner David Wilcox, raised funds for the Ottawa Humane Society’s new building campaign OTTAWA, Oct. 18, 2009 – The…

Crisis at Fort Frances community clinic resolved

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. FORT FRANCES, Ont. — The labour crisis at the Fort Frances Community Clinic was resolved last night (Wednesday, July 9), when a tentative agreement was reached.   “While we did…

Good Shepherd management denies living wage for women’s shelter staff – lockout or strike imminent

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Hamilton, Ont. – Mediation talks between the Good Shepherd Women’s Services and their frontline staff broke off yesterday after management refused to address the issue of substandard wages.  The 50 women’s service…

Kingston rallies for KGH – is Gerretsen listening?

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. KINGSTON, Ont. – Citizens took their concerns about the future of Kingston General Hospital to MPP John Gerretsen’s Kingston office today. “This is a battle for health care democracy,” said…

Long-term care needs enforceable standards, not vague reports – Unions team up to call for regulation in light of devastating CP investigation

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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. – With fresh revelations that over 60 per cent of long-term care homes violate provincial standards, unions representing long-term care workers called, once again, for an enforceable minimum care standard…

Underfunding of child welfare services failing at risk children and youth – Thursday, July 3 at 12 p.m., rally to tell the McGuinty Liberals to increase funding

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. CUPE 841 held a successful rally in St. Thomas to ask for fair fundingfor Child Welfare services and supports, including restructuringinitiatives, preventive programs, resources, and staffing all of whichare under enormous…

Fair deal for paramedics – good deal for our communities

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. County of Hastings paramedics ratify new agreement   Belleville, Ont. – Paramedics in Hastings County have voted 78 per cent to ratify a new collective agreement that improves their working…

City of Belleville municipal workers face possible lockout

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. BELLEVILLE, Ont. – Members of local 907 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), City of Belleville municipal workers, are getting ready for what could be lockout action from their employer.…

Good Shepherd women’s shelter staff ready to strike for living wage

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Hamilton, Ont. – The Good Shepherd Women’s Services frontline workers are preparing for strike action, as early as July 14, over the issue of substandard wages.  The 50 women’s service workers, represented…