Yearly Archives: 2008

May 5th, 2008: Contract faculty at McMaster Rally to demand secutiry, equity and parity as contract deadline looms

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 – McMaster contract teaching faculty carry a considerable portion of the curriculum but aren’t being fairly compensated for their work.  Sid Ryan, President of the Ontario Division of the Canadian Union…

University of Toronto presses criminal charges against 14 students and organizers mobilizing to fight fee hikes.

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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, April 29 / – Outrage is mounting over the arrest of 14students who are presently facing criminal charges for participatingin a peaceful sit-in at the University of Toronto on 20 March…

Ontario Stands in Solidarity with Quebec!

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Actions across the Province to support the Day of Action against Health Care privatization   Quebec is ground-zero for health care privatization.  A recent Supreme Court decision along with new…

Help Save Ajax Hospital

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Ajax residents have raised millions of dollars for our community hospital. Now the Central East LHIN and the Rouge Valley Hospital Board are cutting and transferring health services that our community needs.…

CUPE Local 1880 calls for conciliator – Talks with Algoma CAS break down

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), local 1880, Children’s Aid Society of Algoma workers have asked for the assistance of a conciliator in their dealings with…

Expect province-wide labour unrest if politicians try to designate TTC workers as essential service- Sid Ryan

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 City of Toronto and the province should anticipate province-wide labour unrest if there is a move to designate TTC workers as an essential service, says Sid Ryan, Ontario president…

CUPE Ontario’s Pink Triangle Committee

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 Ontario’s Pink Triangle Committee recognizes the collective strength of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, intersex and queer/questioning (LGBTTIQ) workers and the challenges these members face in the workplace and in our…

Ontario Council of Hospital Unions sounds the alarm on hospital-acquired infections

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Sturgeon Falls, Ontario – Today, at a press conference in the Sturgeon Falls Complex, Michael Hurley, President of the Ontario Coalition of Hospital Unions (OCHU – CUPE) addressed the issue of the…

CUPE Local 2 looks for negotiated settlement with TTC

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 — CUPE Local 2, representing signal maintenance, communications and electrical workers at the Toronto Transit Commission, is looking to reach a negotiated settlement with the TTC despite back-to-work legislation passed in…

Day of Mourning – April 28

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. [April 28, 2008] by Teresa ColangeloCUPE Ontario Injured Workers/Health & Safety Committee It was 22 years ago that the Canadian Labour Congress declared April 28 the National Day of…