Monthly Archives: May 2009

Don’t forget RPNs to ease pressures on health care system

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. RPNs call for full utilization as province expands scope of practice in health care TORONTO – The Ontario government’s recent proposed changes to health care professionals’ scope of practice excludes one…

Press Conference: Durham P3 Incinerator “…smells like an environmental and fiscal disaster.”

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Photographs from event BOWMANVILLE, ON—CUPE Ontario, CAW Durham Region Environment Council, Prevent Cancer Now, local doctors and Clarington town councilors have joined forces to prevent Durham region from building a P3…

Cut and crowded, Ontario hospitals falling behind UK in combating infections Scotland hiring in-house cleaners, Wales ending contracting out; Ontario on wrong track

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 – Ontario should follow the example of Scotland and Wales, which are hiring hundreds more cleaners and ending contracting out of cleaning services in their battles against health care associated infections…

Press Conference: Durham P3 incinerator “…smells like an environmental and fiscal disaster”

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. CLARINGTON, Ont. – Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), Prevent Cancer Now, local doctors and Clarington town councillors have joined forces to prevent Durham Region from building…

“Residents Deserve Better!”

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Photographs from  Long-term Care Rally May 8th CUPE workers urge Liberal MPPs to make long-term care betterMinimum care standards the key to better care Toronto – Long-term care workers with the Canadian…

Celebration of Asian Heritage Month

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 joins our members in the celebration of Asian Heritage Month. The Asian community is incredibly diverse. Members of the Asian community strengthen multiculturalism and, this month. will take the opportunity…

CUPE 543 and 82 Windsor Workers ratify deal, ending 101-day strike

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. August 10th, 2009 Windsor Strike Video Recap by 12-year-old Mallory This video by Mallory, the 12-year-old daughter of a CUPE Local 543 member, tells the story of why Locals…

UnBottle It! – Speaking tour on growing opposition to bottled water comes to Kenora

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. KENORA, Ont. – A province-wide tour to encourage bans on bottled water in municipal and provincial facilities sponsored by the Council of Canadians and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, comes…

UnBottle It! – Speaking tour on growing opposition to bottled water comes to North Bay

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. NORTH BAY, Ont. – A province-wide tour to encourage bans on bottled water in municipal and provincial facilities, sponsored by the Council of Canadians and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario,…

Tentative Agreement at Community Living West Nipissing

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, Ont. – Developmental services and personal support workers at Community Living West Nipissing, members of Local 4710 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), reached a tentative agreement in…