Yearly Archives: 2009

TCEU Local 416 sets Sunday deadline for settlement in Toronto 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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. TORONTO – The union representing city of Toronto outside workers says a settlement in the five-week-old strike must be achieved by midnight Sunday or negotiations will be over. “It’s time for…

Workers rally for better long-term care in Toronto today, July 24th, 2009

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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  It was looking like serious rain but the sun came out to shine on CUPE 2553’s protest for better long-term care in Toronto today. About…

University workers support Toronto City Strikers: Friday July 24, noon, City Hall

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 3902, representing over 6,000 university academic workers (teaching assistants and sessional faculty) at the University of Toronto, is holding a solidarity picket for striking Toronto municipal workers, members…

Municipality of Greenstone must act like a responsible employer says CUPE

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. THUNDER BAY, Ont. – The municipality of Greenstone is using the economic downturn to abdicate their responsibility as an employer, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing over 160 municipal…

Support for Lanark ACL 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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Over 100 CUPE members and others rallied in support of the striking workers of Community Living Association Lanark today.  The Carleton Place Legion’s back garden played host to a spirited rally…

Hit and run on CUPE picket line – driver hired to mow grass, injures female striker

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Union calls on employer to return to the bargaining table.  Now. Carleton Place, ON – A CUPE member was the victim of a hit and run on the picket line Monday…

Tentative Deal Reached in 100 Days Windsor 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. WINDSOR, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – July 23, 2009) – At 6:30am Thursday morning, after a marathon bargaining session lasting close to 48 hours, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the City of…

CUPE welcomes unanimous vote to keep West Nipissing ambulance service public Private company loses bid to take over public service

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, ON – Ambulance service in West Nipissing will stay a public service thanks to a successful community campaign waged by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and a unanimous…

City of Toronto’s concession demands made strike necessary, says Local 416

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 – Mayor David Miller got one thing right in his remarks to media this afternoon.   “We have said from day one that this strike should not have happened,”…

Outside city workers in Windsor are on 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. April 15, 2009  Outside city workers in Windsor Ontario are on strike today after mediated talks failed to reach a settlement. CUPE 82‘s 385 members have been asking for…