Daily Archives: March 8, 2010

Ontario Kids First

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.     Put Ontario Kids First!  Full public funding and delivery of children’s services now!  The McGuinty government should put Ontario’s kids first. That means full public funding…

Throne Speech job promises can’t hide dangerous changes in health care and sell-off of public assets, CUPE Ontario President says

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 job promises previewed in today’s Throne Speech are vague and fail to hide dangerous changes in how patients access health care, how funding is allocated to hospitals and…

Ontario Throne Speech – Ontario government plan for hospitals to compete for patients a ‘lose-lose’ failure in Britain—says major study

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 signal in today’s Throne Speech that the Ontario Liberals intend to proceed on a model where hospitals compete for patients and funding—being called a ‘lose-lose’ policy in Britain…

Children’s Aid

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Children Aid Services in Ontario are facing an imminent crisis due to a $67 million dollar shortfall in funding by the provincial government.  The provincial government has…

Child Care

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 perfect storm is facing Ontario’s child care sector, one that will create ideal conditions for the expansion of commercial child care. Already over one quarter of Ontario’s child care centres…

Early Learning

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. The Pascal report recommended the creation of full-time early learning programs for children.  The provincial government has decided to adopt some of Pascal’s recommendations, but not all of them. We fully…

March 08, 2010: The speech from the Throne – CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn responds…

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Fred Hahn’s response will be posted at 3:00 p.m. est.

Support striking Steelworkers at Vale Inco.

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. “Bridging the Gap”A Solidarity Rally for Vale Inco StrikersMonday, March 22 @ 4:30 p.m.USW Union Hall,66 Brady St. | SUDBURY See photos from March 22nd Rally Over 3,000 steelworkers in…