Yearly Archives: 2011

The Role of Unions, Pensions in the Struggle for Justice in Mining

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Friday April 15 & Saturday April 16Ryerson University, 55 Gould St. Oakham House, TorontoLocated at the corner of Church and Gould streets, just one block north of Dundas and two blocks east…

Fair Treatment for all Ontario’s Injured 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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. TORONTO, Ont. – Arthurs Hearings on WSIB Funding open in Toronto with presentation by CUPE Leaders presenting their views on reforming Ontario’s injured workers compensation (WSIB) funding system in Ontario. “All Ontario…

Choice of biased bank executive to review health care highly suspect. Puts Liberals on collision course with patients, hospital 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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. TORONTO, Ont. – The choice of former bank executive Don Drummond, whose views “are clearly skewed to increased private delivery of health care, to review health spending is unacceptable and clearly indicates…

CUPE Ontario’s municipal workers’ conference comes to Niagara Falls

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – The Ontario Municipal Employees Coordinating Committee (OMECC) annual conference will be held in Niagara Falls from Wednesday, March 30 to Saturday, April 2. “We’re pleased to be…

Respect Human Rights and Stop Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement Negotiations

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Dear Friends,  We call on your support to help if you can each, in your own right or that of your organization as well through any networks you have to call on the Canadian Government…

National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Sisters and Brothers, First observed by CUPE members in 1984, April 28 is the Day of Mourning for workers who have been killed or injured on the job. Since that first commemoration…

“Privatization Commission” Wrong for Ontario

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. – Queen’s Park…Ontarians don’t have to accept that privatizing public services is the only way to deal with the deficit,” CUPE President Fred Hahn said today in response to the…

Local food fight not going away 1000 marchers tell Kingston hospital, province

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Hundreds of health care workers, farmers, local food activists, steelworkers and environmentalists came on buses from Sudbury, Hamilton, North Bay and Ottawa, and in the case of Hope – a black and…

13 busloads from across Ontario to join Kingston local food rally Monday – Province must act now to stop KGH food deal, support local farmers

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. – Kingston’s community campaign in support of local hospital food and the local economy continues to gain support and momentum from across the province. On Monday, March 28, 2011, at 11:45…

Over 400 adults in Windsor-Essex County on waitlist for supports and services. Meet the needs of “our most vulnerable” in budget

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, Ont. – An infusion of new funding for developmental services in next week’s Ontario budget is needed to ensure existing programs, services and…