Yearly Archives: 2011

Healthcare – 2009

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Archives 2009

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Brock university workers fight for quality education as contract talks reach critical stage

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – Front-line Brock university workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are seeking to improve the quality of education as management continues to focus on cutbacks…

Northern Ontario hospital-acquired infection tour launches

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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. – At a North Bay media conference today, hospital staff urged Ontario’s health minister to bring down death rates from hospital-acquired infections by lowering hospital occupancy rates, doing a…

Previous Campaigns

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.     Stop the freeze on Public Wages On July 20th, 2010 Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan called unions and employers to a closed door “consultation” session…

CUPE Local 79 calls for TCHC to be brought under direct City of Toronto management

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 Canadian Union of Public Employee (CUPE) Local 79, City of Toronto inside workers, is calling for TCHC to be brought under direct management of the City. “We’ve…

Overcrowded hospitals, rapid turnover of patients linked to infection outbreaks

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Mobile hospital room kicks off provincial tour to fight superbugs in North Bay Friday NORTH BAY, Ont. – Although medical experts are blaming hospital overcrowding (resulting from cuts to patient beds) for…

Toronto Hydro’s lawsuit against OMERS pension plan to profit corporate executives is outrageous

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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. – Toronto Hydro’s lawsuit against the OMERS pension plan, which seeks to overturn a decision that limits the pensions of hydro executives who earn big bonuses, is an outrageous attack…

CUPE 5734 gives strike mandate to its bargaining 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. CORNWALL, Ont. – EMS Workers serving Cornwall and the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (S-D-G) voted 93 per cent in favour of giving a strike mandate to their bargaining representatives. …

Protect Workers Rights – Stop Bill 150!

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Defend Workers Rights! March 30th, 2011: Bill 150, which takes away the rights of workers to strike, passed today at Queen’s Park. Only the NDP members of parliament voted against…