Yearly Archives: 2013

CUPE 416 opens emergency warming centre for members affected by ice storm

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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. – In an effort to help members affected by Sunday’s massive ice storm and to help reduce the burden on the limited number of City-operated warming centres, Toronto Civic Employees’…

Increased Ontario government oversight, regulation for unlicensed child care long-overdue

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Changes to child care legislation intended to increase oversight and regulation for unlicensed and home daycare to make them safer, are urgently needed and long-overdue, CUPE Ontario said, following the recent provincial…

A year-end message from CUPE 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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. To all the CUPE Leaders, Activists and Members, all across Ontario, let us start by saying “Thank You!” Thank you for Standing Up for Fairness every day. Thanks for your strength…

Health minister announces move to private clinics despite evidence showing higher death rates, higher costs for the public

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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, Dec. 18, 2013 /CNW/ – The announcement by Ontario’s health minister of a “a major shift in the provision of health services, surgeries and procedures from accredited and regulated public hospitals…

Sunwing’s failed evacuation tests show that ratio of one flight attendant to 50 passenger seats compromises safety

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.  Despite three failures, Transport Canada allows Sunwing to operate with fewer flight attendants Ottawa, Ontario – Documents filed in court today by the Canadian Union of Public Employees show Sunwing failed…

Striking Bonfield families reclaim Christmas, with the help of CUPE municipal workers, and a big pink bus

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. BONFIELD, Ont. – Christmas came early for the families of striking Township of Bonfield workers, thanks to the efforts of their fellow Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) municipal workers…

Frozen London a hotbed of labour solidarity

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Instead of heading home after work on Tuesday, 10 December, more than a hundred school support workers braved sub-zero temperatures to descend on the headquarters of Thames Valley District School Board…

Privatizing to blame for many of our economic woes

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. From the Owen Sound Sun Times Saturday, December 15 Editor: It is telling that even a Conservative special interest group like the Fraser Institute is alarmed by the cost to…

Now not the time for Leamington to ‘lose focus’ by reopening contracts, says CUPE 528 President

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. LEAMINGTON, Ont. – A request by the Town of Leamington for its municipal workers to reopen their collective agreement will only divert resources and attention away from efforts to save the community’s…

Windsor Regional Hospital workers join 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. WINDSOR, Ont. – In a show of confidence for Canada’s largest union representing 35,000 hospital workers in Ontario, Windsor Regional Hospital workers recently voted to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees…