Yearly Archives: 2013

Guelph families of intellectually disabled people tell Sandals, Liberals “to do better”

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Nearly 400 Guelph Wellington families waiting for services Click here to see photographs Listen to the radio ad: GUELPH, Ont. –Guelph families of individuals with a developmental disability, and…

Toronto Zoo employees ratify four-year collective agreement

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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. – Staff at the Toronto Zoo, members of Local 1600 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 1600), have today ratified a new four-year collective agreement with their employer.…

CUPE 4705 to resume talks aimed at contract settlement for Sudbury outside 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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.  GREATER SUDBURY, Ont. – Local 4705 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, representing 530 outside municipal workers with the City of Greater Sudbury, will return to the bargaining table with the…

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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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…

CUPE 1600 reaches tentative agreement with Toronto Zoo

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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. – Negotiators for Local 1600 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 1600) have reached a tentative agreement with their employer, the Toronto Zoo. The agreement was reached…

Community groups queue at Queen’s Park More than 2 million Ontarians waiting for budget that delivers on services, poverty reduction

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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, ON – Community groups and CUPE members symbolically queued up in front of Queen’s Park today. They stood in frustration, like the more than 2 million Ontarians who have been…

CUPE asks for conciliation at Sault Ste. Marie March of Dimes following lockout threat

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – Local March of Dimes workers, members of Local 1880 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have requested the assistance of a provincial conciliation officer to…

CUPE Ontario president defends contract arbitration (with video) – The WIndsor Star

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. CUPE Ontario president defends contract arbitration (with video) The president of CUPE Ontario is defending the province’s system of contract arbitration, saying it is a fair way to resolve disputes between…

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY – Line-up representing more than 2 million Ontarians waiting for action on services, poverty

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 – Community groups and CUPE members – the people who deliver vital public services – will symbolically queue in front of Queen’s Park on Monday. Their line will represent the more…

The evidence is in privatization blunders have serious patient care consequences Liberals must restore confidence in health system, end policies that encourage outsourcing

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, ON – Outsourcing of chemotherapy drug preparation without oversight is “sadly the latest in a string of costly provincial government privatization blunders with serious patient care consequences. Ontarians have a right…