Yearly Archives: 2014

Frail home care clients collateral victims of province’s exploitation of personal support 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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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, ON – The recent public hints and statements by both the Premier and the health minister that their government may be poised to make changes intended to benefit care quality for…

International Day of Pink

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. On Wednesday, April 9, we are wearing pink in recognition of the International Day of Pink, a day against bullying, discrimination, homophobia and transphobia in schools and communities. The Day…

Through community engagement, CUPE 79 helps make annual ball hockey tournament “the ‘best-est’ Saturday ever” for hundreds of city kids

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 Union representing 20,000 City of Toronto ‘Inside’ workers wants the ‘best-est’ ball hockey tournament in Toronto to be the biggest. On the heels of this weekend’s successful…

Day of Mourning April 28th

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Remember the canary The tiny canary was once the only safeguard mine workers had against danger in the workplace. If the canary died, it was a signal to evacuate the…

Developmental service workers demand government stand up for equal treatment by enforcing pay equity award

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Insufficient funding no excuse in light of leaked budget plans, workers say Following the leaked announcement of major new planned funding for developmental services in Ontario, workers in the sector are…

Sault Ste. Marie MPP must act quickly, show he cares – Stop cuts, deliver increased funding for vulnerable FJ Davey Home residents

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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, ON – At a Sault Ste. Marie media conference today, FJ Davey Home residents’ families and care staff called on area MPP David Orazietti to intervene to stop cuts…

‘Why fix something that is not broken?’ Ask seniors, disabled and their families as they continue the plea to stop the switch of service providers at York homes

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. NEWMARKET, Ont. – As seniors and the disabled brace themselves for a change in caregivers at York Region homes, starting April 1, residents and their families are questioning why the government is…

Cuts to resident care at FJ Davey concern families, care staff holding media conference Wednesday, April 2 – 12 noon, Delta Waterfront

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Call on MPP Orazietti to act Sault Ste. Marie, ON – Significant cuts to residents’ care at the FJ Davey Home is “extremely worrisome,” say resident family members and front line…