Bargaining Update from CUPE 2197

Social Services

BANCROFT, COBOURG, TRENTON, PICTON and BELLVILLE, ON – CUPE 2197, representing 225 social service workers with the Highland Shores Children’s Aid society, requested a ‘no board’ report from the Ministry of Labour, early this morning, setting a strike or lock-out deadline of October 23 at 12:01 a.m. “We remain committed to reaching a fair and…

CUPE education workers call on Peel board to reinstate cancelled school breakfast programs

School Boards

TORONTO – Education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) rejected charges that school breakfast programs had been cancelled at Peel schools as a result of the union’s work-to-rule job action and demanded that the Peel District Board of Education reinstate the programs. “Breakfast programs are not the responsibility of CUPE members…