TORONTO – Twelve hundred CUPE Ontario members are set to gather at the Toronto Sheraton Centre on Wednesday to open their annual convention, with a clear message for Premier Wynne: Your fiscally irresponsible privatization plans will hurt the people of our province and they must be stopped. “Our members work directly for municipalities and schools…
PETERBOROUGH, ON – In March the workers at the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) for Haliburton, Kawartha and Pine Ridge (HKPR) reached and ratified their first collective agreement between the agency and Local 5258 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Workers hoped that by agreeing to a very modest settlement that they could…
BROCKVILLE, ON – A determined group of friends, some of whom have grandchildren attending Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) schools, are backing the board’s education workers in their efforts to protect frontline jobs and services from swingeing cuts. And although the group supports all workers fighting to protect the services they provide in UCDSB…
