February 6 will mark the 40th year of Leonard Peltier’s false imprisonment. A member of the American Indian Movement, Peltier (Anishinaabe-Lakota) is a political prisoner who was incarcerated after having been wrongfully extradited from Canada on the basis of fraudulent and coerced testimony. Leonard Peltier’s imprisonment has been the subject of global condemnation. Amnesty International,…
TORONTO, ON – Six years of Liberal austerity budgets have failed the people of Ontario but have profited already wealthy corporations, CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn told a pre-budget committee hearing at Queen’s Park today. “We’ve seen years of cuts to public services to pay for corporate tax cuts from the Liberal government,” said Hahn.…
TORONTO, Ont. – A nurse who spoke on a panel about patient violence against nurses has been terminated by the North Bay Regional Hospital. The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU)/CUPE is calling on the provincial government to pressure the North Bay Regional Hospital to reinstate the nurse and to adopt legislation that would make it…
February is Black History Month. CUPE Ontario urges its members to take this time to acknowledge and honour the many contributions people of African heritage have made to Canada and to the Canadian labour movement. The history of Black Canadians can be traced back to the early 1600s. While some people of African descent were…
HAMILTON, Ont. — Hamilton registered practical nurses (RPNs) are calling on the provincial government and area MPPs to help stop pervasive and increasing patient attacks on nurses. Just returned from a conference on health sector violence, they want laws to better protect them by charging violent patients under the criminal code and that include, enforceable…
TORONTO, ON – Today, the bargaining committee for CUPE Local 416, the Toronto Civic Employees Union, reacted with surprise and disappointment to the news the City of Toronto has requested a “no board” report from the provincial Ministry of Labour. In response, CUPE Local 79 has also filed a no board request. The City’s move…
OTTAWA, Ont. – Provisions relating to access to medicines in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal will cement high drug prices and undermine the health of hundreds of millions of people for generations, the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE (OCHU) charged today. The TPP has been negotiated between Canada, the U.S. and 10 other Pacific Rim…
Toronto, ON – Now that the “ill-conceived” registry for personal support workers (PSWs) has been scrapped, the 20,000 PSWs represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario in long-term care, hospitals and community care are asking for the issue of regulation for PSWs to be made a priority. Educational requirements and occupational demands…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2B9YOPO6GvI%3Fhl%3Den-ca%26rel%3D0%26autohide%3D1%26showinfo%3D0 A riveting keynote address at the CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurers Conference by Stephen Lewis, co-director and co-founder of AIDS-Free World. In it, he speaks of the role AIDS-Free World played in exposing child sexual abuse at the hands of U.N. peacekeepers, the foundation’s work to end child marriage and abuse, and the important role unions…
KINGSTON, Ont. — The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE (OCHU) supports the call on the federal government to create a national registry of asbestos in public buildings and for the ban on the use and import of asbestos endorsed by the European Union, Australia and other countries. “Increasing rates of mesothelioma and other related cancers…
