WINDSOR, ON — The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) today called on the province to open at least 50 fully-funded and permanent hospital beds for Windsor Regional Hospital. The beds are needed to deal with the strain on the hospital system to stem the persistent bed capacity problem, recently highlighted by the influx of…
CAMBRIDGE, ON – The 185 members of Local 32 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 32) who provide roads maintenance, including snow removal, water and wastewater services, arena maintenance, cemetery services, parks and pools maintenance and mechanical services for the City of Cambridge commenced strike action this morning at 12:30 a.m. after negotiations…
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CUPE university workers in Ontario stand in solidarity with Unite HERE Local 75 food service workers at York University and University of Toronto Scarborough in their effort for decent wages and working conditions. CUPE’s Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee (OUWCC) encourages all workers and students on these campuses to support Aramark food service workers by…
Public and not-for-profit network will deliver best child care for Ontarians: CUPE submission Ontario’s best and only chance of building a high-quality and affordable system of early childhood education and care for all Ontarians is to create one that is publicly funded, planned and managed system, says CUPE in its just-released submission to the Ontario…
L’ORIGNAL, ON – Eastern Ontario school board Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l’Est ontarien (CSDCEO) is still the only school board in Ontario without a local collective agreement with its education workers, but now its refusal to reach a deal at the bargaining table has taken its employees – members of Local 4155 of…
TORONTO, ON – The Premier and Ministers of Finance and Energy have finally responded to the misfeasance suit, filed against them for wrong doing in the sale of shares in Hydro One, with an attempt to avoid a public trial, says Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario and one of the plaintiffs in the suit…
PARRY SOUND, ON – Today workers locked out of their jobs by Nipissing and Parry Sound Children’s Aid Society (CAS) will welcome to their picket line in Parry Sound the vice-president of a sister local from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Jim Little, vice-president of CUPE 1165-2, will take a donation of $500…
February is Black History Month. CUPE Ontario urges all its members to take this time to acknowledge and celebrate the many contributions people of African heritage have made to Canada and our union movement. The history of Black Canadians can be traced back to the early 1600s. While some people of African descent…
