CUPE responds to Ministry of Labour proposal regarding lockout at Nipissing and Parry Sound CAS

2049-lockout2016, Social Services, Strike Support

NORTH BAY and PARRY SOUND, ON – The following statement was issued by Local 2049 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) about recent developments in the ongoing lockout at the Children’s Aid Society of the District of Nipissing and Parry Sound: On Wednesday, April 5, the president of CUPE 2049 was contacted by…

Province urged to look deeper at causes of violence, unsafe staffing levels to learn from horrific beating of St. Joseph’s Villa resident

Health Care

HAMILTON, ON — Failure to protect Ontario long-term care home residents, like James Acker who suffered a severe beating at the hands of another resident at St. Joseph Villa in Dundas from all forms of assaults, “lies with the provincial government. To keep residents safer, the health ministry must look deeper into the systemic causes…