September 30 is Orange Shirt Day, which raises awareness about the residential school system and its traumatic, inter-generational impact on Indigenous peoples in Canada. On this day, we reflect on the legacy of residential schools, which were the primary instrument in a policy of cultural genocide instituted by the Canadian government. Orange Shirt Day was…
TORONTO, ON – Far from delivering a “line-by-line” accounting of provincial funding, the PC government’s $500,000 Ernst and Young (EY) report on the province’s finances “is gun for hire advocacy for downsizing public services, the sale of profitable provincial assets, user fees, means testing and increased privatization,” says Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario…
TORONTO, ON – The Ford government’s spending review that uses numbers, taken out of context, to justify their plan for massive cuts and privatization, will make life much more difficult and expensive for working people and their families, says Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario. In the report released Tuesday, corporate financial advisors Ernst &…
TORONTO, ON – The Ford government announced today they are slashing the amount businesses will pay to support the insurance system that protects injured workers, instead of making investments to ensure the program adequately provides injured workers with the support they deserve. The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) was created over a century ago…
LONDON, ON – Already funded and staffed at levels well below other provinces, Ontario’s hospitals’ hallway medicine and bed crisis will deepen under Premier Doug Ford’s public service “efficiency” program and promised tax cuts, the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) warned today in London. OCHU, the hospital division of the Canadian Union of…
Niagara Falls, ON – Representatives of the major unions representing Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) workers in Canada met to discuss issues that impact injured workers, employers and employees of workers compensation boards. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)…
TORONTO, ON – At a news conference held earlier this week at Queen’s Park, the Canadian Federation of Students Ontario and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 3903 issued a joint demand for York University to halt a series of punitive student code of conduct investigations that aim to punish union members and undergraduate…
TORONTO, ON – Today’s release of the Ontario government’s new fiscal forecast must not be used as an excuse for the Premier to break his election promises that he will not make any cuts to public services or make job cuts, says CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn. “There is no question that the previous…
CUPE Ontario members, including more than 55,000 education workers represented by the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU), stand in solidarity with students who are exercising their Charter Rights as part of the We the Students Do Not Consent walk-outs. Students are taking multiple actions over two days — including coordinated student walk-outs across…
TORONTO, ON – Following the Court’s decision that lets Toronto’s municipal election go ahead under legislation that cuts the number of councillors by close to half, pending a final decision on the appeal, CUPE Ontario’s President Fred Hahn issued a call to action across Ontario to continue to stand up to the Doug Ford…
