TORONTO, ON – In the week since the Ford government announced it is freezing land ambulance grants at 2017-2018 levels, municipalities have been scrambling to sort out the full impact of what could be a cut of $40-50 million province-wide. Ontario paramedics, the bulk of whom are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees…
KENORA, ON – Kenora-Rainy River residents polled say they don’t support the massive changes the PCs are planning to make to the province’s health system. More than 300 Kenora area residents who responded to the local poll were asked whether they supported different aspects of the PC restructuring of hospitals, long-term care and home and…
KENORA, ON – Polling that surveys Kenora residents about the massive changes the Doug Ford Progressive Conservative government is planning to make to the province’s health system is being released on Monday, May 6 at 12:00 noon at the Kenora area office of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) office at 308 Second St.…
TORONTO, ON – The Ontario government’s Getting Ontario Moving Act, which gives the province ownership over future transit expansion in Toronto, is an irresponsible move that won’t deliver the transit system that Toronto needs, according to the president of Local 2 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents over 650 signals, electrical…
TORONTO, ON – As school boards across Ontario suffer deep and destructive cuts at the hands of the provincial government, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 55,000 education workers, is heading to the bargaining table. But as they give notice to bargain, they will also be giving notice to their counterparts in negotiations:…
TORONTO, ON – Dozens of clerical staff at St. Mike’s, St. Joseph’s and Providence – Toronto’s most recent hospitals to undergo restructuring – have been laid off, many with two weeks’ notice, in contradiction to Premier Ford’s election promise that no one in the public sector would lose their jobs. The Canadian Union of Public…
This year, on May 1st, CUPE Ontario and the CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario (CACO) are again recognizing First Responders Day. We would like to express our immense pride in the commitment and compassion paramedics and health care staff bring to saving lives every day in Ontario. Our support for you and our pride in…
TORONTO, ON – Despite Premier Doug Ford’s repeated promise that, under his government, no public sector workers would lose their jobs, dozens of clerical staff at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital have just been terminated. “It does beg questions about the collateral damage of the Ford PC health system restructuring on patient care and staffing levels.…
On May 1, CUPE Ontario joins with its friends, allies and workers around the world to honour the fight for an eight‑hour workday, and to call for decent work, dignity and respect. We are proud to recognize International Workers’ Day, or May Day, at a time when the province of Ontario has not only turned…
THUNDER BAY, ON – Last Friday’s announcement of the government’s cuts to education funding has left some education workers at Lakehead District School Board (LDSB) fearing the worst for the safety of students in the region’s schools. The government’s education funding for 2019-20 slashed a total $2.13 million from Lakehead District School Board’s budgets and…
