TORONTO, ON – The inquiry into the murder of eight long term care residents in Ontario says, “fundamental changes must be made”, and has called on the government to improve resident safety, in part, by looking at increased training and staffing levels in Ontario long term care facilities. For years, CUPE Ontario, through its Time…
TORONTO, ON – Concerns about the effects of provincial funding cuts on students, workers and the school community have prompted the union bargaining on behalf of 55,000 education workers to ask the Ontario Labour Relations Board to send a conciliator to help with contract negotiations. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and its provincially…
The critical work of CUPE education workers in the public, catholic, elementary and French school boards are often undervalued and overlooked during the bargaining process. Today, CUPE Ontario stands with our 55,000 school board workers calling on the Ford Conservative government to make it a priority to resolve the issues in dispute with CUPE. CUPE…
PETERBOROUGH, ON – When it comes to hospital funding, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative (PC) government is “worse than Mike Harris” new data reports released in Peterborough today by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OHCU) show. For Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government to keep its proposed budget plan for the next five years, “it is…
