TORONTO – Today, CUPE Ontario is standing in solidarity with hundreds of concerned Torontonians in mourning the thousands of deaths due to overdose caused by government inaction, and sounding the alarm that overdose deaths will increase after the Ford Conservatives cancelled funding for three currently-operating, and two proposed Overdose Prevention Sites (OPS) across the province. “It…
In the past few years, CUPE members have consistently identified sexual violence and harassment as one of the most important issues facing our members in the post-secondary sector. In 2017, CUPE members passed a resolution at convention calling for a toolkit on the topic of sexual violence at work. In late 2018, CUPE released the Stop…
Despite a series of diversionary gimmicks and the standard ‘for the people’ rhetoric, the Doug Ford Tories have deepened their attacks with this Budget. Public services and the workers who deliver them will be targeted, hospital funding will increase below inflation and guarantee healthcare cuts. The attack on the poor will be especially severe. Legal…
TORONTO, ON – Empty promises and meaningless phrases in the Ford government’s budget announcement mask the true harm that will be done to Ontario’s students and system of public education, said the leader of the council that represents 55,000 education workers in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The most direct consequence of the…
TORONTO – The Doug Ford Conservatives have truly revealed the hollowness of their ‘for the people’ slogan today with a budget that makes life harder for people by cutting jobs and public services, and threatening to reduce the already declining real incomes of workers delivering those front-line services, says Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario.…
TORONTO, ON – Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Fred Hahn will be at Queen’s Park today as Finance Minister Vic Fedeli delivers the first budget of the Doug Ford Government. As the province’s largest union with over 270,000 members across the province, CUPE Ontario has serious concerns that today’s budget will negatively…
Pre-Budget Submission: Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs
PETERBOROUGH, ON –Two new reports are being released concurrently that expose the high level of violence, abuse and harassment against staff employed in Ontario’s long-term care homes. An in-depth, peer-reviewed investigative study on violence against staff in Ontario long-term care homes has just been published. The study, titled “Breaking Point: Violence Against Long-term Care Staff,”…
TORONTO, ON – Staff – particularly racialized workers – at the City of Toronto ten, long-term care homes experience a high level of violence, abuse and harassment, a newly released poll of front-line long-term care workers has found. The poll is the first time the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 79 has surveyed…
LONDON, ON –Two new reports are being released concurrently that expose the high level of violence, abuse and harassment against staff employed in Ontario’s long-term care homes. An in-depth, peer-reviewed investigative study on violence against staff in Ontario long-term care homes has just been published. The study, titled “Breaking Point: Violence Against Long-term Care Staff,”…
