On Friday, February 21, four Ontario education unions representing elementary and secondary teachers and education workers will participate in a one-day walkout across the province. And we, all of CUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members, which proudly includes the 55,000 members of the Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU), stand in solidarity with them. Nearly 200,000…
HAMILTON, ON – The union representing staff in pathology at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is calling on the provincial government to reconsider a recent decision to divert pathology cases from Niagara to Toronto, by-passing Hamilton. The move to shuttle forensic autopsies from Niagara to Toronto, is the latest in a series of controversial and questionable…
TORONTO, ON – CUPE Ontario will join the Ontario Autism Coalition (OAC) and its labour and community allies for a rally at Queen’s Park, starting at 11:30 a.m. on February 18. The OAC and allies are raising concerns about the plans for a new funding arrangement for children with autism that was promised for April…
TORONTO, ON – CUPE Ontario will join the Ontario Autism Coalition (OAC) and its labour and community allies for a rally at Queen’s Park, starting at 11:30 a.m. on February 18. The OAC and allies are raising concerns about the plans for a new funding arrangement for children with autism that was promised for April…
CUPE Ontario continues to extend its solidarity to the Wet’suwet’en Nation, echoing the message shared by others across the country and within this province that we must finally take reconciliation seriously. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, together, remind us that we must…
TORONTO, ON – Instead of misleading the public, the City should come back to the table and negotiate to avoid the path to labour dispute that they’ve started down, says Eddie Mariconda, President of CUPE Local 416. Earlier today a “no-board report,” requested by the City last week, was issued, triggering a countdown to 12:01am…
Locked out CUPE 3768 members—municipal employees at the Town of Holyrood in Newfoundland—symbolize the struggle municipal workers face across Canada, say CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn and Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick. The employees provide snow clearing, water and sewage treatment, and clerical and accounting services. Despite their heroic efforts to keep snow cleared during last month’s…
PETERBOROUGH, ON – After hours of negotiations with Trent University management proved fruitless, the bargaining committee for Unit 1, Local 3908 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 3908-1) requested a ‘No Board’ report from the Ministry of Labour late Friday night. “We cannot negotiate with ourselves,” said CUPE National Representative Grant Darling, speaking…
OTTAWA, ON – More than 200 nurses, personal support workers (PSWs) and care dispatchers employed locally by ParaMed are among Ottawa’s and the Ottawa Valley’s lowest paid health care workers. But today (Monday, February 3, 2020) these predominantly female workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public of Employees (CUPE) begin workplace actions to increase…
NORTH BAY, ON – Close scrutiny of newly acquired reports and documents reveals that to date there has been no concrete evidence provided to support the closure of 31 hospital-based addiction treatment beds this coming June, in favour of a community services only model. “In fact, the publicly available evidence shows that North Bay needs…
