Ontario health care workers need protections now, Premier must use emergency powers to order mass production of masks

COVID-19, Health Care, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON – Ontario’s Premier today told health care staff fighting COVID-19 that following next week, they will be left exposed, without the personal protections needed to keep them from getting infected. Michael Hurley president of the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is urging the Premier to use the government’s…

“Keep municipal staff working”: CUPE Ontario calls on the province to defend services and workers

COVID-19, Municipal

(TORONTO, ON) CUPE Ontario, the province’s largest union, is calling on the provincial government to fund municipalities during the pandemic in order to keep staff working and on the payroll.   “Municipal services matter, now more than ever – and many municipal governments are doing the right thing by keeping workers on staff,” said Fred Hahn,…