New report says Ontario’s child care centres need a safe, supported reopening that protects children, families, educators and programs. Two major child care organizations affiliated with CUPE are urgently calling on the Ford government to ensure a safe reopening of child care centres across the province as Ontario approaches Stage two of it’s economic recovery…
(TORONTO, ON) The Province of Ontario must immediately ramp up testing and contact tracing to ensure safety and create jobs, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. Today, Ontario reported the third straight day of increasing daily cases of COVID-19 and the fifth straight day of falling short of its daily testing goal of 16,000.…
(TORONTO, ON) – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) have joined forces in a first-ever joint letter to the Premier and the Minister of Municipal Affairs seeking urgent financial help for struggling municipal governments. The President of CUPE Ontario, which represents 80,000 municipal employees, Fred…
While CUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members have always known how important paid sick leave is, this crisis has made that clearer than ever. On Thursday, May 21, our union is therefore proud to participate in a Day of Action, along with Fight for $15 and Fairness and the Ontario Federation of Labour, calling for paid sick…
CUPE registered practical nurses Pam Parks, Judy Bain, and Maggie Jewell lay out what health care workers need in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis: There are painted rocks, flower bouquets and handmade signs outside our hospitals and long-term-care homes. These are welcome offerings. The thanks to health-care workers inside touch us deeply. It all…
WATERLOO, ON – Members of CUPE Local 1883, representing over 850 workers with the Region of Waterloo, will deliver coffee and cookies to frontline workers at various locations today. Members of Local 1883 have been redeployed into various frontline posts throughout the region to help respond to community needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Local members…
Sunday, May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Today we rededicate ourselves to the struggle for LGBTQ2S+ rights in Canada and around the world. We also reflect on all that we have accomplished and acknowledge the homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia that persists in the lives of LGBTQ2S+ people. Since 2005, May 17 has been…
Thousands of health care workers demonstrated outside Ontario hospitals Thursday, protesting the Ford government’s pandemic pay raise. That’s because not everyone is considered eligible for the four dollar per hour hike, something the union says is unfair. Watch the Global News video here.
“Tens of thousands of health care staff who work on the hospital front lines – including those in Hamilton, have been excluded from receiving the pandemic recognition pay announced by the province last month,” reads a release from the Canadian Union of Public Employees. “Since the COVID pandemic began in Ontario, [CUPE] health care sector…
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says there are still “tens of thousands of health-care staff” who have been excluded from the pandemic pay program. Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, tells CTV News the government has created effectively two classes of workers in the province’s hospitals. Click here to…
