“Solidarity for striking Port of Montreal workers”: CUPE Ontario sends message opposing bad faith bargaining and back-to-work legislation

Since 2018, members of CUPE Local 375, representing 1,100 longshore workers at the Port of Montreal, have been without a contract. Continued bad faith bargaining on the part of the employer, the Maritime Employers Association (MEA), culminated in them announcing schedule changes that would see members working more per shift without any additional pay, and…

Patients at even more risk under PC’s 8-year funding plan – like operating hospitals today with 34,000 fewer staff and $4.4 billion less Toronto hospitals will be stricken, CUPE overcapacity report says

TORONTO ON – Although COVID-19 has shown how little capacity our hospitals have after decades of cuts, the crisis for Toronto’s and Ontario’s hospital patients will get much worse, says a Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) research paper, Ontario Hospital Crisis: Overcapacity and Under Threat released today. The Ontario 2021 budget plans to cut…