REGION OF WATERLOO, ON – After more than a year of unproductive negotiations, about 1,200 Regional Municipality of Waterloo workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have filed for a No-Board, which will initiate a 17-day countdown to a strike or a lockout. The workers, represented by CUPE Locals 5191 and 1883,…
“This year, Canada Day should be nothing more than a day of reflection. I will not celebrate the birth of a nation that destroyed our children.” The words of Sol Mamakwa, NDP MPP for Kiiwetinoong and a member of Kingfisher First Nation, are ones people living in what we call Canada must hear and must contend with. He continues by asking:…
Dear Members, In 2019, the Indigenous Council of CUPE Ontario designed orange t-shirts with the goal of increasing awareness of residential schools. Since then, CUPE Ontario has continued to support the Indigenous Council with this effort by making orange shirts available to purchase in the months leading up to Orange Shirt Day. Recently, we made…
OTTAWA, ON – Workers at Rideau Transit Maintenance in Ottawa voted almost unanimously yesterday to join he Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Rideau Transit Maintenance has a 30-year contract to maintain the Confederation Line, Ottawa’s new light rail transit system. “This group does the same work as our members in transit systems across the…
CUPE Ontario condemns the City of Toronto’s decision to clear encampments at Trinity Bellwoods Park where unhoused Torontonians have been living. The use of over 100 police officers and dozens of private security would be a completely unjustified display of forced removal at any time. Toronto’s one of the most expensive cities in the world and far too many of our neighbours can’t afford…
REGION OF WATERLOO, ON – The Region of Waterloo’s mismanagement is harming the quality of paramedic services and putting the community and its workforce at risk, according to paramedics represented by Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 5191 (CUPE 5191). Luke McCann, an active paramedic and president of CUPE 5191, said emergency calls had increased…
UPDATE: Our inventory and sizes have been restocked. Please click on the link below for the order form. National Indigenous People’s Day is June 21st. To purchase the Indigenous Council’s “Every Child Matters” orange shirts (for $20 each), please fill out this order form, linked here. If you would like to purchase more than 15…
On June 23, 2021, CUPE Ontario celebrates Developmental Service Worker (DSW) Appreciation Day—a day dedicated to recognizing the vital work done by workers in developmental services to support persons with developmental disabilities. This day is even more important this year as developmental service workers reflect on and share their challenges and sacrifices throughout the COVID-19…
We’re in a moment of mourning and reckoning, confronted in a way that can’t be avoided by the very worst of ongoing colonialism. 215 Indigenous children’s remains were found in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, or Kamloops, British Columbia. While the Ford Conservatives applaud their vaccination plan and take steps towards reopening, we’re witnessing the unfolding crisis…
TORONTO, ON – Supply and contract employees who perform Library Technician duties in the Toronto Catholic District School Board voted this week to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). “For too long, casual and supply Library Technicians have had no one to help them raise grievances or advance their rights in the workplace.…
