TORONTO, ON – The Executive Board of Ontario’s largest union, CUPE Ontario, has elected a new Secretary-Treasurer, Yolanda McClean, to represent 280,000 members working in the public sector. “I am honoured to be elected Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE Ontario,” said McClean. “With the Ford Conservatives, I know the work ahead of us can look daunting, but…
TORONTO, ON – Yet again the Ford Conservatives are leaving billions of dollars on the table that could be spent to keep Ontarians safe and ensure the delivery of critical services, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. “If it wasn’t obvious before the pandemic, it is now: spending saves lives,” said Fred Hahn, President of…
Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy relating to Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021
This month, Premier Ford’s Progressive Conservative government made major moves to court workers, seeking to change labour laws with the Working for Workers Act and pledging to raise the minumum wage. But, do Ontario unions actually like what they see, and will this help Ontario’s working class in substantial ways? Also, are we witnessing a…
CUPE Ontario congratulates the four members elected to represent our region on CUPE National’s Executive Board during its Convention today. CUPE Ontario’s President Fred Hahn was re-elected as the General Vice-President for Ontario at the National Union. CUPE Ontario’s First Vice-President, and President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, Michael Hurley was re-elected Regional…
CUPE Ontario is celebrating the election of Candace Rennick as the new Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE National at its 30th biennial convention today. “I want to thank the members in Ontario for the trust and confidence they have placed in me over the last 12 years as CUPE Ontario’s Secretary Treasurer,” said Candace Rennick, CUPE National’s…
NIAGARA REGION, ON – The Niagara Region Emergency Medical Service (EMS) is putting people’s safety at risk by not providing paramedics and dispatchers the resources they need to serve patients, says Local 911 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 911). The union is calling on Niagara EMS and the regional municipality to act…
On November 20, CUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members join our communities in observing Transgender Remembrance Day and in celebrating our collective victories while recommitting to addressing the many challenges that still exist. We take note that, while the commemoration of this day began as a memorial for trans people murdered and brutalized because of their identities, this history is ongoing and certainly…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” famously opens Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. The line also perfectly describes the growing income and wealth inequality in Ontario, a tale of two provinces that compels us to finally institute a wealth tax. In the tale of one of the…
TORONTO, ON – Ontario must immediately address growing income and wealth inequality by radically restructuring the tax system to tax wealth and high incomes, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario during a press conference this morning. “CUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members are saying that, in the face of growing income and wealth inequality,…
