It’s time to respond to the concerning COVID-19 modelling with comprehensive action, CUPE Ontario

Governmental

TORONTO, ON – Despite the increase in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and ICU admissions predicted by the Science Advisory Table, the Ford Conservatives are still failing to take comprehensive action to fight the pandemic, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. “Ontarians are tired of this seemingly unending COVID cycle that the Ford Conservatives…

More money, more staff, safer classrooms: CUPE school board leaders set bargaining priorities for 2022

COVID-19, Education, School Boards

TORONTO, ON – Reacting to wrenching reports of classroom violence, pressures created by understaffing, and the human cost of low wages and precarious work, school board leaders from the Canadian Union Public Employees (CUPE) have determined that better wages and working conditions for education workers will be the focus of their next round of central…

Ontario government’s erratic, ad hoc approach to the health workforce will mean a shortage of more than 50,000 nurses and personal support workers

COVID-19, Governmental, Health Care

TORONTO, ON – With health care job vacancies skyrocketing, new long-term care beds and a provincial government fond of “Band-Aid” health workforce approaches, Ontarians will see unprecedented health care staff shortages of more than 50,000 workers over the next few years. More than 59,000 new registered practical nurses (RPNs), personal support workers (PSWs) and registered…