CUPE and Kingston paramedics call for the immediate addition of 180 hospital staff at Kingston’s hospital to deal with COVID wave and flu surge; 1000 more hires in 2023 just to maintain service levels

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KINGSTON, ON – Kingston Health Sciences Centre must immediately add 180 full-time staff to deal with higher patient volumes from this fall and winter’s COVID-19 wave and pressing flu season or patient care will continue to decline and ambulance offload delays will increase, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and OPSEU/SEFPO paramedics said at…

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Ontario tables legislation to keep education workers from striking, CUPE to stage protest

CUPE Ontario in the Media, Dontbeabully.ca

Despite the legislation, CUPE said education workers still stage a province wide protest and walk off the job this Friday, Nov. 4. The Ontario government has tabled legislation that will impose a contract on education workers and not allow them to legally walk off the job. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), who represent…

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CUPE to stage provincewide protest Friday in response to ban on strike

CUPE Ontario in the Media, Dontbeabully.ca

The Canadian Union of Public Employees says its approximately 55,000 education workers will stage a provincewide protest Friday, meaning they will be off the job despite the Ontario government tabling legislation to impose contracts and ban a strike. Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said whether workers continue to protest…

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Top questions answered about Ontario’s back-to-work legislation

CUPE Ontario in the Media, Dontbeabully.ca

The Ontario government tabled legislation on Monday that was supposed to prevent an education worker strike from occurring on Friday. The 82-page bill, when passed, would establish a four-year collective agreement with approximately 55,000 school support staff under the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)—including custodians, early childhood educators, education assistants and administrative staff—and make…

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Ontario school workers say they’ll walk out Friday after province imposes new contract

CUPE Ontario in the Media, Dontbeabully.ca

Support staff in most school boards across the province say they will walk off the job Friday, defying legislation introduced by the education minister to avert a strike while imposing a four-year contract on them. School support staff across the province say they will walk off the job Friday, defying legislation introduced by the education…