TORONTO, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has written to the ministers of health and of community and social services calling for an audit of executive compensation at Canadian Hearing Services (CHS) after learning of sharp increases at a time when front-line workers are living under provincial wage restraint legislation. In the…
Toronto, ON – After getting an imposed contract that would have further harmed Ontario schools off their backs with the repeal of Bill 28, Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers have given five days’ notice of a potential province-wide strike. CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) central bargaining committee, negotiating for 55,000 frontline education workers,…
TORONTO, ON – CUPE 3902 and CUPE 3261, representing two bargaining units of approximately 1,100 contract education workers and 700 full time and part time front-line service workers respectively, held a rally to call on U of T to support good jobs and avert potential strikes. “Good jobs are disappearing at U of T, while…
TORONTO, ON – Today’s fall economic statement is proof that the Ford government has failed to hear the outcry from so many quarters across the province, said leaders of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, who warned that continuing neglect of public services harms Ontarians. Delivered today by Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy,…
TORONTO, ON – The following is a statement from Laura Walton, educational assistant and president of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions: “This afternoon, Ontario’s education workers have their rights back. With the shadow of Bill 28 lifted, education workers can now focus on achieving a fairly negotiated collective agreement that meets the needs…
TORONTO, ON – “Good riddance” was CUPE Ontario’s departing comment on the repeal of Bill 28, the anti-worker legislation introduced less than two weeks ago by the Ford government and rescinded following a historic pushback by education and their allies. “This attack on workers’ rights, delivered under the guise of legislation, has been consigned to…
MEMORANDUM DATE: November 14, 2022 TO: All National Representatives FROM: Christina Gilligan, Associate Coordinator – Child Care RE: Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan In March 2022, the Ontario government signed on to the Canada Wide Early Learning and Child Care plan (CWELCC). But, they have…
This is a historic day, friends. The Ford Conservatives have announced they would Repeal Bill 28 and get back to the bargaining table because of our coordinated, impassioned, and powerful pressure. 55,000 education workers – with the unwavering support of the rest of CUPE Ontario, the entire Canadian labour movement, and allies from every community…
TORONTO, ON – Contract academic workers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have given their bargaining team an 85% mandate in favour of strike action, strongly backing up workers’ demands for greater job security that will bring benefits to students as well as workers. Contract instructors and assistants (also known as sessional lecturers…
WINDSOR, ON – A provincial wage enhancement for personal support workers (PSWs) that was supposed to have been made permanent disappeared from paycheques without warning to workers at Regency Park Nursing Home, a private, for-profit long-term care facility in Windsor, Ontario. “We were shocked, to say the least. We thought it must have been an…
