Dear comrades, sisters, brothers, and friends: This past year has been a challenging one for our members, our communities, for people around the globe. In so many ways, the strength of our union’s solidarity has been tested. But in every instance, the members of CUPE Ontario have come through the challenges of 2023 with strengthened…
SAULT STE MARE, ON – No one should go into work not knowing when they’ll be able to go home, but that’s the reality for more than 250 frontline developmental service workers with Community Living Algoma. Today, CUPE 1880.01 delivered a letter signed by roughly 70 per cent of members, calling for an end to…
SAULT STE MARE, ON – No one should go into work not knowing when they’ll be able to go home, but that’s the reality for more than 250 frontline developmental service workers with Community Living Algoma. Today, CUPE 1880.01 delivered a letter signed by roughly 70 per cent of members, calling for an end to…
MATHESON, ON – Municipal workers in the Township of Black River-Matheson remain locked out of their workplaces after talks on Monday ended with no deal. CUPE 1490 went to the bargaining table in hopes of reaching a fair agreement, but the meeting concluded after a disappointingly brief duration. Despite the union’s willingness to build on…
TORONTO, ON – University Settlement is a charity with a more than hundred-year history of building strong communities in Toronto. But all is not right with their own staff – and in a resounding show of solidarity, workers voted 96 per cent in favour of striking if management refuses to address long simmering issues. 63…
Matheson, ON – CUPE 1490 and the Township of Black River-Matheson resumed negotiations today in pursuit of a fair and equitable agreement. Unfortunately, an agreement was not reached during the meeting. The 13 union members, who have been locked out of their workplaces since October 15, are pleased to be back at the bargaining table…
– “This is an important step in our organizing to protect jobs and services” – BRAMPTON, ON – CUPE Ontario and CUPE 966 are calling the cancellation of Peel region’s dissolution a victory for Peel residents and workers, and claiming that community organizing – and the threat of more of it – played a…
CUPE Ontario has marked Human Rights Day 2023, the day that marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This declaration lays out for people the world over the fundamental rights and freedoms to which every human being is entitled, regardless of their nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, age,…
OSHAWA, ON – After nearly two years of bargaining, CUPE 2936.02 and 2936.03 members – all developmental service workers at Community Living Oshawa Clarington (CLOC) – voted to reject a tentative agreement. Members entered negotiations focused on improving wages in line with other Community Living agencies; ending the practice of contracting out which sees outside…
OCHU/CUPE, SEIU Healthcare and Unifor say the government must prevent further closures by entering hospital negotiations to invest in frontline staff. Toronto, Ontario – In response to yesterday’s damning report by the Auditor General and a new report by the Ontario Health Coalition revealing nearly 1,200 Emergency Room and other hospital department shutdowns in 2023,…
