PORT COLBORNE, ON – Developmental service workers have decided they’d rather walk picket lines then be stuck on shift for days on end. After more than a year of bargaining between the roughly 100 members in CUPE Local 2276 and Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet (CLPCW), talks broke down on Wednesday. There was only one main…
Tri-Board school transportation workers will address Limestone District School Board trustees today, in advance of April 3 strike deadline KINGSTON, ON – Representatives of the seven employees who work for Tri-Board Student Transportation Services plan to ask Limestone District School Board Trustees to intervene, at their meeting tonight, to avoid a strike. The affected workers…
CUPE Ontario is proud to send its deepest solidarity to the members of CUPE 4600, academic workers at Carleton University, who began strike action on March 27. The strength, determination and solidarity of these workers are clear. After months at the bargaining table, CUPE 4600 is fighting for a deal that will enhance the quality…
TORONTO – A dispute over pension funding at Toronto Metropolitan University will lead to job action later this month unless the university addresses pension issues, say leaders of CUPE Local 233, representing maintenance, grounds and custodial workers at the school in downtown Toronto. “After months of negotiations, the university still hasn’t recognized that it cannot…
TORONTO, ON – The aftermath of Premier Doug Ford’s 2023 brutal budget is looking grim for students, their families, and frontline workers across the province. With school boards already warning of layoffs because they’re underfunded, the provincial government has used an accounting trick to hide a real cut in public school funding for 2023-24. The…
OTTAWA – Despite the best efforts of academic workers to reach a fair deal over the weekend, picket lines will go up at Carleton University on Monday morning. “We have been at the bargaining table for months and have been crystal clear with the employer that they need to address our serious concerns around poverty-level…
OTTAWA – At a special membership meeting today, contract academic workers at Carleton University voted overwhelmingly against the university’s latest offer and reiterated their support for a strike if Carleton doesn’t address their concerns seriously. The more than 3,000 members of CUPE Local 4600 include graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants and contract instructors. The local…
TORONTO – CUPE Ontario delivered a stinging assessment of the Ford government’s provincial budget, as the union charged the government with deliberately underspending on vital services and failing to address the staffing crisis it has created in the hollowing out of the province’s public services. “Starving our public services has been an intentional choice of…
TORONTO – It’s a strange world where a tuition fee freeze is announced and almost no one cheers. But that’s the reality the Ford government faced earlier this month. And it happened because students and university workers alike know the freeze is only one side of the story. “In theory, a tuition fee freeze should…
CUPE Ontario recognizes and honours March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (IDERD), which was proclaimed in 1966 as a day of remembrance by the United Nations. The day has its origins in one of the most brutal episodes of apartheid-era South Africa, the attack on peaceful protestors in Sharpeville…
