Frontline Toronto youth mental health workers vote 100% in favour of strike action if a fair deal can’t be reached

TORONTO – Workers at YouthLink, a mental health agency that helps roughly 3,000 Torontonians aged 12 to 24 each year, are unanimous in their belief that youth in crisis need consistent care provided by fairly paid workers. YouthLink’s clinical counsellors, child and youth workers, residential counsellors, outreach workers, shelter workers, student development workers and administrative…

Professional Association for Ontario’s ECEs Join Frontline Early Years Workers as Newest Members of CUPE

TORONTO – What started a year ago with one-on-one conversations among workers culminated this month with a 100 percent certification vote as workers at the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario (AECEO) joined the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The six members of the AECEO – the professional association for Early Childhood Educators in…