Arbitrator awards 45,000 Ontario hospital workers 6.25% wage increase; registered practical nurses to get additional incentive

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON – On Tuesday, Arbitrator Kaplan’s Bill 124 reopener award recognized the extent to which Doug Ford’s Bill 124 unconstitutionally suppressed union member wages — particularly given the combined effects of the pandemic, the healthcare worker recruitment and retention crisis and inflation — and determined that these factors must be reflected in compensation increases…

Hospital staff rally against Ford’s privatization plan in Hamilton, call on government to invest in public health care.

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

HAMILTON, ON – A large group of hospital staff including nurses, personal support workers and lab technologists rallied today at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton against the Ford government’s plan to contract out hospital services to private, for-profit clinics. In response to Bill 60, the recently passed legislation that farms out surgeries and diagnostic procedures…

CUPE Local 1939 custodians and maintenance workers reach tentative agreement with Keewatin-Patricia District School Board

School Boards, Solidarity

KENORA, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1939 workers’ bargaining committee has reached a tentative agreement with the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board on custodians and maintenance workers’ local terms and conditions for the period of September 2022 to August 2026. CUPE education workers voted to ratify their local agreement on June…