“We’re Uniting for a Fair Contract”: Peterborough County/City Paramedics present a banner signed by 200 people ahead of conciliation

Paramedics

(Peterborough, ON) – We’re working to ease the recruitment and retention crisis facing Peterborough County/City paramedics, said CUPE Local 4911 as they hosted a member engagement photo opportunity in front of Peterborough Regional Hospital, displaying a banner signed by over 200 people supporting their efforts. “Peterborough residents rely on paramedics who can respond rapidly to…

Statement from CUPE Ontario and the International Solidarity Committee on the war in Israel and Gaza

International Solidarity

In the true tradition of trade unionism, CUPE Ontario will always choose justice over injustice, side with the powerless over the powerful, and support the colonized over the colonizer. Throughout the world, CUPE Ontario’s International Solidarity Committee (ISC) links members to workers’ global struggles so that we may stand in solidarity with all oppressed peoples.…

As workers build power, Community Living Guelph Wellington plans cuts that will hurt

Social Services, Solidarity

Guelph, ON – After a year of bargaining, and right as workers have begun building momentum towards a fair and necessary deal, Community Living Guelph Wellington (CLGW) has cried poverty and announced closures and layoffs that will hurt workers, people supported, and families. The more than 450 frontline developmental service workers in the Canadian Union…

CUPE workers rally to support staff at Windsor’s Regency Park Long-Term Care Home after staff receive layoff notices

Health Care, Home Care, Solidarity

Windsor, ON – On Friday, CUPE workers from across the province will rally at the Regency Park Long-Term Care home in solidarity with seven long-term care staff who received layoff notices from the for-profit home operated by Universal Care. The seven staff include two dietary aides, three personal support workers, one registered nurse, and one…

SEIU Healthcare, OCHU-CUPE, and Unifor sign 10-point Solidarity Pact to save public hospitals and fight privatization

Health Care

Face à l’augmentation alarmante du nombre de postes vacants, aux fermetures sans précédent de salles d’urgence et aux milliers de patients qui meurent dans l’attente d’une intervention chirurgicale, trois grands syndicats représentant environ 70,000 travailleurs du secteur hospitalier de l’Ontario ont signé aujourd’hui à Queen’s Park un Pacte de solidarité pour sauver nos hôpitaux publics…

“No more spin. We will fight concessions.”: CUPE Local 53 Town of Whitby workers continue to demand that concessions be scrapped

Municipal, Solidarity

Whitby, ON – After two days of bargaining the Town of Whitby continues to push for unnecessary and harmful concessions, says municipal workers represented by CUPE Local 53. “Yesterday, the Employer put out a media release saying that we rejected an offer that included wage increases and benefit improvements but that’s, at best, only half…

CUPE Local 3314 public health workers reach tentative agreement with Hastings Prince Edward Public Health

Health Care

BELLEVILLE, ON—After 10 days on strike, frontline public health workers at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health have reached a tentative agreement with the board of health. The workers’ bargaining committee resumed negotiations with management on Monday afternoon following news that their nurse coworkers, members of Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) Local 31, ratified a collective agreement…