TORONTO – Approximately 700 electrical and trades workers employed by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) are ready to take strike action. The workers, represented by CUPE 2, have been without a contract since April 2022. Despite several bargaining sessions since February 2024, discussions have been frustrating. As a result, the workers have set a strike…
Black River-Matheson, ON – After coming within a hair of resolving a bitter, six month labour dispute, the Township of Black River-Matheson has chosen to prolong it, by insisting on their right to be vindictive once people go back to work, says CUPE Local 1490. “I have no words for what I just witnessed at…
SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – Front-line workers at the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie say they desperately need a real wage increase if the health centre doesn’t want to lose more staff. In January, the Group Health Centre announced that eight physicians would be leaving the centre at the end of May, leaving…
OTTAWA – There is a network of nurses and personal support workers doing hundreds of in-home healthcare visits to seniors across eastern Ontario every day. It appears seamless, except the infrastructure behind that network – the 70 health administrators who schedule visits, book appointments, manage sick calls and more – is cracking. Those health administrators,…
