Northeastern Catholic District School Board workers vote to join CUPE

TIMMINS, ON – Workers across various municipalities in northeast Ontario are joining CUPE after a successful union organizing campaign across the Northeastern Catholic District School Board. Approximately 200 new members from Cochrane, Cobalt, Kapuskasing, Timmins, and more are joining CUPE Local 4681 and CUPE’s 55,000 education workers across Ontario. “This is a great step towards…

Hospital workers demonstrate at Stratford MPP’s office against government’s expansion of private, for-profit hospital services

While the Ford government plans to double private delivery of MRIs and CT scans, OCHU/CUPE says underused hospital operating rooms should be better utilized   Stratford, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of health care privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Matthew Rae’s constituency office in Stratford today. In June, the government…