Another audit, investigation, or review is not what families in Ontario need. We have a list of 396 recommendations for sweeping reform. Those recommendations came out of coroner’s inquests into four tragic deaths of children and youth in care in this province since 2010 and they are a blueprint for how our system can better…
LONDON, ON – Western University and caretaking, landscape service and trades workers represented by CUPE 2361 have reached a tentative agreement that will end the six-week strike on campus. “We were able to reach an agreement that makes progress on key priorities, and we’re happy to be getting back to work,” said Steve Pepper, an…
BRAMPTON – Last year, Doug Ford bowed to pressure from residents, unions and community groups in Brampton, Mississauga and Caledon, who collectively forced him to backtrack on his decision to dissolve the Region of Peel. But he left his appointed transition board in place, who are working in secret to change the way that public…
The Ford government’s plan to permanently employ lower-trained workers to replace PSWs caring for increasingly vulnerable long-term care residents is fraught with risk, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees. The union is instead calling for a robust health care human resources strategy to recruit the tens of thousands of personal support workers required in…
Many hundreds of young people in Ontario have been warehoused in hotels, motels, office buildings and worse because of an acute crisis of care the provincial government has manufactured. Four years into a “redesign” of the province’s children’s aid system with no progress to show for its efforts, it’s clear the announced audit is another…
Yesterday CUPE Ontario leaders and members marked one year since the horrifying events of October 7, 2023, which saw 1200 people killed in Israel, including eight Canadians. Those events began a catastrophic cycle of attacks, death, and devastation – a year in which tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of innocent people have been killed. One…
In response to the government’s plan to issue new licenses to for-profit clinics this fall, OCHU and OHC are demanding that money be invested in public hospitals instead TORONTO – Symbolizing the threat of the plan to privatize hospital surgeries, a 15-foot replica of the Trojan Horse visited legislators at Queen’s Park today. The metaphor…
TORONTO – Health and social workers who are passionate about the outreach services they provide to residents of South Riverdale have sent an unmistakable signal that they are no longer prepared to tolerate the harmful effects of severe underfunding and understaffing at South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC). On Tuesday, members of CUPE 5399, which represents over 120…
