October 22, 2024 - CUPE Ontario

Child care operators, educators and parents distance themselves from group of for-profit child care owners’ campaign against $10-a-day child care

Child Care, SolidarityBy Ada Fung October 22, 2024

TORONTO – Ontario child care organizations, educators and families are speaking out against a group of for-profit child care owners who are staging rolling closures in the province. “It’s clear that there is growing backlash in the Ontario child care community against the tactics of this Alberta-backed group of for-profit child care owners this week,”…

CUPE Local 831 Faces Strike or Lockout as “No Board” Report Issued

SolidarityBy Ada Fung October 22, 2024

BRAMPTON, ON — The Ontario Ministry of Labour has issued a “No Board” report, initiating a countdown to a potential strike or lockout involving CUPE Local 831 and the City of Brampton. The union, representing 1,200 municipal workers, will be in a legal strike position at 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 7, 2024; the city could…

Raise the Rates Coalition brings demands to increase social assistance rates to Queen’s Park as more Ontarians legislated into poverty

SolidarityBy Ada Fung October 22, 2024

TORONTO – It’s not often easy to put a dollar amount on the government’s failure to care for Ontarians, but the roughly one million people in this province who rely on social assistance know the exact figure they need. Individuals supported by Ontario Works (OW) are shy of the poverty line by $1,569 every month;…

Community health workers rally to combat severe underfunding and understaffing at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre

SolidarityBy Ada Fung October 22, 2024

TORONTO – Today community health care workers at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) will rally to demand that their employer address the severe underfunding and understaffing crisis at the centre. After more than eight months at the bargaining table, SRCHC management still refuses to offer members of CUPE Local 5399 a real wage…

Daily Archives: October 22, 2024

Child care operators, educators and parents distance themselves from group of for-profit child care owners’ campaign against $10-a-day child care

CUPE Local 831 Faces Strike or Lockout as “No Board” Report Issued

Raise the Rates Coalition brings demands to increase social assistance rates to Queen’s Park as more Ontarians legislated into poverty

Community health workers rally to combat severe underfunding and understaffing at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre

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