TORONTO – For the first time in seven weeks, there is a potential deal in sight for workers on the picket lines at York University. The bargaining team representing academic workers at the university reached a tentative agreement with their employer Sunday night. Details of the agreement are not being released pending ratification. Members of…
TORONTO – Hospital and long-term care workers represented by Ontario’s largest hospital union elected a new executive board on April 11 with a strong mandate to fight back against the government’s policies of underfunding and the privatization of surgeries and diagnostics. Michael Hurley and Sharon Richer were acclaimed as the president and secretary-treasurer of CUPE’s…
The SickKids pension plan compares poorly to the standard pension plan offered by other hospitals in Ontario TORONTO – After more than a year of appeals to SickKids management virtually fell on deaf ears, the exasperated health care workers held a rally outside the hospital demanding a decent pension plan on Tuesday, April 9. They…
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,…
Ottawa, ON – Waste Management workers at the Waste Management of Canada Corporation have largely voted in favour of strike action should there not be a resolution in bargaining, said CUPE Local 1338. “While a strong strike vote does not necessarily mean we will strike, it tells the Employer that we are ready to do…
TORONTO – Ontarians desperate for relief from the cost-of-living crisis and eager for more investment in their public services have been let down again by the Conservatives’ budget, which was delivered this afternoon. “This budget sets up ordinary Ontarians for more years of misery,” said Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario, the union that represents…
TORONTO – The increase in hospital funding announced yesterday is not enough to ease the hospital crisis and will actually cause further deterioration, says CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE). “It doesn’t keep up with hospital inflationary pressures (of 5.6 per cent) let alone the pressures of an aging and growing population, even as…
