When we live through historic times, we may not always realize the wider significance of events happening around us. As summer turns to fall, Labour Day is always an opportunity to take stock of the point in history we all occupy, and of the role unions play in building power to help working people succeed.…
This week CUPE Ontario’s executive board members met for our annual planning retreat. The days we spent together gave us the time and opportunity to address, as a board, the events of the past two weeks. We discussed the actual and potential effects on CUPE members and on CUPE Ontario, and the various steps we…
LONDON, ON – A strike by caretaking, landscape service and trades workers is likely to disrupt move-in day at Western University, after management broke off contract talks on Wednesday, ahead of a deadline at midnight tonight. “We remain ready to negotiate, but the employer has dug in their heels and left the table. Unless they…
TORONTO – In response to new research showing that wealthy Ontarians are disproportionately benefiting from for-profit clinics, CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions is demanding the province halt public funding for private surgeries and invest in cataracts provided by public hospitals. A study by the Canadian Medical Associations Journal released yesterday says that surgical rates…
Details of tentative agreement to be released following ratification vote HAMILTON, ON – On August 21st, minutes after midnight, representatives from CUPE 5167 and Good Shepherd Centres Hamilton reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that will ensure labour peace until 2027. CUPE 5167 represents over 150 workers employed at Good Shepherd Family…
Workers ask the Premier to base public policy on evidence and continue saving lives Every Ontarian deserves low-barrier access to mental health and addictions services in their community. These services must include life-saving harm reduction spaces that are well-funded and professionally administered and allow for the safe consumption and treatment in places across the province…
TORONTO – The Premier’s recent comments in the media shows “a callous attitude” towards the hospital crisis, where overcrowding has increased by 30 percent since 2018, said Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE), referring to Doug Ford’s gaffe about overflow patients having the option of receiving treatment at a new…
Parents sigh a deep breath of relief as members of CUPE 2132 ratify tentative agreement with YMCA Academy TORONTO – Just weeks before the school year begins, members of CUPE 2132 voted in favour of their first collective agreement with their employer, YMCA Academy. CUPE 2132, which represents 23 teaching and non-teaching staff at…
SIMCOE COUNTY, ON – Members of CUPE Local 5820 who work for the County of Simcoe could be on strike by next week, leading to an interruption of certain county services if the employer fails to negotiate a fair deal. “This is about fairness for our members,” said Wendy Monsinger, president of CUPE Local 5820.…
TORONTO – A new peer-reviewed study released today in Toronto warns that Ontario’s hospital workers, most of whom are women and many racialized, are in deep turmoil as they labour through an intensifying staffing crisis that is harming their well-being and compromising patient care. Running on Empty, published in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental…
