At CUPE Ontario, we recognize that Black excellence and Black history should be honoured year-round, not restricted to a single month of celebration and appreciation. The strength, solidarity and leadership of Black trade unionists have marked our labour movement in profound ways and we owe an enormous debt to the resilience and contributions of the…
GUELPH, ON – Days before the provincial election, as people are making their final determinations on how to vote, adults with developmental disabilities and the workers who support them are inviting candidates to a community dance. Attendees will have the chance to fill their dance card with commitments from candidates to invest in much needed…
SUDBURY, ON – Sudbury front-line long-term care (LTC) staff are urging voters before they cast a ballot on February 27 to take a critical look at the Ontario Doug Ford government’s failure to make care and the lives of vulnerable residents better. “After all that COVID has taught us about the gaps in care and…
Durham Region, ON – A beloved childminding program for newcomers to Canada will be closing its doors and laying off nine childminding professionals in the Durham region. The Care for Newcomer Children (CNC) offers free on-site childminding services for newcomer parents attending English language classes. The CNC has provided free childminding services for over 25…
BRANTFORD, ON – A recent survey of Ontario education workers including Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, Child and Youth workers, custodians, maintenance and trades workers, and school secretaries represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) shows that a severe crisis in underfunding has led…
HAMILTON, ON – A recent survey of Ontario education workers including Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, Child and Youth workers, custodians, maintenance and trades workers, and school secretaries represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) shows that a severe crisis in underfunding has led…
WINDSOR, ON – A recent survey of Ontario education workers including Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, Child and Youth workers, custodians, maintenance and trades workers, and school secretaries represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) shows that a severe crisis in underfunding has led…
KINGSTON, ON – A strike at Queen’s University has been prevented by tentative agreements reached between the university, its foodservice contractor and workers represented by CUPE locals 229, 254 and 1302. The agreements affect more than 1000 tradespeople, custodians, caretakers, classroom and library technicians, and library workers across the campus and at the Donald Gordon…
STRATFORD, ON – A recent survey of Ontario education workers including Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, Child and Youth workers, custodians, maintenance and trades workers, and school secretaries represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) shows that a severe crisis in underfunding has led…
LONDON, ON – At a press conference this morning CUPE locals representing more than 5000 education workers in the London area called on the Ford government to immediately increase funding for school boards and remedy the crisis in understaffing, sky rocketing violence, and lack of student supports. A recent survey of Ontario education workers, including…
