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For Sudbury front-line LTC staff, Ontario PCs failure to make care for vulnerable residents better, key ballot box issue

SolidarityBy Alisha Sharma February 20, 2025

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…

“Women and children will suffer most”: Durham District School Board to shutter beloved childminding program for newcomers to Canada

Child CareBy Alisha Sharma February 18, 2025

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…

“Ontario’s school boards are in severe crisis”: Survey of 12,000 CUPE education workers finds extreme underfunding and understaffing has caused widespread violence, burnout and lack of supports for students in Brantford-area schools

School BoardsBy Alisha Sharma February 11, 2025

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…

“Ontario’s school boards are in severe crisis”: Survey of 12,000 CUPE education workers finds extreme underfunding and understaffing has caused widespread violence, burnout and lack of supports for students in Hamilton-area schools

School BoardsBy Alisha Sharma February 7, 2025

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…

“Ontario’s school boards are in severe crisis”: Survey of 12,000 CUPE education workers finds extreme underfunding and understaffing has caused widespread violence, burnout and lack of supports for students in Windsor-area schools

School BoardsBy Alisha Sharma February 3, 2025

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…

Tentative agreements with Queen’s University workers

Solidarity, UniversityBy Maryant Perez February 3, 2025

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…

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