Daily Archives: May 6, 2025

Looming strike points to deep seated problems at YWCA Toronto

TORONTO, ON – The workers who run the YWCA Toronto’s homeless shelters often leave work and go to food banks. Many of those who help families find stable housing live with the daily stress of how they’re going to afford their own rent. This simmering crisis of poverty and precarity among YWCA Toronto workers has…

WSIB Management Refuses Unions offer for Independent Mediation to prevent a Strike

TORONTO – After filing a surprise no-board on April 29th, after only two days at the table since receiving a mandate to enter negotiations with the union on the 17th, it was clear that the employer was setting up the conditions to force the members of OCEU/CUPE 1750 into a strike. This forced the union…