Private agency costs rose by 23 per cent in the Hamilton region from 2013-14 to 2022-23 Hamilton, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed…
Toronto, ON – With the strike at Canadian Hearing Services (CHS) now in it’s third week, Deaf, Deafblind, and hard of hearing Greater Toronto Area residents are seeing critical services impacted and denied. The 206 members of CUPE 2073 who work at CHS as Sign language interpreters, employment consultants, Deafblind intervenors, and in other frontline…
The CCPA report is the first investigation into Ontario hospital spending on private agency staff relative to employed staff TORONTO – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The…
– “No one voted to turn Huntsville, Ontario, into Huntsville, Alabama” – TORONTO – Imagine going to work in a town or city where, by government decree, workers had no right to health and safety, a minimum wage, or employment protections, including the right to recourse when they were injured, fired or mistreated on the…
CUPE releases astonishing data of patient volumes outpacing growth in staffing as provincial funding fails Hamilton residents Hamilton, ON – The latest data about patient care at Hamilton Health Sciences paint a bleak picture: only eight per cent of ER patients at the Juravinski site in February were admitted within the provincial target time…
Instead of teaching and caring for children – as she has done for two decades – early childhood educator Amanda Quance is currently out of work. She was fired from Charlotte Birchard Centres of Early Learning (CBCEL), an Ottawa child care centre, after trying to organize her coworkers to build their power as part of…
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…
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…
TORONTO – After months at the bargaining table, the WSIB files a surprise No-Board on April 29th. This puts the employer in the position to terminate the collective agreement for members of OCEU/CUPE 1750 as early as May 16th if a deal cannot be reached. In response, the union held a strike vote on May…
Following the resignation of Jagmeet Singh as leader of the federal New Democratic Pary, CUPE Ontario pays tribute to his leadership and accomplishments over the past eight years and expresses gratitude for the grace, strength and example he always showed as the first racialized leader of a major party in Canada. Jagmeet is a familiar…
