WINDSOR, ON — The Windsor-Essex Region is now one step closer to the first paramedic strike in the service’s history as conciliation between Essex-Windsor EMS and CUPE 2974 concluded last week without a resolution. CUPE 2974 members had hoped the County of Essex would provide a path forward during their May 6 closed-session council meeting…
CHATHAM, ON – CUPE 1238 and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) condemn the Lambton Kent District School Board’s decision to cut 22 custodial positions. “These cuts are devastating for our members and for the schools they work in every day,” said Carrie Hopper, President of CUPE 1238. “Custodians are essential frontline workers…
A new report by the CCPA says patients are being short-changed due to provincial underfunding Niagara, ON – The majority of Ontario’s 136 hospitals have carried operational deficits since 2022, and this puts an already precarious public system at risk, says new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). In Failure,…
