The union representing workers at WSIB is asking the government to protect jobs and improve service delivery for injured workers in the province TORONTO – The Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU), which represents more than 3,700 workers at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), is cautiously warning the government that as part of their…
TORONTO – Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) station supervisors, represented by CUPE 5585, voted overwhelmingly last week to authorize a strike as negotiations for their first collective agreement stall. Violence and disorder on the TTC have increased in recent years, with station supervisors increasingly dispatched to respond to emergencies and security-related and customer incidents. Station supervisors…
Frontline workers call for fair wages, safer workplaces, and investment in critical services Barrie, ON – Frontline social service and healthcare workers represented by CUPE Local 1813.14 have launched the “Worth Fighting For” campaign aimed at reaching a fair collective agreement, without disrupting the vital services they provide across Simcoe-Muskoka. Gilbert Centre workers support people…
TORONTO – Just a week after Scarborough Health Network (SHN) workers held a rally surrounding chronic understaffing and increasing violence against hospital workers, Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced Tuesday that the Ontario government would begin construction of a new emergency department at Centenary Hospital. 2,500 frontline workers at the SHN, represented by CUPE, are…
Rapidly increasing costs, austerity funding policies and record 1,300 job cuts push Ontario’s hospitals beyond the brink TORONTO – Ontario’s hospital crisis has hit a boiling point, says new report released today by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE). Citing the latest data, Pushed over the brink: the escalating assault on Ontario’s hospitals highlights…
On behalf of the nearly 310,000 CUPE members in the province, CUPE Ontario extends its support and solidarity to the striking members of CUPE 8125, the flight attendants who work for WestJet. By taking job action to support their demands for a fair collective agreement and demanding true recognition of the value and duties of…
