New Poll: Ford’s WSIB cuts flop with the public

By nearly 3-to-1 margin, the people of Ontario want WSIB money spent on improving compensation to injured workers and expanding coverage to workers currently excluded TORONTO – New public opinion research conducted by Abacus Data for CUPE Ontario should be a wakeup call for Premier Doug Ford that his Conservative government’s benefits-for-bosses approach is out…

“Ontario students are paying the price”: New CUPE-OSBCU report uses government data to expose worsening understaffing in schools; Ontario education workers call for investment in student support.

TORONTO – A new report from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) reveals a deepening understaffing crisis across Ontario’s schools, leaving students’ needs unmet and education workers facing unsustainable workloads. The report documents staffing pressures affecting Educational Assistants, Designated Early Childhood Educators, Child and Youth…