Paramedics need a real solution to growing workforce crisis, not additional red tape through a college: CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario

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Paramedics need a real solution to growing workforce crisis, not additional red tape through a college: CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario TORONTO – Ontario’s paramedic system is under severe strain as services struggle to recruit and retain workers while frontline paramedics face mounting mental health pressures. Yet some influential voices are once again promoting the…

CUPE 2380 Warns Penetanguishene Council’s Water Plan Risks Higher Costs, Job Losses, and Reduced Local Control

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Penetanguishene, ON – CUPE 2380 members are warning that Town Council’s plan to restructure Penetanguishene’s water and wastewater operations will lead to higher costs for residents and a loss of local control over the community’s most critical services. In December, Council announced it is considering either merging the water and wastewater departments or contracting a…

MLK Statement

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January 19th is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. CUPE Ontario honours Martin Luther King Jr. as both a civil rights icon and a labour activist who saw racial and economic justice as inseparable. Dr King was assassinated in Memphis after walking a picket line with striking sanitation workers. He challenged poverty, racism, and the oppressive systems that…

CUPE Ontario condemns U.S. aggression against Venezuela Union calls actions unlawful, dangerous to workers, and a violation of international law

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ONTARIO – The more than 300,000 members of CUPE Ontario are proud to add our voices to the growing condemnation of the unlawful actions stemming from the United States’ escalating aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We join our national union, the Canadian and international labour movement, and many others in denouncing this grave…

Hybrid Works! CUPE Members at Ontario Health atHome Stage a Province Wide Day of Action on the First Day of Doug Ford’s Return to Office Mandate

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Ontario – Hybrid works. Since before the pandemic, workers at Ontario Health atHome have been working remotely to help deliver the essential home-care services Ontarians need. Now, on the whims of the Ford government, these workers are being forced back into office spaces that are not equipped to handle them all at once. Available office spaces have…