Statement from David Simao, Chair of OUWCC Re: Canadian Emergency Student Benefit

University

TORONTO – The Federal Government’s announcement this week of further supports for the post-secondary education sector across Canada is a step in the right direction. The Government’s inclusion of new financial benefits for university students is a welcome, albeit overdue recognition that students and workers in the post-secondary education sector have not been immune from…

Statement from Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario and David Simao, Chair of OUWCC

University

TORONTO – CUPE Ontario represents more than thirty thousand (30,000) university workers across Ontario, who are represented within the union through the Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee (OUWCC). CUPE Ontario and OUWCC strongly condemn the recent moves by Ryerson University to terminate its operational agreement with the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) and sever all ties…

OUWCC – 2020 CONFERENCE

When: February 20, 2020 – February 23, 2020 all day
Where: CUPE – Ontario Regional Office, 80 Commerce Valley Dr E, Thornhill, ON L3T 0B2, Canada

Agenda First Call Access Request Form On-Site Child Registration Form Guidelines for Local Support at Events Local Support Application Family or Dependent Care Subsidy

OUWCC Conference 2019

When: February 21, 2019 – February 24, 2019 all day
Where: CUPE Ontario Regional Office, 80 Commerce Valley Dr E, Thornhill, ON L3T 0B2, Canada

Agenda Access Request Form On-Site Child Care Registration Guidelines For Local Support At Events Local Support Application

OUWCC Conference

When: February 22, 2018 – February 25, 2018 all day
Where: Ontario Regional Office , 80 Commerce Valley Dr E, Thornhill, ON L3T 0B2, Canada

Forms OUWCC Conference Agenda First Call: OUWCC Conference Second Call: OUWCC Conference Family Care Subsidy Local Support Application Onsite Childcare 2017

As universities eye reopening, student and worker safety taking a back seat, warns CUPE University workers

COVID-19, University

TORONTO, ON – As universities across Ontario begin planning for reopening in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health and safety of workers and students appears to be taking a back seat to other considerations, the Chair of CUPE Ontario’s University Workers’ Coordinating Committee (OUWCC) warned today. “Over and over again, we are seeing…

University ‘re-opening’ announcement yet another abdication of responsibility by Ford Government

COVID-19, University

Toronto, ON — An announcement earlier this week by Ontario’s Minister of Colleges and Universities is yet another abdication of responsibility by the Ford Government, according to the leader of university workers within CUPE Ontario. “Once again, we see the Ford Government announcing with much fanfare the resumption of a vital public service, with few—if…

Ontario’s University workers and students need more than ‘window dressing’ from Ford Government to get through COVID-19 crisis

COVID-19, Solidarity, University

TORONTO, ON – In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, workers and students at Ontario’s post-secondary institutions need more than ‘window dressing’ currently on offer from the Provincial Government, the Chair of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario University Workers’ Coordinating Committee (OUWCC) warned today. “Ontario’s Universities are by no means immune from…

CUPE Ontario mourns the loss of friends, colleagues, and comrades in Ukrainian International Airlines crash.

Solidarity

On behalf of the 270,000 CUPE members across Ontario, we offer our deepest condolences to families, friends, and co-workers who lost loved ones in the tragic crash of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752. Twenty-four passengers from eight Ontario universities were on the flight, many of whom were members of CUPE academic locals. Although we are…