Category Archives: 2007-2014 Archives

Strike Averted: CUPE library workers reach a tentative agreement with the Toronto Public Library Board

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. TORONTO, Ont. – The Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU) Local 4948 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and the Toronto Public Library Board reached a tentative agreement this morning…

Rock for Public Services rewards workers, city’s animals

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Free Civic Centre show featured headliner David Wilcox, raised funds for the Ottawa Humane Society’s new building campaign OTTAWA, Oct. 18, 2009 – The Ottawa Humane Society is one step closer to…

McMaster University Workers on strike for a fair deal

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. McMaster workers want a fair offer On Sunday, November 8, striking teaching and research assistants at McMaster university will meet, discuss and vote on the employer’s ‘final’ offer, an offer that…

Do Ontario hospitals have capacity to handle H1N1 surge?

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Hamilton, ON – While much of Ontario worries, legitimately, about access to H1N1 vaccinations, hospital union leaders are asking about the consequences of hospitals capacity to handle a potential H1N1 surge. …

Harper’s Colombia cover-up

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. How the PM betrayed his own MPs to sign trade deal with unionist-murdering regime BY ANDREW CASH A flash of deja vu hits me as i sit in the beautiful Victoria…

Full-day learning will succeed with full involvement of schools, community and unions

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. TORONTO, Ont. – Full-day learning for four- and five-year-olds is the right kind of investment in Ontario’s future and will succeed as long as all concerned parties are part of its implementation,…

Thunder Bay to “Jump Up” for public child care Coalition of child care supporters announces free concert this Sunday

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. THUNDER BAY, Ont. – The City of Thunder Bay will ‘Jump Up’ for public child care this Sunday, November 1, a coalition of child care advocates told a news conference today. …

CUPE Local 3902 – Sessional lecturers at U of T in strike position November 9

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. TORONTO, Ont. – Sessional instructors at the University of Toronto, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)  local 3902, Unit 3, will be in a legal strike position on Monday…

Sid gives Steelworkers a helping hand;

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. The Sudbury Star Tue Oct 27 2009 Page: A3 Section: News Byline: RACHEL PUNCH, THE SUDBURY STAR; Secret trade deals are threatening local economies, communities, jobs and the environment, say the…

CUPE’s Ryan walks picket line with striking Steelworkers (Local 6500)

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. SUDBURY, Ont. – “Despite record profits over the last decade, greedy corporations, like Vale-Inco, are using the global financial meltdown as the excuse to extract wage, pension, and benefit concessions from workers. …