On October 1st, the Ontario government announced a temporary wage increase for personal support workers (PSWs) in home and community care, long-term care, public hospitals, and social services sector. It’s an increase of either two dollars (for those in hospitals) or three dollars (everyone else), and it will last until March 31st of 2021. While…
CUPE 4600 member, Cihan Erdal was arrested on September 25th by Turkish police on unspecified charges related to social unrest in 2014. Erdal is one of 82 people issued arrest warrants in relation to alleged incitement of protests in 2014 which were violently repressed by Turkish police. These arrests are part of a broader effort…
Front-line workers, who helped keep us safe and delivered critical services in a pandemic, deserve better than an attack on their legal rights. They deserve to have their rights restored today. When COVID-19 first hit, front-line workers rose to action, putting themselves and their families at great personal risk, to keep the public safe and…
Watch Ramin Karimloo’s Concert for Care Not Profits Click here to watch the special Facebook concert session by London West End and Broadway star Ramin Karimloo in support of the Care Not Profits advocacy campaign to end the failed experiment of for-profit long-term care. Tell the Ontario government to put care before profits: www.carenotprofits.ca. Take Action Sign…
Reforms under Bill 175 will hasten and encourage privatization of home care and hospital services. Thousands of jobs at Local Health Integration Networks are at great threat. These are the wrong reforms at the wrong time. CUPE Ontario is asking you to sign this letter to tell the Doug Ford PC government to keep home…
Dear OMERS Plan members, CUPE Ontario is profoundly disappointed to report to you that the OMERS Sponsor Corporation Board of Directors has voted in favour of eliminating the guaranteed indexing of your pension for service worked after December 31, 2022. The “Shared Risk indexing” proposal passed. This means that for service worked after December 31,…
June 16, 2020 By Email OMERS Sponsors Corporation {SC) Board C/0 Michael Rolland, OMERS SC Board CEO. Dear Mr. Rolland: Re: COVID-19 and Proposed Changes to OMERS Plan I am writing on behalf of the Civic Institute of Professional Personnel {CIPP) to request that, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the OMERS Sponsor Corporation Board…
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) Sponsors Corporation Board of Directors will be voting on whether or not to scrap guaranteed indexing for members in favour of a proposal they call “Shared Risk,” on June 24. OMERS is a defined benefit plan for about half a million municipal workers in Ontario, including school board…
