TORONTO – DynaLIFE Labs, a company contracted by the Alberta government to privatize health care services, is trying to take away a pension plan from its employees. The twist? DynaLIFE’s majority shareholder is the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), a pension plan serving over half a million Canadians. In 2022, Alberta’s UCP government awarded…
UPDATE: Thank-you to all who applied to be trained as an OMERS Activist. We are pleased to say we’ve had an overwhelming number of applications for OMERS Pension Activist Training. In fact, over 500 CUPE/OMERS members applied, and more inquiries are coming in every day. We are currently working through the applications and will be finalizing…
We are at a critical moment. The countdown is on for the Ford government to come forward with a good deal for students and education workers by Monday. Education workers want to be in school. They want to be doing their jobs and working with kids. But they can’t settle for less than what students…
Protest Line Finder Education workers are the backbone of Ontario’s public education system and we’re fighting for a good deal to ensure high-quality education and services for kids. Whether you’re an education worker or an ally, come out to a protest line to send the Ford Conservatives a message and to secure a real deal.…
Unity Letter on Decent Work in Child Care We, the undersigned members of CUPE Local 2484, are dedicated front line child care workers who provide accessible, high-quality child care and early learning to families across the Greater Toronto Area. We are united in our belief that our new collective agreement must include adequate paid sick…
CUPE municipal and school board members are what make our communities work. Municipal workers deliver the vital services you depend on. They maintain roads, operate water & sewage plants, deliver public health services, maintain our parks, collect garbage & recycling, & keep the streets clean. In short, they do all the things that make our towns…
Over the last 10 years, approximately 154 University of Toronto caretaking positions on St. George Campus – good jobs like the ones Deborah, Eugenia and Maria have – have disappeared, mainly due to contracting out to for-profit operators. These operators are in it to make a profit, and they pay their staff close to minimum…
The Ford Conservatives passed Bill 7, forcing seniors and people with disabilities to be moved without their consent from hospitals to long-term care homes up to 150 kilometres away in the north and up to 70 kilometres away in the rest of the province. This does nothing to address the healthcare crisis. It doesn’t add…
Update: In November, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice overturned Bill 124, finding that the law violated workers’ rights to free collective bargaining. The decision affirmed that workers’ rights are human rights and is a victory for all workers. The ruling was the long-awaited result of a legal challenge brought by a coalition of 70…
