“Greedy and hypocritical”: Company owned by a pension plan is taking away its own workers’ pension plan

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…

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CUPE Ontario OMERS Pension Activist Training

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…

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Raising the Floor for Child Care

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…

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Repeal Bill 124: Support frontline workers

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…