Underfunding, understaffing plague Trillium Lake District School Board: 88% of CUPE employees at TLDSB say staffing must increase to meet the needs of students, 78 percent say there is a violent incident at work at least once a month

Education, School Boards

LINDSAY, ON – Trillium Lakelands District School Board (TLDSB) recently announced an $8 million surplus for the 2023-2024 school year, reporting that it was in a “good position to make positive impacts on student achievement and well-being,” yet workers say extreme underfunding and understaffing has created an unsafe learning environment plagued with violence for students…

“An unnecessary risk”: Over 140 organizations send Open Letter to Ontario Education Minister Todd Smith opposing his attempt to open up more of Ontario’s child care system to for-profit provision

Child Care, Education, Solidarity

TORONTO – Over 140 Ontario organizations – including small and large child care programs from across Ontario, churches, francophone associations, labour unions, post-secondary and research institutions – have come together to send an Open Letter to Ontario Education Minister Todd Smith today in response to his recent letter to federal Minister Jenna Sudds asking her…

Events across Ontario as Canada-Wide Day of Action for Child Care unites families and educators to demand better access and working conditions

Child Care, Education, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON — Families, educators and child care advocates are holding a rally today at Queen’s Park as part of a Canada-Wide Day of Action for Child Care organized by Child Care Now and allies. Their message is being echoed at local events in child care programs across Ontario and throughout Canada demanding improved access…

Transphobic Bigots Vandalize Education Workers’ Union Offices in London

Education, School Boards

CUPE education workers are committed to stopping hate, misinformation, and transphobia; call on school boards, premier, and education minister to denounce attacks on students’ right to education and support fundamental freedom not to be discriminated against. LONDON, ON – Last night, all three frontline education workers’ local union offices in London were vandalized by transphobic…

Northeastern Catholic Education Workers Release Supermajority Letter Calling for a Good Contract Now

Education, School Boards

TIMMINS, ON – A 95% supermajority of frontline education workers at Northeastern Catholic District School Board have signed an open letter to their school board trustees that was published as a full-page advertisement in today’s issues of the Cochrane Times-Post, Iroquois Falls Enterprise, Kirkland Lake Northern News This Week, and Timmins Times. The workers’ letter…