TORONTO, ON – Approaching Equal Pay Day in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford and the PC provincial government are being urged by tens of thousands of long-term care staff to “stand with them and value their work” by not appealing a recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision that would raise their wages. Earlier this month, the…
Our communities are getting through this crisis, and will thrive on the other side, because of the efforts of front-line workers. These are the workers in our long-term care facilities caring for the elderly; in group homes caring for people with disabilities and providing a range of supports for the most vulnerable; in our towns and cities, providing…
OTTAWA, ON – Today the Ontario Labour Relations Board confirmed that workers at Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights (Action Canada) voted overwhelmingly to join the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The workers voted on May 5, but the ballots could not be counted until today because of objections raised by the employer, which…
(TORONTO, ON) – Workers at The Leap, a Canada and US-based organization focused on the intersecting crises of climate change, inequality and racism, voted unanimously to join Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). “We’re very excited that workers at The Leap have made this decision,” said Kristy Davidson, a CUPE representative…
(TORONTO, ON) Three months into a pandemic that disproportionately impacts equity-seekers, CUPE Ontario continues to call on the province to collect and publish relevant data. “The uprising in the United States, and events here, remind us of the urgent and long-overdue need to recognize that racism is real – that we live in a deeply…
There are growing signs that the 2.6 million Ontarians with disabilities are being left behind during this crisis. Underlying medical issues mean people with disabilities are more susceptible to contract the virus and to experience its more severe effects. If they do contract the virus, the province has failed to provide home testing. And while…
We all certainly are in this fight against COVID-19 and its impacts together, but some of us are experiencing the impacts of this crisis more than others. While most Ontarians are stuck inside, others are on our front-lines. They’re in our long-term care facilities caring for the elderly; in group homes caring for people with…
On January 29th, 2017 a gunman entered a mosque in Quebec City and opened fire on dozens of Muslims during a prayer service. Six worshippers were killed and 19 were injured. The shooter expressed far-right and white nationalist views, admitting to police that anti-Muslim rhetoric had influenced his actions. The rise of far-right politics represented…
On Holocaust Remembrance Day we remember the victims of the Nazi regime. We resolve to root out anti-Semitism in all its forms. And we renew our promise to weave anti-racism into all the work we do as a union. Over 10 million people, including 6 million Jews, died in the Holocaust. This genocide was the…
On December 10, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The rights enshrined in that declaration—among them the right to equal access to public services and the right to equality without discrimination before the law—were deemed to apply to all. But 70 years later, our province, our country, and…
