TIMMINS, ON – Workers across various municipalities in northeast Ontario are joining CUPE after a successful union organizing campaign across the Northeastern Catholic District School Board. Approximately 200 new members from Cochrane, Cobalt, Kapuskasing, Timmins, and more are joining CUPE Local 4681 and CUPE’s 55,000 education workers across Ontario. “This is a great step towards…
SUDBURY, ON – Sudbury Catholic District School Board workers are joining CUPE after a successful majority vote and certification at the Ontario Labour Board. The approximately 270 new CUPE members at Sudbury’s Catholic District School Board include educational assistants, early childhood educators, administrative assistants, social workers, speech pathologists, chaplaincy leads and more. “I am thrilled…
On behalf of 290,000 CUPE members in the province, CUPE Ontario extends its warmest congratulations and steadfast solidarity to the newly elected leaders of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL): President Laura Walton, Secretary-Treasurer Ahmad Gaied, and Executive Vice-President Jackie Taylor. Our affiliation to the OFL commits CUPE members’ collective support to this strong team…
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…
KENORA, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1939 workers’ bargaining committee has reached a tentative agreement with the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board on custodians and maintenance workers’ local terms and conditions for the period of September 2022 to August 2026. CUPE education workers voted to ratify their local agreement on June…
TORONTO, ON – Toronto Education Workers/CUPE Local 4400 and the Toronto District School Board have reached a tentative agreement in collective bargaining for local terms and conditions. Ratification votes will be scheduled before the end of June for members to vote on new collective agreements covering employees in three bargaining units. When ratified, members will…
TORONTO –The City of Toronto today announced it is marking “School Crossing Guard Appreciation Week.” The announcement comes less than a week after the city’s General Governance Committee voted in favour of changing vendors and laying off roughly 350 school crossing guards. “I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry,” said Myra Chico, president…
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…
Tri-Board school transportation workers will address Limestone District School Board trustees today, in advance of April 3 strike deadline KINGSTON, ON – Representatives of the seven employees who work for Tri-Board Student Transportation Services plan to ask Limestone District School Board Trustees to intervene, at their meeting tonight, to avoid a strike. The affected workers…
TORONTO, ON – The aftermath of Premier Doug Ford’s 2023 brutal budget is looking grim for students, their families, and frontline workers across the province. With school boards already warning of layoffs because they’re underfunded, the provincial government has used an accounting trick to hide a real cut in public school funding for 2023-24. The…
