The critical work of CUPE education workers in the public, catholic, elementary and French school boards are often undervalued and overlooked during the bargaining process. Today, CUPE Ontario stands with our 55,000 school board workers calling on the Ford Conservative government to make it a priority to resolve the issues in dispute with CUPE. CUPE…
TORONTO, ON –The Ford government’s education cuts are threatening some of the most highly regarded programs for students from multicultural and Black communities and Toronto education workers are gearing up for the fight to save them. Members of Local 4400 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will be out in force tomorrow (Saturday)…
TORONTO, ON – As the expected impacts of Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB’s) proposed 2019-20 operating budget become devastatingly clear, education workers are urging the school board’s trustees to take a stand against making cuts that will hurt the city’s children, families and communities. The cuts proposed by TDSB in the budget released last week…
TORONTO, ON – As school boards across Ontario suffer deep and destructive cuts at the hands of the provincial government, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 55,000 education workers, is heading to the bargaining table. But as they give notice to bargain, they will also be giving notice to their counterparts in negotiations:…
THUNDER BAY, ON – Last Friday’s announcement of the government’s cuts to education funding has left some education workers at Lakehead District School Board (LDSB) fearing the worst for the safety of students in the region’s schools. The government’s education funding for 2019-20 slashed a total $2.13 million from Lakehead District School Board’s budgets and…
TORONTO, ON – Thirty international language instructors with the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) will take part in a different kind of lesson on Thursday morning, May 2, as they begin the day at Queen’s Park in the company of students from TCDSB schools, teachers, parents and school board trustees. The group is marking…
TORONTO, ON – Empty promises and meaningless phrases in the Ford government’s budget announcement mask the true harm that will be done to Ontario’s students and system of public education, said the leader of the council that represents 55,000 education workers in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The most direct consequence of the…
TORONTO, ON – Thousands of parents, educators, community groups, students and unions from across the province will converge on Queen’s Park at 12 noon tomorrow April 6 for a rally for public education in Ontario. In advance of the provincial budget, the rally will call on the government to make investments, not cuts, to publicly…
LONDON, ON – Even though there will be more children with autism enrolled in Thames Valley schools in September, layoff notices went out this month to educational assistants (EAs), the very workers who provide support for students with a wide range of special needs. And EAs who want to become certified in Autism Behaviour Analysis…
TORONTO, ON – Major cuts to funding for staff who support students in school are buried in today’s much-ballyhooed announcement on changes to education, said the union that represents 55,000 education workers in the province. Representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) shared their findings of $309 million in cuts after their analysis…
