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…
TORONTO – It’s a strange world where a tuition fee freeze is announced and almost no one cheers. But that’s the reality the Ford government faced earlier this month. And it happened because students and university workers alike know the freeze is only one side of the story. “In theory, a tuition fee freeze should…
Warmest congratulations to all education workers of Ontario, who were honoured last night by the Urban Alliance on Race Relations (UARR) as recipients of its Racial Justice Award (Labour category). CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) accepted the award on behalf of education workers. This was wonderful recognition for the council that did…
TORONTO – CUPE Ontario leaders heaped praise and admiration on CUPE education workers and their central bargaining team, the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU), following the announcement that union members had strongly endorsed the tentative agreement negotiated by OSBCU in late November. Results of the province-wide ratification vote were released this morning, following…
TORONTO, ON – Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers have voted to ratify their next collective agreement with the Council of the Trustees’ Associations (CTA) and the provincial government. A total of 41,559 out of 55,000 frontline CUPE education workers cast ballots, and 30,330 –73% – voted “yes” to accept the tentative agreement that was reached by…
Following the announcement of CUPE Ontario education workers’ ratification of the tentative collective agreement negotiated between OSBCU, the CTA and the Crown, CUPE Ontario shared the following statement with members: On behalf of all members of CUPE Ontario, we send our heartfelt congratulations to our union’s education workers, members of the Ontario School Board Council…
On Monday, October 31st, the Ford Conservatives took the unprecedented step of proposing legislation that would force a contract on education workers, violating workers’ constitutional right to bargain fairly, keeping many workers in poverty, instead of continuing with negotiations. To pass it, they’ve invoked the notwithstanding clause, overriding the Charters’ protections of the fundamental right…
TORONTO, ON – As most students prepare to go back to school next week and with pressure on parents to spend even more out of their own pockets on everything from school supplies to the skyrocketing costs of food and rent, Ontario’s 55,000 frontline education workers are using bargaining for their next collective agreement to…
TORONTO, ON – Today 55,000 education workers who are members of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) filed for conciliation. The following is a statement from Laura Walton, an educational assistant and the president of CUPE’s OSBCU: “Since June 3 when we served notice to bargain our next collective agreement with the Council…
TORONTO, ON – On Tuesday, the central bargaining committee elected by Ontario’s 55,000 frontline education workers presented a full package of bargaining proposals to the Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA) and provincial government negotiators in an effort to push the Ford government to get a fair deal done before September. These workers’ Proposals for Student…
