TORONTO, ON — Members of CUPE Ontario’s Executive board are pausing their meeting tomorrow to join the picket line outside of a Canadian Hearing Society office. Workers for the Hearing Society started striking today after talks broke down over the weekend. They are being asked to accept roll-backs after four years without a contract. These…
NORTH BAY and PARRY SOUND, ON – Locked-out children’s aid workers are hopeful that the support they received from MPPs during their recent visit to the Ontario legislature will help to kick-start negotiations with Nipissing and Parry Sound CAS and restore high-quality child protection services in the north. Tomorrow (March 7) will see negotiators for…
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(March 5, 2017) – After being presented with multiple options for negotiating a settlement that would address their stated concerns, the Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) has rejected all offers for settlement, leaving the union with no choice but to commence strike action on Monday morning. “We are actually quite shocked,” said Barbara Wilker-Frey, CUPE…
MILTON, ON – 100 workers with the Bob Rumball Associations for the Deaf (BRAD) have ratified a new collective agreement. The workers, who are primarily support staff and counsellors, are represented by Local 4763 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 4763). “The reality is that workers with BRAD still face a significant wage…
TORONTO, ON – Local 2073 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 2073) which represents 227 counsellors, literacy instructors, audiologists, speech language pathologists, interpreters/interpreter trainers, clerical support, program coordinators, program assistants, information technology specialists and other staff at 24 Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) offices across Ontario, is looking to move forward in their contract…
TORONTO, ON — 227 workers from Canadian Hearing Society offices across Ontario could be on strike as of Monday, March 6. These workers provide interpretation, employment and mental health services for the Culturally Deaf, Oral Deaf, Deafened and Hard of Hearing in Ontario. The Union and its allies will address the challenges they face in the…
TORONTO, ON — After going without a contract for four years, workers at 24 Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) offices across Ontario could be on strike on March 4. A spokesperson for Local 2073 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 2073) which represents counsellors, literacy instructors, audiologists, speech language pathologists, interpreters/interpreter trainers, clerical support,…
MILTON, ON – Counsellors and support staff from the Bob Rumball Associations for the Deaf (BRAD) in Milton could be off the job at 12:01 am on Tuesday, February 28. Local 4763 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 4763), which represents the 100 staff, including residential and day program counsellors and support staff,…
Increasingly concerned for the well-being of the families they serve and frustrated after weeks on the picket line, a delegation of children’s aid workers from Nipissing and Parry Sound children’s aid society (CAS) will travel by bus today (Wednesday) to Queen’s Park in an attempt to bring about an end to the lockout that has…
NORTH BAY and PARRY SOUND, ON – On behalf of vulnerable children and families, child protection workers expressed anger and disappointment that Nipissing and Parry Sound Children’s Aid Society (CAS) is unwilling to agree to a deal that will keep children safe and end the lockout that began on December 23. Negotiations that began Friday…
