Guelph, ON – After a year of bargaining, and right as workers have begun building momentum towards a fair and necessary deal, Community Living Guelph Wellington (CLGW) has cried poverty and announced closures and layoffs that will hurt workers, people supported, and families. The more than 450 frontline developmental service workers in the Canadian Union…
Guelph, ON – Community Living Guelph Wellington’s dedicated developmental service workers have long expressed their deep concern about the impact of persistent short-staffing on the quality of care they provide to individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as the impact that staff shortages have on workers’ jobs and personal lives. Last week the members of…
City of Welland Crossing Guards ratify their first collective Agreement! WELLAND, ON – Members of CUPE L1115’s Library unit voted against ratifying their collective agreement on June 18, citing issues in scheduling as a main concern. Library staff are seeking modest scheduling changes in order to better support a healthy work-life balance. Thus far, the…
BRADFORD, ON – Workers at Bradford West Gwillimbury are on strike as of this morning after their employer failed to come to the table with a deal that respects the realities faced by Library workers in the community. “I’m disappointed that it’s come to this. Library strikes are rare in Ontario, but this employer left…
TORONTO, ON – Nearly 500 frontline child protection workers and support staff, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 2316, have ratified a new contract with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST). While the deal averts a strike that was set to begin late last week, it does little to settle…
May 2023 When the Government of Ontario released its staffing plan for the Long-Term Care (LTC) sector in 2020, titled “A better place to live, a better place to work: Ontario’s long-term care staffing plan”, it was billed as a blueprint to help recruit and retain workers while improving the standard of care. But with…
Toronto, ON – Clients haven’t seen the cracks in services, but workers at Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST) have felt them growing for years. Now these critical front line workers and support staff have delivered a near unanimous mandate, authorizing their leadership to call a strike if their employer refuses to meet the growing…
ST. CATHARINES, ON – Amidst a long and frustrating round of bargaining, municipal employees represented by CUPE 150 and CUPE 157 delivered a strong mandate on Wednesday evening authorizing their leadership to call a strike if negotiations fail. CUPE 150 and 157 members voted 95 and 86 per cent in favour of strike action, respectively.…
PORT COLBORNE, ON – Developmental service workers represented by CUPE Local 2276 and Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet (CLPCW) have ratified a new two-year collective agreement. The tentative deal, reached last Thursday, ended the three-week long strike. All but five members of the nearly 100-worker-strong bargaining unit cast a ballot, a testament to the organizing efforts…
PORT COLBORNE, ON – On the eve of their fourth week on strike, developmental service workers have reached a tentative agreement with Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet. “I am proud of my coworkers and the strength of our Union,” said CUPE Local 2276 Vice President Cassie Bisson. “The work we do can be invisible to so…
