Emergency After Hours Staff (EAHS), members of CUPE 2316.1 at the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto have been on strike since July 27. These members have been trying to secure a first collective agreement for more than two years. Management has not responded to updated proposals from CUPE. It’s time for them to get back…
DURHAM REGION, ON – Participation House Durham and Community Living Ajax-Pickering and Whitby (CL-APW) are among a handful of developmental service agencies in Ontario refusing to play by the rules for paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars in provincially funded wage increases to frontline workers. Last year $180 million was earmarked by the Ministry…
Pickets to go up Monday afternoon as CUPE 2316-1 commences legal strike after 2.5 year effort to secure first contract TORONTO, ON – After trying for two-and-a-half years to secure a first collective agreement, Emergency After Hours Services staff of the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST), members of Local 2316, Unit 1 of the…
NORTH BAY, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4720-04 and the AIDS Committee of North Bay & Area have reached agreement, through a conciliator with the Ministry of Labour, to extend their strike or lockout deadline to August 15 at 12:01 a.m. The new deadline will fall after two days of…
OTTAWA, ON – Tamir, an Ottawa community living agency for people with developmental disabilities, is one of a handful of agencies denying its frontline workers thousands of dollars in provincially funded wage increases. The agency’s refusal to follow the rules laid out by Ontario’s Ministry of Community and Social Services is also undermining government efforts…
COLLINGWOOD, ON – Fred Hahn, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, will join a busload of members for the Stand Up for Ontario rally in Collingwood this Saturday. “Thanks to this Liberal government, Ontario has the lowest public program spending in Canada, and we’re all feeling the effects. Hospital closures, turmoil…
TORONTO – In pursuit of a balanced budget, the Liberal government has abandoned those Ontarians who rely on social services and the workers who deliver them. Commenting on yesterday’s provincial budget announcement, representatives from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) charged that, despite the Liberal government’s claim to progressiveness and fairness, its budget…
Workers still being short-changed over pay equity adjustments GUELPH, Ont. – In the lead up to Equal Pay Day (April 20), developmental services workers at Community Living Guelph Wellington say that the provincial government’s refusal to provide base funding increases for services is denying women their human right to equal pay. Employees at…
TORONTO, ON – Establishing a system to combat climate change and generate new revenue for projects with social and environmental benefits is an important and positive decision says Fred Hahn, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. “Climate change is the biggest environmental and economic challenge of our generation, and Ontario…
SUDBURY, Ont. ― Sudbury parents with children at Junior Citizens Day Care (JCDC) are optimistic that city councillors – many of them newly elected last fall – will vote to support a motion coming before Sudbury council tomorrow night, to not close the child care centre. Vanessa McMahon has two children – one of…
