SUDBURY, Ont. — Municipal child care workers today urged Sudbury provincial by-election candidates to support their call for new “mitigation” funding to keep Junior Citizens Child Care Centre open. Despite Sudbury families’ increasing need for after-hours child care and appeals by parents using the centre not to close it, the City of Greater Sudbury council…
TORONTO, Ont. – A landmark agreement reached by labour, government, and community living agencies will bring greater stability to the lives of people with developmental disabilities in Ontario as well as to the low-waged workers who care for them. On Saturday, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), along with other unions, government and agencies…
Not only is a national program of universal child care achievable, it is a must to support Canadian families, children’s well-being and the economy concluded participants at the Child Care 2020 conference in Winnipeg mid-November attended by a large contingent CUPE members, staff and activists from Ontario. What’s more, the over-capacity crowd of parents, early…
14th Annual Child Care Worker & Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day Wednesday, October 29, 2014 This year will mark the 14th Anniversary of our Awareness Day, which recognizes the education, skills, commitment and dedication of Early Childhood Educators and Child Care Staff. The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC), the Canadian Union of Public…
The Raise the Rates Campaign presents: Ellen Clifford, Disabled People Against Cuts, UK The UK has implemented brutal cuts to programs for unemployed and disabled people, including denying disability benefits to thousands of people. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is has been at the forefront of fighting the cuts. Atos, the private company carrying out…
Changes to child care legislation intended to increase oversight and regulation for unlicensed and home daycare to make them safer, are urgently needed and long-overdue, CUPE Ontario said, following the recent provincial government announcement. Prompted by the recent deaths of children in unregulated home daycares which are currently not subject to standards, inspections or ratios…
