Celebration, rest and resistance As 2025 draws to a close, we at CUPE Ontario extend our deep gratitude and enduring solidarity to all 310,000 CUPE members throughout the province. As we end another year, let’s remind ourselves of the power of our collective resistance. We can be proud of our union, our members and the…
TORONTO – CUPE Local 2316 is sounding the alarm after notifying the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto that severe staffing shortages, service cuts, unmanageable workloads and years of government underfunding have pushed the child welfare system to a breaking point, putting children, youth and families at risk. In a letter sent to the employer, the…
PETERBOROUGH, ON – Residents and workers at Sherbrooke Heights are celebrating today after the tentative agreement CUPE 5129 reached with the employer was ratified last night in a unanimous vote. Members of the union had been seeking a fair offer on wages, which were some of the lowest in the sector. “This new collective agreement…
Essex, ON – Workers at the Extendicare-run Iler Lodge are sounding the alarm after months of issues with the new payroll system has left some dreading the holidays. The roughly 140 members of CUPE local 1370 have filed three grievances and have been trying to work with management to resolve issues caused by a new…
In Ontario, we think of ourselves as spectators to the anti-democratic outrages perpetrated by US President Trump. But we have our own ringside seat to authoritarianism right here in Ontario, except we are not just spectators in our own province. We are workers and community members and we are watching Doug Ford take a hammer…
St. Thomas, ON – On Thursday, CUPE education workers visited the constituency office of PC MPP Rob Flack to deliver a powerful and disturbing booklet: dozens of photos documenting real injuries sustained by Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, and other frontline education workers while supporting students in local classrooms. The message to the provincial government…
In commemoration of the adoption of the UN’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, CUPE Ontario is proud to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10. The original UDHR was the work of two years of discussion, debate, scholarship and diplomacy following the end of the Second World War,…
Peterborough, ON – The members of CUPE Local 5129 will hold a solidarity rally on Sunday, December the 7th outside Sherbrooke Heights in Peterborough. Members of the Peterborough Labour community will join CUPE Local 5129 members to send a message to the Employer that threats and intimidation won’t break their resolve, and that the only…
Newmarket, ON – Roads workers, paramedics, public health workers and others represented by CUPE 4900 have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action, sending a clear message to the Regional Municipality of York that urgent steps are needed to address a long-running retention crisis that is undermining vital public services. Once considered an employer of…
On December 6, CUPE Ontario joins millions across the country in solemn remembrance of the 14 women murdered at Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989. Among them was Maryse Laganière, a CUPE member who worked at the school. These women were targeted simply because they were women, and their deaths remain a stark reminder of the…
