CUPE Local 2316 Sounds the Alarm on Critical Staffing Crisis at Children’s Aid Society of Toronto

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…

London Education Workers Urge MPP Rob Flack and the Ford Government to Address the Staffing Crisis at Thames Valley and London District Catholic School Boards

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…

International Human Rights Day

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,…

Workers at Regional Municipality of York vote to strike as staffing crisis deepens

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…