Newmarket, ON – This time last year, York Region was celebrating being named one of Canada’s best employers by Forbes. This year, the region didn’t crack the top 300, validating what CUPE 4900 members have long known: York Regional Municipality is no longer an employer of choice. After placing as high as sixth overall in…
Paramedics need a real solution to growing workforce crisis, not additional red tape through a college: CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario TORONTO – Ontario’s paramedic system is under severe strain as services struggle to recruit and retain workers while frontline paramedics face mounting mental health pressures. Yet some influential voices are once again promoting the…
January 22, 2026 CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn has written to Ontario education minister Paul Calandra, warning that without adequate provincial funding or a robust workforce strategy, Ontario is failing to deliver on the promise of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program. In light of British Columbia premier David Eby saying a…
Penetanguishene, ON – CUPE 2380 members are warning that Town Council’s plan to restructure Penetanguishene’s water and wastewater operations will lead to higher costs for residents and a loss of local control over the community’s most critical services. In December, Council announced it is considering either merging the water and wastewater departments or contracting a…
January 19th is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. CUPE Ontario honours Martin Luther King Jr. as both a civil rights icon and a labour activist who saw racial and economic justice as inseparable. Dr King was assassinated in Memphis after walking a picket line with striking sanitation workers. He challenged poverty, racism, and the oppressive systems that…
ONTARIO – The more than 300,000 members of CUPE Ontario are proud to add our voices to the growing condemnation of the unlawful actions stemming from the United States’ escalating aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We join our national union, the Canadian and international labour movement, and many others in denouncing this grave…
Ontario – Hybrid works. Since before the pandemic, workers at Ontario Health atHome have been working remotely to help deliver the essential home-care services Ontarians need. Now, on the whims of the Ford government, these workers are being forced back into office spaces that are not equipped to handle them all at once. Available office spaces have…
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…
