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…
On this day, CUPE Ontario and the Workers with Disabilities Committee affirm our union’s commitment to justice, fairness, and inclusion for persons with disabilities. December 3 is a reminder that CUPE members across the province are unceasing in their demands for accessibility, dignity and equity, and of the responsibility we have as trade unionists to…
Peterborough, ON – The Union representing staff at Atira Retirement Canada’s Sherbrooke Heights, is preparing for a possible strike after a no-board report was issued by the labour board over the weekend. The 35 staff at the independent living facility in Peterborough, voted unanimously in favour of strike action after the employer failed to provide a wage offer that meets the pattern in the long-term…
TORONTO—CUPE Ontario warmly welcomed the news that the child care workers’ campaign Worth More! was awarded the Atkinson Foundation’s Good Fight Prize, which recognizes campaigns that promote decent and dignified work. At the same time, the union noted that the win underscores the many ways in which the Ford Conservatives are working to prevent high-quality…
