SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – Front-line workers at the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie say they desperately need a real wage increase if the health centre doesn’t want to lose more staff. In January, the Group Health Centre announced that eight physicians would be leaving the centre at the end of May, leaving…
OTTAWA – There is a network of nurses and personal support workers doing hundreds of in-home healthcare visits to seniors across eastern Ontario every day. It appears seamless, except the infrastructure behind that network – the 70 health administrators who schedule visits, book appointments, manage sick calls and more – is cracking. Those health administrators,…
Ottawa, ON – Waste Management workers at the Waste Management of Canada Corporation have largely voted in favour of strike action should there not be a resolution in bargaining, said CUPE Local 1338. “While a strong strike vote does not necessarily mean we will strike, it tells the Employer that we are ready to do…
TORONTO – Ontarians desperate for relief from the cost-of-living crisis and eager for more investment in their public services have been let down again by the Conservatives’ budget, which was delivered this afternoon. “This budget sets up ordinary Ontarians for more years of misery,” said Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario, the union that represents…
TORONTO – The increase in hospital funding announced yesterday is not enough to ease the hospital crisis and will actually cause further deterioration, says CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE). “It doesn’t keep up with hospital inflationary pressures (of 5.6 per cent) let alone the pressures of an aging and growing population, even as…
TORONTO – Ontarians desperate for relief from the cost-of-living crisis and eager for more investment in their public services have been let down again by the Conservatives’ budget, which was delivered this afternoon. “This budget sets up ordinary Ontarians for more years of misery,” said Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario, the union that 290,000…
TORONTO – In the Conservative playbook, when outright attacks on public services don’t work, you switch to veiled threats backed up by the consultant class. That playbook is being deployed again in the Ministry of Education’s recent calls for value-for-money audits of municipally run child care centres. According to child care advocates, experts, and workers,…
Peel Region, ON – Instead of continuing to take steps to protect jobs and services in the Peel Region, which began when workers successfully prevented its dissolution in December, there are concerns about a rumored plan, says CUPE Local 966. “We consistently raised our concerns that we might lose our jobs if Peel was dissolved;…
TORONTO – Annual funding for Ontario’s hospitals must increase by at least eight per cent in this year’s budget to address the staffing and capacity crisis linked to ER closures, overcrowded hospitals, and delayed surgeries and diagnostic procedures, says CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE). “Ontario’s hospital staff and patients can’t cope with another…
Black River-Matheson, ON – Full of mistruths and unnecessary insults, the statement issued today by the Mayor of Black River-Matheson reeks of desperation and does little more than prove that striking workers are in the right, says CUPE Local 1490. “We’re out on the picket line to call attention to our legitimate demands and calling…
