SAULT STE. MARIE – On Friday, SooToday published an article highlighting the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board’s (HSCDSB) hiring of a new speech pathologist to support kindergarten students at St. Basil Catholic Elementary School. While this new hire will undoubtedly provide valuable support to students, the article failed to acknowledge a much larger, more troubling…
Authors urge Ontario hospitals to implement safe staffing ratios TORONTO – A new academic study says mandating nurse-to-patient ratios would save lives, improve overall outcomes for patients, and alleviate the staffing crisis in Ontario’s hospitals. Based on an extensive review of existing research on staffing levels in hospitals, in-depth interviews with many Ontario hospital nurses, and an…
TORONTO – After ten weeks of walking the picket line, the 24 members of CUPE Local 5525 Villa Colombo Supportive Housing, are finally returning to work. The workers had been on strike since May 28th. The union and the employer reached a tentative agreement on Friday, August 1st, with the union members ratifying the vote…
Toronto – As negotiations between CUPE 5525 and Villa Colombo Homes for the Aged continued on Friday, the picket line in front of 3050 Dufferin Street was reinforced by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. OCHU president Michael Hurley and CUPE Ontario President Yolanda McLean joined the members of 5525, for a late morning rally…
CUPE Ontario and the Racial Justice Committee are proud to observe August 1 as Emancipation Day. The day commemorates the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act,1833, which came into effect in 1834. The law liberated enslaved people in the British colonies, including Canada. In 2021, Canada proclaimed August 1 Emancipation Day. As we reflect on the…
TORONTO – The union representing striking workers at the Villa Charities owned Villa Colombo Homes for the Aged in Toronto are hopeful that their strike, now in it’s second month, might soon come to an end. The 25 personal care workers of CUPE Local 5525 have been on strike since May 28th, after talks broke…
Toronto – Over one hundred CUPE members from around the GTA gathered outside the Villa Charities owned property at the corner of Dufferin and Lawrence Avenue West to bolster the picket line of CUPE 5525. The 25 members of CUPE 5525 have been on strike since the 28th of March after negotiations to secure…
Toronto – Today is the eighth week of picketing for CUPE local 5525. To mark the occasion, the 24 racialized Personal Care Workers of CUPE 5525, welcomed NDP Shadow Minister for Labour, Jamie West and Michelle Campbell, President of CUPE 1734, to their picket line. The workers have been on the picket lines since May…
TORONTO—CUPE Ontario is calling on the Ford Conservatives to rescind a letter co-signed by Ontario Environment Minister Todd McCarthy, who asked his federal counterpart to prioritize development and competitiveness over clean, safe drinking water for Indigenous communities. After the federal Liberals signalled plans to re-introduce Bill C-61 – legislation meant to guarantee First Nations communities’…
TORONTO, ON – The Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCU/CUPE 1750) is calling out the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) and the Ford government after confirmation that 26 document management jobs will be eliminated and handed to Iron Mountain, a private company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The workers provide essential support to Ontario’s workplace safety…
